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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Blagojevich jurors: Tapes made case against ex-governor Jury tours house of alleged US serial killer Jurors liked Blagojevich, but didn't believe him Trial opens for accused Cleveland serial killer White House hopeful Bachmann in serial killer miscue Memo: Bulger came back to Boston as armed fugitive After guilty verdicts, Blago asks 'What happened?' Citigroup ex-VP arrested on fraud charges Citigroup ex-VP arrested in NYC on fraud charges Top settler rabbi briefly arrested in racism row Rod Blagojevich Found Guilty in Corruption Trial Former Citigroup Banker Arrested for Embezzling $19 Million Bachmann Proud to Share Origins With John Wayne... Gacy, Serial Killer Ex-Citigroup exec arrested for stealing $19 mn Iranian filmmaker reportedly arrested in Tehran Defense: Pa. killer of 3 cops had abusive boyhood Anti-Death Penalty Activists to Fast and Vigil for Four Days Outside of U.S. Supreme Court to Mark Historic Court Rulings Jurors tell judge they have agreed on 18 of 20 counts against ousted Illinois Gov. Blagojevich Seven arrested after Joburg's police chief burgled Jury weighing death penalty for Pittsburgh cop killer Singer Paulina Rubio arrested in Miami after crash German "cannibal killer" sentenced to life Indian police arrest 7 in crime reporter's slaying Convict says he believes Knox committed murder Indian police arrest 7 in crime reporter's murder Blagojevich jurors: Tapes made case against ex-governor Mon,27 Jun 2011 08:30 PM PDT Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - The jurors who found Rod Blagojevich guilty of federal corruption charges on Monday said they deliberated methodically and began with the presumption that he was innocent. Full Story1 Top Jury tours house of alleged US serial killer Mon,27 Jun 2011 08:06 PM PDT AFP - Jurors toured a house where accused Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell stored the decomposing bodies of 11 women for more than two years and blamed the stench on a nearby sausage factory. Full Story1 Top Jurors liked Blagojevich, but didn't believe him Mon,27 Jun 2011 07:41 PM PDT AP - Jurors who convicted Rod Blagojevich of corruption Monday said it wasn't that they disliked the former Illinois governor. They just didn't believe him. Full Story1 Top Trial opens for accused Cleveland serial killer Mon,27 Jun 2011 04:56 PM PDT Reuters - CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Prosecutors named each of the 11 women Anthony Sowell is alleged to have murdered and where their decomposing bodies were found buried in or around his house in opening statements for his trial on Monday. Full Story1 Top White House hopeful Bachmann in serial killer miscue Mon,27 Jun 2011 02:54 PM PDT AFP - Republican Representative Michele Bachmann surely meant to invoke iconic Hollywood star John Wayne as she launched her White House bid Monday -- not "Killer Clown" serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Full Story1 Top Memo: Bulger came back to Boston as armed fugitive Mon,27 Jun 2011 02:46 PM PDT AP - Notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger told agents who arrested him last week that he returned to Boston in disguise and "armed to the teeth" several times during his 16 years on the run, prosecutors said Monday. Full Story1 Top After guilty verdicts, Blago asks 'What happened?' Mon,27 Jun 2011 12:57 PM PDT AP - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich turned to defense attorney Sheldon Sorosky and asked "What happened?" after he was found guilty of 17 of 20 charges in his corruption retrial. Full Story1 Top Citigroup ex-VP arrested on fraud charges Mon,27 Jun 2011 12:52 PM PDT AP - A former Citigroup vice president embezzled $19.2 million from the bank in a one-man "inside job" involving a series of secret money transfers, federal prosecutors said Monday. Full Story1 Top Citigroup ex-VP arrested in NYC on fraud charges Mon,27 Jun 2011 12:49 PM PDT AP - A former Citigroup vice president embezzled $19.2 million from the bank in a one-man "inside job" involving a series of secret money transfers, federal prosecutors said Monday. Full Story1 Top Top settler rabbi briefly arrested in racism row Mon,27 Jun 2011 12:47 PM PDT AFP - Israeli police briefly detained a leading settler rabbi on Monday in connection with an investigation into a book justifying the killing of non-Jews in some cases, police said. Full Story1 Top Rod Blagojevich Found Guilty in Corruption Trial Mon,27 Jun 2011 12:22 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - After ten days of deliberating, the jury in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial has declared Rod Blagojevich guilty of "on 17 counts, not guilty of one count and one with no verdict announced in court Monday, with verdicts on other counts still to be read," reports the Associated Press. The Chicago Tribune adds: Full Story1 Top Former Citigroup Banker Arrested for Embezzling $19 Million Mon,27 Jun 2011 12:21 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - In what the U.S. Attorney's Office is calling "the ultimate inside job," former Citigroup vice president Gary Foster has been arrested and charged with embezzling more than $19 million from the bank between May 2009 and December 2010.Related: Goldman Sachs Flack Turns HuffPo Blogger Full Story1 Top Bachmann Proud to Share Origins With John Wayne... Gacy, Serial Killer Mon,27 Jun 2011 11:29 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Just after Michele Bachmman announced her presidential candidacy in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, Monday morning, she told Fox News, "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too." But The Washington Times' Stephen Dinan reports that Bachmann got her John Waynes mixed up. The rugged manly-man movie star was born in Winterset, Iowa, three hours away. The John Wayne that Waterloo was home to is John Wayne Gacy,  the "killer clown" who murdered 33 young men in the 1970s. ... Full Story1 Top Ex-Citigroup exec arrested for stealing $19 mn Mon,27 Jun 2011 10:59 AM PDT AFP - A former vice president of Citigroup has been arrested on bank fraud charges after he allegedly embezzled more than $19 million from the bank, US prosecutors said on Monday. Full Story1 Top Iranian filmmaker reportedly arrested in Tehran Mon,27 Jun 2011 10:42 AM PDT AP - The Iranian reformist website Kaleme.com says Iranian filmmaker and women's right activist Mahnaz Mohammadi has been arrested in Tehran. Full Story1 Top Defense: Pa. killer of 3 cops had abusive boyhood Mon,27 Jun 2011 08:52 AM PDT AP - A defense attorney says there's "no excuse" for his client having killed three Pittsburgh police officers in 2009 but there may be a reason to sentence him to life in prison instead of the death penalty. Full Story1 Top Anti-Death Penalty Activists to Fast and Vigil for Four Days Outside of U.S. Supreme Court to Mark Historic Court Rulings Mon,27 Jun 2011 08:40 AM PDT PR Newswire - Contact: Scott Langley, AAC, +1-518-768-1867, scott@abolition.org Full Story1 Top Jurors tell judge they have agreed on 18 of 20 counts against ousted Illinois Gov. Blagojevich Mon,27 Jun 2011 08:29 AM PDT AP - Jurors tell judge they have agreed on 18 of 20 counts against ousted Illinois Gov. Blagojevich Full Story1 Top Seven arrested after Joburg's police chief burgled Mon,27 Jun 2011 08:10 AM PDT Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Police arrested seven people in connection with a weekend break-in at Johannesburg's police chief's home, sparking criticism over such swift action compared with that experienced by ordinary South Africans. Full Story1 Top Jury weighing death penalty for Pittsburgh cop killer Mon,27 Jun 2011 08:09 AM PDT Reuters - PITTSBURGH (Reuters) -- A jury on Monday began deliberating the fate of a Pennsylvania man who faces the death penalty after being convicted of killing three Pittsburgh police officers in 2009. Full Story1 Top Singer Paulina Rubio arrested in Miami after crash Mon,27 Jun 2011 07:39 AM PDT AP - Mexican pop singer Paulina Rubio is charged in Miami with refusing to comply with police officers after a traffic accident. Full Story1 Top German "cannibal killer" sentenced to life Mon,27 Jun 2011 05:41 AM PDT AP - A 26-year-old German man dubbed the "cannibal killer" after he confessed to eating the flesh and drinking the blood of one of his teenage victims has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Full Story1 Top Indian police arrest 7 in crime reporter's slaying Mon,27 Jun 2011 05:03 AM PDT AP - Police arrested seven suspects in the slaying of a veteran Mumbai crime reporter, including four people who allegedly gunned down the journalist and then escaped on motorcycles, officials said Monday. Full Story1 Top Convict says he believes Knox committed murder Mon,27 Jun 2011 04:59 AM PDT AP - The first man convicted in the slaying of Amanda Knox's roommate says he thinks she and her ex-boyfriend are the killers, confirming his previous accusations. Full Story1 Top Indian police arrest 7 in crime reporter's murder Mon,27 Jun 2011 01:54 AM PDT AP - Police have arrested seven suspects in the murder of a Mumbai crime reporter, including four people who allegedly gunned down the reporter and then escaped on motorcycles, officials said Monday. Full Story1 Top

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