SAN DIEGO ( Man wanted for shooting Missouri woman - Kills himself in San Diego ) Mission Beach

A man suspected of shooting a woman in the head in Missouri died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot early Friday after being chased by police in San Diego.
Acting on information provided by the Missouri state police, San Diego police chased a vehicle through the streets of Mission Beach in hopes of arresting the driver.
Surrounded in a dead end about 1:30 a.m., the driver took his own life, police said. He was identified as Alan Lovelace, 37, of Blue Spring, Mo., wanted on suspicion of shooting a woman in the head in Grain Valley, Mo., and taking her car.
The woman was listed in critical condition, according to Missouri news reports.

FBI'S TOP 10 (Arrested in Mexico) Jose Saenz -rapist and killer

An man on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitive list after an alleged murder spree in Los Angeles was arrested this week.
He is in Los Angeles Police Department custody and is expected to be arraigned next week on murder charges, said Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman.
Jose Luis Saenz, who is believed to have worked for a Mexican drug cartel, was arrested after a joint investigation by the FBI, LAPD and Mexican authorities, Eimiller said.
Authorities believe that Saenz, a reputed gang member, shot and killed two gang rivals in Boyle Heights in 1998.
Days later, he allegedly kidnapped, raped and killed his girlfriend.
He is believed to have killed a fourth person in Los Angeles County in October 2008, according to the FBI.
Saenz, who is believed to be 36 or 37, was flown Friday under FBI escort from Guadalajara to Los Angeles International Airport, Eimiller said.
Saenz has "been sought for some time," she said. "There's a lot of determination that went into this capture."
Saenz -- who was believed by the FBI to use the aliases "Zapp," "Toro" and "Peanut Joe Smiley," among others -- was added to the 10 most wanted list in 2009.
Authorities "suspected that he had crossed the border to Mexico and back often," Eimiller said.

SAN DIEGO ( Murder-man cooking wife's body parts on stove ) Nut cake

Defendant Frederick Hengl at his arraignment at the Vista Courthouse Wednesday standing with Deputy Public Defender Alejandro Morales. — Bill Wechter

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VISTA — A 68-year-old man pleaded not guilty to murder on Wednesday, five days after police found his wife’s severed head in the freezer and her body parts cooking on the stove of their Oceanside home.

A Vista Superior Court judge ordered Frederick Joseph Hengl to remain jailed on $5 million bail. Hengl faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of all charges, which include willful cruelty to an elder and committing an unlawful act with human remains.

He appeared frail in court, and his lawyer requested he see jail medical staff for a heart condition.

Just after 11 a.m. on Friday, police went to Hengl’s home on North Ditmar Street, less than a block from Oceanside City Hall, after neighbors called to complain about a foul odor coming from the bungalow-style house.

The first officer who entered the home through a window saw three pans of “meat” cooking on the stove, and authorities later realized it was parts of the victim, said Deputy District Attorney Katherine Flaherty.

“There is no evidence of cannibalism at this time,” Flaherty said.

The prosecutor said the victim was Hengl’s 73-year-old wife, Anna Faris. Property records show the couple purchased the two-bedroom home in 2002.

Faris is believed to have been killed sometime after Nov. 1. Although her autopsy was done on Saturday, a determination of her cause of death is still pending.

California (Polar bears get 10 TONS of snow for birthday party )

Despite being in sunny California, two polar bears at the San Francisco Zoo celebrated their birthdays this month in true, really chilly style.

Pike, 30, and Ulu, 32, got a very special sub-zero treatment Nov. 15 when the zoo had 10 tons of fresh snow blown into their habitat.

The big celebration was the zoo's way of honoring the bears' old ages, because the average life span of their species is only half their ages. This makes Pike and Ulu among the oldest bears of their kind to live in an accredited zoo within the United States.

"As the worldwide symbol of climate change, the presence of polar bears both in the wild and in zoological educational programs is a vital tool in carrying the messages of conservation," the San Francisco Zoo said in a statement.

The zoo even got a little sports action involved in the celebration. San Francisco Bulls hockey players Hans Benson and Chris Frank partied with the polar bears by shooting fish pucks into the bears' enclosure. Pike and Ulu sure enjoyed the tasty birthday treat.

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NORWAY ( Killer Breivik said he is being Strip Searched by FEMALE guards )

The 33-year-old right-wing fanatic killed 77 people in twin attacks last year in Norway's worst peacetime massacre. He detonated a car bomb outside government offices in Oslo killing eight people and then drove to the island of Utoya where he massacred 69 in a shooting spree at the summer camp of the governing Labor Party's youth wing.

Ellen Bjercke, spokeswoman at Ila Prison where Breivik is being held, said the prison had not lifted any security restrictions on Breivik in response to his letter, although he had recently been allowed a normal pen instead of a rubber safety pen, which he had also avidly used during the 10-week trial to make notes.

Breivik said the experience of having to use the stab-free pen was as "an almost indescribable manifestation of sadism."

The self-confessed killer described numerous prison practices as "degrading" in his letter, including that he is watched when swallowing his vitamin pills, that he's not allowed a mop to clean his cell and that he is subjected to daily strip searches, sometimes by female prison guards.

Keeping up his personal hygiene is also a challenge, he said.

 

"Use of a toothbrush and electric shaver is always under supervision. One is therefore under mental pressure to finish quickly as the guards are tapping their feet outside the cell ... This limits brushing to once a day and shaving to once a week in order not to have to go through the mental ordeal more often than necessary," he wrote in the letter.

NEW YORK ( SERIAL Killer Arrested - Charged for killing 3 Shopkeepers )

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NEW YORK (AP) — A balding garment salesman was arrested Wednesday for systematically killing three shopkeepers as they worked alone in their clothing stores and had been poised to strike again, police said.

Salvatore Perrone, 63, was taken into custody after a pharmacy worker recognized him as the man shown in surveillance footage leaving the scene of the most recent shooting, last Friday, with a duffel bag, police said.

Another shopkeeper came forward and said Perrone had gone into his store and questioned him on whether he worked alone and when he closed, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. Police devoted scores of detectives to the case, he said.

"It's reasonable to assume he was going to keep doing this, and, by arresting him, we saved lives," Kelly said at a news conference.

Perrone, of Staten Island, was arrested on charges of murder. He was in custody Wednesday and couldn't be reached for comment. A message left on his cellphone was not returned, and it was unclear if he had an attorney.

Detectives said they found the duffel bag at his girlfriend's home. Inside, they said, was a sawed-off rifle used in the killings, along with .22-caliber ammunition, black gloves, women's clothing, a bloody knife and a bottle of bleach.

Puerto Rico ( Hector "Macho" Camacho shot in drive by shooting)

NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Three-time world boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho was seriously wounded on Tuesday in a drive-by shooting in Puerto Rico, according to reports in the Puerto Rican press.

 

Camacho, 50, was a passenger in a vehicle fired on by unknown gunmen in the Bayamon region of the island, just southwest of the capital, San Juan, according to reports in El Nuevo Herald and El Nuevo Dia.

The reports said Camacho was taken to San Juan Medical Center. It attributed information about the shooting to Bayomon district police captain Reinaldo Santiago.

(Reporting By Chris Francescani; Editing by Mary Slosson and Peter Cooney)