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Suspect in Indiana serial killings appears in court but refuses to speak

22 Oct 2014: Darren Vann, suspected in at least seven murders, forces postponement of court appearance after not speaking to judge
Indiana serial killings set against backdrop of urban decay

21 Oct 2014: Worse than its corruption and crime, the city where the bodies of at least six women have been found has a legacy of nearly 10,000 blighted homes the city can’t afford to knock down, reports Mark Guarino
Pennsylvania restricts 'obscene celebrity' of convicts in new crime law

21 Oct 2014: Governor Tom Corbett signs law in response to convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s commencement speech, enabling prosecution of person who ‘perpetuates effect of crime’
Schools closed in Pennsylvania after possible sighting of ambush suspect

21 Oct 2014: Classes cancelled ‘as a result of police activity in area of school’ after police officer sees man dressed in green in woods near Swiftwater
Backpage in spotlight after murder link as sex website face court test

21 Oct 2014: Afrikka Hardy met her alleged killer through Backpage.com but sex services website resists supreme court move to shut it down
New Jersey school weighs football's future after hazing charges emerge

21 Oct 2014: New Jersey police try to piece together what happened in locker room as school board prepares to vote on fate of popular coach
Police say Darren Vann may have 'preyed on victims for over 20 years'

21 Oct 2014: Police find bodies that confessed killer, listed as ‘low’ risk of violence in sex offender registry, directs them to as investigation expands
Medical board investigates radiologist Max Mehta, wanted on US grooming charge

21 Oct 2014: Mehta, who fled US and has been working in Victoria, has agreed not to practise until Medical Board of Australia has investigated him
Boy, five, tells how younger sister was beaten to death by stepfather, police say

20 Oct 2014: Suspect Kelsey Smith in hospital after ‘slitting wrists’ after alleged assault occurred at Brooklyn homeless shelter
Private Violence: up to 75% of abused women who are murdered are killed after they leave their partners

20 Oct 2014: Domestic violence comes on not like a tsunami but as steady waves, says Kit Gruelle, survivor and advocate featured in HBO’s new documentary
Indiana police hint at more victims after seven bodies discovered

20 Oct 2014: Three more female victims found dead in Gary after man, 43, confessed to woman’s murder on Saturday
Jeff Koons retrospective targeted by vandal

20 Oct 2014: Christopher Johnson arrested after spraying large black letters next to Koons’s Hanging Heart sculpture
Man held in Gary, Indiana over deaths of four women

19 Oct 2014: Police found first body on Friday night at Motel 6 before man, 43, told where more victims were located
Divided Ferguson awaits grand jury decision on Michael Brown killing

19 Oct 2014: Following a leak suggesting officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted some residents suspect ‘the system is protecting its own’
Police find body in search for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham

19 Oct 2014: Tests carried out on remains found in abandoned property near Charlottesville, where British-born student disappeared last month