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Girl Kidnapped in 97′ Reunited With Her Family By Coincidence

Celeste Nurse (red jumpsuit) mother of South African girl who was kidnapped from her arms 17 years ago. Photo: STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images

On Cassidy Nurse’s first day of school, classmates kept approaching her and saying, “There’s a girl who looks just like you.”

The look-a-likes met, felt an instant connection, and became friends, but it turns out the kinship had deeper origins: The girl was Cassidy’s long-lost sister, kidnapped as a baby 17 years ago from a Cape Town hospital, the Guardian reports.

After hearing about the resemblance, Celeste and Morne Nurse arranged to meet their daughter’s new friend, contacted police, and got a DNA test to prove it was their abducted child, the BBC reports. Continue reading “Girl Kidnapped in 97′ Reunited With Her Family By Coincidence”

CELEBRITY CRIME: Heir To The Durst Dynasty Indicted For Murder

Robert-Durst-mug-shot — Photo: Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office

Robert Durst, subject of the HBO documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, has been arrested in New Orleans in connection with a Los Angeles murder.

Durst, 71, is a member of a prominent New York City family that owns a multibillion-dollar real-estate company. He was taken into custody in a hotel lobby Saturday night and was being held Sunday on a first-degree murder warrant, Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office documents said.

The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement Sunday that it has been investigating the slaying of writer and Durst confidant Susan Berman since her body was discovered in her West Los Angeles home on Christmas Eve 2000.

Durst discussed the case in the HBO documentary series, which wraps up Sunday night.

“As a result of investigative leads and additional evidence that has come to light in the past year, investigators have identified Robert Durst as the person responsible for Ms. Berman’s death,” the Los Angeles Police statement said. “Investigator’s in concert with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Major Crimes Section secured an Arrest warrant for Robert Durst for the murder of Susan Berman and arrested Mr. Durst on Saturday, March 14, 2015, in New Orleans, Louisiana.” Continue reading “CELEBRITY CRIME: Heir To The Durst Dynasty Indicted For Murder”

Cartel Hitmen Kidnap and Behead Woman Running For Mayor

The 42-year-old woman running for mayor in a violent southwestern Mexican state that sparked the biggest crisis of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration has been kidnapped and decapitated.

State prosecutors said the body of Aide Nava was found in northern Guerrero, where 43 trainee teachers were abducted and almost certainly massacred last year, sparking an international outcry over criminal violence in Mexico.

A spokesman for the prosecutors said Nava, a candidate from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), was kidnapped on Tuesday in the town of Ahuacuotzingo, the municipality she hoped to become mayor of in June elections. Continue reading “Cartel Hitmen Kidnap and Behead Woman Running For Mayor”