Boston Blotter: Richard Hung Himself

-- Richard Sharpe, the cross-dressing North Shore dermatologist who killed his wife with a rifle blast in 2000 and allegedly sent a hit man after his prosecutor, hanged himself in his jail cell last night. [Herald]

-- An 80-year-old Cape Cod man who has been lost for the past week may have been the victim of bad directions. [Herald]

-- A 30-year-old East Boston man broke into a car this morning in the North End and forgot to leave, authorities say. He was arrested by police sleeping in the car's front seat. [BPDNews]

-- Police in Somerville received an unwanted Christmas present last month: a drunken man covered from head to toe in his own blood, according to authorities. [Somerville Journal]

-- An 18-year-old man was stabbed at a bus stop across from Jeremiah Burke High School in Dorchester. [Globe]

-- A woman found dead in a Roxbury apartment this afternoon might be Boston's first homicide of 2009. [Globe]

-- Universal Hub took a look at the BPD's major crime statistics and noticed that, despite an overall drop in crime, the numbers haven't decreased in two prominent areas: murders in Area C (South Boston/Dorchester), where the numbers doubled, and citywide shootings, where they remained the same. [Universal Hub]

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