The law enforcement response to the 2005 shooting rampage at the Tacoma Mall will be featured Wednesday night on the Discovery Channel's show, Call 911.

The 30-minute "Terror at the Mall" episode on Investigation Discovery will feature interviews from a LESA communications supervisor, call takers, Tacoma police officers and a Tacoma Fire communications officer. All were involved in the response to the Nov. 20, 2005 incident that left seven injured.

In October 2007, a Pierce County jury convicted shooter Dominick S. Maldonado of 15 crimes in connection with the spree. The young man was sentenced to 163 years in prison. Maldonado is appealing his conviction.

The incident began with phone calls from Maldonado, who told 911 dispatchers that he had guns and was about to start shooting. When the dispatcher asked where the caller was, he replied, "Follow the screams."

After the shooting stopped, four people were taken hostage inside one of the mall stores. Maldonado repeatedly called 911 during the four-hour ordeal.

The Call 911 episode airs at 7 p.m. and again at 10 p.m. Check your local television guides to confirm the times. Investigation Discovery (ID) is part of the Discovery Channel cable network and can be found on Click! channel 223, Comcast channel 271, DirecTV channel 285 and Dish Network channel 192.

The show will be repeated throughout the month.

SEATTLE -- After a search that has lasted more than 36 years, all of the evidence in the case of the legendary outlaw known as D.B. Cooper fits easily into an inconspicuous box, carried comfortably under the arm of FBI agent Larry Carr.

He is the newest in a line of about a dozen agents assigned to the case since 1971, when Cooper hijacked a passenger jet and bailed out over Clark County, Wash., with $200,000 in $20 bills. When the last agent moved on six months ago, Carr requested to take the case.

"How could you not?" he said. "It's the ultimate mystery."

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It's mostly a rehash, but you can read the story here.

It's mostly about the presidential political angle, but here it is.

Some bloggers and newspaper columnists in Massachusetts are speculating that the killing of Graham couple Brian and Beverly Mauck may cause trouble for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Romney, the former governor of the Bay State, appointed the judge who reportedly allowed Daniel Thomas Tavares Jr. out on his own recognizance this summer after he was charged with assaulting prison guards while serving time for killing his mother.

The careful reader will recall that Tavares now is charged in Pierce County with aggravated first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of the Maucks last weekend.

Boston-area news outlets also are reporting that Tavares once threatened to kill Romney.

Tonight, the National Geographic chanel will air its one-hour documentary "American Skinheads."

The show features the brutal killing of a Tacoma homeless man on a set of railroad tracks in 2003. Four White Supremacists were convicted in the slaying.

According to our tv listings, the show will air at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Bill Hutchens wrote about the documentary in Sunday's paper.

I ask, because Time magazine came out recently with its Top 25 "Crimes of the Century." (Thanks to TNT team leader Hunter George for pointing it out to the L&S crew).

Time puts the reign of terror of Tacoma's own Ted Bundy at No. 14, and the case of Mary Kay Letourneau at No. 22.

I'll buy Bundy – although a good argument could be made that Gary Ridgway should replace him.

But Letourneau? I don't know. She's ahead of the Columbine massacre, for goodness sake! What are those Time folks thinking?

And what's with two (2!) South Sound residents making the big time in crime? I mean, it's job security for me, but I worry for the rest of you.

Anyway, your thoughts are always appreciated.

ABC News ran a feature on its Web site Tuesday called "What Made Missing Pregnant Mom Murder So Compelling?"

By Scott Michels, the piece reports how the disappearance of a 26-year-old woman in Canton, Ohio, made national news June 14 while at least 19 other murders committed the same day went "little noticed beyond a small group of bereaved friends and family, or perhaps a brief mention in the local paper."

Michels then tells the stories of some of those other victims, one being Spanaway's Nicholas Danforth (seen here). The 17-year-old boy was shot to death in a travel trailer early that morning, allegedly by his father.

Michel's piece on Nick includes this quote from the boy's aunt, Kerri Gettman: "Nicholas had such a positive impact on people. We called him 'Gentle Giant.' He was always trying to making (sic) people happy."

For the record, The News Tribune ran two substantial stories on Nick. The first, by TNT writer Debby Abe, appeared June 15. I wrote the second, which appeared the next day.

We'll be following his father's murder case through the court system.

The 9-year-old Lakewood boy accused of leading police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car is scheduled to be in court today for what's called a capacity hearing.

A judge will try to decide, after hearing from prosecutors and defense attorneys, whether Semaj Booker knew it was wrong when he allegedly stole a neighbor's car back in January and eluded police on Highway 512 for several miles before the car's engine blew.

The judge's decision will determine whether prosecutors can pursue charges against the boy, who caused an international sensation the day after the alleged chase by talking his way onto two Southwest Airlines flights and flying to Texas by himself. His story recently was featured on the Dr. Phil show.

Today's hearing begins at 9 a.m. at Remann Hall, Pierce County's juvenile court. I'll try to post an update to the TNT's home page by noon.

TNT columnist Pete Callaghan spotted this story posted on the Web site of the Utah newspaper The Deseret News.

It compares the recent deadly rampage at a Salt Lake City mall to the shooting at the Tacoma Mall back in November 2005 and our mall's efforts to recover.

Here's an exerpt, from the article, "Tacoma mall a Trolley template?":

There are similarities between the shootings in Tacoma and Monday's incident at Salt Lake's Trolley Square: both happened at malls, both were seemingly random, both were seemingly carried out by young, disaffected men against unknown victims. Employees at the various stores at both sites helped hide customers and provide shelter from the panic and the bullets.

There are also differences. All told, six people were shot at Tacoma Mall, none fatally. Five victims suffered what police called minor injuries, while one suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was paralyzed in the incident. Three people were held hostage for hours before being released.

There's another big difference. The Utah shooter was killed by police. The alleged Tacoma Mall shooter, Dominick Maldonado, is awaiting trial.

A hearing to determine if 9-year-old Semaj Booker has the capacity to tell right from wrong has been put off until April.

The so-called capacity hearing for Semaj (pronounced suh-mah-jay) was scheduled for today, but both prosecutor Fred Wist and defense attorney Brett Purtzer asked for more time to prepare.

Semaj, you'll recall, is the Lakewood kid who caused an international sensation last month when he took off to Texas by talking his way onto two Southwest Airlines flights.

He's facing charges of car theft, eluding police and driving without a license for allegedly stealing a car in Lakewood the day before his cross-country odyssey and leading Lakewood police on a high-speed chase down Highway 512.

He's currently in the custody of his mother.

That is if you consider "Inside Edition" "the big time."

The show announced Tuesday that it will air Wednesday its "exclusive" interview with Semaj Booker, "the nine-year-old Seattle resident who ran away from home and breached airline security when he flew cross-country on a Southwest Airlines plane without a reservation."

That should be Lakewood resident but who cares about accuracy when you have the big exclusive.

Semaj, you will recall, gained notoriety last week after stealing a car and eluding Lakewood police on a high-speed pursuit. The next morning, he flew - without a reservation - from Sea-Tac International Airport to Phoenix and until to San Antonio, where the ruse was up and he was taken into custody.

The case has raised concerns nationwide about airport security, with everyone asking how he got aboard the flights.

"I planned it all out in advance," Semaj told Inside Edition.

He took a bus to the airport and then scanned the monitors, according to a press release. He found Southwest Airlines had the most flights to Texas.

The press release goes on to say:

Booker says he then got lucky when he heard Southwest Airlines page a passenger who had lost his ticket.

"They (Southwest Airlines) said, 'Frank please come to the Southwest Ticket Counter.'"

Booker says he walked up to the counter and identified himself as Frank, at which time the airline gave him the boarding pass.

Bypassing the security checkpoint, which doesn't require children to show I.D., was easy for Booker who says, "They just said take off your shoes and your jacket. I just went through. They said clear, they gave me my shoes and jacket and I went to the airplane."

No word yet on how much Inside Edition paid for the interviews.