Lead Story
Richard D. Smith, 30, who won the Washington state lottery four years ago and now receives $40,000 a year, was arrested in Everett, Washington, in November and charged with the armed robbery of a grocery store.
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Nashville police pursued and then dismissed a rape charge against Mr. “Millissa” Fox, 26, in December. Fox was performing oral sex on a man who thought Fox was a woman. Upon discovering his error, the man ejected Fox from his car and filed the rape charge.
Police in Homestead, Florida, finally apprehended the robber whose signature was biting victims on the hand, arm, ear, or shoulder. One victim’s finger was bitten off at the knuckle, and another victim reported that the robber walked away seemingly oblivious to the blood dripping from his mouth. One police officer could not understand why no one fought back. She asked, “How can they just stand there and go ‘ow’?”
Bobbie Ann Bowens, 21, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing her common-law husband to death in April near Birmingham, Alabama. She had been arrested twice before in stabbing incidents she said arose because of her husband’s affairs. The most damaging evidence in the trial was the arresting officer’s testimony that, when he asked how many times she had stabbed the man, she answered, “You mean today?”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
