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3 dead, 1 missing in accident during Newport-Ensenada sailing race Apr 29th 2012, 05:36 By Gil Aegerter, msnbc.com Three crew members were found dead and another was missing after a 37-foot sailboat disappeared during the annual sailing race from Newport Beach, Calif., to Ensenada, Mexico, the Coast Guard said late Saturday. Follow @msnbc_us The sailboat Aegean had been reported missing Saturday morning near the Coronado Islands, just south of the border, Coast Guard spokesman Henry G. Dunphy said in a news release. Dunphy said vessels near the Coronados reported seeing debris at about 10 a.m. and three sailors were found dead in the afternoon. One body was recovered by a Coast Guard helicopter and two others by a civilian crew. Dunphy said race officials reported the Aegean missing about 11:40 a.m. The Associated Press reported that the Aegean's home port was Redondo Beach. The names of the crew were not released. The cause of the incident was unclear. The 125-mile race, organized by the Newport Ocean Sailing Association, began at 11 a.m. Friday off the Balboa Pier in Newport Beach. The race crosses heavy shipping lanes off San Diego, and only a relative few boats can finish before darkness the first night. More than 200 boats had entered the race as of Wednesday, though it was unclear how many started. Watch US News videos on msnbc.com Some boats can finish the race in less than 12 hours, but others can take up to two days. The incident comes two weeks after an accident during a race from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands left five sailors dead. More content from msnbc.com and NBC News: Woman fighting foreclosure arrested in appeal to Wells Fargo CFO Lawyers argue over sex tape at John Edwards trial Nuclear plant knocked offline by jellyfish-like creatures Lawyer: Autistic boy's teacher didn't call him 'bastard' World record holder for 'longest time to live with a bullet in the head' dies Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook 3rd woman's body found at home of man charged with two other murders Apr 29th 2012, 04:58 By Gil Aegerter, msnbc.com A woman whose remains were found in the backyard of an Indiana man already charged with two other murders a decade apart apparently was strangled, according to news reports. Follow @msnbc_us NBC station WAVE of Louisville reported Saturday that the remains found Friday in New Albany, Ind., were identified as those of 35-year-old Stephanie Marie Kirk, who disappeared in March. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that Floyd County Coroner Leslie Knable said the preliminary cause of death was strangulation and it was uncertain how long she had been dead.   "Relieved in a way," Kirk’s grandmother, Betty Kirk, told WAVE when asked her reaction. "Knowing that she's not tied up in a room somewhere held prisoner, or whatever. Now, she's in heaven with her mother." The remains were found at the home of William Clyde Gibson, a registered sex offender charged in the death of 45-year-old Karen Hodella and 75-year-old Christine Whitis. Hodella disappeared in 2002, and her body was found early the next year. Whitis was found dead April 19 at Gibson’s mother’s home in New Albany. Gibson was arrested later that day. Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson said Friday that after Gibson’s arrest he implicated himself in the deaths of Hodella and Whitis, the News and Tribune of Jeffersonville, Ind., reported. Kirk, of Charlestown, Ind., was last seen when she left a friend's house in New Albany on March 25, perhaps to meet a man to go motorcycling, WAVE reported. Betty Kirk said it was unlike her granddaughter, who had a teenage daughter, not to contact her father. "I want her to come home,” her father, Tony Kirk, said this week, WAVE reported. “She's got a daughter. We both miss her. We both worry about her, can't sleep. Her daughter can't sleep." Crews began digging in Gibson's yard Friday based on information they developed earlier in the day. A next-door neighbor, Melodie Shultz, told the Courier-Journal that she had known Gibson since childhood and that he had been in trouble with the law off and on, but that he had always been willing to help out around the neighborhood. “You never know who is living next door,” Shultz told the Courier-Journal. More content from msnbc.com and NBC News: Woman fighting foreclosure arrested in appeal to Wells Fargo CFO Lawyers argue over sex tape at John Edwards trial Nuclear plant knocked offline by jellyfish-like creatures Lawyer: Autistic boy's teacher didn't call him 'bastard' World record holder for 'longest time to live with a bullet in the head' dies Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook

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