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A Serial Killer On the Loose?
Lynn Waddell 1/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
Stacey Charlene Gage, 30, a single mother of a girl and a boy, went out to buy a bag of ice one night last month and never came home. Three weeks later, a few miles from where Gage lived with her grandmother in Holly Hill, a middle-class suburb of Daytona Beach, Fla., Police Officer Chris Reeder parked on a secluded dead-end road near an abandoned church to do some paperwork. He rolled down his window and "smelled something bad." About 15 yards in from the road, Reeder's flashlight fell on the nude, decomposed body of a young woman who was later identified by her fingerprints as Gage. Police say she was apparently killed within a day after her disappearance. And that's all the world at large would have heard about Stacey Charlene Gage, a former drum majorette who dropped out of high school in her senior year and had two children by the age of 21, except that her murder followed by almost exactly two years the unsolved killings of three other young women in Daytona Beach. "It's eerily similar and has all the earmarks of the other cases," says Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood. "I hope to God he's not back," he adds, referring to the unknown killer. "But I'm afraid that's what we're looking at."
TECHNOLOGY
Powering-Up Communication
Jennifer Ordoñez 12/10/2007 12:00:00 AM
Could a small, relatively inexpensive, Spanish-speaking PDA-size translator have prevented a dramatic melee between Los Angeles police and civilians earlier this year—and the more than 250 legal claims against the city that resulted? Los Angeles Police Capt. Dennis Kato is betting on it.
INTERNATIONAL
Afghan Prison Blues
Sami Yousafzai
Abdul Bari is looking forward to springtime, when fighting will resume in eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni province. The Taliban field officer is in line for a possible promotion to succeed his commander, Mullah Momin Ahmed, who was killed in action late last year. Until the snows melt, though, Bari is quietly enjoying his freedom. "Thank God and my cousin," Bari told NEWSWEEK last week at his winter quarters on the Pakistani border. "Without them I'd be dead or spending many years in prison."
The Death-Squad War
The Brutal Price Of Justice
Dirk Johnson
Joan Lefkow could have taken the easy way out. In 2003, the Chicago federal judge was presiding over a case involving white supremacist Matthew Hale, leader of the World Church of the Creator. A religious group in Oregon with the same name was challenging Hale's right to use it. During the trial, a shocking twist: police charged Hale with trying to have Judge Lefkow killed. She could have stepped down from the case. Instead, she stood firm, citing her duty to the justice system. "A party should not be allowed to intimidate a judge off a case," she said.
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