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4A www.burIingtonfreepress.com The Burlington Free Press Saturday, December 26, 2009 CRIMES: Killings left a mark on Vermont Other crimes in past 10 years and reopened in 2008, but Husk never saw the new structure. He died in December 2007 at age 66. March 8, 2005 Police search for woman's killer Laura Winterbottom left a gathering of friends at about 9:15 p.m., walked a block or so to her car, parked on College Street in Burlington and never was seen alive again. During the next 90 minutes, a man later identified as Gerald Montgomery abducted Winterbottom, 31, repeatedly raped her, beat her and strangled her. Although city police said for two weeks they had no information to suggest the crime was random, authorities revealed in arresting Montgomery that suspect and victim had no connection before the attack.

The random nature of the crime rattled Burlington residents' sense of safety. Montgomery, now 37, pleaded guilty in July 2007 to first-degree murder, aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping. He was sentenced to 43 years to life in prison. Among the other notable crimes in Vermont during the past 10 years: Jan. 31, 2002: A masked gunman steals $1.9 million from a Rutland armored-car company, Vermont's largest heist.

No one has been arrested, charged or identified as a suspect. July 4, 2002: A boat capsizes on Lake Champlain, and two children Melissa Mack, 9, and her brother, Trevor, 4 are trapped beneath the surface and drown. The skipper that night, George Dean Martin, later is convicted of drunken boating with death resulting and serves four years in prison. July 7, 2005: A single sniper-style gunshot kills Kenneth "Kenny" Jerome, 33, at the Sheldon farm where he was working. The case remains unsolved.

Oct. 30, 2005: Thomas "Tommy" Patras, 47, and Valerie Papillo, 36, are murdered in Montgomery. George Richitelli and Elizabeth Gagne later pleaded guilty to related charges; Richitelli, 53, killed himself in prison in 2007. Nov. 23, 2005: St.

Albans farmer Rejean Lussier, 60, is shot and killed while sitting in a tractor in one of his fields. Hunter Collin Viens, then 18, admits firing the fatal shot but claims the gun went off by accident. Viens becomes one of the first Vermonters to be sentenced to a year in prison for a fatal hunting-related shooting. Aug. 15, 2006: Police find the body of Nicholas Des-noyers-Langlois, 8, of Montreal tethered to a submerged radiator in Lake Champlain off Isle La Motte.

His mother, Louise Desnoyers, confesses to drowning Nicholas, saying she was trying to spare her son the pain of the ending of her relationship with the boy's father. Vermont homicides in 2009 rejected an offer to sell a gun for cash and marijuana. The jury agreed, convicting Provost, now 42, of the most serious charges. He is serving four consecutive terms of 35 years to life in prison. June 15, 2003 Trooper is killed on 1-91 When Eric Daley, fleeing from police during a highspeed car chase on Interstate 91 in Norwich, swerved into Vermont State Police Sgt.

Michael Johnson, the 39-year-old trooper became the first state lawman killed by another person in the force's 56-year history. Daley, now 29, of Lebanon, N.H., eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and is serving a prison term of 26 to 33 years. Johnson left behind a wife and three children. March 18, 2004 State police search for missing teenager Brianna Maitland, 16, walked out of a Montgomery restaurant after her shift was done and simply vanished. Her car was found backed into an abandoned house near Montgomery the next day, but the search for the teen didn't begin until days later.

Police have posed a number of theories about what happened to her, and authorities have staged a number of searches in the intervening years, as have her parents and volunteers, but there have been no significant leads. June 27, 2004 Fire deaths ruled arson-homicide At first, all police would reveal was that a fire had damaged an Isle La Motte home, and the two people inside, popular and respected town residents George and Anna Fleury, had died. The true nature of what occurred became apparent in the following days: The Fleurys, in their late 60s, were stabbed to death, the fire set to cover the murderers' tracks. The motive: robbery. The small community reeled when the suspects were arrested.

The killers were two local teens, Heath Lockerby and Quinten Teeple. They pleaded guilty to murder and arson a year after the slayings. Lockerby, now 23, was sentenced to 30 years to life, and Teeple, 22, is incarcerated for 272 years to life. Feb. 16, 2005 Grange fire called arson When the historic Ferris-burgh Grange burned to the ground, and police called the blaze arson, townspeople reacted with anger; the building was on the cusp of reconstruction and revitalization as new town center.

Everything changed when authorities identified the culprit: James Husk, a beloved local and a tractor enthusiast whose personality changed after he suffered a severe head injury in 2004. People sympathized with Husk and said they wanted him to receive help, not punishment. Prosecutors in August 2005 dismissed arson charges related to the grange fire and blazes at two other Ferris-burgh sites. Authorities agreed Husk was not guilty because of mental illness, and he had received treatment. He smiled when a judge set him free.

The grange was rebuilt Through Friday, the number of 2009 crimes police have classified as murder fell to its lowest level in 45 years. None of the killings involved firearms: three cases were stabbings, and the fourth was a fatal beating. APRIL 20: Vermont State Police said Trevor Herrick, 35, stabbed and killed Kerry Munger, 52, of Benson with a hunting knife at Diamond Run Mall in Rutland. The men met in the rear parking lot of Sears in a meeting called by the victim to settle an ongoing dispute involving Munger's estranged wife, according to authorities. Herrick is jailed at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield awaiting trial.

His next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 1 at Vermont District Court in Rutland. JUNE 15: Andrew E. Sheets, 41, allegedly stabbed David Snow, 26, in the early morning hours of June 15 on a Brattleboro street. Prosecutors say Snow was coming to the aid of a half brother when Sheets stabbed him.

Sheets is incarcerated at Southern State, and his next hearing is set for Jan. 4 'at Vermont District Court in Brattleboro. JULY 1: Charles "Punky" Haynes, 51, of Bridgewater, is charged in the July 1 beating death of Raynetta Woodward, 79, of Woodstock during a home invasion and burglary. Haynes is jailed at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport. No upcoming hearings for Haynes are listed on the online docket for Vermont District Court in White River Junction.

OCT. 15: Latonia Congress, 30, of Essex, is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her niece, Shatavia "CeCe" Alford, 16, of Essex Junction, in a dispute in the home they shared at 1 South allegedly about folding laundry. Congress is incarcerated at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans Town. The next court proceeding in her case is scheduled for Feb.

2 at Vermont District Court in Burlington. U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, while his appeals move through the courts. Aug. 24, 2006 Gunman shoots 2 teachers, wounds others in rampage The transmission on the emergency scanner was chilling: A gunman was shooting at Essex Elementary School "Teachers are taking cover," the dispatcher said.

By day's end, the extent of the violence would become clear. Christopher Williams, reacting with rage to a break-up with his girlfriend, borrowed a handgun and set off on a rampage. He killed the woman's mother, Linda Lambesis, 57, and the townhouse the three had shared, then drove to the school, where ex-girlfriend Andrea Lambesis worked as a teacher. Williams never found her, but he murdered one of her closest friends, longtime educator Alicia Shanks, 56, and wounded another teacher, Mary "Jenky" Snedeker. Finally, Williams turned on the friend who loaned him the weapon, shooting and wounding Chad Johansen.

Arrested after a suicide attempt in which he was injured only slightly, Williams never denied carrying out the spree but claimed he was insane and should be acquitted. The jury rejected the argument as pre-, posterous, and Williams, now 31, is serving life in prison without chance of parole. Oct 13, 2006 Discovery brings tragic end to hunt University of Vermont senior Michelle Gardner-Quinn had been missing for nearly a week when a group of hikers found her body in a rocky crevice at the Huntington Gorge in Richmond. Police that day arrested prime suspect Brian L. Rooney, and two weeks later prosecutors charged him with aggravated murder, accusing the Richmond construction worker of abducting, raping and killing the 21-year-old student from Arlington, after he met her by chance in downtown Burlington.

Rooney, now 39, maintained his innocence, but a jury didn't buy it, agreeing with authorities that DNA conclusively linked him to the sexual assault and murder. Almost two years to the day later, Rooney faced a judge to learn his sentence. "You are the lowest of the low," Judge Michael Kupersmith told the killer before imposing a term of life in prison with no possibility of release. July 2, 2008 Brooke's body found Police find the body of Brooke Bennett, 14, of Brain-tree in East Randolph following a weeklong search after relatives reported her missing. Her uncle, Michael Jacques, a convicted sex offender, later was charged with kidnapping, drugging, raping and then killing Brooke.

He now awaits trial in federal court, where prosecutors have signaled, they plan to seek the death penalty. The case led to a rewrite of the state's laws for overseeing sex offenders. Free Press Staff Writer Sam Hemingway and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact Adam Silverman at 660-1854 or To have Free Press headlines delivered free to your e-mail, sign up at www.burlington freepress.comnewsletters. intelligence officials said they had no specific information about attack plans by al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.

The intelligence, note was obtained by The Associated Press. $11.00 $18.00 10.00 $9.00 $18.00 $12.00 Continued from Page 1A Sept. 27, 2000 Teen charged in beating death "Demons," Jacob Sexton would tell Winooski police when they asked why he'd charged from his basement room on a quiet street, tackled a Japanese woman studying at St. Michael's College as she rode her bike, and beat her to death in the middle of the road. "First person I saw," the 18-year-old killer said.

"Some- thing came over me." Exactly six years later after questions about the defendant's mental health and an appeal to the state Supreme Court delayed the case, after justices waited two years to decide the issue, after Sexton eventually accepted responsibility and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder the young man stood in a Burlington courtroom and faced the family of Atsuko Ikeda, 37, of Nagano. Under terms of a plea deal, a judge sentenced Sexton to 20 years to life in prison. "She didn't deserve to die, and I deserve to be punished," he said in apology. Now 27, Sexton remains in prison. I With credit for time served, he becomes eligible for re-; lease in 2020.

Jan. 28, 2001 Dartmouth professors found slain Dartmouth College" professors Half and Susanne Zan-top were stabbed to death in their Hanover, N.H., home, the victims of a random thrill killing by two Vermont teenagers who talked their way into the couple's home under the pretense of conducting a survey. The culprits: Robert Tulloch and James Parker of Chelsea, who said they were hoping to trade their smalltown life for the existence of professional assassins. Tulloch, now 26, eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life. Parker, now 25, pleaded guilty as an accomplice to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Feb. 6, 2001 Vt teen's death ruled homicide A month earlier, Jan. 3, 2001, Christal Jones, 16, is found dead in a Bronx apartment. Soon word spread that she was among a group of Burlington-area girls, several of them runaways, who were drawn into a world of prosti-; tution in New York City with false promises of clothes, drugs and money. Two individuals later were charged in Vermont and convicted for their roles organizing separate teen prostitution rings.

The case shed light on deficiencies in the state's system for handling runaways and the rise of heroin use in Vermont. Jones' death was ruled a homicide, but her killer was never found. July 14, 2001 4 shot dead in Belvidere The quadruple murder of Mitchell Bishop, 46; Jessica Bishop, 18; George Weather-wax, 19; and Derrick Davis, 23, was Vermont's largest multiple-victim homicide in years. The killer, Douglas Provost, claimed he shot Davis by accident and the others in self-defense, but authorities argued he committed premeditated murder after Mitchell Bishop JET: Device Continued from Page 1A identified the suspect as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutal- lab. Others had slightly different spellings.

One law enforcement source said the man claimed to have been instructed by al-Qaida to detonate the plane over U.S. soil. "It sounded like a firecracker in a pillowcase," said Peter Smith, a passenger from the Netherlands. "First there was a pop, and then (there) was smoke." At least one passenger acted heroically. Smith said the passenger, sitting opposite the man, climbed over passengers, went across the aisle and tried to restrain the man.

The heroic passenger appeared to have been burned. The incident was reminiscent of convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid, who tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001 with ex a a SSarch 31, 2005 DNA ties suspect to 1991 homicide Fourteen years had passed since Patricia Scoville, 28, was raped and murdered in Stowe, but the unsolved crime haunted investigators and the young woman's family. Her parents, David and Ann Scoville of Canandaigua, N.Y., pressed Vermont lawmakers to create a database of DNA samples taken from felons. Authorities wound up using that very repository to link Howard Godfrey to Patty Sco-ville's slaying. A case that was among Vermont's oldest unsolved homicides had been cracked.

Godfrey's DNA matched genetic material Scoville's assailant had left during the attack, the Vermont Forensics Lab concluded after wading through a backlog of samples from dozens of cases. Godfrey, who was more than 15 years older than Scoville, told police he had a random sexual encounter with the woman after meeting her on a hiking trail near Moss Glen Falls in Stowe, then parted ways. After a trial in January 2008, the jury deliberated only three hours before concluding Godfrey was a liar and a killer. Now 63, Godfrey is serving a prison sentence of life without parole. "This is my little girl he raped and murdered," David Scoville said at Godfrey's sentencing hearing.

"As I stand before you today, I can neither forgive nor forget." July 14, 2005 Death penalty for Fell For the first time in Vermont since 1957, the verdict was death. Donald Fell should die for abducting a North Clarendon grandmother Nov. 27, 2000, taking her car, driving her to New York state and, with an accomplice, beating her to death as she prayed for her life. Fell and friend Robert Lee started their killing spree in Rutland, murdering Fell's mother, Debra, and her friend Charles Conway, then encountered Terry King, 53, as they scrambled for a getaway car. Vermont has no death penalty, but Fell was convicted under federal law (Lee had died earlier in an accident in prison).

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