Five men in El Salvador, including a police officer, were arrested Wednesday in connection with the killing last week of French filmmaker and photographer Christian Poveda, the country’s attorney general’s office said.

Fifteen years before the girl in the shed, there was the woman in the warehouse — and at least one other woman who escaped capture. CNN reviewed the voluminous court file in Phillip Garrido’s 1977 rape case, and it shows a pattern of sexual fantasy, abduction and bondage.

It was an eerily familiar sight — the townspeople of South Lake Tahoe, California, walking arm in arm down the street in support of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard — but this time, things were different.

The reality television show personality who accused football player Shawne Merriman of choking her over the weekend has denied that she was drunk during the incident, her Twitter page said Monday.

A Florida jury has recommended that a plumber who kidnapped, raped and murdered a police detective’s daughter be executed for his crimes. The jury deliberated just under three hours before agreeing 12-0 that Michael King should die for killing Denise Amber Lee, the mother of two small boys.

Seven of eight people killed last week in a southeast Georgia mobile home were laid to rest Saturday.

A north Georgia pastor was shot to death by police when he struck an officer with his car after he was seen in a vehicle with a drug suspect, authorities said. Jonathan Ayers, pastor at Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia, Georgia, diedTuesday afternoon. An investigation continues.

Kidnapped in 1991 at age 11, Jaycee Dugard is reconnecting with her after many years apart, her aunt said. Jaycee Lee Dugard is spending time in “a secluded place” with her mother and younger sister, said Jaycee’s aunt, Tina Dugard. “This is a joyful time for my family,” she said. “Jaycee remembers all of us.”

Drug traffickers planting millions of marijuana plants on U.S. public lands are moving closer to popular tourist spots. “It’s definitely possible that hikers and campers are going to find themselves in the middle of a field facing some very dangerous, armed bad guys,” one federal agent said.

Former Manson Family member Susan Atkins, who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death and scrawled “PIG” on the door in her blood 40 years ago, was denied parole, California prison officials said. Atkins, who has brain cancer, is almost sure to die in prison.