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What Maxwell's unusual transfer to a lower security prison camp may mean
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Sen. Booker says institutions are bending the knee to Trump
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Young Americans flock to the Vatican for the Youth Jubilee
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US jobs report falls below key benchmark in July
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Mourners honor slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam
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Storms drop dangerous, flooding rain
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Trump's tariff deadline looms over world economy
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Dozens injured on Delta flight
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Arrest made in Arkansas hiking murders
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US diminished a key weapons stockpile fighting Iran
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Pilot safe after navy fighter jet crash
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Carney says Canada will recognize Palestinian state
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Jury finds James Craig guilty of first-degree murder
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How an earthquake causes a tsunami
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Police release new images of the gun used in the Midtown Manhattan shooting
Photos released by the New York City Police Department show the assault-style rifle 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura used to fatally shoot four people – including a police officer – and wound one before killing himself in Midtown Manhattan.
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What Happened to Pamela Butler? Inside the 2009 Murder Case That Linked Her Boyfriend to Another Woman's Death
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Pamela's house was equipped with security cameras and motion detection lights, so if she had left her house, how would it not have been captured on video? This was just one of the many questions that stumped the police and Pamela's family. An investigation was opened, but in 2016, after years of dead ends, Pamela was declared legally dead. In the Dateline episode, Pamela's brother said his sister was "Just a lovely person, somebody that would go out of her way to help you." Who is Jose Rodriguez-Cruz? Jose Rodriguez-Cruz was Pamela's boyfriend at the time of her disappearance. According to Dateline, they had met on a dating website and had been together for five months when she went missing. Pamela and Jose shared similar government work backgrounds; he is a former military police officer who worked at a medical clinic. When Pamela's mother searched her home, Thelma noticed Jose had left messages on her answering machine asking where she was. 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He would eventually uncover Jose's past with Marta, eventually linking it to Pamela's. Marta had gone missing in Virginia in 1989, and while her remains were found two years later, her identity wouldn't be confirmed until 2018 using DNA. Both women were discovered in the same area of the highway where Jose said he had buried Pamela's body. Where is Jose Rodriguez-Cruz now? In October 2017, Jose pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge for Pamela's death. He was sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison, followed by five years of probation, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office's press release. Three years later, in November 2020, Jose pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for killing Marta in 1989. He was sentenced to an additional 40 years in prison. 'I want to see him serve life for the crimes that he committed,' Pamela's brother, Derrick, told reporters at Jose's hearing, via WTOP. 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