John Doe

American citizens can breathe relief and deep satisfaction that "one of the individuals believed to be responsible" for the Oklahoma City atrocity has been in jail since an hour and a half after the event. Gratitude is owed the Oklahoma lawmen who stopped Timothy McVeigh for traffic reasons, found a gun in his possession and locked him up. They found they had the FBI's "John Doe No. 1" in custody. Hours later Terry Nichols, the second suspect, turned himself in.All Americans will applaud the steely resolve that has been shown in the well-coordinated effort to hunt suspects down.

I wonder why you find it necessary to state the school a person attends when reporting crimes.  Your article (Four teens face charges in attack on taxi driver) is a prime example of this practice.  It gives an appearance that the school has some responsibility in the commission of the crime, that the school is the reason these teenagers are criminals. The crime had nothing to do with Oakland Mills High School, was not committed on that property, and certainly was not caused by their attendance at the school.

With help from a public defender, authorities have identified a man who refused to give police his name nearly two weeks ago after his arrest on assault charges in Taneytown. David Allan Fry, 37, of York, Pa., had been called "John Doe" until Tuesday, when a public defender, Judson K. Larrimore, persuaded the man to cooperate with Carroll County jail officials, authorities said. According to court documents, Fry was arrested and held Sept. 14 on one count of first-degree assault, four counts of second-degree assault, possession of a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, giving a false statement to a police officer, and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Victims' advocates are concerned that a Maryland Court of Appeals decision this week will allow some sex offenders to have their names removed from the statewide sex offender registry, but it's still unclear exactly how the ruling could affect the database. "I do expect that other sex offenders will petition to have their names removed," said Lisae Jordan, executive director and counsel for the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault. In a ruling that was not unanimous, the appeals court said Monday that a man identified as John Doe should have his name taken off the registry because the requirement to do so violates the state constitution's restrictions on retroactive punishment.

OKEMAH, Okla. -- Imagine looking like John Doe No. 2, the elusive confederate of Timothy McVeigh, the suspect in the Oklahoma bombing.By yesterday, the FBI had received more than 10,000 calls from people offering clues and had interviewed more than a dozen men resembling the sketch of the dark-haired, square-jawed, tattooed man the FBI calls John Doe No. 2.And while agents have not yet found their man, the hunt has sent jolts -- ranging from annoying inconvenience...

"John Doe" looked like a guy you might see - and barely notice - almost anywhere: in the checkout line at the grocery store, on the way into the bank or waiting for a red light to change. He was young and strong, with a wrestler's build. His jaw was rounded, softening his 5-foot-7-inch, 170-pound frame. But no one has been able to say where his life began or where it ended, just where he was found - wrapped in a sheet and pillowcase, set on fire and tossed in a wooded area off Route 272 in North East, not far from Interstate 95 in Cecil County, five years ago. Everything about him - whom and what he loved, how he spent his Sundays, when he was born, what he dreamed of doing - died with him. Though his body was discovered in August 1997, his identity remains a mystery.

Victims' advocates are concerned that a Maryland Court of Appeals decision this week will allow some sex offenders to have their names removed from the statewide sex offender registry, but it's still unclear exactly how the ruling could affect the database. "I do expect that other sex offenders will petition to have their names removed," said Lisae Jordan, executive director and counsel for the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault. In a ruling that was not unanimous, the appeals court said Monday that a man identified as John Doe should have his name taken off the registry because the requirement to do so violates the state constitution's restrictions on retroactive punishment.

Unabomber demands our attention. He resents the distraction of John Doe No. 2. Humor him (or her, or them).Republicans are rethinking their passion for assault rifles. About time.Big-mouthed, ignorant, bigoted, abusive, rabble-rousing, hate-mongering know-nothings don't bomb public places. Bombers do.A special corner of ballroom dance heaven was reserved just for Ginger Rogers.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Federal agents investigating the United States' worst-ever terrorist bombing are vigorously pursuing the possibility that explosives from the U.S. military supply system were involved in the massive blast, Newsday learned yesterday amid indications that the widely sought "John Doe No. 2" had been identified as an Army buddy of jailed suspect Timothy McVeigh.According to senior federal officials, dozens of agents were looking through records and files at Fort Riley, Kan., checking the base's inventory of TNT and plastic explosives as well as blasting caps and other detonators.

A lawsuit seeking $1.5 million has been filed on behalf of a Frederick County man who claims he was arrested, jailed and forced to take an AIDS test after health officials targeted him as a potential carrier of the virus that causes the deadly disease.Attorneys for the man, identified only as John Doe in the lawsuit, claim that Frederick County sheriffs and health officials overstepped their bounds and put the man through public humiliation because of a heightened fear of AIDS.The man was arrested Aug. 3, 1992, after county officials obtained a search warrant for his blood, claiming he was "actively engaging in sexual activities with other persons in the gay community."

A man was shot in the leg and another remains in a hospital with serious head lacerations in separate incidents Wednesday that police continue to investigate. Police do not know the name or age of a man found near the Seton Business Park at about 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday. The man, found in the 5800 block of Wabash Avenue, suffered severe lacerations and trauma to his head and hasn't been able to be interviewed while he is being treated at an area hospital, Baltimore police Sgt. Anthony Smith said.

Politics, passion and populism ignite the stage in the tuneful musical Meet John Doe, making its world premiere at Ford's Theatre in Washington. MEET JOHN DOE / / Through April 29 / / Ford's Theatre, Washington / / 202-347-4833

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Prosecutors yesterday cast Michael Jackson as a bizarre schemer who held the family of his alleged molestation victim under virtual house arrest in order to tape a video of the boy proclaiming the pop star's innocence. In the aftermath of a disastrous British documentary, Jackson saw the boy - referred to in court as John Doe - as "the one person who could put out the fire," Santa Barbara prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss contended in a pre-trial hearing. In the documentary, Jackson shredded his own reputation by acknowledging sleepovers with young boys at his palatial Neverland Ranch.

"John Doe" looked like a guy you might see - and barely notice - almost anywhere: in the checkout line at the grocery store, on the way into the bank or waiting for a red light to change. He was young and strong, with a wrestler's build. His jaw was rounded, softening his 5-foot-7-inch, 170-pound frame. But no one has been able to say where his life began or where it ended, just where he was found - wrapped in a sheet and pillowcase, set on fire and tossed in a wooded area off Route 272 in North East, not far from Interstate 95 in Cecil County, five years ago. Everything about him - whom and what he loved, how he spent his Sundays, when he was born, what he dreamed of doing - died with him. Though his body was discovered in August 1997, his identity remains a mystery.

With help from a public defender, authorities have identified a man who refused to give police his name nearly two weeks ago after his arrest on assault charges in Taneytown. David Allan Fry, 37, of York, Pa., had been called "John Doe" until Tuesday, when a public defender, Judson K. Larrimore, persuaded the man to cooperate with Carroll County jail officials, authorities said. According to court documents, Fry was arrested and held Sept. 14 on one count of first-degree assault, four counts of second-degree assault, possession of a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, giving a false statement to a police officer, and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Sheriff Kenneth L. Tregoning figures that Carroll authorities could have quickly identified a suspect -- who had given a bogus name after his arrest on theft charges -- if the county had central booking. "If we had had central booking in place, we would have learned who he was in a flash," said Tregoning, alluding to the case of Charles Clayton Chandler, 49, of Hagerstown, whom they called "John Doe" until learning his identity.Chandler was arrested in Mount Airy on Aug. 18 about the time four men were at large after escaping from Pennsylvania prisons.

A trial yesterday in Carroll County District Court decided who the man with the goatee isn't.He isn't Bruce Donald Willis, a Minneapolis attorney he impersonated for almost two years, because Mr. Willis came to the courtroom with his birth certificate, passport -- even a 1962 Yale University yearbook to prove his identity.He isn't James Ross Lincoln, a man who matched his description and was wanted on outstanding warrants in Arizona and Florida, because Mr. Lincoln is dead and buried in California.

Today and tomorrow are your last chances to see the summer Olympics for another four years, as NBC shows basketball, cycling, rhythmic gymnastics and track and field from Atlanta. But if you just can't stand to see one more athlete profile-cum-music video, there are scant choices on the other networks."Survival Special: Parenthood Game" (7 p.m.-8 p.m., MPT, Channels 22, 67) -- From courtship to breeding to raising young, this program looks at parenthood in the wild. Bet you don't see any badgers at Discovery Zone.

Today and tomorrow are your last chances to see the summer Olympics for another four years, as NBC shows basketball, cycling, rhythmic gymnastics and track and field from Atlanta. But if you just can't stand to see one more athlete profile-cum-music video, there are scant choices on the other networks."Survival Special: Parenthood Game" (7 p.m.-8 p.m., MPT, Channels 22, 67) -- From courtship to breeding to raising young, this program looks at parenthood in the wild. Bet you don't see any badgers at Discovery Zone.

This is the popular image of the substitute teacher: a pale, damp man in a faded cardigan sweater, or a dowdy woman in an Annie Hall outfit and sensible shoes standing in front of an unruly class, paper airplanes sailing everywhere, the smell of fear so ripe you can almost cup it in your hand.John Frank knows the image well. He himself is a sub, an occupation where the job description might as well read: low pay, high stress, vast potential for permanent emotional scarring.John Frank is only 23, just one year out of college, still waiting to land his first full-time teaching job. But if this strikes you as somewhat akin to leading a Shetland pony into timber wolf country and saying, "Bye now," you have not heard his story.