FBI links radical group to bank robberies across Northeast
FBI Director William H. Webster says the Sam Melville-Jonathon Jackson Unit may have staged five bank holdups totaling 582000 since 1982 in Vermont New York and New England. Seven suspects include one from Maine and six from Massachusetts with ties to prior crimes including a 1981 New Jersey trooper murder and 1982 Massachusetts trooper shootings.
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Boston
FBI
Northeast
William H. Webster
Boston Sunday Globe
Maine
Massachusetts
Webster
Sam Melville-Jonathon Jackson
New England
New Jersey
Judge delays execution in Mesa fire death case
A Phoenix judge granted a stay of execution for John Henry Knapp, 37, condemned for a 1973 fire that killed his two infant daughters in Mesa. Defense lawyers seek to use new evidence alleging Knapp’s former wife admitted setting the fire, while she denies the accusation. Knapp previously confessed, then recanted, and appeals cite state and federal proceedings to review the evidence.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Mesa
John Henry Knapp
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S
Earl Carroll
Carroll
Knapp
Parker Folse III
Linda Knapp
Charles Hardy
Maricopa County Superior Court
Utah
Russell Sorenson
Warren Sorenson
Sorenson
Murder trial opens in Ku Klux Klan murder case in Mobile
In Mobile Alabama a 29 year old Ku Klux Klan member Henry Francis Hays goes on trial Tuesday for capital murder in the hanging death of 19 year old Michael Donald. Fellow Klan member James Knowles Jr pled guilty last summer to violating rights in the crime. FBI says Donald was abducted off a Mobile street then beaten to death across Mobile Bay in Baldwin County to avenge a mistrial in another case.
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Mobile
Ala
Alabama
Henry Francis Hays
United Klans of America
James Llewellyn
Tiger’’ Knowles Jr
Knowles
Michael
Donald
Hays
FBI
Mobile Bay
Baldwin County
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