News if The Weird...interesting items...cocaine and Wayne

# Readers' Choice: Jessica Sandy Booth, 18, was arrested in December in Memphis, Tenn., and charged with hiring a hit man to help her kill four people so she could steal a brick of what turned out to be queso fresco cheese. According to police, Booth had seen the large block of crumbly, white, Mexican-cuisine cheese on a table at an acquaintance's home, thought it was a big pile of cocaine, and devised an elaborate plot to return later, steal it, and kill anyone in the house old enough to testify against her. [Washington Post-AP, 12-6-05]

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Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder: Jeremy Wayne Hopkins, 22 (Denton, Texas, November); Reginald Wayne Thomas, 23 (Houston, November); Matthew Wayne Almand, 18 (Melbourne, Fla., November); John Wayne Surratt Jr., 28 (Stanly County, N.C., December; escaped and recaptured, January); Curtis Wayne Campbell, 25 (Norman, Okla., January). Convicted of murder: Roy Wayne Russell, 45 (Vancouver, Wash., January). Sentenced for murder: Douglas Wayne Pepper, 44 (Greensboro, N.C., November). Executed for murder: Melvin Wayne White, 55 (Huntsville, Texas, November). Committed Suicide While Suspected of Murder: Don Wayne Moody, 26 (Laredo, Texas, December). [Star-Telegram (Fort Worth), 11-22-05] [Houston Chronicle, 11-23-05] [Orlando Sentinel, 11-30-05] [Charlotte Observer, 12-20-05] [The Oklahoman, 1-6-06] [The Columbian (Vancouver), 1-25-06] [Austin American-Statesman-AP, 11-8-05] [Houston Chronicle-AP, 11-3-05] [Star-Telegram (Fort Worth), 12-24-05]







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