Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on church and killing of elderly priest in France.
Inside the Los Angeles Police Department's cold case unit on the fifth floor of its downtown headquarters, investigators have stacked 10 boxes of old paper files connected to Mr. Thomas's case and several old poster-board timelines for various waves of killings of elderly women.
Earlier excerpts included an account of the killing of an elderly woman by a sharpshooter and the killing of a woman and two children by another sniper.
A dramatic conflict with Washington flared after the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in October 1985 and the killing of an elderly passenger in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer.
Bronx detectives have arrested three men in connection with the killing of the elderly plumbing store owner whose body was found gagged and bound with duct tape in his apartment on Saturday, the police said.
A recent suicide bombing which narrowly missed the transitional president, Abdullahi Yusuf, and the killing of an elderly Italian nun working at a Mogadishu hospital, probably in retaliation for Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on violence and Islam, confirmed the worst fears of some, including the United States.
The killing of the elderly man followed recent efforts by General McChrystal to reduce civilian casualties further in the eight-year-old war against insurgents of the Taliban and Al Qaeda by limiting nighttime raids and bringing almost all Special Operations forces under his command.
"You just have to rule out every possibility other than murder, and convince a jury that there is no other explanation for the person's disappearance," said Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, whose office successfully prosecuted the mother-and-son con team Sante and Kenneth Kimes in the killing of an elderly Manhattan socialite whose body disappeared.
Muslims gathered for Catholic Mass on Sunday in churches and cathedrals across France in a powerful display of unity following the killing of an elderly priest.
More recently, Enslow worked on a composite drawing in the killing of an elderly couple in the upscale suburb of La Verne.
