A CRIMINAL PROFILE--THE TIFFANY SOUERS TRAGEDY

Criminal Profiling: My Theory

Tiffany lives in a first floor apartment...an open screen door. A man who watched Tiffany for the last couple months had now had an in. She wasn't home, her house was accessible. He saw her roommates move out. He knew...he had been watching. This day he went into her house through the open sliding glass patio door. He went to her bedroom and explored her underwear drawer. While fondling her private items, he comes across the bikini top. He hids in her closet.

When Tiffany gets home, she goes into her bedroom and begins to change for bed. When he realizes she is alone, he comes out out of the closet, coming up from behind her and proceeds to choke her with the bikini top he was holding while hiding in the closet.

He may or may not have had sex with her. If he did, I believe it was after she was dead. I believe this because she had no defense wounds. If she was being raped, then she would have shown some evidence of that. I believe she most likely died as soon as he attacked her due to strangulation. Afterwards, he removed her underwear and kept it. He may have more of these "prizes" with him.

Check the employees of the apartment complex. The maintenence workers, landscapers, particularly. Get all their alibis. I do not think that this person knew Tiffany. I do not believe this person came through the front door. He was lying in wait. He had planned this. This was premeditated.

This person could also have done this in the past. He is not known to any of Tiffany's friends. He is an outsider. Check all fingerprints...check all DNA. The police may find a match in the national DNA and fingerprint database. He may have had some previous time for something like lewd and lascivious behavior, child enticement, what have you. However, he could be a free sexual predator. Check a 5 miles radius of Tiffany's apartment for all registered sex offenders. Get all their alibis.





CENTRAL, S.C. — Investigators are exploring a possible link between the recent bikini strangulation death of a 20-year-old Clemson University student and two other murders in 1992 and 1997.


There have been at least two other unsolved killings in Pickens County involving females, but authorities don't know if they are connected. In 1997, Clemson freshman Stacy Brooke Holsonback was found floating in Lake Hartwell. Authorities believe more than one person is responsible for that death.


Souers was found by her roommate around 2 p.m. EDT on Friday in her ground floor apartment at The Reserve at Clemson apartment complex. Friends last saw her at 11 p.m. EDT Thursday night. Authorities believe she died around 1 a.m. EDT Friday.


"What’s tragic about this is this is an aspiring young girl who was the all-American kid from all appearances," 13th Circuit solicitor Bob Ariail said at a news conference Tuesday. Ariail handles prosecutions in Greenville and Pickens counties. "I feel confident that all the steps being taken will result in an arrest," Ariail continued. "I just think it's going to take a lot of leg work."


Jordan Vogt shared the apartment with Souers and two other roommates and told FOX News the foursome was "security conscious." Ariail's office will hold another press conference on the case at 4 p.m. EDT. "Everyone that knew Tiffany loved her," Vogt said. "She had no enemies, I mean even ex-boyfriends, she just didn’t have any enemies. She accepted everyone for who they were and I don’t question any of her ex-boyfriends."


The bikini top was still around Souers' neck when she was found and she only had a bra on, Mahanes said. She didn't have any other visible injuries, the coroner said. Investigators have not received the results of a sexual assault test and there are no clear suspects or motive, Ariail said. He wouldn't talk about events leading up to Souers' death, whether she had any prior relationships or if she knew her attacker. There was no sign of forced entry.


"Speculation is one of the things that leads to suspects having more information than they need," Ariail said. Souers, a civil engineering student from Ladue, Mo., was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at Clemson, an agricultural and engineering school in the northwestern corner of the state about 30 miles west of Greenville. She also worked with a local charity.

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GET TREATMENT OR GET FIRED!!!

What would possess even a really drunk person to bite someone? This man sounds like he has more than just alcohol problems. It is scary to think that this man is a college DEAN. He should have been fired a long time ago with those other DUI arrests. This man doesn't have both oars in the water in order to be a fry cook at Wendy's, let alone the dean of a higher educational institution.

College dean accused of biting man agrees to plea

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A college dean accused of biting a man who stopped to help him after a car accident has agreed to plead guilty to drunken driving and battery, prosecutors said.


Robert E. Mays, an associate dean at the University of Southern Indiana, is scheduled to appear June 21 before a Vanderburgh County judge, who will decide whether to accept the plea. Prosecutors said Mays, 64, will plead guilty to a felony charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated with a prior conviction and a misdemeanor battery for biting the man in the leg.


On March 13, Mays was driving when his car rear-ended another car. According to police reports, Mays got out and staggered into the street. A passer-by who saw Mays tried to prevent him from getting back inside his car, believing he was drunk. Mays then bent down and bit the man's calf, leaving a bruise and teeth marks, police said. When police arrived, Mays refused to take a breath test.


It wasn't the first run-in with police for Mays, who has been at the Evansville school since 1973. Court records show he pleaded guilty to drunken driving in August 1999 and June 1996. After the March accident, Mays was put on medical leave from USI. He told the court then that he intended to get treatment in a Jeffersonville facility.

SHOW & TELL! CHECK OUT MY SCOOBY SNACKS!

6-year-old Minnesota boy brings pot to school

When a teacher asked a 6-year-old boy to pull a folder out of his Scooby-Doo backpack, a bag filled with 25 smaller bags of marijuana fell out instead, a court document said. The teacher gave the drugs to a school administrator, who called police.

Before officers arrived at HOPE Community Academy, the boy's father showed up. He took the backpack from his son and quickly walked away, according to a criminal complaint. The father was later arrested and told investigators he hid the marijuana in the backpack, and left it in a bedroom closet. When he discovered the backpack was missing, he ran to his son's nearby school. Corey Randle, 29, was charged Thursday with a fifth-degree drug-sale charge.

ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME? PLEASE SAY THIS IS A JOKE

Oh my GOD...I think I just died and landed
in a really bad South Park episode.

(AP)--LINCOLN, Neb. - A judge's decision to sentence a 5-foot-1 man to probation instead of prison for sexually assaulting a child has angered crime victim advocates who say the punishment sends the wrong message. But supporters of short people (Supporters of short people? I didn't know they had 'supporters'...is this common knowledge than maybe I'm missing here?) say it's about time someone recognizes the unique challenges they face.


Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava issued the sentence Tuesday. She told Richard W. Thompson that his crimes deserved a long prison sentence but that he was too small to survive in a state prison. Though he could have been sentenced to 10 years behind bars, he ended up with 10 years of probation instead.


On Thursday, the state's attorney general, Jon Bruning, promised to appeal within two weeks, calling the sentence far too lenient. "I'm concerned about the message this sends to victims and perpetrators," said Marla Sohl with the Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition, adding that it shows more concern is being placed on the criminal and his safety in prison than the victim.


But Joe Mangano, secretary of the National Organization of Short Statured Adults, agreed with the judge's assessment that Thompson would face dangers while in prison because of his height. "I'm assuming a short inmate would have a much more difficult time than a large inmate," said Mangano, who is 5 feet 4 inches tall. "It's good to see somebody looking out for someone who is a short person."


Thompson had sexual contact over a couple of months last year with a 12-year-old girl, said Sidney Police Chief Larry Cox. He was sentenced on two felony sexual assault charges. As part of the probation, he will be electronically monitored for the first four months and was told never to be alone with someone under age 18 or date or live with a woman whose children were under 18. He was also ordered to get rid of his pornography. (Yeah right...get rid of his computer, too? His TV? His telephone? The Newstands? WTF?)


Thompson's attorney, Donald Miller, had no comment on the ruling. Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub, who prosecuted the case, did not return a call seeking comment. Cecava did not return a message seeking comment. The judge's reasoning confounded Amy Miller, legal director for the Nebraska chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. "I have never heard of anything like this before," she said. No one has ever come to the ACLU to complain of height discrimination, she said. And using Thompson's height as a reason to avoid sending him to prison is surprising, because neither the U.S. nor state constitution provides protections based on physical stature, she said.


A spokesman for the prison system said Thompson's height would not put him at risk among the state's 4,400 inmates. There are protections available in prison to help inmates who feel threatened, prison spokesman Steve King said, but to his knowledge, no one has ever taken advantage of them based on fears related to their height. "He's not the shortest guy we have in prison," King said. "We've got some short guys that are as tough as nails. We've got people from all ages, physical stature of all sizes, in general population."


State Sen. Ernie Chambers, a longtime critic of judges, said he was baffled by the sentence. "If shortness is an excuse and protection from going to prison, short people ought to rob banks and do everything else they would wind up going to prison for," Chambers said. "We're talking here about a crime committed against a child, and shortness is not a defense."

SEXUAL SADIST FUGITIVES CAUGHT!!!

FBI: Grisly Videotape Murder Couple Caught With 5-Year-Old Child

BATES CITY, Mo. — Police have taken a Missouri couple wanted in a grisly videotaped rape and murder into custody, officials confirm to FOX News. According to officials, the couple had a 5-year-old girl with them when they turned themselves in to authorities.


The FBI's "most wanted couple in America," Richard Davis, 41, and Dena Riley, 39, called the highway patrol and turned themselves in Thursday because they were reportedly tired of being on the lam from charges that they sexually assaulted, beat and strangled 41-year-old Marsha Spicer and buried her in a shallow grave in a rural area in Bates City, Mo. Police found a videotape of the activities leading up to Spicer's death, and her actual murder, in the couple's apartment.


The couple had been on the run since May 19, when police discovered the tape. "We’ve had some pretty heinous crimes around here, but nothing of this particular nature," FBI Special Agent Jeff Lanza told FOX News. Davis is said to be in a hospital in Kansas City with some injuries. There are reports that the couple was in an accident involving a pickup truck before surrendering to authorities, who then found the pair and the girl in a ditch.


Sources told FOX News that Davis and Riley placed the call to authorities under "quite unusual" circumstances. Sources also say that additional victims are likely. The prosecuting attorney said during a press conference that additional charges are "likely."


According to Lanza, the couple had a 5-year-old girl with them when they turned themselves in. Lanza said federal investigators believe the girl was taken across state lines. "We believe this girl was taken from her home in Pittsburg, Kan., and the FBI is investigating this as a kidnapping case," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Pittsburg is in southeast Kansas, about 17 miles from Lamar.


Lanza said authorities were trying to determine any possible relationship between the girl and the couple. He also said authorities would try to determine whether she was a victim of a sex crime. Davis and Riley are each charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, kidnapping, forcible rape and two counts of forcible sodomy.


Spicer had no idea what the couple was capable of, according to the victim's older sister, Jackie Schumacher. "I want them to remember every day of their life what they're doing to all these people," Schumacher said. "People don't deserve this ... people don't deserve what they did."


Kansas City resident Sherry Ballew fears that her daughter might also have fallen victim to the pair after seeing a still picture taken from the videotape of who she says is her daughter, Michelle Ricci. Ballew hasn't seen her 36-year-old daughter since a few days after Ricci met Davis and Riley.


The wanted couple was sighted Sunday in Perryville, Mo., at the Hilltop Apartment Complex. The Missouri State Highway Patrol interviewed a woman at the complex, Susan Summers, about the couple's disappearance on Sunday. Police later learned the couple had been hiding in the back room of Summers' apartment at the Perryville complex and escaped after officers left. Summers has been charged with two counts of hindering prosecution. The Kansas City Star reported Thursday that the couple worked at a Kansas City fabricating business. Davis worked as a janitor and Riley worked part-time in light assembly. Spicer is survived by two children and two grandchildren.

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STRANGLE AN ATTORNEY--GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL...DO NOT PASS GO...DO NOT COLLECT $200

Haven't we all wanted to strangle an attorney at one time or another? I know I have...especially since I work with so many of them. Still contemplating that thought for a couple individuals I know of...

A man charged with murder in Massachusetts was so angry with his lawyer's performance he attacked the attorney in court, trying to strangle him as a shocked judge looked on, Boston radio reported on Wednesday.


"I think he just didn't like the way some of the rulings the judge was making was going yesterday morning," attorney Bruce Carroll told WBZ Radio of the Tuesday morning attack by defendant John Gomes in Boston's Suffolk Superior Court. "He eventually stood up, started saying something and reached over and grabbed me by the throat," said Carroll.


Several officers intervened before the 6-foot, 250-pound Gomes was separated from Carroll, the radio reported. Carroll had tried to withdraw from the case last week but the judge denied his request.

NEW STUDY: SMOKE WEED = NO LUNG CANCER?

Go ahead and toke away...doesn't look like you'll be getting lung cancer anytime soon.

Marijuana smoking does not increase a person's risk of developing lung cancer, according to the findings of a new study at the University of California Los Angeles that surprised even the researchers.

They had expected to find that a history of heavy marijuana use, like cigarette smoking, would increase the risk of cancer.

Instead, the study, which compared the lifestyles of 611 Los Angeles County lung cancer patients and 601 patients with head and neck cancers with those of 1,040 people without cancer, found no elevated cancer risk for even the heaviest pot smokers. It did find a 20-fold increased risk of lung cancer in people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day.

The study results were presented in San Diego on Tuesday at a meeting of the American Thoracic Society.

The study was confined to people under age 60 since baby boomers were the most likely age group to have long-term exposure to marijuana, said Dr. Donald Tashkin, senior researcher and professor at the UCLA School of Medicine.

The results should not be taken as a blank check to smoke pot, which has been associated with problems like cognitive impairment and chronic bronchitis, said Dr. John Hansen-Flaschen, chief of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. He was not involved in the study.

Previous Studies

Previous studies showed marijuana tar contained about 50 percent more of the chemicals linked to lung cancer, compared with tobacco tar, Tashkin said. In addition, smoking a marijuana joint deposits four times more tar in the lungs than smoking an equivalent amount of tobacco.

"Marijuana is packed more loosely than tobacco, so there's less filtration through the rod of the cigarette, so more particles will be inhaled," Tashkin said in a statement. "And marijuana smokers typically smoke differently than tobacco smokers -- they hold their breath about four times longer, allowing more time for extra fine particles to deposit in the lung."

He theorized that tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a chemical in marijuana smoke that produces its psychotropic effect, may encourage aging, damaged cells to die off before they become cancerous.

Hansen-Flaschen also cautioned a cancer-marijuana link could emerge as baby boomers age and there may be smaller population groups, based on genetics or other factors, still at risk for marijuana-related cancers.

DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP

May 18, 2006 -- - The pictures show girls gone wild -- but these are Catholic girls, freshmen from the Catholic University of America's women's lacrosse team, girls everyone expects to be "wholesome."

But the initiation pictures posted on badjocks.com are anything but. In one photo, a young woman with a frightened look on her face, seated on the shoulders of a stripper with her torso facing his mouth, holds on as if for dear life. Another picture shows a girl, fully clothed, but in a position for a sexual act with a thong-wearing stripper. Other pictures show the names of very "dirty" deeds -- deeds the Catholic Church deems sinful -- written all over the girls' bodies and shirts.


The man who runs badjocks.com said he got the project started to give people a chuckle, but with its focus on college-sports-team initiations and hazings, it has turned a spotlight on a practice that has resulted in more than 30 deaths over the last three decades.


Badjocks.com shows initiation photos from more than a dozen different colleges and universities. Next to the picture, the site links to the hazing policy of the school involved. One typical policy is from Kenyon College: "The College will not tolerate hazing on the part of any individual, organization or group."


Officials at the Catholic University of America said they're investigating this incident. In a statement released by the university, the school's athletics director Michael Allen said: "If the evidence demonstrates that any of our current students willingly participated in these activities, appropriate disciplinary action will be taken. The president and I will meet with all the coaches at the university to discuss additional measures and policies that we can implement to ensure that in the future this kind of deplorable situation does not occur."


Psychologist Susan Lipkins said hazing policies in general don't do much. "This should be a wake-up call to the coaches that they should change their curriculum, not their policies," she said. "It's the adults' responsibility to teach them, not punish them." Washington-based trial lawyer Douglas Fierberg said he agreed that schools need to start educating students on hazing, because he's seen what kind of tragedies can result.

Playing With Fire

Fierberg said badjocks.com finally lets people actually see what has been happening for a long time. Fierberg has represented seven families throughout the United States who have lost their children to hazing. "Deaths don't even tell the whole story. There are a lot of women out there who wake up the next morning with a fragmented understanding of what happened to them the night before."


Looking at some of the pictures on badjocks.com reminded Fierberg of the circumstances that caused the death of one student whose family he represented. Over a period of nine hours, fraternity brothers at the University of Colorado wrote profanity all over his client Lynn Bailey Jr.'s body as the freshman pledge died of alcohol poisoning.




Lipkins calls Northwestern University's women's soccer team initiation a prime example of how everything ended up fine, but could have ended up deadly. "Those girls were blindfolded, at the top of the stairs, going down to the basement," she said. "You never know how many heads will crack or when dangerous circumstances will arise. I'd like them to play soccer, just not have them hazed to be part of the team."

Frat Houses Equal Money

Getting schools and coaches to address hazings head-on is going to be difficult, said Michael Gunzburg, a New York attorney who specializes in hazing law. "Schools turn a blind eye. They don't want to interfere because alumni and frat houses mean money to them," he said. Dozens of parents call Gunzburg monthly, outraged when they find out what their kids have been doing, he said. "I got a call from a parent saying her kid carried feces through the woods for miles. Parents feel like they can't get their kids out of these circumstances. Sometimes kids have scholarships attached, so the parents don't want to sue or take them out of the school for fear of losing the scholarship," Gunzburg said.


But the choice becomes easy when one weighs losing a scholarship against losing a life. Hank Nuwer, an author of numerous books on hazing, said that since 1970 there's been a death a year linked to hazing or pledging-related incidents on the college level.

Raising Awareness

When Bob Reno started badjocks.com, he never knew the weight of the topic. Hazing wasn't even really his initial concept for the site. "I thought I'd be doing Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson incidents, but now we're focusing on the small-town coach that gets into a fight with a parent story and these hazing incidents," Reno said. Now that he's incorporated hazing, maintaining the site is becoming a full-time job.


As far as the Duke University men's lacrosse team goes, Reno is just not interested in the alleged rape case. "Originally, when I heard about the Duke Lacrosse story, I posted it because it was a silly story, but now there's no humor in it," he said. "I like to give my readers a chuckle." However, Reno clarified, to get a chuckle is not the reason those hazing photos are on badjocks.com. "Those hazing photos are a different scenario. I post those pictures to try to raise awareness about something no one talks about," he said.


Reno said he gets a lot of nasty e-mails and continues to rely heavily on legal advisers. Ironically, Reno said, no one -- no parent, no coach, no university dean -- has ever asked him to take down a photo.

For more information on Hazing, click HERE

AMBER ALERT: 3 YEAR OLD REACHELLE SMITH

The search for a missing 3-year-old South Dakota girl resumed Wednesday after the body of the man who authorities suspected took her was found following an apparent suicide.


Leigh Cowen, 22, was found Tuesday inside a van on a gravel road at Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge, Police Capt. Al Hanson said. Cowen appeared to have killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning, Hanson said. There was no trace of Reachelle Smith, who was last seen the night of May 16 when she was put to bed at her home.


Authorities said Cowen lived with the girl's aunt, who is her legal guardian. He had told the woman that the 3-year-old was staying with his mother. Police later learned that Cowen's mother did not know the girl's whereabouts and issued an Amber Alert.


Reachelle's mother and aunt tearfully pleaded Wednesday for her safe return. They said the girl has asthma and needs treatment for it. "Right now, we just want her back," her mother, Samantha Smith said, crying.


State officials said Cowen was on probation for theft of property in Ward County and had failed to report in as required. A warrant was issued last month for his arrest on charges of violating his probation.

BONNIE AND CLYDE ARE SAINTS COMPARED TO THESE TWO

Who are these freaks? Some kind of sexual sadists? Sexual sadists gain sexual gratification from inflicting pain on others...in this case a cruel, cruel and sick rape and murder of an innocent woman who pleaded for her life. I hope they find this couple and FAST. RICHARD DAVIS an is also previously convicted sex offender.

Keep an eye out for RICHARD DAVIS and DENA RILEY of INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI.

Cops Seek Couple Accused in Grisly Videotape Rape, Murder

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police are searching the Kansas City area Wednesday for a couple accused of raping, beating and strangling a 41-year-old woman and burying her in a shallow grave.


Richard Davis and Dena Riley of Independence, Mo., have been on the run since Friday when police discovered a videotape of the deadly assault of Marsha Spicer in the couple's apartment. "These are two of the most violent people that I think we have that are currently at large within the state of Missouri," said Michael Sanders, the prosecuting attorney in Jackson County, Mo. "On top of that, I think they're becoming increasingly desperate ... they don't have large amounts of cash. As this goes on, I think they're going to get more and more dangerous, more and more desperate, and that's why it's critical we get them into custody as soon as possible so other people aren't injured."


The couple was sighted Sunday in Perryville, Mo., at the Hilltop Apartment Complex, FOX News has learned. “Until I heard the newscast I really didn’t realize what they’d done,” said Julie McAlister, who lives in the complex. “They had contacted a lady that lived here and came out looking for refuge but she told them that she couldn’t hide them here. They did stay for a few minutes. The police were here and they left.”


Police found Spicer's naked body in a shallow grave in Lafayette County on May 15. “There’s no indication she was buried alive,” Kerrick Alumbaugh, the sheriff of Lafayette County, told FOX News. “She was dead before she was placed in the grave site.” The couple was interviewed by police last week — before the tape was obtained Friday through a search warrant — but have since fled. "Their whereabouts are totally unknown," said Independence police Capt. Ken Jarnagin.


Detectives noted that the couple had a camcorder aimed at their bed when officers interviewed them. Both denied knowing Spicer. Police believe the couple lured the victim to their home for a sexual encounter. "It appears like initially the encounter was consensual, I don't think there's any question about it, that's what's shown on the tape," Sanders said. "But at some point, it became dramatically no longer consensual, when they tape her, duct tape her, strike and beat her."


According to the victim’s older sister, Jackie Schumacher, Spicer had known the couple for two years. "It's just a group they all ran around with," Schumacher told FOX News. "I just didn’t have a clue it was anything like this." Schumacher said her sister was very trusting and that "she would do anything for anybody."


Authorities say the tape recovered from the apartment of Davis and Riley shows the couple with Spicer in the violent final moments of her life. Police say the video found on a TV stand in the couple's bedroom shows the 41-year-old Spicer with duct tape over her eyes and her hands secured behind her back. She is beaten, raped and sodomized as she pleads for the attack to stop.


Davis, 41, and Riley, 39, are each charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, kidnapping, forcible rape and two counts of forcible sodomy.


Davis is on parole after spending nearly 18 years in prison for a rape and sodomy conviction in 1987 in Lafayette County. According to a report in The Kansas City Star, Davis was paroled a year ago Wednesday from a Bonne Terre, Mo., prison. He married a woman in 2001 while in prison, but they divorced in 2004, the paper reported.


The couple’s neighbors are shocked by the allegations. “I just never had any idea that something of that nature and magnitude ever took place,” said Ed Cable, who has lived in the neighborhood for nearly 30 years.

DRUNK DRIVER 18 TIMES LEGAL ALCOHOL LIMIT

Associated Press--Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be broken.

It wasn't.

Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 727 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliters of blood repeatedly on different devices when he was pulled over for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius on Saturday. Lithuania's legal limit is 40 milligrams of alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood.

(I can't convert...so do the math for me. I'm a writer, not a math whiz!)

"This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record," Saulius Skvernelis, the director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. "He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned."


Medical experts say anything above 3.5 grams per liter of alcohol in the blood is lethal for most people. "A person this intoxicated should be in an intensive care unit, not behind the wheel," said Tautvydas Zikaras, head of the dependence illness center in the country's second-largest city, Kaunas. Zikaras said he had never heard or read of someone being so drunk.


Sungaila, who was slapped with a 3,000 litas ($1,110) fine and the loss of his license for up to three years, told police he had been drinking the night before and tried to freshen up by downing a pint of beer for breakfast.


Lithuania has one of the worst road safety records in the European Union. Last year, 760 people died in traffic accidents in this country of 3.5 million residents. Most were alcohol-related.

WANT PEYOTE IN UTAH? FORGET IT.

Couple claims use of peyote is a religious right in lawsuit

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— The leader of an American Indian church and his wife claim in a lawsuit that authorities tried to prevent them from practicing their religion by prosecuting the couple for consuming and distributing peyote.


James "Flaming Eagle" Mooney, 62, and Linda Mooney, 52, leaders of the Oklevueha Earth Walks Native American Church of Utah, have successfully fought charges involving their use of peyote. The most recent charges were dropped in February after the Supreme Court ruled in an unrelated case involving a hallucinogenic tea that the government cannot hinder religious practices without proof of a "compelling" need to do so.


The Mooneys' federal lawsuit filed Tuesday claims that their First Amendment rights were violated. They are seeking unspecified damages and court fees from the federal, state and local governments. "Again, it is amazing that we have been forced to this extreme just so we can worship in our Native American Church," Mooney said Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office said prosecutors were reviewing the Mooneys' complaint.

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MAN NAKED ON AIRPLANE

LONDON (AP) — Britain's "naked rambler," who has had numerous brushes with the law for nudity on land, has been arrested after allegedly shedding his clothes aboard an aircraft.


Stephen Gough, 47, was arrested Thursday on his way to Edinburgh for a court hearing where he was challenging four contempt of court citations for nudity in Scotland. Police arrested him at Edinburgh Airport.


At the court, three justices decided that Gough's case merited a full hearing. Lord Johnston urged Gough's lawyers to persuade their client that he was "doing himself no good" by continuing to go naked.


Gough has twice completed naked walks the length of Britain, with interruptions for arrests and court appearances. "There is no law saying 'Thou shalt not go naked,"' Gough said at one of his court appearances in 2004. "All I am doing is dressing how I want to dress and believing what I want to believe."

ANOTHER ONLINE PREDATOR--SMALL TOWNS AREN'T IMMUNE

Nicholas Waymire

An Alexandria, Indiana man is facing a long list of charges in connection with the alleged online stalking of teenage girls in Madison County.

Police said Nicholas Waymire, 19, used the screen alias "mysterious0586" to log onto online social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, to strike up conversations with teenage girls.

"He was letting them know that he was watching them. In some cases, he broke into vehicles, removed articles," Alexandria police Chief Jack Malston said. "One girl had her cheerleading outfit taken by him. Alexandria police received a complaint about one of the conversations last November.

"Other victims started contacting the police department with their own complaints, without the knowledge of the first complaint," Malston said. After an investigation that spanned several months, police traced the screen name to Waymire.

"We got a warrant, seized his computer and found out that his screen name had been used on his computer almost 700 times," Madison County prosecutor Rodney Cummings said.

Police said nine teens from area high schools came forward. Waymire was arrested Wednesday. He faces 15 charges, including harassment, intimidation and voyeurism. Waymire was released on a $5,000 bond, something Malston said concerns him.

"We were hoping with the amount of charges that were filed that it should have been a larger amount than what it was," Malston said. "He was let out pretty easily."

Investigators said they hope the case serves to make parents more vigilant in knowing what their kids are up to online and who they're talking to.

ALCOHOLIC TEENS

Study: Alcohol-Promoting Teens More Likely to Drink

Young adolescents who wear T-shirts and hats packing an alcohol brand name are more likely to start drinking, a new study finds.


The study was based on a survey of more than 2,000 students age 10-14 in New England. Surveys were done in 1999 and again one or two years later. The results were announced Tuesday.


The rate of drinking among those who owned a branded item was 25.5 percent, compared to 13.1 percent of those who did not own a branded item. After controlling for other risk factors for drinking, students who owned alcohol-branded merchandise were 1.5 times more likely to initiate drinking during the study period than those who did not.

The study can't say if the merchandise has any affect on drinking or if likely drinkers simply wear the stuff. But for parents there is a clear message. "This study raises concern about the relationship between the products that promote alcohol brands and early-onset teen drinking," said Auden McClure, clinical instructor in pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and lead author of the study. "We recommend that parents discourage their children from wearing these products and that schools limit the display of alcohol-branded items among students."


The results are detailed in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. "We worry about early-onset drinking because these kids are more likely to go on to misuse alcohol when they reach high school," said study team member James Sargent, professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School.


"We know from multiple studies conducted during the 1990s that ownership of tobacco branded merchandise was linked with teen smoking. That's why the tobacco companies voluntarily agreed to give up this type of marketing." The researchers have begun a larger national study in an effort to determine to what extent, if any, the merchandise actually causes drinking. Results are expected this fall.

WOMEN ARE ADDICTED FASTER THAN MEN

Study: Women Get Drunk, High and Addicted More Easily Than Men Do

Snake-oil salesmen used to prey on women with their "medicinal" tonics packing 40-proof alcohol. Mick Jagger sang of "mother's little helper."


A woman's addiction to alcohol, pills and other drugs has long been a wink-wink topic — one that garners a few smirks, rarely taken seriously. The focus has always been on men, who traditionally have had higher rates of substance abuse. But now the gender gap is closing. More than 20 million girls and women in the United States abuse drugs and alcohol, and 30 million more are addicted to cigarettes, according to a 10-year research effort from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. The study documents how women, pound for pound, not only get drunk or high faster then men, but also become addicted more easily. The research results are presented in a new book from CASA called "Women Under the Influence" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Double shot

The numbers could get worse, warns Susan Foster, CASA's director of policy research and analysis, who directed the research behind the book. Teenage girls now smoke, drink and abuse drugs as often as teenage boys. For certain drugs, such as prescription painkillers, the abuse rate is higher in girls than boys. Yet even as the rate of abuse becomes equal, physiological and psychological factors combine to ensure that females are more greatly affected by drugs and alcohol.



According to Foster, each single drink hits a woman like a double. A woman's body contains less water and more fatty tissue — which increases alcohol absorption — compared to a male body. And women have a lower activity level of an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), which breaks down alcohol. Similar biological factors are at work in metabolizing illicit drugs.

Hooked on less

The risk of addiction to alcohol and drugs, including nicotine, is approximately doubled as well. The reason may be hormonal or psychological, according to ongoing research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.




Males and females abuse drugs for different reasons. For example, teenage girls are more likely than boys to abuse substances in order to lose weight, relieve stress or boredom, improve their mood, reduce sexual inhibitions, self-medicate depression and increase confidence, according to CASA. "Whereas the substance-abuse field has a fairly good understanding of the biological basis of gender differences in susceptibility to alcohol addiction, the research on such differences with regard to narcotic addiction is still in the early stages," Foster told LiveScience.


"Women become addicted [to narcotics] faster than men. Our understanding of why this may be the case is more limited." Foster is calling for more research funding for this neglected area. Similarly, CASA president Joseph Califano said that drug-treatment programs have long had a male-dominated, one-size-fits-all focus and need to better embrace women and their needs.


More than 90 percent of American women in need of treatment don't get it, said Califano, who served as United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter.

Prescription Drug Abuse Link

VIDEO SHOWS DANIEL DIPIERO FALLING OVERBOARD

MIAMI -A passenger reported missing on a cruise to the Bahamas fell overboard after a night of heavy drinking with friends, authorities said Wednesday as Coast Guard crews suspended their search for the man.


Friends of Daniel DiPiero, 21, of Canfield, Ohio, last saw him on the Mariner of the Seas around midnight Sunday, Petty Officer Dana Warr said. About two hours later, shipboard security cameras show DiPiero falling overboard from a rail near the front of the ship, investigators said. He was reported missing Monday morning when his friends realized he had not slept in the cabin they shared.


Royal Caribbean International notified the Coast Guard after searching the ship and Coco Cay, an island owned by the cruise line. Vessels and aircraft from the U.S. and Bahamian Coast Guards searched 900 square miles of ocean between Grand Bahama Island and Coco Cay. The ship had departed from Port Canaveral.


Investigators from the FBI and the Coast Guard interviewed DiPiero's companions, other travelers and crew members Wednesday aboard the ship, the company said. They found that DiPiero and his friends concealed liquor in mouthwash bottles and brought a bottle of rum in their luggage. The friends videotaped themselves drinking the alcohol Sunday afternoon, and DiPiero continued drinking until midnight, investigators said. "Our thoughts and prayers remain with the young man's family and friends during this difficult time," company spokesman Michael Sheehan said.

Columbine High School video game draws

criticism from victims' relatives

DENVER (AP) — An online game based on the Columbine High School massacre is drawing criticism from relatives of those who died in the 1999 attack, including a father who says it trivializes the actions of the two teen killers.




The game, Super Columbine Massacre RPG, was posted on a Web site last year, but is becoming more popular now. It draws on investigative material, including images of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, who killed 12 classmates and a teacher before committing suicide. The game also includes crime scene photos of the killers and images of students running and crying, though it does not have photos of any victims.


"We live in a culture of death, so it doesn't surprise me that this stuff has become so commonplace," said Brian Rohrbough, whose son, Daniel, was among those slain that day. "It disgusts me. You trivialize the actions of two murderers and the lives of the innocent."


The site's creator told the Rocky Mountain News he wanted to make something that would "promote a real dialogue on the subject of school shootings." The creator, who identified himself in an e-mail interview only by the name "Columbin," said he was inspired to make the game because he was in Colorado at the time of the attack. "I was a bullied kid. I didn't fit in, and I was surrounded by a culture of elitism as espoused by our school's athletes." He added that he considered the killers, at times, "very thoughtful, sensitive and intelligent young men."


Richard Castaldo, who was paralyzed from the chest down in the attack, played the game after reading about it on a gaming Web site. He said it reminded him of the 2003 film "Elephant," which follows students and others on the day of a school massacre without assigning reasons or blame for the bloodshed. "It didn't make me mad, just kind of confused me," he said. "Parts of it were difficult to play through, but overall, I get the feeling it might even be helpful in some ways. I don't think it's bad to discuss."

Retro Super Columbine Massacre
A Mostly Thoughtful Take on the Tragedy

By Matt Tschirgi

So the other day I was browsing around Kotaku and stumbled upon an entry describing a fan-game someone made based on the infamous Columbine Massacre using a hacked version of the popular PC Japanese program RPG Maker.


At first I rolled my eyes at the concept, but after reading the excellent follow-up interview on the site with a survivor of the massacre who actually played the game, it made me want to try it out. Using a mix of SNES-style super deformed anime graphics and photos, as well as a MIDI score using several alternative rock songs from the mid 90’s, the game feels like an actual SNES RPG.


The frequent grammatical mistakes make it clear that English isn’t the first language of the designer, but one can still understand what is being said. Gameplay starts off with a few somewhat buggy puzzles, with the biggest game design flaw being a lack of clear goals leaving the player wondering where the hell do they need to go next to advance in the game.

***** SPOILER WARNING *****

At the climax of the game, the two Trenchcoat Mafia members commit suicide and the game shows a powerful montage of real photos from the event. If the game would have ended here, it would have made a powerful statement.


To be honest, I haven’t quite beaten the game yet, but things continue to the final level where the player controls the deadly duo in hell fighting demons from the PC game Doom. I understand the irony, but it takes away from the emotional impact of the montage before it.


The final area of the game is very hard and, frankly, I don’t have the time right now to finish it. Still, this Columbine Massacre RPG is very interesting.


As a whole, the game is very cut-scene heavy and makes one think about the events– ultimately, the killers were people too with their own problems, but the game doesn’t glorify them.


This belongs in the recent genre of “political commentary games” that comment on an event in popular culture via the form of a video game. If you want to try it out, check the link. You need a PC in order to run it.

SICK YOUTH SEXUALLY ABUSES 6-YEAR OLD HALF SISTER

This kid should be a registered sex offender. Someone that young who commits an act such as this must be rehabilitated immediately. He is not safe living within the general community. I do not believe that sexual offenders or pedophiles can be rehabilitated. There are several studies that conclude the same thing.

Ruling: Teen sex offender must warn date's parents

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — An appeals court on Tuesday ordered a teenage sex offender to warn the parents of anyone he dates about his conviction until he turns 18.

Lawyers with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, which represented the youth, said they will appeal to the state Supreme Court. Tuesday's decision upheld an earlier ruling. The three-judge panel said that the unusual restriction placed on the teen did not violate the state's Juvenile Code or circumvent Megan's Law.

Megan's Law establishes a registration and notification system for sex offenders. The law is named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, a New Jersey girl who was raped and killed in 1994 by a twice-convicted sex offender.


The defendant in Tuesday's case pleaded guilty in 2004 to committing a sex act against his 6-year-old half-sister when he was 14. His name and hometown have not been released because of rules protecting youthful offenders.

As a condition of probation, the judge in the case mandated the boy to notify the parents of anyone he dates about his conviction until he is no longer a juvenile. Several lawyers questioned how probation officers could enforce the restriction, because by doing so, they would have to define "dating."

TALK ABOUT A "TYPE A" PERSONALITY!

Man charged with stabbing CEO who gave him bad review

CHICAGO (AP) — An employee who received a bad performance review was charged with fatally stabbing the president of a construction company, authorities said. Gary Poter, president and CEO of Poter Construction and Development, was stabbed Tuesday with a kitchen knife at his office, police said.


Tom Tuduj, an appraiser and bidder for the company who received a bad review Monday, was charged with first-degree murder, police Cmdr. Dean Andrews said. The pair struggled before Poter, 48, was overcome, Andrews said. A man who tried to intervene was stabbed in the hand.


Dae Kim, who works in the same building, said he ran into Poter's office after hearing a commotion. He saw two people holding a man against a wall and another man lying in front of a desk with blood coming from a chest wound. Kim said he helped others restrain the man until police arrived. "He didn't say a word," Kim said. Tuduj, 33, was in custody and scheduled to appear in court Wednesday, police said. It was not clear whether he had an attorney.

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD...(OF MARRIAGE)

When I get older,

losing my hair,

many years from now,

will you still be sending me a valentine,

birthday greetings, bottle of wine?

...will you still need me,

will you still feed me,

when I'm sixty-four?

Sorry, Heather.

McCartney Divorce: Will it Be Helter Skelter?

LONDON May 17, 2006 (AP)— Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney said Wednesday they are separating after nearly four years of marriage. A statement issued by McCartney and his second wife said they had "found it increasingly difficult to maintain a normal relationship with constant intrusion into our private lives."

The brief statement said that "with sadness" the couple agreed to "go our separate ways" but said the parting was "amicable." He married Mills in June 2002, four years after his former wife, Linda McCartney, died of breast cancer.


McCartney and Mills had a daughter in October 2003. "Separation for any couple is difficult enough, but to have to go through this so publicly, especially with a small daughter, is immensely stressful," the statement said. "We hope, for the sake of our baby daughter, that we will be given some space and time to get through this difficult period."

HATCH HEADS TO GAY DREAM WORLD

'Survivor' winner Richard Hatch sentenced to 51 months in prison

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the debut season of "Survivor," was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison for failing to pay income taxes on his reality TV prize and other earnings.


Hatch, 45, was convicted in January. The charges carried a maximum of 13 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres said he issued a harsher than expected sentence because Hatch had committed perjury repeatedly during his trial. "It seems unfortunately very clear to me that Mr. Hatch lied," Torres said. When Hatch was convicted, Torres said he expected to sentence him to 33 to 41 months.


"I believe I've been completely truthful and completely forthcoming throughout the entire process," Hatch told the judge before he was sentenced. Hatch claimed he thought the show's producers would pay his taxes and pleaded ignorance about money matters, saying he forgot to tell his accountants about some income.


"Survivor" earned CBS a ratings hit. Hatch became known as "the fat naked guy" -- a term coined by David Letterman -- for refusing to wear clothes for much of the show.

THE 9/11 PENTAGON CONSPIRACY?

May 16, 2006 — - The minute the Pentagon released images of the Sept. 11 attack on its building, the message boards at ABCNEWS.com lit up with conspiracy theories. Some blame it on an inside job by members of the Bush administration to benefit their business interests. Some say it was planned by neoconservatives to advance their worldview. Others don't know what happened but doubt the official story put forward by the government.


The world of conspiracy theories surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks is vast, and more than four years after the worst terrorist incident on U.S. soil, countless scenarios are put forth on the Internet, in academic forums and on talk radio each day. Some are of the "MIHOP" variety, which claim people in power made it happen on purpose, while others are of the "LIHOP" kind -- they let it happen on purpose. With Tuesday's release of video footage of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon building, an attack that killed 184 people on Sept. 11, questions rage again.


"It doesn't clarify anything -- I don't see a plane in that image," said Michael Berger, spokesman for 911Truth.org. "In fact, I thought that was underwhelming." Berger said 911Truth.org "would like to see various conspiracy theories laid to rest as well" and does not believe the government has addressed "inherent contradictions" in evidence and testimony surrounding the events of that day. "We would like to know what happened," he said. "Four-and-a-half years later, we still don't have definitive proof that a plane hit that building."


Berger said the group "has never said one way or another what happened at the Pentagon," but it did support the Freedom of Information Act requests that led to the Pentagon releasing the footage. But 911Truth.org does believe Sept. 11 has been used as the "justification for broader policies," both foreign and domestic, he said.


Barrie Zwicker, a Canadian investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker and author of the upcoming book "Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11," said the video does not answer the question of how any aerial vehicle -- "a 757 or a missile or a fighter equipped with a missile or a fighter alone or a blimp or a Cessna" -- could make it to the "central headquarters of the greatest military power that ever existed." "Even if it was a model airplane, for God's sake," Zwicker said. He also questioned the timing of the video's release. "For them to be releasing this video so late, why so late and why now?" he said.

See Link to Video (Pentagon Surveillance Tape)





Additional Video on the Pentagon Attack:

www.pentagonstrike.co.uk


Thought Provoking Footage of the Pentagon crash and valid questions that are raised.





Eyewitness photography of the Pentagon on 9/11


Up close pictures and video of the attack, plus other interesting links.





9/11 Investigation/Pentagon Site


Photo and video analysis

EVANS-I AM TELLING THE TRUTH

Even though a lie detector test is not admissible in the court of law as evidence, I will give some props to David Evans for coming forth and taking a lie detector test right away without having to be asked. I always believe that if you are truly innocent, why hide? Take a test and prove it to people. Which is what he did. So, at this point, I will only give this individual the benefit of the doubt.

However, I also do not know what kind of questions that were asked during the test, so I can not speculate whether or not he was asked if he believed that a rape occurred…just that he was not one of the alleged perpetrators.

Why haven’t the other two taken lie detector tests? May I remind all those at the party that were aware of what was going on, or found out the truth later are also complicit in this crime?

Breaking the “Code of Silence Barrier”

Men have dominated universities in the United States especially in prestigious universities since the beginning. The misogynist role that plagues fraternities across the country is also applied to tight knit athlete teams, such as the Duke Lacrosse team. Can you tell me that there isn’t ONE decent man on that team that has a conscience?

These are the reasons why I am still inclined to believe the accuser:

• The accuser was given a drink while getting ready in the bathroom with the other dancer. At this point in time, it is believed to have contained a date rape drug. The other dancer claimed that the accuser seemed coherent and completely fine before she drank the alcoholic drink.
  

• It was noticed 10-15 minutes later that she was stumbling and became frightened when one of the party-goers suggested that she perform sexual acts with a broomstick. (source)

• Both the dancers thought this behavior was out of line and decided to leave. (source)
  

• As the accuser was leaving, one or more of the party-goers convinced the women to return to the party promising no will ill. Whether the accuser was intoxicated, she returned to the party.

• The accuser alleges that at some point she was pulled into the bathroom by three white men who sexually assaulted her orally, anally and vaginally. She also had visible bruises around her neck that were noted in the doctor’s notes when the accuser went to the hospital. (source)

• The accuser states that as soon as she could get out, she left immediately leaving her wallet and other personal effects behind. In addition, 5 fake fingernails that the accuser was wearing were strewn about the floor in the bathroom. (source)

• The accuser immediately called police and went to the hospital where the rape-kit test proved that the accuser had injuries consistent of anal and vaginal wounds and stressed penetration. An overwhelming majority of women who are raped never report the incident at all, let alone immediately after the incident. (source)

• In addition, the prosecutor presented all his evidence he had at the time to the grand jury…a partial group of people that access whether or not a crime may have been committed and if a prosecution is warranted.

• Since then, it has been discovered that there was no DNA found. Where is the broomstick used during the party? Was DNA taken of the broomstick? (source)

• The capability of using DNA in rape cases has only been a recent tool in determining rape cases among other crimes. However, it is not necessary for DNA evidence in order to convict.

• It is up to the jury…the peers of the accused to access the evidence and make their decision as to whether or not these men are guilty.
  
  

As I’ve said before, I am always inclined to believe the accuser in sex crimes, until proven otherwise. So far, I have not seen any reason not to believe her based on official doctor’s/nurses’s notes, the grand jury evidence which caused the initial indictments, and the confidence of Prosecutor Nifong. Any prosecutor in his/her right mind would not go out on a limb in the chance that he would lose and suffer public embarrassment and unforgettable ridicule.

As we have seen in hundreds of cases, most famously noted such as the Kobe Bryant case, the Mike Tyson case, the R. Kelly scandal…the victim is always slandered and pushed to the limits of dropping the charges so she will just go away. It is the male dominated society that intimates these women into dropping the case succeed by digging deep into their personal histories and exploiting their past. There is something called a rape-shield law, but it hardly applied these days.

This is what I see happening in this case: She is a stripper, she is a minority, she is a single mom and on the “wrong side of the tracks”. All those factors are strikes against her in the court of Duke and the wealthy public opinion. These things have no legal bearing on the alleged facts that occurred that senseless evening of pure evil.

DURHAM, N.C. — A captain of the Duke University lacrosse team was indicted Monday on charges of rape and blasted the case as "fantastic lies" against him and two teammates.

David Evans, 23, became the first member of the team to speak out against the charges and his accuser, a stripper who said she was attacked at a lacrosse team party March 13.


With his parents (mommy and daddy) beside him, Evans said he had cooperated with police and was stunned that he had been indicted for a crime that did not occur.


"I want to say that I am absolutely innocent of all the charges that were brought against me today, and that Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty are innocent (source) of the charges brought against them," said Evans, who graduated Sunday. "These allegations are lies, fabricated, and they will be proven wrong."


Evans, Seligmann and Finnerty are charged with rape and kidnapping. Finnerty and Seligmann, both sophomores, turned themselves in April 18.Evans' lawyer, Joseph Cheshire, alleged the case was the product of a prosecutor more concerned with his political career than getting to the facts.


"This community has been torn apart intentionally on racial lines and political lines and these boys have been chopped up in the process," he said. "They are victims, their families are victims, this community is a victim, and our justice system is a victim."


Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong said he expects no further indictments. He declined to respond to Cheshire and told reporters near his office in the Durham County courthouse, "You guys should be ashamed of yourselves following people around like this." Cheshire said Nifong, who recently won a race to keep his job, refused to speak to him or Evans to hear evidence that would exonerate his client.


Cheshire said the accuser identified Evans as her attacker with "90% certainty" from a photograph and told investigators she would be more certain if Evans had a mustache like he did the night of the attack. Evans "never had a mustache," Cheshire said. (source)


Cheshire said DNA tests failed to link conclusively any player to the woman. They did show that the woman had sex with a man who was not a member of the lacrosse team, he said. A false fingernail of the woman's that was found in a waste basket in a bathroom could not exclude Evans, Cheshire said."That, according to our DNA experts, is about as weak a DNA evidence that you can have," Cheshire said.


Evans, who is from Bethesda, Md., and had been charged in the past with alcohol possession and noise ordinance violation, made a four-minute statement in front of a throng of journalists. Behind him stood his parents, Rae Evans, a Washington lobbyist and chairwoman of the Ladies Professional Golf Association board of directors, and his father, David Evans, a Washington lawyer.


Evans said he cooperated fully with police investigating the allegation. He said he talked to them without a lawyer because he knew nothing happened. He said he turned over his password to his e-mail account and helped police identify who attended the party at his house off campus. He also said he willingly submitted DNA samples and offered to take a police polygraph, which was not done. He said he passed a polygraph exam arranged by his lawyer and conducted by a former FBI agent.


"I passed that polygraph for the same reason I will be acquitted of all these charges, because I have done nothing wrong and I am telling the truth," Evans said.