By Compiled from Times wires
Published August 27, 2003
JACKSONVILLE - A former cabdriver accused of six women's slayings was charged with a seventh Tuesday after DNA evidence linked him to the 1999 strangling of a woman in her apartment.
Paul Durousseau, 33, was charged in the death of Tyresa Mack, 24, who was sexually assaulted and suffocated on July 26, 1999.
Durousseau, who pleaded innocent to the previous six murders, is not cooperating with detectives in this investigation, police said. He is being held without bail at the Duval County Jail.
Durousseau was previously charged with the strangling five Jacksonville women - Nicole Williams, 18; Nikia Kilpatrick, 19; Surita Cohen, 19; Shawanda Denise McCalister, 20; and Jovanna Jefferson, 17 - from December 2002 through February. He allegedly met some of the victims while driving a cab.
He also is charged with the slaying of Tracy Habersham in Columbus, Ga., which occurred in 1997 while he was in the Army and stationed in Georgia.
Six-year sentence for man who peddled moon rocks
ORLANDO - Advertising moon rocks for sale on the Internet and then skipping trial cost a Utah man almost six years of freedom.
Gordon Sean McWhorter, 27, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway to 70 months in prison for a crime that shook the NASA community.
In June a jury convicted McWhorter in last year's theft of lunar specimens and meteorites from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The rocks were stolen by three NASA summer interns. Thad Roberts, 26, Shae Saur, 20, and Tiffany Fowler, 23, broke into a locked laboratory and stole a 600-pound safe containing about 4 ounces of moon rock specimens. McWhorter offered the specimens for sale on the Internet under a false identify.
A Belgian rock collector saw the Web site and alerted the FBI in Tampa. Agents lured Roberts, Fowler and McWhorter to Orlando, where they were arrested and the specimens were recovered. Saur was arrested later in Texas. All but McWhorter pleaded guilty.
McWhorter did not show up for his scheduled April trial in Orlando. He was arrested three days later in Utah.
On Aug. 6, Saur and Fowler were sentenced to six months of house arrest and three years of probation. Roberts, being held without bail in Lake County, awaits sentencing Oct. 29.
