Chinese gangs, growing fat off the heroin trade, are threatening to become the USA's new Mafia.
In testimony this week in Hong Kong, and continuing into August in federal court in New York, FBI undercover operative Simon Au Yeung will provide the first detailed look at the Chinese gangs' evolution into a global force.
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Crime creeping into USA's rural corners
June 6, 1990
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Marvin Harper's title - agricultural theft officer - may not be an accurate reflection of his actual job.
Last week, he helped form a hostage-negotiating association and searched for murder suspects following a brutal quadruple slaying in tiny Salida, Calif. (population 1,456)
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Fla. students live in terror; Serial killer has kids 'scared to death'; 'Death grip' takes hold of Gainesville
Aug. 30, 1990
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A chilling sense of fear hangs over this sunny college town, overshadowing the usual fall semester talk of football, parties and pre-class jitters.
"This town is under a death grip," says University of Florida sophomore Tom Lundberg, 19. "There's been no talk of sports. Everywhere, people are talking about a serial killer. There is fear and anger."
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The twin fears of campus crime; Colo. students fear crime, 'punishment'
Sept. 28, 1990
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PUEBLO, Colo. - Fear grips the campus of the University of Southern Colorado.
After austerity moves slashed the campus police force from eight officers five years ago to two this year, students fear for their safety.
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Violent crime jumps; 'early sign' for '90s
Oct. 22, 1990
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Violent crime jumped 10% in the first half of 1990, the FBI said Sunday - a forewarning of growing violence.
"This is an early sign of what's to come in the 1990s," says Northeastern University criminologist James Fox.
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19 cities set records for murder
Jan. 2, 1990
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NEW ORLEANS - Homicide officer Louis Berard sits at his desk beneath a poster of a vulture perched on a mock homicide badge and waits. Usually not very long.
"That's like us, just like vultures, circling around, waiting for another dead body," says Berard, displaying the squad's shoulder patch, which contains the same vulture emblem.
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A 13-year tale of horror; Investigators trace Dahmer's gruesome trail; As a teen, behavior was 'on the edge'
July 31, 1991
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Gawkers circled and neighbor kids sold lemonade Tuesday while police dug up the yard of Jeffrey Dahmer's boyhood home in Bath, Ohio.
They found evidence of what Dahmer said he buried there 13 years ago. Police believe more than 50 shards of bone they found are from the first man he killed.
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22 killed in Texas rampage
Oct. 17, 1990
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Police are seeking a motive to why a gunman crashed into a Texas cafeteria packed with lunchtime diners Wednesday and killed 22 people.
The attack, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, also wounded 20 people.
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Mass murderers; Frustrated loners lash out
Dec. 16, 1991
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Mass murder is horrifingly common in the United States, but lately it's become almost routine - and some experts say it's going to get worse because of the recession.
In two months, 44 people have been killed in six separate incidents of mass murder - and those are just the widely publicized cases. Another 13 people were shot to death in the course of three robberies.
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Drunken driving; Hard-core drinkers leave tragedy in their wake; Half of traffic deaths due to drinking
Dec. 31, 1991
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Before the crash that paralyzed his son, Fred Leon Mitchell Jr. had been convicted three times for drunken driving and twice for public intoxication. He'd also had his license revoked and gone through four alcohol treatment programs.
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Infant murders climb; Hundreds may go undetected
Jan. 24, 1992
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The teddy bear was supposed to bring 3-month-old Christopher Otten happiness. Instead, it was used to kill him.
Christopher died in his Norfolk, Va., home Sunday after allegedly being "whipped repeatedly" with the stuffed animal by his father, Robert Wayne Otten, police say. Otten was charged with murder.
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Two slain in NYC school; Shootings occur just before mayor's visit
Feb. 27, 1992
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NEW YORK - Two students were shot to death at point-blank range by another student Wednesday, 90 minutes before Mayor David Dinkins was set to deliver a speech there deploring violence.
Later, a 16-year-old classmate distraught by the killings attempted suicide by shooting himself at home, police said.
