Milestones

IDENTIFIED. Mark Goudeau, 42, former construction worker, as the alleged "Baseline Killer" who terrorized the Phoenix, Ariz., area with a string of assaults and shootings over 10 months starting in the summer of 2005; by police who cited DNA and ballistics evidence linking Goudeau, in custody since September on related sexual-assault charges, to the murders; in Phoenix. Named for the street on which the early attacks took place, the murderer left eight women and one man dead. When formally charged, Goudeau, who says he is innocent, could face 71 criminal counts, including nine of first-degree murder.

SURRENDERED. Wesley Snipes, 44, star of films, including New Jack City, Waiting to Exhale and Blade, who was indicted in October on several counts of tax fraud; to authorities in Ocala, Fla., after flying on a private jet from Namibia, where he has been filming his new movie Gallow Walker. Accused of falsely claiming refunds of some $12 million as well as failing to file some tax returns, Snipes was released on $1 million bond, allowed to finish filming and ordered to return to the U.S. by Jan. 10. The actor, who claimed he was a scapegoat for bad accountants, faces 16 years in prison if convicted.

DIED. James Kim, 35, editor for the Internet site CNET, 11 days after he and his family were stranded in the snow following a series of wrong turns while driving near the Oregon coast on vacation; of hypothermia; in Josephine County, Ore. Rescuers found his body last Wednesday, four days after he set out on foot to seek help for wife Kati and their daughters Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months. With temperatures in the 20s, Kim eventually left the road and climbed down a hill. Had he kept walking in the direction the car had been headed, he would have found a lodge a mile away. Instead, after a horrific circuitous trek, he died a mile from where he had left his family. Kati, who ran the car for heat until the car battery expired and breastfed both daughters, was rescued with the girls after a helicopter pilot spotted her waving an umbrella.

DIED. Claude Jade, 58, French actress who shot to fame as the heroine, opposite leading man Jean-Pierre Leaud, of three of Franc,ois Truffaut's best-loved films, Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run; of eye cancer; in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The bittersweet, semiautobiographical films follow the journey of a man through falling in love, marriage and divorce.

DIED. Effie Mae Howard, 70, reluctantly famous, critically acclaimed African-American quiltmaker whose colorful, multitextured, geometric works--designed, she said, after intense private prayer--are now in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Oakland Museum under her pseudonym, Rosie Lee Tompkins; in Richmond, Calif.

DIED. Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican director whose 1972 movie, The Harder They Come, the first-ever Jamaican-produced feature film, introduced reggae to a global audience; of bone-marrow cancer; in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. The movie--which featured songs like You Can Get It If You Really Want and Many Rivers to Cross--helped pave the way for Bob Marley's international breakthrough and launched the career of singer Jimmy Cliff. Its sound track was recently placed on TIME.com's list of 100 best albums in history.

DIED. Elliot Welles, 79, Vienna-born Holocaust survivor who, as longtime director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League's task force on war criminals, became one of the most influential and relentless Nazi hunters in the U.S.; in New York City. Welles got his start seeking to avenge the murder of his mother, who had been executed in the woods near Riga, Latvia, where his family had recently been deported. Haunted by the face and name of the officer who ordered her transport, Welles, with the help of the Justice Department, tracked him down in Germany--where the man was put on trial in 1976 and convicted.

DIED. Kenneth Taylor, 86, who, with squadron mate George Welch, became the first U.S. Army Air Force pilots to get airborne immediately after the Japanese launched their attack on Pearl Harbor; in Tucson, Ariz. Taylor, then 21, was on his first assignment at Hawaii's Wheeler Field, and had spent the previous night in black tie at an officers' club fete. Hearing machine-gun fire, he grabbed Welch--and his tuxedo pants--and drove to their planes. Under fire, he and Welch shot down six enemy planes. "I wasn't in the least bit terrified," he later said. "I was too young and too stupid to realize that I was in a lot of danger."

DIED. Jeane Kirkpatrick, 80, erudite, acerbic first female U.S. ambassador to the U.N., whose impassioned neoconservatism and blunt assessments of Democrats made her a G.O.P. star; in Bethesda, Md. Disgusted with what she perceived as the U.S.'s weak image under Jimmy Carter, the longtime Democrat, who did not formally switch parties until 1985, became publicly known as an ardent anticommunist and one of Ronald Reagan's closest foreign policy advisers. She helped Reagan distinguish between unfriendly Marxist "totalitarian" regimes and acceptable, rightist "authoritarian" ones; lambasted targets from the Soviet Union to the U.N. Security Council; and in a speech at the '84 Republican Convention, dryly derided Democrats as the "blame America first" party. In her later years, she remained a leading conservative voice and rallied for a formal declaration of war after 9/11. Of her Reagan-era positions she once explained, "We were concerned about the weakening of Western will."

With reporting by Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Clayton Neuman, Elisabeth Salemme