MISSING JERSEY TEEN SARAH TOWNSEND FOUND DEAD

HEARTACHE IN JERSEY. The desperate search for New Jersey high school student Sarah Townsend has ended in tears. The pretty blonde 18-year-old's body was found in a pond but detectives are saying there was no sign of foul play--but still remain stumped. She had been missing since Monday.
Cops said they found a note in Sarah's car and it included the words "I'm sorry."
Burlington Township Police Lt. Bruce Painter said:  "What's suspicious about it is there's a car found in front of a body of water, with her purse and cell phone still in the car. But there's no signs of anyone dragged into water, no blood, no signs of a struggle."

LONG ISLAND KILLERS: GRISLY MAP REVEALED

THIS is the grisly map of the Long Island beach where the murdered bodies of 10 people have been found in the past few months.

The first four sets of remains were all hookers who advertised on Craigslist leading some to dub the killer, the "Craigslist Ripper."

CHRISTIAN CHOATE'S MOM AWOL DURING HIS TORMENT

KEPT LIKE A DOG

EVIL father Riley Choate kept his 13-year-old son locked in a dog cage for a over a year before he brutally beat him to death, cops say. Christian Choate was not allowed to leave his padlocked prison except to eat and use the bathroom, according to testimony from his sister Christina, now 17.
BUT where was his mother? She gave dimwitted Riley custody but had not heard from her son for two years. Us? Kids don't check in for a couple years, we're concerned. And it was his sister Christina who eventually told the unidentified mother who lives in Kentucky what

NOTORIOUS BANK ROBBER NABBED AFTER 20 YEARS

CAUGHT

A NOTORIOUS bank robber who has been on the run for more than two decades has been busted for his role in one of the biggest cash heists in history. Pensioner put up artist Norberto Gonzalez Claudio, now 65, is accused in the robbery of Connecticut's Wells Fargo armored car facility which netted more than $7 million back in 1983.
While the FBI managed to arrest dozens of people connected with the crime, include tow of Gonzalez Claudio's brothers, they never managed to find him. So as his sibling served seven years behind bars, he lived a life on the lam.

DALIA DIPPOLITO TELLS 'KILLER' SHE WANTS HUBBY DEAD

FROM the Is This Great Or What Files: damning video evidence was played at the sensational murder for hire case of unhappy new bride Dalia Dippolito. The Black Dalia plotted with two pals to kill her new hubby for a big payout. In court, video was shown of Dippolito telling the hitman (actually an undercover cop, but aren't they all) she was "5,000 percent sure" she wanted Michael Dippolito of Boynton Beach, Florida dead.

MORE ON THE BLACK DALIA

SKYLAR KAUFFMAN'S ACCUSED KILLER WAS 'SO SWEET'

MORE TROUBLING questions are being raised over the heartbreaking sex slaying of Skylar Kauffman, 9, of suburban Philadelphia. Like, why didn't the cops do anything after the first incident three weeks before? The little girl, who was found murdered in a dumpster near her home Monday night after a desperate seven hour search, had an earlier run in with the suspect, James Lee Troutman. His girlfiend, Heather Clemens, is equally in the dark. She says she didn't have a clue.

FEDS SCUTTLE WALL STREET PIRATE THE 'JOLLY RAJ-ER'

RAJ. OVER AND OUT. Of circulation, that is. Greedy bankers and hedge fund managers everywhere are quivering in their boots after a New York jury convicted billionaire hedge fund fiddler Raj Rajaratnam, 53, of insider trading. The former high-flier is now facing 20 years in prison and will be sentenced in June.
The conviction of the Galleon Group founder on 14 counts is also sending chills down the spine of Wall Street. He was nailed by wiretaps and colleagues who ratted him out. For the feds, the win was a rare triumph against the high finance bully boys.
"Rajaratnam was among the best and the brightest -- one of the most successful and privileged professionals in the country," US Attorney Preet Bharara told the New York Post. "Yet, like so many others recently, he let greed and corruption

WE'RE SORRY FOR GOOGLE'S BIG BLOGGER SCREW-UP

IT was them... HONEST! Yep, the gazillionaire tech heads at Google screwed up. That's why there have been no postings at Crime Scene USA over the past two days. They said an hour... it became 24. They said postings that had been taken down would be back up. Nope. We are NOT happy.