2005年5月15日 · Kandy Laufer, 35, of Harrison, told the court McRae "would do anything for my brother" and said Randy Laufer "liked spending time with (McRae)." Former Michigan State Police detective John C. Conn, one of seven witnesses testifying Wednesday, said McRae told him Randy Laufer had spent the night at McRae's house two or three times.

2005年5月15日 · Randy Laufer in Clare County, Mich. Some stay missing; others surface as mud-caked corpses or as bones. It might be his bad luck, but cops and prosecutors in Michigan and Florida insist that McRae is just bad. "What can I say? Essentially Randy Laufer was butchered after he was befriended by John Rodney McRae," said Clare County Prosecutor Norm ...

2005年5月19日 · Jury convicts McRae of murder Wednesday, May 18, 2005By Tom Gilchrist TIMES WRITER A Bay County jury today convicted John R. McRae of the 1987 murder of Harrison teenager Randy Laufer, ending the 70-year-old child killer's bid for freedom. In 1998, a Clare County jury convicted McRae of murdering 15-year-old Randy Laufer, but last year the Michigan Supreme Court ordered a retrial - the one ...

2005年5月15日 · Attorneys project different views of murder victim Saturday, May 14, 2005By Tom Gilchrist TIMES WRITER Defense attorney Paul J. Pemberton calls homicide victim Randy Laufer a "ragamuffin," a poor boy who had reasons to flee an abusive father and Harrison home in 1987. Michigan Assistant Attorney General Thomas C. Cameron casts Randy as an innocent, a frail white kid who loved animals ...

2005年5月15日 · Prisoner testifies that McRae confessed to killings Wednesday, May 11, 2005By Tom Gilchrist TIMES WRITER A former cellmate of accused killer John R. McRae testified Wednesday that McRae confessed to performing sex acts on 15-year-old Randy Laufer before killing the Harrison boy. "He cut him up," said the witness, when asked by a prosecutor how McRae said he killed the boy. McRae, 70 ...

2005年5月15日 · True Crimes and Beyond - John Rodney McRae "Very Scary Man" - Cell mate says suspect told him about sex acts, murder Thursday, May 12, 2005By Tom Gilchrist TIMES WRITER A former cell mate of accused killer John R. McRae testified Wednesday that McRae confessed to performing sex acts on 15-year-old Randy Laufer before killing the Harrison boy. "He cut him up," said the witness, when ...

2005年5月15日 · Schmidt issued a gag order Tuesday forbidding such conversations during McRae's trial, expected to last several weeks. McRae is charged with an open count of murder for the death of 15-year-old Randy Laufer of Harrison, who vanished in 1987 from Clare County and whose remains were found 10 years later. McRae has been convicted of murder before.

2005年5月15日 · Defense paints slaying victim as runaway Friday, May 13, 2005By Tom Gilchrist TIMES WRITER A defense attorney used witness testimony on Thursday to maintain 15-year-old Randy Laufer ran away from home - and not into the clutches of convicted killer John R. McRae - in September 1987. Witness James Blumerich Sr. of Harrison testified in Bay County Circuit Court that he saw Laufer alive as many ...

2005年5月15日 · Forensic evidence supports prosecution's case in local murder trial Saturday, May 07, 2005By Tom Gilchrist TIMES WRITER Defense attorneys maintain Harrison teen-ager Randy Laufer was alive at least 11 months after police claim he was murdered, but a scientist shot holes in their theory on Friday - using the dead boy's teeth. Prosecutors say John R. McRae killed 15-year-old Laufer on ...

2005年6月16日 · "I don't believe I was convicted for the Randy Laufer incident, more so on what happened in 1950." What happened in 1950 was the brutal murder of 8-year-old Joey Housey in the Detroit area. McRae was convicted of that crime as well, and served 72 years in prison before his sentence was commuted and released.