PHILANDER HAMPTON PLEADS GUILTY TO '78 MASSACRE

PURE EVIL. A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty to murdering five teens ended the saga in one of the Garden State's oldest active cold cases. Philander Hampton, of Jersey City, told cops he and his cousin, Lee Evans, lured the teens to a ramshackle area of Newark and into an abandoned house with the promise of jobs--then they locked them inside and set the firetrap ablaze. The

JUSTICE AT LAST FOR 1978 CARROLL BONNET MURDER

WATSON

THREE decades after his naked body was found dead of a single stab wound, with a taunting note left for cops, justice has finally been served on his killer.
A jury took just a few hours to convict Jerry Watson, now 52 of first degree murder for the weird 1978 murder of the 61-year-old hospital worker.
At the time of the killing, the 19-year-old Watson left a puzzling note which said: "I'm leaving this crime with only one clue. Find it yourself. Die pig. –Helter." 
And after getting away with his crime for 33-years Watson must have thought that he'd gotten away with his crime but the Omaha Police Department's cold case unit, began investigating the case again.

EX-CARNIE WALTER PEARTREE BUSTED IN '78 LA SLAY

LAPD detectives have arrested a former carnie in the brutal 1978 slaying of a high-flying business executive. Walter Randolph Peartree, 62, was busted at his home in Delaware, Ohio. He is accused of killing James Gentry, 52, on April 10, 1978. The Papermate executive was discovered stabbed to death at his home by a pal. And despite a big reward at the time, the