COPS ARREST SUSPECT IN SICK MARIHA SMITH MURDER

DETECTIVES in Detroit have made an arrest in the sickening slaying of 5-year-old Mariha Smith. The pretty little girl had been reported missing last Sunday morning. Hours later Mariha's body was discovered, burned beyond recognition inside one of Motown's many abandoned homes about a mile from where she lived. An autopsy provided positive ID and revealed she had been strangled to death and then burned post mortem. Her skull had been crushed, indicating she was beaten.
As the manhunt went red hot Thursday, cops
released a piece of video showing a man buying 41 cents worth of gas. He is considered a person of interests.
Mariha was buried Friday and then same day, cops took the man into custody calling him a person of interest. Family members know the man.
Dominique Poole, Mariha's aunt, told ABCNews.com she thought her sister's boyfriend, Darnell Cheatham was acting suspicious the day the girl  vanished.

She said: "I knew it had to be someone that was at the house that did it. Everyone knows they failed the lie detector test and I hope Police bring justice and keep him in jail."
 SUSPECT IN DETROIT GIRL'S GRISLY MURDER?

OAKLAND COUNTY CHILD KILLER: ANOTHER LOOK

THEY WERE among the most notorious murders of the 1970s. An ugly chain of unsolved child killings in suburban Detroit know as the Oakland County Child Murders. Now, they are being looked at again as part of a cold case task force examining 30 unsolved homicides.
A law enforcement official said: "The grand jury is hearing information related to one of the child slayings of the 1970s, but as far as I know, there is no new
information or hot leads."
Four children were abducted from Oakland County between February 1976 and March 1977 during a time of terror. However, there's a very good chance the killer is long dead and buried. The Detroit News in May reported that a DNA hit linked James Vincent Gunnels to Kristine Mihelich, a victim. His DNA matched a hair fragment found on the dead girl's shirt. Gunnels was a boyhood pal of Christopher Busch,
In May, The News reported a DNA match linked recently paroled James Vincent Gunnels to Kristine Mihelich, one of the victims. Gunnels' DNA matched a hair fragment found on Kristine's shirt. Gunnels was a childhood friend of one of the nephews of Christopher Busch, a convicted pedophile suspected of being involved in the killings. Busch killed himself in 1978, a year after the killings stopped. Gunnels has told cops Busch molested him at the family cottage.
The Oakland County Child Killer came to be known as "The Babysitter" because each victim had been bathed prior to their murder. Investigators also found white animal hair on each victim, noting that the Busch family had a white Welsh terrier at the time of the murders.
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CRIME BRIEFS: HOLLY BOBO SEARCH; LI VICTIM BURIED

* HOLLY BOBO'S MOM BEGS FOR HER RELEASE: It's been more than two months now and still no sign of pretty blonde Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo. Have the cops dropped the ball? The TBI says no but there has been NOTHING new in weeks. Yesterday, a motorcycle run in the 20-year-old's honor was held. Her heartbroken mom said: "To whoever has our daughter, I'm asking you to please do the right thing and let her come home." STILL NO SIGN OF HOLLY BOBO.
* VICTIM OF PILLHEAD DAVID LAFFER BURIED IN WEDDING DRESS: In a Long Island church Saturday hundreds sobbed for Jaime Taccetta--buried in her wedding dress. The pretty young mom, 33, was one of four victims executed in cold blood last Sunday in a Medford, New York pharmacy. The mom of
two had found new love when she was killed. Pillheads David Laffer and his scary looking bride, Melinda Brady are the accused killers. MORE ON THE LONG ISLAND PHARMACY MURDERS IN THE NY POST

* FORMER DETROIT MAYOR ABOUT TO BE SPRUNG: Dirty Kwame Kilpatrick--another in the lone line of rogue Motown mayors is about to be sprung from the Big House. A Michigan parole board voted to release the disgraced pol who violated probation in relation to a 2008 case where he pleaded guilty obstructing justice in an effort to cover up an extramarital affair. He has served 14 months of a 5 year sentence. KINKY KWAME ABOUT TO BE SPRUNG

JENNIFER PETKOV BULLIED DYING GIRL; BACK IN ACTION

MEANEST WOMAN

VICTIM

OH, DEAR. It seems the Meanest Woman in America, Jennifer Petkov is at it again. You must remember Jennifer? She's the Michigan woman who went on an online crusade to taunt and torment terminally ill, Kathleen Edward, now 8. She also later pleaded guilty to attempting to run over another neighbor and had been ordered off her street during her 18-month probation. But what's this? Neighbors say the Meanest Woman in America has been
sneaking back into the house where her hubby and kids still live and continues to taunt neighbors with internet postings.
Kathleen's grandmother, Rebecca Rose said: "I'm frustrated. All we asked for was a peaceful summer. It should not be this hard to get."
According to The Detroit News: Kathleen was diagnosed with the juvenile form of Huntington's disease, a neurological disorder that claimed the life of her mother, Laura Edward, in June 2009. Taunts allegedly started in 2008 back and forth across the street and on the Internet with Petkov's admitted postings of altered photos of Laura Edward in the arms of the Grim Reaper and a photo of Kathleen's crying face over crossed bones.
Now, the Meanest Woman in America AKA "The Devil of Detroit Street"is in trouble again.

DETROIT LOTTO MILLIONAIRE KILLED LANDLORD: COPS

MEET FREDDIE YOUNG. Postal worker, lottery millionaire, hothead, killer. The 62-year-old Detroit man has been arrested in the vicious slaying of his daughter's Australian landlord.
Speaking for us all, Detroit homicide Lt. Dwane Blackmon said: "It didn't make any sense. I guess he just let his anger take over." Indeed, now Freddie has been arraigned for first-degree murder in the ridiculous murder of Greg McNicol, 45, who was shot to death May 7. McNicol had argued with a woman the Detroit News says is Freddie's daughter, who was about to be evicted.

Witnesses said Freddie then pulled up in his black Chevy Avalanche and fired one shot hitting McNicol. Then he drove away. Cops say Freddie has a "violent temper" and even being part of a $29 million lotto jackpot didn't put a smile on his face.
According to The News, the lottery win surprised residents at McNicol's building. They were devastated by the loss of the "very good man" who had bought the building, fixed it up and befriended them. Florida Benton said given his reported status as a millionaire and the rent dispute, she questioned the suspect's motives. "What kind of a man are you?" she asked.
 LANDLORD KILLER WAS LOTTO WINNER: COPS

BIDDY BANDITS BEAT BANKS, STORES FOR $500GS

WE LOVE THIS ONE. Hats seem to have made a roaring comeback with everyone from royals to rock stars. So, it only makes sense that crooks are donning headgear too. America, meet the 'Mad Hatter Gang.' Who? The gang are a group of older women--at least one is in her 70s-- who wear a wild variety of hats as a disguise as steal cash and credit cards from distracted shoppers in the Detroit area.
Cops say the gang have been at it for more than a year and have stolen a whopping $500,000.
Lt. Luke Riley said that the kindly appearance of the elderly crooks is helping them pull off the caper. Shoppers, banks and retailers tend not
to suspect that the grandmotherly woman in a floppy white hat standing in front of them is a cold-hearted criminal.
"That's the reason they've been able to get away with it," Riley said, adding at least one financial institution was beaten for nearly $200,000. No rockin' chair for these biddy bandits.
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