BOY,15, BUTCHERS GREAT GRANNY OVER VIDEO GAME

SHE ASKED him to stop. And that was something he would never do. Now, a 15-year-old Georgia boy is accused of butchering his great-grandmother after she told him to stop playing a video game. A source said the boy became infuriated when Mary Joan Gibbs, 77, told him to stop playing Halo. He freaked and used a 34-36-inch sword to cut his grandmother, Laura Prince, 55, then turned on Gibbs, whom neighbors called a "sweet old lady." It was the wild teen's third encounter with cops. His mother had begged for help for his violent mental problems and despite the intervention of police, no one seemed to be listening. Sheriff Phil Miller said: "It just seems to

BANK ROBBER LEE GRACE DOUGHERTY'S DIRTY PIX!

Lee Grace Dougherty is one-third of a trio of siblings on a psychotic cross-country death wish robbery spree. Lee Gracie (Gracie), 29, and brothers Ryan Dougherty, 21, and Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26, robbed a bank in Georgia then got in a shootout with cops in Florida. Recent reports suggest they could be in Colorado. Even their mom has pleaded with them to surrender. But on a positive note, Gracie is apparently a former stripper and has a whack of saucy pix on flickr: DOUGHERTY SIBLINGS IN COLORADO?

McDANIEL CHARGED IN LAUREN GIDDINGS MURDER

THE NEIGHBOR of pretty law graduate Lauren Giddings has been charged in her grisly dismemberment murder. Classmate Stephen Mark McDaniel (the creepy neighbor from central casting) was charged last night with first-degree murder--he had been held on unrelated burglary charges.
Giddings sister Kaitlyn Wheeler told the Macon Telegraph: “It’s not a good feeling, but it feels like a step in the right direction toward closure. … It’s exciting in a way that you feel sick, not happy. We know this is going to be a long, hard process. It’s one more step toward him facing judgment. … It doesn’t mean he’s been convicted.”

THELMA CARTER KILLED BEAU WITH STILETTO HEEL

THELMA CARTER looked her best--or as best as she could be--but her hot date went off the rails and after a bitter dispute, she murdered him--with her stiletto heel. Now, the sultry 46-year-old of Augusta, Georgia is being charged with the slaying of Robert F. Higdon, 58, her boyfriend. The two were fighting inside their palace at the Augusta Mobile Home Estates. The dead man's body was discovered Monday.

REVEALED: LUCKY BREAK IN LAUREN GIDDINGS CASE

LAUREN GIDDINGS escaped being a missing person for eternity by a mere couple of hours. cops revealed. The pretty blonde law student was murdered and dismembered June 25, her remains in garbage bags ready to be picked up. Fortunately, family and friends became concerned and cops were quickly on the scene the next morning as fears mounted.
They found Giddings’ torso stuffed in a residential trash bins with wheels on it just feet from her front door at 9 a.m. on June 30. A couple of hours later and the bins--and evidence--would have been gone.
Macon Police Chief Mike Burns said: “It’d have been a missing person from here on out. I think we beat trash day by two hours. When I got

GEORGIA EXECUTES FAMILY KILLER ANDREW DEYOUNG

A ONETIME university student who murdered his parents and 14-year-old sister to get an inheritance was executed by Georgia last night. Andrew Grant DeYoung, 39, even had a video camera recording his final moments. His last words were: "I'm sorry for everyone I have hurt."
DeYoung was put to death for butchering his parents and sister in 1993. A brother, 16, managed to escape the home turned into the Cobb County slaughterhouse. He was nabbed within hours.
A Kennesaw State University student and 19 at the time, DeYoung killed because he believed he would inherit $480,000 in inheritance for a business venture. MORE IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

TEEN NABBED IN MURDER OF GA. COP RICHARD DALY

GEORGIA cops have arrested a 17-year-old triggerman in the cold-blooded murder of Deputy Richard 'Rick' Jerome Daly. The 55-year-old veteran Clayton Police officer pulled over aspiring headcase Jonathan 'Bunny' Bun yesterday afternoon to serve him with an arrest warrant. And when the terrible teen--wanted for an unrelated armed robbery-- emerged from the car, he was shooting.
Sheriff Kem Kimbrough said yesterday that the force is "devastated" by the loss of Daly.

LAUREN GIDDINGS' MURDERED BY SPURNED SUITOR?

ONE OF THE persons of interest in the sickening Lauren Giddings dismemberment murder was once asked by his mom whether there was a romance brewing between the two. According to Glenda McDaniel, her son Stephen Mark McDaniel considered Lauren, 27, a friend, and the two lived in the same building in Macon, Georgia and were classmates. He told her his focus was finishing law school.
Giddings' torso was found outside her apartment building June 30 and were in such appalling shape it took nearly a week for a positive identification.

LAUREN GIDDINGS LAST SEEN ON DINER VIDEO: COPS

GEORGIA detectives believe dismembered law graduate Lauren Giddings was last seen on a restaurant surveillance video at 6:30 p.m., then sent an email from her home computer at 10:30 p.m.
The new information comes after hundreds of people gathered on the weekend to honor the dead woman's memory. Family, friends, and her professors attended a Catholic Mass. After the bread was broken, Lauren's last words were read from her journal she kept during her time as a law student. Her professor, Sarah Gerwig-Moore, shared them at the end of the mass.
She recited: "I forget sometimes at my job at it's most basic sense it's people going through horrible time in their lives. Of course they're upset."
 The pretty blonde's dismembered remains were found outside her Macon

SUSPECTS EYED IN GRISLY LAUREN GIDDINGS MURDER

DETECTIVES are looking at "several" persons of interest in the grisly dismemberment slaying of Georgia law student Lauren Giddings. The popular 27-year-old's remains were discovered outside her Macon apartment complex after she vanished June 25. The grisly condition of the remains made identification difficult until now. The cause of death has yet to be determined of the pretty blonde who was about to write her bar exams.
So far, the focus has been on the Mercer University student's apartment--popular with law students. Now, the search has been extended further afield.
One police source said: "What we’re trying to do is get statements from anyone who had a connection with her."
Meanwhile, cops have charged one of Giddings' neighbors with burglary for

DISMEMBERED BODY 'LIKELY' LAUREN GIDDINGS

COPS are certain the dismembered remains of a woman's body found outside a Macon apartment building is missing law student Lauren Giddings. The 27-year-old blonde beauty-a recent graduate of Mercer University's law school--vanished last Saturday and was just reported missing by a pal Thursday. Later that morning cops found a dismembered body near her apartment. Her family were paying tribute Saturday: "We just want people to remember Lauren."
Chief Mike Burns said: "The condition of the body is making positive identification difficult." But in an email to a friend, the happy-go-lucky beauty reportedly said she was "concerned for her safety and believed someone had tried to

ROY WILLARD BLANKENSHIP EXECUTED FOR '78 SLAY

A GEORGIA killer who was sentenced to death for the sickening sex slaying of an elderly woman was executed last night. Roy Willard Blankenship, 55, "jerked his head several times throughout the procedure and muttered after the pentobarbital was injected into his veins," according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was pronounced dead at 8:37 p.m. yesterday.
Blankenship was put down like a dog for the 1978 slaying of Sarah Mims Bowen, 78, who died of heart failure while she was being raped and beaten to death in her Savannah apartment.
His last words before the procedure began were to the warden. He sneered and stammered: "I hope to see you again."
Blankenship had tried to fight his execution on the grounds pentobarbital was

JOANNA HAYES DISGUISED AS A MAN WHEN SHE KILLED

A FLASH of recognition and then dark. A bizarre Georgia murder trial is showing just how far some people will go for their family. Cops in suburban Atlanta say Joanna Hayes went way over the line.
Heather Strube was engaged in a bitter custody with her estranged hubby Steven when a "man" in the parking lot of a Target store put a gun to the terrified mom's head and pulled the trigger.
Now, prosecutors say that "man" was Joanna Hayes in disguise and bent on bloodshed. This week, her son Steven testified against her and jurors heard a