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Editor s note: This story contains a brief description of a rape.
Christopher Grant, a veteran detective with the city of Baltimore’s police department, had to take a refresher course in 2007 on investigating sex crimes. At the last minute, the instructor backed out. They would watch a video instead.
The video was an old “48 Hours” episode involving a rape victim named Laura Neuman. Neuman was a teenager when she was raped by a stranger in Baltimore in 1983. Her rapist had never been caught, but she had never let go. She called Baltimore police over the years until she found two determined city detectives to investigate her case in 2002. They solved it in less than a week using a fingerprint that police had never bothered to load into a state
Editor s note: This story contains several brief descriptions of rape.
Rose Brady walked alone between bus stops on a busy street in Baltimore County one evening in April 1987. She was 28, with long, curly brown hair and blue eyes perfect prey for the predator local police had named the “Sunglass Rapist.”
She hoped so, anyway.
Brady worked for the Baltimore County Police Department and had just been promoted to corporal. When she signed on in 1977 at age 18, she had been one of only 15 female officers in a department of about 1,100. Within a year, though, she’d shown her value, going undercover to help take down a pimp operating out of massage parlors. She had met the suspected pimp with no gun, no cellphone, no wire. Supervisors told her and another female cadet working with her to throw a glass ashtray out the window if he started to make trouble.
An 88-year-old Oregon man has been indicted by a grand jury for murder in the death of a his 87-year-old wife, a killing he told police he intended to be a murder-suicide because of health problems, the Mail Tribune reports.
James Edward Wheeler, who was arraigned Friday on a charge of second degree murder, reportedly shot Joan Marcella Wheeler in the head with a 20-gauge shotgun he’d owned since he was 12 years old, the newspaper said. Then he went to the laundry room and shot himself.
First responders arrived on the scene at the Wheelers’ home in Medford just before 9 a.m. Monday and found Joan Wheeler dead and her husband with serious injuries. He was taken to Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center for surgery and arrested later in the day.
Couple donates mobility scooters for veterans with disabilities
Florida is home to 1.6 million veterans
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Wednesday was a special day for a Vietnam War veteran who received a donation that will give him a better sense of independence; a donation from a couple who for five years now have been doing their part to support veterans throughout Florida.
According to the American Legion, the state is home to more than 1.6 million veterans, 22% have claimed to have some level of disability.
“This will allow me to go downtown either by myself or someone else,” Raymond Breault, a Vietnam war veteran said about the brand new mobile scooter he now owns, which will allow him to let go of the cane he’s been using for more than 3 years to help him walk or stand. “The other thing I can do is go to stores, big stores and while some of them have scooters, they’re usually used, or they don’t have them.”