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The Florida Times-Union reported in March that police in Jacksonville, Florida, had arrested 19-year-old Robert Eric Denney after linking his DNA to the scene of a 1998 murder. Despite close surveillance, Denney repeatedly foiled officers’ attempts to procure a DNA sample, refusing a glass of water, putting a cigarette butt in his pocket rather than discarding it, and declining to lick-seal an envelope. Shortly thereafter, while walking around outside his workplace, Denney absentmindedly spit on the ground; officers scooped up the saliva and rushed it to the lab.
People Different From Us
A 68-year-old repeat child molester in Edmonton, Alberta, was charged in February with having impregnated his 13-year-old daughter. The man said he had sex with her “accidentally” when she slipped into his bed one night and that the whole thing was “a trap the devil had set, not something I consented to or something I had control over.”
Prodigies
Norway’s minister for children and family said her office might introduce legislation establishing minimum weight requirements for professional models….A 36-year-old bride in Stuart, Florida, was charged with battery for smashing the groom with the wedding cake during the reception and kicking him after he fell to the floor….A strip-club customer in Lake Worth, Florida, who volunteered to assist dancer Sana Fey onstage filed a lawsuit after she gripped his head in a leg lock and left him with ringing in his ears….And a judge in Syracuse, New York, mistakenly released a 37-year-old white man who had been accused of a felony, having confused him with a black teenager accused of a minor ordinance violation.
