Boy leads police to dead mother in Sacramento home
An eight year old boy who shoplifted food guided officers to his residence where he and a sister had lived nearly two weeks alone with their mother's decomposed body in a Sacramento bedroom. Police issued murder and assault warrants for father Robert Castorena, 38, who allegedly stabbed his wife to death and fled after quitting his teaching job. The two children feared their father who had threatened them with a knife.
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Sacramento
Calif
Robert Castorena
Bob Mitchell
Janice Castorena
Castorena
Mitchell
United States
Talk Show Death Trial Tells of Secret Crush Motive
In Pontiac Michigan a man on trial for murder says illness and Graves disease affected his mind. Detective Stout testified Schmitz admitted planning and killing Scott Amedure days after a suggestive anonymous note. Prosecutors say he remained in control, while defense cites low mood and alcoholism.
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Pontiac, Mich
Jonathan Schmitz
Schmitz
Scott Amedure
Oakland County
Amedure
Craig Stout
Stout
Grave
Roman Kalytiak
Chicago
Kalytiak
Planets pop up all over universe years after first discovery
In a year the count of exoplanets around Sun like stars rose to ten, with several more around pulsars and brown dwarfs. Authorities note the discoveries expand the field, though no Earth like worlds yet observed directly.
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Washington
George Gatewood
University of Pittsburgh
Allegheny Observatory
Jupiter
Saturn
Earth
Clinton
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Mars
Alan Boss
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Boss
Andromeda
Bootes
Cygnus
Pegasus
Virgo
Geoffrey Marcy
San Francisco State University
Alexander Wolszczan
Pennsylvania State University
Hubble Space Telescope
Neptune
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Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Journal-World
Knight-Ridder News Service
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Missouri
Lawrence
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
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