81-year-old sex offender Keith Holmes busted trying to lure 12-year-old girl into his car

 

An 81-year-old sex offender in California just won't learn his lesson.

Convicted child molestor Keith Holmes was busted for trying to lure a preteen girl into his car in Palmdale, Calif., cops said.

A local mom said she saw the liver-spotted perv pull his car up to her 12-year-old daughter at an intersection about 11 a.m. Saturday and ask if she wanted a ride.

After the girl shot him down, Holmes continued to creep alongside her until the girl's mom came over and chased him away, cops said.

Luckily for the family - and neighborhood kids - the dirty old man obeys traffic laws and the mom was able to jot down his license plate when he stopped at a red light, KTLA-TV reported.

Cops tracked him down a short time later and hauled him in on suspicion of kidnapping.

The girl and her mother were not identified.

Local authorities said Holmes was a notorious predator who has been arrested for molesting children twice since December 2009. He was on probation for those arrests.

The Palmdale deputy who cuffed Holmes said his car was filled with shady "items" that would have helped him kidnap a child, but he wasn't specific, KTLA reported.

Holmes was being held on $1 million bail, and he is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday.

Queens stabbing victim faces down questioning from accused attacker

A Queens woman stabbed by a bike-riding slasher tearfully fended off the suspect's bizarre questioning yesterday - testifying that she could never forget his "evil eyes."

Eduarda Oliva, 39, stood up at the witness stand and identified Elie Granger as the man who plunged a knife into her chest as she and her daughter walked home in 2008.

Granger, who's defending himself and was cross-examing the victim, suggested Queens prosecutors coached her to identify him.

"Did you practice standing up and pointing and saying that's the man?" Granger asked.
"No," Oliva responded with a note of defiance.

She said she would never forget Granger's eyes as he stabbed her in the chest without a word.
"I just remember the evil eyes looking at me," Oliva told Granger. "I thought I was dying....I could never forget those eyes."

"My eyes are evil?" Granger asked.

"Yes," she said.

She brushed off Granger's suggestion that she picked him out because he was the only black man at the defense table.

"I was looking for the person I remembered in my mind and that was you," she said.
Oliva broke down in tears when Granger, 48, asked whether it was possible for her to have prevented the attack.

"How?" she demanded. "Can you please tell me how?"

Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Zayas called a recess as Oliva came down from the witness and collapsed crying into her husband's arms.

Oliva was walking with her daughter, then 13, when her assailant rode up beside them on a bicycle, stabbed Oliva, then rode off.

She stumbled onto a parked car as her daughter Kayla ran for help.

Granger, who is on trial for attempted murder, has already served time for three similar incidents.
In 1993, he punched a former city councilman when the lawmaker asked him to stop riding on the sidewalk.
The next year, Granger was arrested in Manhattan when he biked up to musician Kevin Hall and stabbed him.

Oliva spent two weeks in the hospital recovering from a stab wound to her chest and still struggles emotionally.

"How are you doing Mrs. Oliva?" Granger asked her, before starting his cross-examination. "I'm sorry for what happened to you."

Oliva returned Granger's expression of sympathy with an icy stare.

Long-missing North Carolina man David Ellis Bostic's remains found buried under wife's garden

Everyone thought David Ellis Bostic had disappeared 14 years ago, but the truth was he was pushing up daisies the whole time.

After Ruth Huber Bostic died last year, police discovered her husband's remains under the garden she lovingly tended outside their ramshackle North Carolina home for years.
No one knows exactly what happened and with her death at 78, she may have taken the answer to her grave.

"It's a mystery. Things happen no one ever expects," said David Bostic's nephew Carl Willis, 59, who last spoke to his uncle in 1994.

Authorities say Ruth had been estranged from her family and appeared to have suffered from mental illness.
"Her family hadn't talked with her in years and years," said Raleigh police Detective J.D. Faulk. "Over time, her mental problems got worse and worse."

Neighbors said Ruth Bostic was prone to telling outlandish tales of working in Hitler's concentration camps and of a friendship with the Russian czar.

When her husband got sick in the 1990s, she told them he'd had a stroke and everyone thought he had gone to a nursing home.

Meanwhile, the Bostics' bungalow fell into disrepair and became an eyesore in the neighborhood.
"She had most people around here scared of her," said mailman Eddie Taylor.
David Bostic's nephew, Willis, said the last time he heard from Ruth was in 1995 or 1996 when she called to say his uncle was ill.

She told Willis she planned to move his uncle to New Jersey where she had a sister who worked in a nursing home. He never heard from her again.

In 2010, she died in her living room. Her body was only found after Taylor realized she's stopped checking mail.

Cops soon discovered that her husband had continued to receive Social Security checks long after he had last been seen.

When neighbors said Ruth had always maintained the garden immaculately despite the sorry state of the rest of the house, cops dug it up - and there David Bostic was.