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Investigators say they chased down Jennings’ stories but met with several dead ends before arresting her. Authorities said they hope a tip line and $10,000 reward will yield information, and state police are analyzing stains on blankets and clothes removed from Jennings’ car to see if they are blood.
Her half-sister who reported her missing told police that she had left her home and suffered from “schizophrenic tendencies” that had not been diagnosed.
Jocelyn Jennings Nelson has said her headstrong daughter frequently traveled to visit relatives and friends in the Carolinas and Georgia andt had been depressed since the birth of her son. Nelson said she reported Jennings and the boy missing last month after becoming concerned during their visit to Atlanta.
Jennings was arrested on prostitution and drug charges in Georgia shortly before her son disappeared, accused of offering sex to an undercover officer. Jennings had been staying with a half-sister in the Atlanta area for three weeks before her Nov. 9 arrest.

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Amy Huckabee knew her ex-husband was being released from jail. She spoke often with a detective in Louisiana, including on the day he was released and the day after, Caddo Parish Sheriff spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick said.
“She was very concerned,” Chadwick said.
Hux, a truck driver, bounced from jail in Texas, where he was indicted for sexually assaulting a woman at a Lubbock truck stop, to Louisiana, where he was accused of a similar crime, Chadwick said.
A 22-year-old Caddo Parish woman said Hux threatened her with a handgun and raped her in the cab of his semitrailer at a truck stop in May 2010, the local sheriff’s office said. He pleaded guilty to soliciting a prostitute, a less severe charge than the aggravated rape count he originally faced.
Amy Huckabee cited Hux’s solicitation of prostitutes online and “physical and mental abuse suffered by her and her children” as grounds for divorce in a court document last year.

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Suspect in Calif. serial killings to stand trial
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) – A judge ruled Monday that a man accused in the decades-old “Double Initial” serial killings case must stand trial for the murders of four Northern California women whose first and last names began with the same letter.
Joseph Naso, 78, was ordered to trial after a preliminary hearing before Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet.
Naso is charged with the murders of Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya, in the 1970s and 1990s. Police said all the victims were working prostitutes who had contact with Naso.
Prosecutors said they discovered DNA matching the profile of Naso on the stockings of Roggasch and under the fingernail of Colon.
Naso was arrested last year, after a probation search of his Reno, Nev., home unearthed photographs, journals and other evidence that authorities said linked him to the slayings.

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Man Gets Probation For Inmate-Prostitute Trysts
PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) – A contractor employee at Fort Lee who allowed inmates he supervised to have sex with prostitutes will spend four months on probation.
Media outlets report that 49-year-old Donald E. Grayson was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge.
Grayson pleaded guilty last September to assisting escape.
According to court documents, Grayson worked for a contractor who maintained a firing range at Fort Lee. He supervised work-release inmates from a federal correctional facility in Petersburg.
Prosecutors say Grayson allowed inmates to leave Fort Lee and meet prostitutes to have sex at nearby hotels. The inmates arranged the meetings with contraband cellphones.

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The Associated Press© January 6, 2012
PETERSBURG
A contractor employee at Fort Lee who allowed inmates he supervised to have sex with prostitutes will spend four months on probation.
Media outlets report that 49-year-old Donald E. Grayson was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge.
Grayson pleaded guilty last September to assisting escape.
According to court documents, Grayson worked for a contractor who maintained a firing range at Fort Lee. He supervised work-release inmates from a federal correctional facility in Petersburg.
Prosecutors say Grayson allowed inmates to leave Fort Lee and meet prostitutes to have sex at nearby hotels. The inmates arranged the meetings with contraband cellphones.
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The hit on the state’s DNA database – 20 years after the first killing – startled Yonkers police who said they had looked at more than 100 potential suspects in the case, but not Acevedo.
“I was ecstatic,” Detective John Geiss, the cold case specialist in Yonkers, said Tuesday after attending the sentencing. He said he hopes eventually “everyone who gets locked up” is required to give up DNA.
“It’s a great tool,” he said. “DNA doesn’t lie.”
Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said the Acevedo case is “the most compelling example” supporting expansion of the DNA database.
Cuomo has said that since 1996, the database has provided leads to 2,700 convictions while helping free 27 people who were wrongly accused.
Acevedo’s victims were Maria Ramos, 26, and Tawana Hodges, 38, both of the Bronx, and Kimberly Moore, 30, of Greenburgh.
Acevedo was acquitted of three counts of rape. Police had said Ramos and Hodges were prostitutes.

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Va man gets probation for inmate-prostitute trysts
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PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) – A contractor employee at Fort Lee who allowed inmates he supervised to have sex with prostitutes will spend four months on probation.
Media outlets report that 49-year-old Donald E. Grayson was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge.
Grayson pleaded guilty last September to assisting escape.
According to court documents, Grayson worked for a contractor who maintained a firing range at Fort Lee. He supervised work-release inmates from a federal correctional facility in Petersburg.
Prosecutors say Grayson allowed inmates to leave Fort Lee and meet prostitutes to have sex at nearby hotels. The inmates arranged the meetings with contraband cellphones.

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RICHMOND, Va. — A 28-year Army veteran was sentenced to four years of probation Thursday after he pleaded guilty to helping a federal inmate meet up with prostitutes while on work-release at Fort Lee.
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In a “statement of facts” acknowledging his guilt, Grayson admitted to providing a prisoner named Christopher Towns with a Virgin Mobile cell phone that Towns used “to search Craigslist.com and contact prostitutes for the purpose of arranging sexual encounters.”
When Towns had arranged a meeting with a prostitute, “Grayson would secure a room for Towns at a local hotel; Grayson would provide keys to the room to Towns, the female companion or both; on at least one occasion Grayson drove Towns to the hotel; on the other occasions, the female companion picked Towns up directly from the work site; and Towns would obtain cash from Grayson from his ‘account’ as needed to pay for the hotel. After the sexual encounters Towns would return to the Fort Lee work detail.”

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Virginia Man Gets Probation For Hooking Prisoners Up With Prostitutes
Happened in Fort Lee
A Virginia man accused of helping inmates hook up with hookers got off with a light sentence on Thursday.
Prosecutors alleged Donald E. Grayson, a Department of Defense contractor at Fort Lee south of Richmond, arranged trysts between prisoners under his supervision with prostitutes at nearby motels.
He pleaded guilty to one count of assisting escape, and was sentenced to four years probation and six months home confinement, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.  He could have spent 14 months in prison for the charge.
Retired Army serviceman Grayson supervised a firing range at Fort Lee.  Inmates from the Petersburg Federal Correctional Center were bused over to firing range as part of a work-release program and put under Grayson’s care, according to the AP.
But instead of putting the prisoners to work, prosecutors said Grayson let some of them visit prostitutes.

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PETERSBURG, Va. — A contractor employee at Fort Lee who allowed inmates he supervised to have sex with prostitutes will spend four months on probation.
Media outlets report that 49-year-old Donald E. Grayson was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge.
Grayson pleaded guilty last September to assisting escape.
According to court documents, Grayson worked for a contractor who maintained a firing range at Fort Lee. He supervised work-release inmates from a federal correctional facility in Petersburg.
Prosecutors say Grayson allowed inmates to leave Fort Lee and meet prostitutes to have sex at nearby hotels. The inmates arranged the meetings with contraband cellphones.

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