DNA Solves Colorado Murder:  A habitual criminal has received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 1997 kidnap, sexual assault and murder of 23-year-old University of Colorado co-ed as reported in this AP story, and this one from the Denver Post.  The case went unsolved for ten years until a DNA sample taken from Chilean national Diego Olmos Alcalde, while he was in a Wyoming prison for attacking another woman in 2000, was matched to DNA evidence in Susannah Chase's murder case.  The evidence was taken by Colorado police from Chase's body after she was found in an alley.  Chase had been beaten with a baseball bat before she was raped and dumped in the alley.  She died in the hospital the next day. 

More such cases would be solved, and more crimes prevented, if we tested everyone arrested for a felony, writes Gerald Bailey, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, in this Miami Herald op-ed.

Chicago Logs Six Murders in 24 Hours:  The first summer weekend in Chicago was marked with six killings, and several other hospitalizations, from gunshots or stabbings according to this story from CBS.  The killing began at 8:20 pm Friday when an armed group approached  two young men standing in the street talking and shot them both, leaving one dead.  Most of the victims were young men, between the ages of 18 and 25, but the last victim was Willie Short, 38.  Short was shot and killed while he was out driving on Saturday night.  Those injured over the same period include a 9-year-old boy shot while walking with his family, a 19-year-old man shot while allegedly pointing a gun at police, and two females who were stabbed by their boyfriends.