Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a former Sunday school teacher accused of killing an 8-year-old California girl earlier this year.

Melissa Huckaby, 28, was indicted last month in the slaying of Sandra Cantu, a playmate of Huckaby's daughter. The girl's body was found stuffed in a suitcase.

Police are searching for a Yale University graduate student, reportedly a bride-to-be, who disappeared and was last seen outside a school of medicine building.

Co-worker Debbie Apuzzo told CNN affiliate WTNH-TV that Annie Le, 24, is scheduled to be married Sunday, and "her fiance hasn't heard from her."

"Obviously, first of all, this conversation never took place. ... OK?"

So began a phone call in which convicted swindler Bernard Madoff told colleagues how to dance around questions from the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to an audiotape and transcript released Wednesday by the Massachusetts secretary of state's office.

Thirty minutes on a dark December night in 1996 left R. Dwayne Betts irrevocably changed.

It was the first time Betts, known as a smart, straight-edge and funny guy, had ever held a gun. The pistol fit snugly into the hands of the 16-year-old, who tapped gently on the window of a dark green Pontiac Grand Prix. The noise startled the middle-aged man sleeping in the car.

A strange family drama is unfolding in southern Illinois. A woman is accused of concealing her 6-year-old son from his father within the walls of her mother's house.

The boy's grandmother and her boyfriend, who already are charged with aiding the abduction, now face witness-tampering charges.

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.

The following story, based on testimony in Phillip Garrido's trial for a 1976 kidnapping, contains some sexually explicit material.

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.

A woman who turned up alive 18 years after being kidnapped at age 11 is reconnecting with her family 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."

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.

Phillip Garrido was a registered sex offender, required to meet with parole officers and fitted with an ankle bracelet to track his movements. Despite the close scrutiny, police say Garrido was able to kidnap 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, rape her and father two children with her. Police say Dugard lived with her two daughters in Garrido's backyard.