Body Was Found

Federal authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a wealthy Homeland businessman whose body was found Tuesday night near the Baltimore-Washington Parkway north of Greenbelt.The victim, 34-year-old J. Schuyler "Sky" Alland, had been shot in the head. His body was found about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday by three people driving near the national Agricultural Research Center, checking out what they initially thought was a deer, according to the U.S. Park Police.Mr. Alland's leased car -- an $80,000 black BMW-750iL, with temporary Maryland tag 30619X -- was still missing last night, believed taken by the killer.

Robert Jarrett Jr. was convicted Tuesday of murdering his wife, following a trial in which prosecutors described him as a "cold-blooded killer" who allowed his sons to walk over her body buried beneath their backyard shed for two decades. Howard County jurors handed down a guilty verdict on one count of second-degree murder after deliberating into the night, bringing an end to a years-long investigation. Prosecutors, who had pushed for a first-degree murder conviction, said they would seek the maximum penalty of 30 years in prison at Jarrett's sentencing, scheduled in August.

Baltimore County police are searching through reports of women who have disappeared since 1991, hoping to identify the body of a young woman found Tuesday along a stretch of Falls Road in rural Whitehouse.Investigators have been unable to determine the cause or manner of the woman's death, said Lt. Craig Bowers.But they do know that she has been dead about five years and is not among the thousands of people reported missing from the county during that period."We don't know what happened yet," he said.

Anne Arundel County police have identified the woman whose body was found in rising waters near a homeless camp in Laurel Thursday as 26-year-old Anifa Kiwanuka. Kiwanuka's body was discovered around 11:25 a.m. in rising waters Thursday near a homeless camp in a low lying, wooded area located by Route 198 and Racetrack Road. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore will determine the cause of death. According to police, a witness told Kiwanuka between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. to leave the area because the high waters were dangerous.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 232 THE VICTIM A body was found at 5:50 p.m. yesterday in a house on Eutaw Place. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 214 homicides as of Oct. 5, 2006. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides are at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap.

A Montgomery County couple -- both doctors -- were found shot to death in their Burtonsville home yesterday, and county police have charged the man's son in the killings. The bodies of Norman N. K. Katz, 50, and his wife, Michelle R. Filling-Katz, 36, were found by relatives who drove to the home concerned about the couple.Javant Naravan Katz, 20, was arrested shortly after the bodies were found when he drove his father's white BMW right into a crowd of onlookers, televisions cameras and police camped out at the couple's home.

Frederick police are trying to identify a man whose decomposing body was found Saturday afternoon in a recently harvested cornfield off South Market Street. Documents found at the scene indicate that the man was alive in late June. Investigators believe that he was dead when the several-acre field was harvested Sept. 16, said Lt. Thomas Chase. The body was found about 150 yards from the road, in a cornfield between a Costco store and the Maryland School for the Deaf, he said. The state medical examiner's office determined that the man was African-American, between the ages of 20 and 40, and about 6 feet tall, police said.

The death of a disabled man whose body was found Saturday morning in a creek near his Southeast Baltimore home has been ruled a s u i c i d e by drowning, city police said. The 41-year-old was born with cerebral palsy and lived with his mother and sister in the 900 block of Alricks Way in Armistead Gardens, police said. The man, who had been depressed, was reported missing less than an hour before his body was found in water about feet deep, said homicide Detective Mark Hughes. The body was about 300 feet downstream from where police found his electric wheelchair at the end of a wooded path, he added.

Baltimore County police are investigating the slaying of a county man whose body was found in his apartment.A relative of Steven Haughton, 22, of the 6600 block of Collinsdale Road just north of the city, called police after becoming concerned that Haughton had not answered his telephone. Police found his body when they entered the house shortly after 9 last night. He had been shot in the head.Haughton's body was taken to the state medical examiner for an autopsy.Cpl. John J. O'Brien, of the county Police Department, said there are no suspects or motives in the slaying.

A man was arrested yesterday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 17-year-old boy whose body was found Friday in a field in White Marsh, Baltimore County police said.Keith Louis Sellers, 24, had been living with the victim at a motel in Aberdeen, police said.A hiker found the body of Michael Shane Keller of Lenoir, N.C., in a field off the 12100 block of Pulaski Highway, police said.Pub Date: 3/31/97

A 13-year-old girl was found slain Sunday evening in the Darley Park neighborhood of northeast Baltimore, police reported. Family members confirmed the girl's identity as Monae Turnage, according to local newscasts. They had reported her missing early Sunday. The body was found about 6 p.m. in the backyard of a two-story, brick rowhouse in the 1600 block of Cliftview Ave., said Detective Donny Moses. Monae's aunt, Paulette Marshall, confirmed on newscasts that the girl's 16-year-old brother and neighborhood youths found the clothed body while looking through alleys.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 238 THE VICTIM Police said investigators still do not know the name of the man whose body was found about 12:15 a.m. yesterday in the 1700 block of Latrobe St. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 217 homicides as of Oct. 13, 2006. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides are at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap

Harford County sheriff's deputies are investigating the slaying of a man whose body was found Saturday night in a room at a motel in Aberdeen. The man's name was being withheld until family members could be notified. No arrest had been made. Shortly before midnight, a resident of the Keyser Motel in the 1300 block of S. Philadelphia Blvd. (U.S. 40) notified police that a door to a room at the motel was ajar and that a burglary might have been committed, said Sgt. Christina Presberry, a sheriff's office spokeswoman.

The Westminster woman whose body state police discovered in an Eldersburg creek on March 22 died of an overdose of drugs and alcohol, according to an autopsy by the chief medical examiner's office in Baltimore. State police do not suspect foul play nor do they believe the overdose was intentional, said Greg Shipley, a state police spokesman. The woman, Janet L. Seal, 44, of the first block of Pennsylvania Ave., was pronounced dead at the scene near the 1700 block of Bennett Road.

When Joppatowne resident Debbie Beall got word that her great-uncle could be the World War II airman whose body was found intact and frozen in a California glacier recently, her son had a question about his relative. "Was he a caveman?" Beall recalls her son, 8-year-old Joey Kozlowski, saying. Relatives and descendants of four World War II soldiers have been holding their breath since October, when hikers found a body encased in a glacier in the Sierra Nevada. It was flown to Honolulu, where military forensic scientists have determined the body came from a plane carrying four soldiers that crashed in 1942.

The death of a disabled man whose body was found Saturday morning in a creek near his Southeast Baltimore home has been ruled a s u i c i d e by drowning, city police said. The 41-year-old was born with cerebral palsy and lived with his mother and sister in the 900 block of Alricks Way in Armistead Gardens, police said. The man, who had been depressed, was reported missing less than an hour before his body was found in water about feet deep, said homicide Detective Mark Hughes. The body was about 300 feet downstream from where police found his electric wheelchair at the end of a wooded path, he added.

Baltimore County police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man whose body was discovered yesterday in a wooded section of the 3100 block of Essex Road in Woodlawn.The victim, Carlos L. Paul of the 1200 block of Brigadoon Trail, was found on the ground with a bullet wound to the right side of his head and a pistol in his right hand, police said. His body was found about 7:15 a.m. by students taking a shortcut to school. E. Jay Miller, a county police spokesman, said police are treating the death as suspicious pending an autopsy at the state medical examiner's office.

City police have charged a registered child sex offender with strangling a 36-year-old woman whose body was discovered last week in a large safe at a South Baltimore company. Oswald V. Voigt, 48, of Halethorpe was charged with murder and assault in the death of Robin Hoey, a Southwest Baltimore resident. He also faces attempted murder charges in Anne Arundel County, after he was accused last week of threatening his sister in her Glen Burnie home. Police were called to Safes & Security Systems Inc. on Aug. 9 after the owner saw blood on the floor and noticed a foul odor.