FEARS FOR CO-ED LAUREN SPIERER MOUNT IN INDIANA

WHERE is Lauren? With America's Most Wanted  on the case and almost everyone in Indiana looking for New York born and raised co-ed Lauren Spierer, cops are still waiting for a break. Although they are interviewing 10 persons of interest. Now, a private search team has been brought in by the 20-year-old's wealthy parents who have also offered a $100,000 reward. SEARCH FOR LAUREN SPIERER

PARTY MOM CASEY ANTHONY CLOSER TO DEATH ROW

GRIM. That's the only way to describe Week 3 of Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial. Anthony, 25, is charged with murdering her her toddler daughter Caylee in 2008. This week, the prosecution paraded a veritable marching band of expert witnesses that seemed to inch the Party Mom ever closer to death row. Gruesome videos, bugs, what animals did to Caylee... it was all there.
The Chicago Tribune has a day-by-day roundup of the week's doings in a Florida courtroom:

MONDAY: Dr. Arpad Vass, a top scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,

COP ERIC SCHMITZ SHOOTS, KILLS TROUBLED SON

THEY were the perfect family, that's what everyone said.  Lt. Eric Schmitz, 56, a veteran cop with the Hatfield Township police force, was regarded by peers and friends as the perfect cop and the perfect father.  Teachers at North Penn High School praised his son Stephen, 17, as a caring and intelligent student. The perfect family, however, was ripped apart in tragic circumstances this week when Eric Schmitz shot and killed his youngest child during a stormy confrontation.
Stephen Schmitz had a history of mental health issues and apparently attacked his father in a fit of rage using a hunting knife.  Eric Schmitz

CRIME BRIEFS: SAID BIYAD, MARSHAL KILLED & MORE

AL-QAEDA KILLER BEHIND '98 SLAUGHTER DEAD: Another one bites the dust. This time it's Fazul Abdullar Mohammed's turn. The Al Qaeda planner was behind the deadly embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. No more. He got whacked in Somali. It's just the latest blow for the death cult since it's messiah, Osama bin Laden was killed last month.
MOST WANTED MAN IN AFRICA DEAD

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US MARSHAL GUNNED DOWN IN NC: A veteran police officer serving with the US Marshals on a fugitive task force was shot and killed Thursday.Warren 'Sneak' Davis had been attempting to serve a

MTV TEEN MOM AMBER PORTWOOD TAKES A GUILTY PLEA

WELL, it's back to beating up dopey feckless boyfriends and generally being a role model to knocked up American teens for Amber Portwood. The "star" of MTV reality trash-a-ramma Teen Mom received probation after copping to two domestic assault charges against big dumb Gary Shirley, her on again off again fiancee (who got her knocked up.) Portwood was charged an episode of the show showed her slapping, choking and kicking Gary while their child was present.
Madison Superior Court Judge David Happe tells The Herald Bulletin: that as part of the plea deal he approved Thursday prosecutors dropped a felony child neglect charge against Portwood.

Happe also ordered Portwood to undergo 30 days of inpatient therapy, obtain her high school diploma and put $10,000 in a college fund for her 2-year-old daughter.

EARLIER IN CRIME SCENE USA

FIVE-YEAR-OLD KILLER COULD FACE MURDER CHARGES

DROWNED

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD  girl could face murder charges after telling cops she drowned a toddler in the bathtub "because he would not stop crying." 
Jermane Johnson was just 18-months old when he was killed in his Kansas City, MO home, by the youngster who was annoyed by his tears.
The 16-year-old girl who was supposed to be looking after them had fallen asleep.
Police spokesman Darin Snapp said: "I've been in law enforcement for 20 years, and it's the youngest suspect I can remember. It's extremely rare."
"She said she got angry because he would not stop crying and she held him under the water until he stopped crying."

REEMA BAJAJ LAWYER BY DAY, LADY OF THE NIGHT: COPS

HOOKER?

SHE was a lawyer by day and a lady of the night cops say.
High flying Chicago attorney Reema Bajaj was arrested after allegedly offering to perform a sex act on a man for $50 last month.
Cops were looking into another case when she was caught.
A law enforcement source: "She wasn't very well hidden and when we found out who she was and what she does there were a few raised eyebrows in the locker room." 
 Worse still, the 25-year-old legal eagle was caught within 1000 meters of a school which mean the misdemeanors she could have faced have been upgraded to a felony.
She has pleaded not guilty to all counts.  
Bajj was only admitted to the bar last year could have her law license revoked if found guilty of the charges reports The Chicago Tribune.
She is currently free on bail after posting a $500 cash bond, the paper reports.

ANIMALS 'DRAGGED APART CAYLEE ANTHONY'S REMAINS'

KILLER?

CRIME SCENE

TRAGIC toddler Caylee Anthony's bones were dragged apart by animals after her body was dumped in a woodland near her home, a court heard yesterday. 
Investigators told the court that they had to crawl through woodland on their hands and knees to get to the toddler's bones, which had been gnawed on and torn by beasts in the undergrowth. 

DEATH FOR JAMES HAWKINS; MADE GIRL CUT UP MOM

UPDATE: Sinister James Hawkins, 33, who made his daughter watch as he stabbed and strangled her mother before making her hold the head as he severed it and put it in the freezer has been sentenced to DEATH. A
A jury issued a death sentence Saturday for the Memphis man found guilty of murdering the mother of his three children and then dismembering and disposing of her body. MORE FROM FOX MEMPHIS
 Twisted James Hawkins, 33, repeatedly sexually abused his 15-year-daughter who was just 12 when her mother was killed and threatened to kill her if she told anyone about their relationship.
Then in February 2008 the violent psychopath stabbed and strangled her

"SOME PEOPLE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HOLLY BOBO"

 TENNESSEE cops are still refusing to call the Holly Bobo case a homicide and it remains classified as a missing persons investigation.  It’s now two months since the 20-year-old nursing student was abducted from her Decatur County home and cops are still no closer to finding her kidnappers.
Authorities are still searching local areas every week and receive tips every day but so far nothing substantial enough to break the case.  Despite the lack of progress, TBI agent John Mehr insists that the investigation is still a missing persons case and

WEATHERMAN JOHN BOLARIS' SCAMMERS PLEAD GUILTY

TWO EASTERN European bar girls have pleaded out to slipping Philly weatherman John Bolaris a roofie and robbing him of $50,000 in South Beach. The two sultry svetlanas plied the handsome Fox 29 meteorologist with booze and also slipped him a roofie. Two days later he came to in the back of a taxi with a massive hangover, a huge loss and a huge painting of a woman's face. His lawyer said: "The fact remains. that John is one of several victims, and he feels vindicated by these pleas of guilty. It's been a long ordeal."

The embarassed broadcaster told Miami cops he met the two b-girls, Anna Kilimatova and Marina Turcina at a bar, where they approached him.  He

JADON HIGGANBOTHAN: VICTIM OF NC DEATH CULT?

COPS probing a twisted Durham, North Carolina have made another grisly discovery. On Thursday they discovered a second set of human remains and identified the as belonging to Jadon Higganbothan. He was just 5 and his were the second set of remains found. Peter Moses, 27, is charged in both slayings while six other members of the Black Hebrew Israelites were charged in the death of Antoinetta McCoy, 28. Her body was found Wednesday.
The two victims had been missing since February. Their bodies were found on a tip from a local

NEW DAY, ANOTHER RAPPER BUSTED: FLO RIDA GETS DUI

DRUNK

ANOTHER day, another rapper in trouble - this time it's Flo Rida who was busted for boozed up driving, Cops say. The R.O.O.T.S star was picked up in his Bugatti after Miami Beach cops noticed him driving erratically and drove on for more than two blocks before eventually pulling over. According to the police report the rapper whose real name is Tramar Dillard as having bloodshot watery eyes, slurred speech and the smell of alcohol on his breath when the rapper got out of the car.
During a road sobriety test, Dillard reportedly said "Officer, I can't do this," "I don't feel like I can walk a straight line," "I've had a few drinks," and "I live on the other side of the bridge, I can make it home."  
Needless to say he failed the test and measured a .185 on a breathalyzer test, more than twice the legal limit, reports WFOR.

DEAL FOR BAREFOOT BANDIT COLTON HARRIS MOORE

BAREFOOT BANDIT

BAREFOOT Bandit Colton Harris Moore could reach a plea deal this week his lawyer has revealed. 
The troublesome 19-year-old who has no formal flight training, pilfered at least five planes and dozens of car and boats as he evaded capture for a string of burglaries over the last two or three years.
Eventually, he flew a light plane from his home in Vancouver Island to the Caribbean, landing in the Bahamas, where a $10,000 FBI reward and a huge law enforcement team caught up with him.
His already lengthy list of more than 70 crimes across nine states.

'FAKE-BOOK' TRIPS UP DAVID VOELKERT'S HITMAN PLAN

DOPEY DAD

FAKE

SHE wanted him to dish some damaging details to help her with her divorce case - instead she found out he was trying to arrange her murder.
Angela Voelkert, 29, set up a Facebook account posing as attractive teen Jessica Studebaker and became friends with her 38-year-old husband in the hope that she could trick him into spilling a few titbits to help her in court.
But what she learned was astounding.