AP - Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them — most by strangulation — and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.




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AP - Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them — most by strangulation — and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.

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Anthony Sowell, right, stands behind public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his court appearance Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in Cleveland. Sowell, 50, has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder and held without bond after 10 bodies were discovered in his home over the past few days. Sowell was ordered held without bond. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

AP - A man who threatened to kill Barack Obama last summer just before the Democratic National Convention in Denver has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges.

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AP - A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.

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In this undated photo released by the Trenton, NJ prosecutor's office on Oct. 28, 2009, Edward Ates is shown. A jury on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 rejected the Florida man's claims that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs and killed his former son-in-law, convicting him of murder. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Trenton Prosecutor Office)

AP - The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it "****** hopping."

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FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Hausch pleaded guilty Thursday, Nov. 2, 2009 to gang assault and hate crime charges. The agreement requires him to testify against the six other defendants. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, Pool. File)

AP - State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans.

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ACORN employees, left and center, leave the ACORN offices as state investigators remove computers from the group's New Orleans offices, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. A warrant was obtained to seize computers, hard drives and other documents after ACORN attorneys said two unidentified former employees took computers and other items when they left the organization. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

AP - As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead.

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The 2007 picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship. Authorities said he went on the killing spree at Fort Hood, Texas which left 13 people dead. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)

AP - Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent years:

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Reuters - The government's allegations of fraud against two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were built on "hindsight bias," including emails selected out of context, a defense lawyer told a jury in closing arguments on Friday at their trial in New York.

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Former Bear Stearns hedge-fund manager Ralph Cioffi (L) arrives with staff at court in Brooklyn in New York, November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Natalie Behring

AP - After being duped by false leads and chastised by a court for its handling of polygamist sect children, the state of Texas has won a criminal conviction in its first trial of a sect member charged with sexually assaulted an underage girl.

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Raymond Jessop, left, the first man to face criminal charges following the raid of a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch in April, 2008, is seen outside the courtroom during a recess in his trial in Eldorado, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if convicted of sexual assault of a child, a charge stemming from his alleged marriage to an underage girl. His father, Merril Jessop, is in the background. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

AP - Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell seemed like a "civilized person" on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer — until, she said, he leapt up and began choking her and threatening to kill her.

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A board with flyers for missing persons is hung on a frnce across from the home of Anthony Sowell in Cleveland Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. The remains of 11 women were found in Sowell's home. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

AP - A man convicted of fatally beating and shooting an East Texas man during a burglary almost 12 years ago was executed Thursday, in a case that gained notoriety because jurors consulted a Bible to justify his death sentence.

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This photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Khristian Oliver who is scheduled for execution by lethal injection at the Texas prison in Huntsville, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Oliver, 32, was convicted of the March 1998 slaying during a burglary of 64-year-old Joe Collins' home. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

AFP - Former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty to a slew of charges in his high-profile corruption trial Thursday, a federal prosecutor said.

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Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik enters the courthouse for a pre-trial hearing in White Plains, New York, in October 2009. Kerik pleaded guilty to a slew of charges in his high-profile corruption trial Thursday, a federal prosecutor said. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)

AP - Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to the White House and said he would also admit to tax crimes.

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FILE - In this June 4, 2009 file photo, former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik stands outside the Federal Court in Washington, after pleading not guilty to charges of lying to the White House while being vetted to be Homeland Security secretary. Kerik is displaying worrisome, risky behavior in jail, a federal judge said Friday Oct. 30, 2009 after speaking with the jail's psychiatric director. Kerik has been jailed since Oct. 20 to await trial on corruption charges. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

AP - A state report released Wednesday blasts corrections officials for missing chances to catch the sex offender accused of holding Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard for 18 years.

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AP - John "Junior" Gotti's mother unleashed a profanity-laced tirade Wednesday after a judge dismissed two anonymous jurors at her son's racketeering trial, saying he was being cheated of a fair trial as his father had been.

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AFP - California on Wednesday released a scathing report into the Jaycee Dugard kidnap, saying a catalogue of mistakes allowed the convicted rapist accused of the crime to walk free for years.

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Yellow police tape is stretched across the front of the home of alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido as they search the property in August 2009 in Antioch, California. California on Wednesday released a scathing report into the Jaycee Dugard kidnap, saying a catalogue of mistakes allowed the convicted rapist accused of the crime to walk free for years. (AFP/Getty Images/file/Justin Sullivan)

AFP - A US judge refused bail Wednesday to an alleged serial killer as investigators examined the gruesome remains of up to 11 victims found at his home.

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AP - John Lithgow was going to pass on the chance to play serial killer vs. serial killer on "Dexter," with an Italian vacation, cruise and his son's wedding awaiting him.

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AP - California's inspector general plans to release the results of a two-month inquiry into the handling of the Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping case.

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These two police mugshots released in August 2009 by the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office (EDCS) in California, shows Phillip (L) and Nancy Garrido who were arrested in the case of Jaycee Lee Dugard. A woman raped in 1976 by Jaycee Dugard kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido faced her tormentor in a California court-room Thursday at the latest legal proceedings in the case. (AFP/EDCS/File)