Today's crime news includes the usual -- one dead, two wounded in three city shootings -- and the odd. We learn that storing a body in a freezer and not reporting the death to authorities is perfectly legal (along with crossing a street against the light after 7 p.m. and before 7 a.m. in the city), and of yet another trial delay in the case of a cult whose members are charged with killing a child because they want to represent themselves.

Police say the cult members starved a 2-year-old boy because he refused to say amen after meals, then put his body in a suitcase and took it to Philadelphia. The defendants are rufusing to cooperate in attempts to get them evaluated for a possible insanity defense.

The case in Anne Arundel County involving the body is equally strange -- an 83-year-old woman dies and her relatives put her body in the freezer. We're awaiting a cause of death as lawmakers scramble to make that a crime.

At least we have some good news out of Arundel -- the police chief released the names of officers in two recent police-involved shootings (I'll have more on the subject on Sunday). And on Friday, I'll chat with an old gang in North Baltimore's Pen Lucy neighborhood who says he was part of a dispute in 1966 that started three decades of violence.

One of the shootings early Tuesday occurred on Register Street in Fells Point, just below Eastern Avenue. The street is narrow, almost an alley street, barely wide enough for one car, and the shooting occurred outside a green door of a cramped rowhouse. All that was left when I arrived yesterday morning was discarded yellow crime scene tape. The door to the apartment was adjar but no one was home.

Neighbors were trying to learn the identity of the victim, who was critically wounded in the head, but names they came up with didn't pan out. Some speculated it was one of the many homeless, but relatives were quickly found. When we learn an identification, I'll let you know.