International Business News - Slayings http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif An appeal notice filed on behalf of a convicted murderer who tortured two young siblings was dismissed Monday by a federal judge, after the defendant told him he did not want to challenge his convictions or death sentences and had not given his attorneys permission to do so. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/judge-tosses-appeal-condemned-killer-didnt-want.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:21:28 EST A Silicon Valley engineer has been arraigned on first-degree murder charges alleging he killed three colleagues after being fired. Forty-seven-year-old Jing Hua Wu did not enter a plea in court Wednesday. Public defender Michael Ogul says his client is "sad and distraught about the situation." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/fired-engineer-arraigned-on-calif-murder-counts.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:28:31 EST A Silicon Valley engineer has been arraigned on first-degree murder charges alleging he killed three colleagues after being fired. Forty-seven-year-old Jing Hua Wu did not enter a plea in court Wednesday. Public defender Michael Ogul says his client is "sad and distraught about the situation." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/fired-engineer-arraigned-on-calif-murder-counts.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:01:46 EST A killer convicted of kidnapping and torturing two young siblings from Idaho says he doesn't plan to appeal his death sentence. Joseph Edward Duncan III says in a letter filed Tuesday with a federal judge that any appeal initiated on his behalf was done against his wishes. The notice comes a day after Duncan's attorneys said he would appeal. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/child-killer-says-he-wont-appeal-death-sentence.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:31:21 EST Those who know Jing Hua Wu said the 47-year-old engineer was a smart, unassuming family man whose three young boys played among neighborhood children on a quiet street in this Silicon Valley city. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081116/suspect-in-office-deaths-described-as-family-man.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:32:57 EST A 47-year-old engineer arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting three of his co-workers had been laid off hours earlier and returned to the office to ask for a meeting with the victims, police said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081115/police-laid-off-worker-kills-3-in-northern-calif.htm Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:32:31 EST A laid-off worker returned to his former office in Northern California and opened fire Friday, killing three people before fleeing and leading police on an intensive search. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/northern-california-office-park-shooting-kills-3.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:22:29 EST A man was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of four people found in a burned house next-door to his former home. Troy Brake, 31, of Grant, was arraigned on four counts of open murder and three firearms counts. Each murder charge has a mandatory sentence of life without parole if he is convicted. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081112/man-charged-with-killing-4-people-in-michigan-home.htm Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:18:20 EST A soldier who pleaded guilty in the shooting death of a fellow Iraq veteran apologized to the victim's family in court Monday before being sentenced to 10 years in prison. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/soldier-gets-10-years-in-slaying-of-fellow-veteran.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:16:12 EST Confessed child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III received his final sentences Monday for the torture and slayings of an Idaho family with a judge telling him that his cruel rampage "exceeds the bounds of human understanding." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/166457-duncan-slayings.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/convicted-child-killer-to-be-sentenced-in-idaho.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/convicted-child-killer-to-be-sentenced-in-idaho.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:08:44 EST A man who prosecutors said forced a 69-year-old woman to have sex with her son, then killed them both, has been convicted of first-degree murder. Joshua Anderson, 21, was convicted Thursday of killing Rose Mary Hobbs and her son, Herbert Hobbs, 51, in February 2007. Anderson was convicted of arson for setting fire to the son's home after the killings, and he was also alleged to have eaten part of the slain woman's brain. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081024/man-guilty-in-grisly-killing-of-okla-woman-son.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:37:06 EDT A Mexican citizen who allegedly confessed to killing at least 10 women in the violent border city of Juarez was back in his home country on Wednesday to face justice. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081022/suspect-in-border-slayings-extradited-to-mexico.htm Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:45:29 EDT A Mexican citizen who allegedly confessed to more than 10 killings in Mexico is back in that country, courtesy of the Justice Department. Federal authorities say Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz was extradited Tuesday to Mexico to stand trial for aggravated homicide. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081022/suspect-in-border-slayings-extradited-to-mexico.htm Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:37:57 EDT Fort Carson soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq are suspects in at least five slayings, and officials want to know why. Commander Maj. Gen. Mark Graham announced Friday a task force will examine any commonalities in the five killings, all committed in Colorado, allegedly by soldiers from the post's 4th Brigade Combat Team in the past 14 months. A sixth BCT soldier faces an attempted murder charge. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/155268-soldiers-slayings-fort-carson.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081019/army-to-probe-5-slayings-linked-to-colo-brigade.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081019/army-to-probe-5-slayings-linked-to-colo-brigade.htm Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:23:45 EDT Fort Carson soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq are suspects in at least five slayings, and officials want to know why. Commander Maj. Gen. Mark Graham announced Friday a task force will examine any commonalities in the five killings, all committed in Colorado, allegedly by soldiers from the post's 4th Brigade Combat Team in the past 14 months. A sixth BCT soldier faces an attempted murder charge. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081018/army-to-probe-5-slayings-linked-to-colo-brigade.htm Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:09:56 EDT An illegal immigrant serving five life terms for the strangling deaths of his wife, three young daughters and a neighborhood girl apparently took his own life Thursday by hanging himself, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/man-who-killed-his-family-found-dead-in-prison.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:30:44 EDT Police say a fire at a southwestern Michigan home was intentionally set to cover up the shooting deaths of a mother and her two sons, and the fatal beating of a son's girlfriend. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/police-4-were-dead-before-southwest-michigan-fire.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:15:45 EDT Authorities say autopsies performed on four bodies found inside a burned-out home near Grand Rapids, Mich., show that all were slain before fire destroyed the structure. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/4-dead-in-burned-out-mich-house-slain-before-fire.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:14:35 EDT A robber who had been convicted of perjury in the long-unsolved killings of five people abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant 25 years ago was convicted of murder Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142881-kfc-slayings.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/robber-convicted-of-infamous-kfc-murders-in-texas.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/robber-convicted-of-infamous-kfc-murders-in-texas.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:26:19 EDT The bodies of 11 men and one woman, some with their tongues cut out, were found dumped in an empty lot next to a Tijuana elementary school Monday morning, an hour before children were scheduled to arrive. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/mexican-police-find-12-bodies-next-to-school.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:37:40 EDT