Detectives crack DeWitt rape case linked to Wassell
Detectives and prosecutors spent weeks in late February and early March pursuing leads on Wassell who was scheduled for 25 year sentence after pleading guilty to two February rapes. Investigators linked a blue Cavalier car, a hackneyed pattern of harassment, and Bauer plumbing workers to the suspect.
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Norton
Bauer
Wassell
Wicks
Withers
Syracuse
Truntio
Madison County
Sullivan
DeWitt
Trunfio
Consolidated sex crime unit to cover Onondaga County
Senior Assistant District Attorney Rick Trunfic and Kate OConnell push for a county wide team of police and sheriff deputies to investigate sex crimes. The Raymond Wassel case spurred cooperation and in September the sheriff and city police sex crime investigators will operate under two command structures. Every sex crime in the county will be handled the same.
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Rick Trunfic
Kate O'Connell
Rape Crisis Center
Onondaga County
Syracuse
Raymond Wassel
Truniio
Cops County of
Onondaga
Sheriff's Department
City Police
Trunfic
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A witness described a confrontation linked to a plumbing company and threats. The attacker was said to wear a white mask, be large and stocky with very blue eyes, and the informant noted an arousing detail during the incident.
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Petterelli
Withers
Sixteen reported assaults prompt Onondaga detectives inquiry
Nine days later a 60-year-old East Syracuse resident reports a man in a white mask exposing himself on her porch and describing his genitals. Detectives note a sweat ant mask with eye slits. A basement window was damaged and work earlier that day involved Druer Co. Four days later a 57-year-old near Withers is seized on Peck Hill Road. the man drags her into the woods and rapes and sodomizes her. The suspect’s penis is again mentioned.
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Grover Street
Syracuse
DeWitt Poice
Withers
Det
Whechael Norton
Onondaga County Sheriff's Department
Dr Uer
Wassell
Peck Hill Road
Norton
Police reassign cases while keeping investigator on task
DeWitt police handed three cases to the sheriff's department but kept Petterelli assigned to the probe. On Peck Hill Road investigators canvassed the area and received a major break as a local resident reported seeing a Cavalier or Corsica parked roadside at around 4 am the day of the rape.
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Withers
DeWitt
Mark Petterelli
Dr. Bauer Plumbing Company
Wasseil
Sheriff's Department
Petterelli
Peck Hill
Hiue Cavalier
Corsica
Watching Wassell Surveillance Narrows Arrest Window
Detectives shadow Wassell for 24 hours to trap him, planning a March 11 questioning without disclosure. On March 10 he toured Clay and passed a woman, then Wassell was picked up by Petterelli and Norton, who pressed him with questions about sex offenders during a 27 minute interrogation before he confessed.
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Wassell
Wicks
Clay
Petterelli
Norton
Ujy Wasnell
Plumbing Company
Sheriffs Department
Wascell
TWA Flight 800 crash fuels FBI search for clues
Frustration grows as federal officials warn a terrorist may slip away amid the investigation. FBI official James Kallstrom cites need for forensic evidence while divers probe wreckage and unmanned submersibles search the ocean floor. Family members attend services nationwide as authorities press to locate black boxes and identify victims amid slow body recovery and mounting anger.
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East Moriches
FBI
James Kallstrom
Spa
Norfolk
Harvard Grads Proposal Turns to Tragedy in Sea Crash
Heidi Snow, 24, accepted a proposal from Michel Breistroff, 25, minutes before he left for Paris. Breistroff, a Roubaix native and France hockey player, died when TWA Flight 800 exploded off Long Island. Snow said he dreamed of living in America and marrying her, as she recalled his hopes for the Nagano Olympics.
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New York
Martha's Vineyard
Harvard
Paris
Michel Bretstroff
Heidi Snow
TWA
Long Island
Breistroff
Roubaix
France
Nagano
Japan
America
Snow
Manhattan
Bears deliver comfort to Flight 800 victims families
Good Bears of the World in Toledo shipped 600 teddy bears to aid traumatized children and aid workers following the TWA Flight 800 disaster. Initially 200 bears were sent to Kennedy trauma teams in New York, with 400 more dispatched after volunteers reported strong reactions from children and adults.
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Peas
TWA
New York City
Toledo
Ohio
Good Bears of the World
New York
Kennedy
Lazor
Lebanon prisoners freed in second batch exchange
In Beirut a second batch of Lebanese prisoners was released by Israel as part of a pledge to free 45 detainees and recover guerrilla remains in exchange for two Israeli soldier corpses. The last 23 were freed at 3 am at the Kfar Mhnit crossing near the southern enclave. the South Lebanon Army would not return guerrilla remains held in areas under its control.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Israel
Kfar Mhnit
Roxy
South Lebanon Army
Amnesty International Decries Rights Abuses in Afghanistan
Amnesty International issued its first look inside Afghanistan since 1982 calling the country a human rights catastrophe. It cites detention of political prisoners torture rape and the death penalty as major abuses amid ongoing factional fighting since 1992 that toppled the Soviet regime.
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Peshawar
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Amnesty International
Rory Mungoven
Amnesty
Asia
Japan faces worst food poisoning outbreak in a decade
Health Ministry reports over 8200 people sickened in Japan amid a virulent E. coli 0157 outbreak. Children are most at risk with potential kidney complications. In Sakai, 154 schoolchildren ill, 480 hospitalized, 71 in serious condition, two in critical care.
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Tokyo
Japan
Health Ministry
Sakal
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Jim Fetig
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