Showing posts with label True Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True Crime. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

True Crime-Bell Verdict, Boy Murders Family, Maddie McCann's Parents to Write a Book

Couple of big crimes recently as well as resolutions to some ongoing crimes.

There is a verdict on the Bell shooting and there were no riots. The FLDS cult filled with underage adolescent girls who are pregnant or have children. The subway pervert has a twin brother who is also a pervert, updates on the anthrax case, and this past weekend a boy killed his entire family, including his 14-year old brother who hid behind a clothes dryer to no avail.

Much more.


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Mother Found Dead, Three Children Missing

Her body was discovered on Monday, 4/21/08 but she hadn’t been seen since that prior Friday. Her children were all missing.

From Suntimes.coml.
casanova kids

Chicago Police have issued an Amber Alert Monday afternoon for three children and their alleged abductor after the children’s mother was found dead Monday with a plastic bag over her head in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

The suspect is the dead woman’s husband or boyfriend, the relationship is not clear. The dead woman is Sophia Garcia and the father of the children is Benito Casanova. It’s not clear how or why, but the article linked above indicates that the children had been “released” from school early. The children’s father probably came to the school and picked up the children. Meanwhile their mother lay dead, likely from Benito’s hand, and no one was the wiser.
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Sean Bell Verdict Acquits All 3 Detectives

Sean Bell was a young man who hung out with the wrong fellows. Indeed Sean Bell had criminal intents his own self, which came to the fore the night before his wedding when he and a few of his homies went to a local club and at four in AM Sean was killed by a hail of bullets.

This story was covered on this Blog when it happened at note how fair and square the fine, fine Mayor Bloomberg was. Again it was covered on this Blog and here the prosecutors have their fine and fair say.

From the NYTIMES:
Three detectives were found not guilty Friday on all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a club in Jamaica, Queens, in November 2006. The verdict prompted calls for calm from the mayor, angry promises of protests by those speaking for the Bell family and expressions of relief by the detectives.

See folks, Sean Bell was not a hero no matter what Al Sharpton would tell you. Although not to worry, there were no promised riots. Which is likely because there is a civil suit in this matter ongoing and believe that there will probably be a settlement and that Sharpton will probably get his share.

All last week Curtis Sliwa, the founder of that famous group that fights crime, “The Guardian Angels” and now talk show host for WABC in New York, has been describing how this whole Bell thing came down. If Sliwa knows nothing else, he knows New York and he knows its underbelly.

According to Sliwa, Bell and his bros were partying at a strip club the night before Bell’s wedding. The strip club had been in a heap of trouble in the past as many of the strippers are also prostitutes and the place was considered a haven for illegal guns and drugs. Three undercover detectives were at this club the night of Sean Bell’s fine bachelor party. The detectives were there looking for evidence of prostitution and illegal guns in order to gain a foothold in getting this club’s liquor license removed.

Sean Bell and his friends went outside late into the night and were negotiating for a stripper/prostitute to service all four of the fellows. The stripper refused to do four of the bros but agreed to do two. These fellows had been drinking all night, tempers were short and lust was high. At some point the stripper’s pimp got worried enough to go for his “gat”, slang, evidently, for gun. Sean Bell panicked and floored the car he was driving.

Meanwhile the undercover detectives had been alerted to something going down outside and since they were on the lookout for prostitution and guns at this club they followed Bell and his friends for their suspicious behavior. Once Bell floored the car in what we must assume was an attempt to get away from the scene with the gun-toting pimp ready to fire, the detectives surrounded Bell’s vehicle and told him to stop and put up all hands. Instead Bell intentionally aimed his car at a detective, floored it, and hit the detective in front of the car. Chaos ensued with the other detectives seeing one of Bell’s passengers jump out of the vehicle and other passengers appeared to be going for guns. Many shots were fired and Sean Bell ended up dead.

Sean Bell intentionally hit an undercover detective that night, although he had been told to stop and raise his hands. Sean’s passengers had been engaging in all sorts of mayhem, including reaching into places dark when they should have putting their hands in the air.

The whole thing was tragedy but those undercover detectives were doing their job and it was Sean Bell and his homie friends that were looking for trouble that night and found it. Further, TWO of those undercover detectives were black so Sharpton’s cries of racism fall on deaf ears.

All three of the undercover cops were found not guilty of the trumped up charges of manslaughter. Meanwhile, fine law-abiding congressional Democrats, including the dumbest of the dumb, John Conyers, vow to have a federal investigation into the matter.

Folks, every other day John Conyers swears he’s going to investigate something or another. He never does. He’s chairman of the Judiciary committee in the Senate. Conyers is a pathetic of the most pathetic.

Do not hold your breath waiting for Conyers to investigate anything. Not to mention that the federal government has absolutely nothing to do with this case.
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18 Year Old Murders His Entire Family

What would possess a young person to kill his entire family? Does he, or at times SHE, think they’ll get away with it? Was life in that home so unbearable as to make the future so bleak that a life in jail is preferable? Is there no other way to escape but by killing everyone?

It was in the news all this past weekend and as of yet there’s been no motive given for Nathaniel Dickson. Dickson was arrested for the murder of his family, which included his father, his stepmother, his stepsister and his brother. Nathan’s brother was shot behind the clothes drier, indicating that the kid was probably hiding there to escape his brother’s bullets. It didn’t work.

From Foxcarolina.comL
Nathan Dickson
EASLEY, S.C. -- The teenaged son of one of the victims of a quadruple homicide on Saturday was arrested and charged in connection with the crime, deputies said.

We’ll be following this case closely.
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Over Half FLDS Cult Teenaged Girls Have Children/Are Pregnant

Information on the status of that raid in Texas continues to come out in dribs and drabs. I’d expressed concern about the raid on this cult in that, as of this date, 4/29/08, absolutely NO ONE’s been arrested.

But when you have a pregnant 15-year-old and a 17 year old with a 5-year old child, something is amiss.

From Charter.net:
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — More than half the teenage girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials said Monday.

A total of 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 are in state custody after a raid 3 1/2 weeks ago at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado. Of those girls, 31 either have children or are pregnant, said Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar. He didn't specify how many are pregnant.

The United States of America can’t have a group of people living a life of wanton violation of the country’s laws and this group of a rogue branch of the Morman religion cannot continue to “marry” young adolescent girls to dirty old men in front of society’s shocked eyes.

Of course we don’t want our government raiding private homes and separating children from parents either.

I believe that this country can maintain a dedication to our constitution AND handle what is essentially a sexual perversion under the guise of religion. A 14-year old girl should NOT be forced to marry a 50-year old man, not in any decent society which claims to protect the young.

So while this humble Blogger has been wary of this government action, I’m willing to wait for the results. With all those pregnant young adolescent females, it doesn’t look good.
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Subway Serial Groper Has Twin Guilty of Same Crime

I covered the story of Freddie Johnson on this Blog HERE.

For Freddie Johnson had been arrested so many times for groping females in the subway that prosecutors are considering trying to put him away for life.

Now we discover that Freddie has a twin brother who ALSO is a subway groper. Freddie’s brother, Rodney Johnson, tends to dress a bit more dapper than his brother but they’re BOTH perverts, make no mistake.

Freddie Johnson serial groper


Rodney Johnson brother of pervert Freddie Johnson


From the NY Dailynews:
Perversion runs in Freddie Johnson's family.

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Remember the Anthrax Attacks?

I’ve not covered the anthrax murders on this Blog as the crime happened before I did any True Crime blogging.

And with an upcoming trial scheduled by the initial suspect, one Steven Hatfill, the story’s been in the news.

Hatfill was followed and investigated by the FBI and evidently there was never found enough evidence to arrest the man. Plenty of stuff was found about Hatfill and by me, he’s still the guy who I’d like to look in the eyeball and ask a few questions.

The really sad thing is that five people died by this deed, a deed done by some slightly nutzoid “scientist” who felt the need to teach America a lesson as to its vulnerability after the attacks of 9/11/01. I’m thinking a nutzoid scientist like one who faked his diploma and hey, how about a fellow who’d been heard mentioning that American needed a lesson? Hatfill comes to mind.

But folks, this Steven Hatfill, a fine, fine man who faked his diploma and has plenty of stuff in his past to link him to the anthrax murders, has a cadre of defenders in this country that will rip your head off and spit down your bloody neck in defense of their hero.

I say I’m still allowed to be suspicious even if the FBI can’t get enough on this guy to convict him. I also say that if there’s not enough evidence out there to hone in on a suspect that would get a conviction, then by all means don’t do it. Someday more information will come out about the crimes or the perp will make a mistake, maybe tell someone about the deed.

It’s really sad though that one of the greatest federal crimes committed this century has left the mighty FBI looking totally impotent.

From Foxnews.com:
WASHINGTON — The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army’s bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned.

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Missing Utah Woman Complained About Boyfriend

Deborah Marie Jones had complained about a former boyfriend who had been harassing her after their breakup. Now Jones is missing.

And no one can find that ex-boyfriend either.

From the Sltrib.com:
Debra jones missing

Police are trying to find a Salt Lake City woman who disappeared Thursday after recently complaining to authorities about ongoing problems with an ex-boyfriend.
An endangered person advisory has been issued for 50-year-old Deborah Marie Jones. She was last heard from Friday when she contacted an acquaintance by cell phone, police said.

We’re following this case.
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Maddie McCann’s Parents to Write a Book About Missing Daughter

I truly believe that the parents of pretty Madeleine McCann are responsible for the untimely death of their child, yes I do.

And each passing day that Maddie remains missing tends to affirm my belief. For surely there were plenty of other children at that Portuguese resort when Maddie went missing. There were plenty of other children before the McCanns came to visit and likely since the McCanns came to visit.

NONE of them has turned up missing save Maddie McCann. Plus Maddie had been left alone in the suite rented by the McCanns but also left in that suite were Maddies twin toddler brother and sister. For someone to go into that apartment and abscond with what would have to be a squirming, fighting child would certainly risk waking the twins. Further, why didn’t the abductor bother with the twins? Why would an abductor risk such an action with all those children in the apartment, a fact probably known as an abductor would likely have been watching the McCanns else why pick Maddie’s apartment at all?

From the Dailymail.com:
Her comments came as it emerged the McCanns are planning to write a book about their 'year of hell' without their daughter.

Publishing sources say they could be paid up to £1million.

The couple's spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, stressed they wanted to raise money for the dwindling Find Madeleine appeal and to counter a campaign of smears by Portuguese police.

Now the McCanns are writing a book.

I am sure that Maddie’s death was accidental. I am sure that the McCanns mourn and miss their daughter.

But the both of them are now making a real nice monetary profit on their daughter’s death, never mind walking completely free.
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Toddler Recovering From Abuse by Babysitter

What makes this story so tragic, the parents of the boy are members of the military, as is the accused babysitter’s husband.

Wyatt Coker was put in the care of a well-recommended babysitter. This same babysitter struck Wyatt so hard on his skull that he suffered a three inch fracture that penetrated his brain. The babysitter, Melissa Chavez, is due to be tried for the crime in June 2008.

From WRAL.com:
Toddler Coker survived beating as 3 month old by babysitter
Fayetteville, N.C. — An infant severely beaten last fall continues to recover as his parents await a court date for the babysitter accused of abusing the child.

Wyatt Coker was 7 months old in November when he suffered a 3-inch fracture that penetrated his skull, causing a traumatic brain injury. Physicians said someone had beaten the child.

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You can't make this shit up


Fellow Goes on Joy Ride in Ambulance

Sometimes you gotta wonder what goes through their minds.

This fellow leaves the hospital one fine afternoon. He sees an ambulance parked nearby, as ambulances often are around a hospital. The keys were left hanging in the ignition. So the fellow steals the ambulance and leads the police on a wild ride.

From the Denverpost.com:
Ambulance stolen for joy ride
Police say a man leaving a Lafayette hospital stole an ambulance and led officers on a high-speed chase Tuesday before rear-ending a parked car, tearing up a traffic signal and fleeing on foot.

Mickey Terry, 36, was arrested a short distance from the wrecked ambulance in Longmont, about 13 miles from where the vehicle was stolen.

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FOCUS ON MADDIE MCCANN
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Her family was on holiday at an exclusive Portuguese resort. Madeleine McCann's parents were both physicians and in addition, they have two twins younger than Madeleine.

While Maddie's parents dined out at a nearby resort restaurant, with children believed to be soundly asleep, Madeleine McCann somehow disappeared. She was discovered missing upon a routine check of the McCann suite by her parents.

It took a few months but eventually the suspicion that Madeleine's parents might have had something to do with her disappearance was leaked by both the Portuguese and British police.

First report on this Blog of the Maddie McCann case
More info on Maddie's disappearance with my fine analysis
Announcement that McCanns might be responsible for Maddie's death
McCanns refuse to answer questions about Madeleine's disappearance
With little info known, my analysis of the McCann case. Or did the maid do it?
Maddie's Mother Claims Her Small Boobs Are to Blame.
What are the McCanns doing with the money collected to find Madeleine?
New info on original suspect in McCann case
Madeleine's parents release an alleged drawing of bushy haired stranger.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

True Crime-A Cult Update-the FLDS Stepford Wives Return Home; Couple Kills Baby by Denial of Fluids

Here's a True Crime post and we've got updates on that FLDS cult plus more confusion. The women go home to their beloved, fine husbands and lie and evade for the reporters.

Plus some very mean significant others to include a fellow who locked his new bride in a dog cage, a boyfriend who slipped his pregnant girlfriend an abortion pill and an angry ex-boyfriend who totally trashed his ex's house. With pics of his damage, of course.

Finally, Drew Peterson's stepbrother...does he know where Stacey is? And a thief who stole the guy's car than ran over him and a group who killed the homeless for their life insurance.


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Fine Pair Deny Toddler Fluids; Cause Child’s Death

If ever a story were full of questions it is this one. Beginning with the tidbit in the story linked below that this poor child’s mother, Sarah Hicks, dropped her boy off with this brave sibling duo for only day but she got waylaid and had to leave the boy there for two weeks.

No explanation as to why the mother had to leave the child for two weeks is provided.

There’s also no explanation as to why the boy’s mother left her baby with this fine pair, who methodically denied the boy any fluids as “punishment” but no mention what the punishment was for or even who the hell was being punished.

A case cannot even be made that this pair merely neglected their charge. Oh no. For these two fine folk deliberately laced glasses with hot sauce so the child couldn’t drink from them. Again, the logistics of this feat are not explained.

From Courant.com:
Patterson siblings killed toddler
HAMDEN - A brother and sister in charge of caring for a friend's toddler in February deprived the boy of fluids for seven days causing him to die of dehydration, police said.

The death of 23-month-old Amari Jackson has been ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.

This pair are charged with homicide. May Jesus hold the innocent baby who suffered so at the evil and neglect of so many in His loving arms.
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Courageous Man Tries to Abort His Unborn Baby

This has to be the third or fourth incident like this I’ve come across in the past few months.

A female gets pregnant, not that there aren’t many easily obtainable forms of birth control including little patches one need only wear once a month. Thus I am always suspicious of females getting pregnant by “accident” although I know it happens. It shouldn’t though.

At any rate, the boyfriend or husband is not happy about the pregnancy and slips the accidentally pregnant female an “abortion” pill. In this case the young girl was slipped a cow hormone meant to cause miscarriages in cows. In other cases I’ve read about, it was a genuine so-called “abortion” pill meant for human use.

From the Altoona Mirror.com:
WILLIAMSBURG — State police are investigating an assault on an unborn child after a pregnant teenage girl allegedly was slipped a cow hormone intended to abort the fetus.

State police at Hollidaysburg and Williamsburg police are investigating an allegation that known suspects put ProstaMate in the 17-year-old’s drink.

Police said ProstaMate is a liquid farmers use to bring cows into heat or to abort a calf.

This is another odd case as reported in the story linked above. First, the story reports that “suspectS” are involved in the dastardly deed of slipping this young girl a cow hormone. Also, the girl was later tipped off to the hormone put into her Gatorade, again, indicating multiple people involved in this thing.

It will be interesting to see how this crime is prosecuted. Will it be “attempted murder”, as it should be? Or what with so little value placed on the unborn in this society, will it be a misdemeanor?
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The Saga of the FLDS Cult Gets Murkier

  • These people have a crematorium on site and snitches end up inside, burnt to dust with DNA destroyed.

  • Many of the children taken from this raid had current and prior broken bones.

  • A bed is located in the church where virgins are “initiated” at the command of the cult leader. Human hairs were found on this bed.

  • This cult keeps no record of births and newborn infants are removed from the care of their birth mothers and given to someone else at the whim of the cult leader.

  • Millions in taxpayer welfare money pour into this compound as the cult “feeds from the beast”.

  • Male members can have their entire families, including all of their wives, removed from them and assigned to another male, again on order from the cult leader.

  • Young males are banned from living within the cult as soon as they turn into young adolescents for fear of competition of the young females from the older perverts.

    Above are just a few of the stories abounding across the fruited plains and the wild and wooly Internet as concerns the Texas raid on that FLDS cult. I have no idea which allegation is true, if any.

    Late last week news of an arrest of a serial 911 phone caller stirred up a stew of intrigue. Could THIS be the caller who phoned Texas authorities complaining of broken ribs and forced early “marriage” by her abusive husband?

    From Deseret News.comL
    Swinton FLDS charged with call
    Police in Colorado Springs have arrested a woman for investigation of making a false report to authorities that may be connected to the Fundamentalist LDS Church's raid on the YFZ Ranch in Texas.

    The woman allegedly has a history of making calls while pretending to be a young girl.

    Rozita Swinton, 33, was arrested on a warrant charging her with false reporting
    Now it’s being said that this Swinton woman was NOT the original caller seeking help from an abusive life, that Texas authorities have a solid cell phone record of who made that call, that she has not, this mysterious “Sarah”, yet been found. Fears are that Sarah is in that crematorium. Or so goes the scuttlebutt.

    Now official and an undisputed truth in this case of so many rumors and innuendo is the fact that ALL of the children brought in by this raid are to have DNA tests to determine who belongs to who.

    From the LA Times:
    SAN ANGELO, Texas -- More than 400 children taken from a ranch run by a polygamous sect will stay in state custody and be subject to genetic testing, a judge ruled Friday.

    State District Judge Barbara Walther heard 21 hours of testimony over two days before ruling that the children be kept by the state. Individual hearings will be set for the children over the next several weeks.

    Again, as the scuttlebutt goes, Texas authorities are in a tailspin as they try to sort out the children, their mothers, their father. The cult, so it is said, avoids family units with all children born considered part of the greater group.

    Thus that 16 year old girl could well be the mother a three year old and if so, then somebody’s committed some child abuse here. The teenager would have been 12 or 13 when impregnated is what I’m saying here.

    So the solution is to test all of the children via DNA.

    This case is very disturbing on so many levels. Here it’s been almost three weeks and STILL there’s been no arrest. It’s troubling to know that law enforcement can break into a home, even a weird one, remove all of the children, then go on a DNA fishing expedition.

    Yet an ongoing subset of our society seems to allow child abuse and how can we let this go on under our noses? In fact, Texas investigators allegedly have reported that they had a “mole” inside of that cult reporting many cases of questionable abuse. If true, this factoid causes me great concern. Four years and the authorities did not move? Or did they not learn anything of import from this so-called mole until that call came in? And still, WHERE IS SARAH?

    We do know that Warren Jeffs, the former head of this cult and now in jail where he belongs, was found guilty of child abuse in his practice of “marrying” young girls to perverted older men.

    We do know that the women viewed so far in various interviews seem to be calling in from another planet, all of them robotic in their canned responses, their pastel modest dresses, their strange hair. I’ve yet to hear one of these women reveal their age when they married or deny that there are very young pregnant girls in that compound.

    I take the position that this is worth investigating but I stand concerned.

    Today this weird cult. Tomorrow, the Baptists. After that, maybe the Catholics.

    In short, a government raiding homes, removing children, engaging in fishing expeditions for unreported crimes…this is a scary thing.

    Yet to allow an ongoing situation where young adolescent girls’ lives are ruined by a forced sexual relationship with an older male pervert does not a good society make.

    I watch this case closely, chewing my fingernails, and pray that our system of laws can both protect the rights of the innocents and preserve the rights of the free.
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    70+ Year Old Women Convicted of Murder of Homeless Men for Life Insurance

    So here’s a True Crime story with plenty of information at the link provided.

    From the Chicago Tribune:
    In a case that drew worldwide attention, a jury has convicted a 77-year-old woman of murder and her 75-year-old co-defendant of conspiracy to commit murder in a chilling slow-motion plot to kill two homeless men for $2.8 million in life insurance.

    These two older babes get it into their head that they will house two homeless men for two years, the time needed to pass before purchase of extravagant life policies can be questioned should a death and payout occur.

    Although I didn’t know this and it’s still not clear from the article above that such an assumption is true. Whatever the case, these two old babes paid for the apartment rent of these two fellows for two years then arranged to have them hit and killed by a car, either by their own driving or someone else involved in the plot.

    This case, oddly, involves and/or casts aspersions on many players, including the daughter of one of the homeless men so ruthlessly killed! Further, it was only by sheer coincidence that the connection of these two homeless men was made. The two detectives investigating what they at first considered a hit and run death, as was the plan I must suppose, chanced to meet one day and each discussed their very similar cases.

    The jury hearing this case found these old babes guilty of the crime. Prosecutors did not go after the death penalty because more than likely these two women will not live a long enough natural life to outlive the many death penalty appeals.

    What a way to spend the twilight of your life, locked away in a prison to eventually die in same. And what a pathetic waste of two men’s lives as pawns for this “Arsenic and Old Lace” duo.
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    Abdullah Needs Some Anger Management Courses

    From Freep.com:
    Abdullah trashed girlfriend house
    Cassandra McDonald knew her ex-boyfriend was angry over their breakup. However, she didn't know how angry until a fateful day last May when the 37-year-old Highland Park man ended up doing about $140,000 worth of damage to her Southfield home during an hours-long fit of rage.

    He did it, he said, because of a broken heart.


    So okay. He had a broken heart. He was angry. He lost his temper.

    From the link above…look at the damage this fellow did to his former lady love’s home and belongings:
    Abdullah, who had been a postal worker, dismantled McDonald's furnace, tore out the plumbing in her bathrooms, removed the inner workings of her refrigerator and stove, ripped the doors off her kitchen cabinets, shattered her light fixtures, smashed her mirrors, slashed her upholstered furniture and mattresses, destroyed the electrical box and spread paint on the carpet throughout the house.

    Then came the coup de grâce: Abdullah methodically removed one shoe from each of the several dozen pairs McDonald kept in boxes in her closet -- then kidnapped her puppy.

    And they say John McCain has a temper.
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    Man’s SUV Runs Over Him

    First thing, this is a Rush Limbaugh story.

    In that, please note, that the reporter, as they are wont to do, refers to the SUV as if it were an entity in and of itself, as if the SUV can choose to run over its owner with no human help.

    From Local12:
    A man purposely run over by his own SUV was in the hospital Tuesday night with a crushed jawbone and two broken legs.

    Police are still trying to find the person who hit him.

    David Cowans of Mt. Airy was run down Monday night at Knowlton and Apple in Northside, and left for dead.

    The story of David Cowans and how he came to be a victim of his own out-of-control SUV is a bit weird.

    For David Cowans was on his way to an AA meeting when he evidently decided to chuck the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and instead go out on a drunk.

    Somehow an African-American ended up driving Cowans’ SUV while Cowans sat in the passenger seat. An altercation ensued and Cowans got out of the passenger seat, went around and punched the driver in the face. At which point the driver ran over Cowans once with the SUV, then backed up and ran over him again! Cowans has crushed legs and a crushed jaw.

    Police are looking for Cowans’ SUV and oddly, Cowans himself has been woefully uncooperative with investigators. He really should have attended that AA meeting.
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    Drew Peterson’s Stepbrother Not a Nut

    …or so asserts John Morphey, Tom Morphey’s brother. Tom Morphey is the fellow who alleged that he helped Drew Peterson move a big container on 10/28/07-the night Stacey Peterson disappeared.

    Drew Peterson, he of the great audacity of hope for dead wives, sniffs and calls his stepbrother, which is Morphey’s relationship to Drew, a liar and a nut.

    From the Chicago Tribune:
    Spurred by the most recent national TV appearance in which Drew Peterson sought to discredit a stepbrother who said he and Peterson moved a large container the night Peterson's wife vanished, the man's brother said the public needs to know what's really happening.

    Drew Peterson sniffed to Larry King during a recent interview that he really didn’t want to talk bad about his stepbrother. Then Drew went on to detail Tom’s recent divorce, his drinking problems, his suicidal threats, his bouts of mental illness. In other words, essentially talking bad about his stepbrother, which he told King he did not want to do.

    Morphey not only alleges that he helped Drew move a large container the night Stacey went missing, he also says Drew gave him a cell phone and told him not to answer it. The call came through and indicated it was from “Stacey”. It was evidently Drew’s cell phone and Drew wanted a call recorded from Stacey’s cell phone to his own, as an alibi perhaps.

    It sounds to me like Drew is using the public airwaves to try his stepbrother before a potential jury, to convince the world his stepbrother is an unbelievable liar and a troubled soul that a future jury not believe his testimony.
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    Fine Newly Married Groom Locks Bride in Dog’s Cage

    Then he fires a few shots at her for good measure.

    From Fox Cleveland.com:
    Matthew  George locked wife in dog cage
    CANTON, Ohio -- Bond has been set at $5 million for the man who allegedly fired gun shots at his wife after he let her out of a dog cage in which she'd been locked in for a couple of hours. Now he faces a similar fate, only his cage is a jail cell.

    Matthew George, 28, made his first appearance in court Thursday.

    This fine fellow had been arrested once for domestic violence, this when the hapless bride was just his girlfriend. She went on to get the charges reduced against Mr. George that time then, amazingly, she MARRIED this fine man.

    They do have a 15-month old son together.

    Someday that boy will be so proud of his Dad, the man who locked his mother in a dog’s cage for God’s sake.
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    FOCUS ON Stacy Peterson
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    His third wife died in the bathtub, a healthy woman in a dried tub, her hair covered in blood and bruises covering her body. The Illinois state cops called it an accident! Now Savio's body is due to be exhumed because, as it would turn out, the fine Drew Peterson had yet ANOTHER missing wife! He tells us she phoned him to tell him she's leaving for another man. Yet she left her two young children behind?

    And no one's yet been able to find Drew Peterson's first two wives as of this writing.

    Who's been letting Drew Patterson get away with murder?

    Introduction to the strange case of Drew Peterson's wives.
    Drew Peterson's third wife's body to be exhumed
    Drew Peterson's Third Wife's Death Determined to be Homicide
    Drew Peterson and the Blue Barrel
    Drew Peterson's airplane
    New search warrant for Drew Peterson
    Drew Peterson Can't Get a Date
    Stacy Peterson's steamy sex messages
    Win a date with Drew Peterson
    Drew Peterson on a lie detector in front of the entire world?
    Drew's Second Wife's Death Officially Ruled a Homicide
    Scott Peterson's sons subpoenaed by the Grand Jury
    Revelation of some of Stacey Peterson's last days before her disappearance that MIGHT be a motive for her murder
    Drew Peterson faces delay on return of his guns and Drew laments his sinister image.

  • Friday, April 18, 2008

    True Crime Update 4/20/08

    Winding up the week with a True Crime update, we’ve got much intrigue. To include a new law that will help the Drew Peterson prosecutors, who need all the help they can get. Plus a serial subway groper will possibly get life because he…can’t stop groping. Two cruel humans charged with death of elderly woman, wait till you see their fine pics and another female teacher charged with sex with student.

    Dr. Phil is a phool, those happening FLDS women take it to the air waves, and a current court case hearing re the death penalty for rape. We discuss.

    Finally, it’s not a True Crime but there’s mystery and intrigue. Why was my own backyard filled with dead baby possums one fine spring morning? A true story you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.


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    He’s Addicted to Groping and So Is His Brother!

    Not indicated within the article linked below is the fact that this fine fellow, convicted 53 times before for groping females on crowded subway trains, has a brother WHO DOES THE SAME THING!

    I heard this on the Curtis Sliwa radio talk show featured on New York’s WABC.

    At any rate, what does the state do with a fellow who obviously, go with me here folks, will never stop his endless quest to rub his unwelcome body up against an unsuspecting female in the subway, a female simply trying to pursue her happiness as guaranteed by our constitution and has the right to not have her person defiled by the likes of this creep? And his brother for that matter..

    From SFGATE.com:
    Freddie Johnson serial groper

    About two weeks after he was released from prison, Freddie Johnson was arrested on charges of illegally rubbing up against a woman on a crowded Manhattan subway train.

    It is a fairly common crime in New York. But this was no common criminal.

    Johnson has been arrested a staggering 53 times — the majority for allegedly groping women on subway trains.

    First, females riding the subway in New York should start carrying themselves some mace, pepper spray, even a little gun. Because evidently punishment and time in jail won’t stop this guy and there comes a time when self-protection must come from the citizen.

    If this guy gets his eyes sprayed enough, his testicles kicked enough, his arm or part of his person BIT enough…THEN maybe he’d stop.

    As it is the prosecutors are going to try and put this guy away for life. I really doubt that will ever happen.
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    Girlfriend Forced to Shoot Her Boyfriend According to Testimony

    The horrific crime of the murder of Channon Christian and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom was covered on this Blog HERE.

    A fine group of black kids hijacked this couples’ car as they sat and innocently talked as lovers do from time to time. Channon and Christopher were white by the way. This gang raped Channon repeatedly while forcing Christopher to watch. They then shot Christopher execution style. Channon’s body was found two days later, tortured and repeatedly raped. She’d been forced to swallow caustic cleaner in order to remove the perps’ DNA from her throat.

    This SHOULD be, what say you, a damn HATE crime because reverse the colors in this crime. Say Channon and Christopher were black and a gang of white kids committed those horrible crimes on them?

    As it is, prosecutors are struggling to get everyone involved in this crime, and there’s a slew of them including, in this instance, a lovely female who harbored and hid one of the perps from the police.

    Now, if Channon and Christopher’s relatives aren’t suffering enough what with having to sit and hear over and over the suffering of their loved ones at the hands of these less than humans, now this fine girlfriend of the perp gets on the stand and says that it was CHANNON who shot her boyfriend!

    From Knox News.com:

    The girlfriend of the accused ringleader in a fatal carjacking told jurors this afternoon her now ex-beau claimed Channon Christian was forced to kill her boyfriend.

    "He told me Channon shot Christopher (Newsom) ... that they made her do it," Daphne Sutton acknowledged under cross-examination by defense attorney Phil Lomonaco on behalf of Eric Dewayne "E" Boyd.

    Of course that’s not the truth. Who knows what this witch of a female is trying to do but save her own big behind but Channon did not shoot her boyfriend. Christian was shot three times. It’s doubtful after she’d been repeatedly raped in the backseat of her own car, then drug nude through the woods to what had to seem like her death to the terrified woman, that she’d have the ability to shoot her boyfriend.

    It’s just that with the sins already committed on these two ordinary law-abiding kids, their loved ones have to sit and hear this nonsense.

    Yes, they’re throwing the book at everyone involved in this crime but I ask again like I asked in the Blog post linked above…WHY ISN’T THIS A HATE CRIME?
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    More On That FLDS Sect

    I’d been fretting on this Blog about that raid on a Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints compound, once headed by the fine Warren Jeffs, who is now in jail. My fret was mostly about the lack of any arrest after a bunch of law enforcement folks raided the place based on a distress call from a resident within. A resident who has, as of this writing on 4/18/08, yet to be identified.

    While I believed that something terribly wrong was going on inside that compound, a few things concerned me. First, there was an alleged human “plant” inside the compound who had been reporting about child sex abuse for almost four years, so went the media reports. Second, why have their not been any arrests what with it being now over a week since the raid?

    It’s not that I want to be in a position of defending child abusers, but I wonder why Texas authorities knew something bad was going on for four years and didn’t act until now AND after finally acting, why so long for an arrest?

    My concern was mostly that I sure don’t think our government should be raiding private property, removing its citizens, then what? Doing nothing?

    Because it is certainly not illegal for a bunch of gullible women to “marry” perverted older men. Recall yon readers that while this is called a “polygamist” sect, those women are only “spiritually” married, in some cases a dozen wives to one man. Legal multiple marriages, ie the kind recorded down at City Hall, ARE illegal.

    However, those young wives are not allowed to be like thirteen or fourteen years of age for God’s sake. Young adolescent females like this are NOT adult females and that’s where the problem comes in.

    As I understand it, the state government’s argument is that there were females as young as twelve and thirteen removed from that compound. Thus, de facto, child abuse WAS going on and all adults living there are guilty of allowing it to go on. All adults would be charged with child abuse, or so I understand the logic, just by virtue that there are young, pregnant teens, a fact, cannot be denied, and somebody made that happen.

    I chanced to see a few of these very strange Stepford Wives on TV in their ridiculous effort to defend their lifestyle to the public. Hey, being strange and naïve isn’t illegal. Allowing your young adolescent daughter of 13 to “marry” and be impregnated by one of those creep husbands, hey, THAT’S illegal.

    From McClatchy.com:
    FT. WORTH, Tex. _American taxpayers have unwittingly helped finance a polygamist sect that is now the focus of a massive child abuse investigation in West Texas, with a business tied to the group receiving a nearly $1 million loan from the federal government and $1.2 million in military contracts.

    I just heard via a Fox News bulletin that the young woman who called in a report of abuse by her husband, a female who said she was only 16, has just been ARRESTED in another state.

    Could this have been a hoax?

    We’re keeping up on this story, folks. Because somewhere there’s either a state government gone awry or child abuse is running rampant under our very noses.
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    Illinois Senator Introduces Bill to Allow Certain Hearsay Evidence

    I’m supposing that the state of Illinois is growing a spine because Drew Peterson, a fine fellow, has made that state’s police department look stupid as well as the prosecutors.

    Because Drew Peterson has had TWO wives be gone, one death by a fall in the shower, which the police investigators let pass, and one, his current wife Stacy, has disappeared, leaving behind her young children and with no contact with anyone in her family or her children.

    It’s been reported that Stacy told her pastor that she feared for her life by Drew’s hand. This is hearsay evidence in that, duh, Stacy isn’t around to give this testimony her own self as she’s…well’s she’s gone.

    By law what Stacy told her pastor is hearsay evidence and not admissible. Such a fear would have to be said loud and clear by Stacy herself. Only Stacy’s not around.

    So an Illinois lawmaker has introduced a law to allow such hearsay evidence when the victim can’t say it his or her self due to an illegal act on them by the defendant, keeping them unable to testify.

    It’s a “Catch-22” situation, for sure. Stacy can’t testify to the jury how much she feared for her life at the hands of her husband because she’s likely very dead, at the hands of that same fine husband.

    Yet we can’t just have anybody get on the stand and say…”so and so told me…” because, well it’s hearsay.

    If nothing else it’s good public relations because I say to the state of Illinois, Drew Peterson has made the whole lot of you look quite stupid. At least this action by a state legislator makes it look like they care if husbands insist on murdering their wives in front of their own eyes. Drew could have been content with murdering one wife but he had to go and kill another. Everyone, even the state of Illinois, has a limit, folks.

    From Chicago Tribune:
    Sen. A.J. Wilhelmi (D- Joliet) has offered an amendment to the state's code of criminal procedure, backed by State's Atty. James Glasgow, that would allow hearsay testimony if the witness who made the statements was not available to testify in person because the defendant had a hand in that person's absence.

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    Fine, Fine Couple Arrested For Cruel Death of Man’s Mother

    Not only is this a very handsome couple, they’re clever as all get too!

    From WSBTV.com:
    Ivey Smallwood Abused elderly mother

    GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- A Gainesville couple is in jail after being charged in the death of the man's 79-year-old mother.

    Hall County Sheriff's Major Jeff Strickland says 52-year-old Larry Smallwood and his girlfriend, 46-year-old Brenda Jean Ivey, are facing one count each of cruelty to a person 65 or older and two counts each of forgery. The cruelty charge is a felony.

    Indeed the lovely couple listed above tortured the man’s mother, denying her food while cashing the woman’s social security checks. Brenda Ivey died after six week’s of hospitalization for severe infections resulting from in home “care” by her handsome son.

    His girlfriend’s a beauty too, huh?
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    Death Penalty for Child Rape?

    The Louisiana highest court has already ruled that child rape is like no other crime and the death penalty is appropriate for such a crime as in that state’s penal code.

    From NOLA.com:
    Attorneys for Patrick O'Neal Kennedy want the nation's high court to rule as unconstitutional the Louisiana aggravated-rape statute provision that lets prosecutors pursue the death penalty against people convicted of raping children younger than 13.

    I think this is an intriguing case soon to be argued in front of the Supreme Court. In 1977 the high court ruled that the death penalty is an inappropriate punishment for raping an adult.

    Louisiana and a few other states allow for the death penalty for rape of a child. Only two people are on death row for the rape of a child, both in Louisiana. A few other states, however, have the death penalty for rape of a child.

    Well I don’t think raping a child is such a nice thing but I don’t think the death penalty is appropriate for anything OTHER than causing an actual DEATH of another human being.

    I’m more surprised by the Louisiana high court ruling a death penalty for child rape is okay. I’m supposing they don’t want to take a stand in favor of child rapists because Americans like the death penalty like no other country on earth but I find it hard to believe that many Americans think a human should be put to death for anything other than causing the death of another human being.

    Besides, if a child rapist is going to get the death penalty anyway, or so will go the argument as I surmise, then what’s to keep him from killing the child to avoid testimony?
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    Now Lesbian Teachers Are Seducing Students

    The student involved was of legal age, 18, in North Carolina. But that state has a law against sexual teacher/student encounters and damn it, it’s a good law. If you are a teacher in a public school, with a salary paid for by public taxpayer funds, KEEP YOUR DAMN HANDS OFF THE KIDS!

    What part of this don’t these teachers understand?

    From WRAL.com:
    Best-Teacher student sex

    Raleigh, N.C. — A Sanderson High School social studies teacher resigned Monday after being charged with taking indecent liberties with a student.

    Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue said Shannon Lynn Best, 33, of 5937-A Shade Tree Lane, was charged following a weekend encounter at Best's apartment with the 18-year-old female student.

    Who knows if that student was REALLY a lesbian or just trying to please her teacher? If the teacher was smitten by this female, then wait until she graduates and is no long under your charge, why is this so difficult?

    As always, I wonder where the mighty teachers’ unions are on this.
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    Dr. Phil Goes to Jail for Guests

    Dr. Phil used to be a respected talk show host, foisted into the public scene by Oprah Winfrey of all people. He talked a good game, had a comfortable common sense tone to his dialogue and went on to greater success with his own talk show and best-selling books.

    Now he’s going the route of Jerry Springer. For Dr. Phil McGraw’s staff went and bailed out one of those fine teens who beat and videotaped that attack on a school friend.

    Dr. Phil said he needed one of those kids as a guest on his show! Recall please that Dr. Phil also got involved with that Britney Spears mess and had to issue a widely published apology.

    From WRAL.com:
    BARTOW, Fla. — Employees of the "Dr. Phil" television show posted bail for a central Florida teenager jailed for taking part in a videotaped beating of another teen, a spokeswoman for the show's host confirmed Saturday.

    Staff members of the talk show helped Mercades Nichols – one of eight teens facing charges in the case – post bond this weekend, "Dr. Phil" McGraw's spokeswoman Terri Corigliano said in an e-mail.

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    Stupid Cop Story

    Cartoon of dog snickering with words


    We like to have stupid criminal story but in this case, come on, a handcuffed man managed to STEAL a cop car.

    Somehow the fellow got into the cop car’s front seat, started the car up, and drove off! The cop car was later found but the perp was nowhere to be found.

    This police department has put out an APB for a guy walking around with handcuffs on his wrists.

    Heh.

    From BBC.com:
    Police in the Australian city of Brisbane were left stranded and embarrassed after a handcuffed suspect drove off in their patrol car.

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    The Case of the Dead Baby Possums

    As I stated in the tease, this not a True Crime but I can make a case that it might be.

    For I’ve been having a problem with my heart of late, in that the thing insists on launching into some sort of rapid heart beat thing that can last as long as three hours. I don’t know why it does this but the symptoms have been ominous and caused me to see a cardiologist. Beta blocker medicine seems to have put a halt to these episodes but husband and I both fear for another episode of this rapid heart beat thing because the doc told me to get straight to a hospital should it happen again. I am to avoid all startling, sudden events and ease into all routines involving exercise and exertion.

    So husband took on the job of letting out the big galoot Belgian Shepherd at night because dark yards scare me and my dog has a tendency to find all sorts of unknown critters and such in our own yard and to my dismay. I don’t wish to go walking around that dark yard to retrieve errant pooch who does not respond to commands to come back inside such is her joy with whatever she’s managed to find out there in dark of night.

    It’s not good for my heart is what I’m saying here.

    On one such night earlier this week husband let out the dog that she may do her business before bedtime. As happens from time to time, the dog manages to find something or another out there and husband has to yell and cajole the pup to stop her nonsense and come back in.

    “She’s rolling around all over the place out there,” husband told my worried self. “She’s got some kind of animal.”

    Well I don’t want to hear about “some” kind of animal but after serious calls the dog finally comes in. Husband puts her in the room then grabs a flashlight. “I’m going to see what’s out there”.

    After about five minutes or so, husband comes back in. “It was a possum. It was just sitting there, in the middle of the yard. It took off when I went out but it looks okay.”

    I shrugged. So good. I don’t want the dog to kill the innocent critters but hey, it IS her yard and possums don’t belong there, at least as dog sees it.

    The next morning is beautiful and as always I take leash and other essentials out to begin my exercise routine, which is basically jaunts around the yard. The dog will run crazy for a bit then I leash her up and she walks with me.

    I hadn’t gone two steps before I saw the horror.

    For everywhere, EVERYWHERE, there were dead baby possums! I scream. Then I scream again. Big galoot dog is busy running around, pooping, finding her beloved balls, important dog stuff. She runs over to my screaming self to help me I must suppose but she trots directly upon the dead possums and I had to act quick. If dog had seen those dead things she’d likely think they were her toys what with being spread around HER yard and everything. The last thing I needed was for the dog to begin grabbing those things, swinging them around in the air, shaking them with her mouth, stuff dogs do for whatever reason. At that time Jo-Ann the Belgian Shepherd was more concerned with my hysterical screaming than what was laying on the lawn.

    I go get a plastic bag and paper towel but I also grab the cell phone to call husband at work.

    “There are dead baby possums all over the yard,” I scream into the phone, this while I’m busy grabbing them with the paper towel and stuffing them inside the plastic bag. Husband, is, of course, shocked.

    “They must all be the babies of that possum from last night,” he said.

    There were TEN of them. They were everywhere. I’m running around like a nut trying to gather them all up before the dog discovers them and thank goodness my heart is behaving because this was startling if ever there was such a thing.

    Dead Possums


    It’s a sad story, make no mistake. Best as we can figure, that possum was carrying her litter on her back. When she had to run off from the errant dog all of her babies fell off her back evidently. When husband went outside to check and he again saw the possum, we assume she had returned to somehow get her babies on her back or in her protective pouch. She ran off at the sight of the human evidently and her youngsters all perished from exposure we must suppose. Because they all looked perfectly fine although they were recently born in that their eyes were not yet opened.

    So was this some diabolical plot by husband to startle my heart to an end that would leave him all my worldly goods with no suspicion cast upon him?

    Just so yon readers know show anything untoward and weird cause my premature end, check out the details, please.

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    FOCUS ON Stacy Peterson
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    His third wife died in the bathtub, a healthy woman in a dried tub, her hair covered in blood and bruises covering her body. The Illinois state cops called it an accident! Now Savio's body is due to be exhumed because, as it would turn out, the fine Drew Peterson had yet ANOTHER missing wife! He tells us she phoned him to tell him she's leaving for another man. Yet she left her two young children behind?

    And no one's yet been able to find Drew Peterson's first two wives as of this writing.

    Who's been letting Drew Patterson get away with murder?

    Introduction to the strange case of Drew Peterson's wives.
    Drew Peterson's third wife's body to be exhumed
    Drew Peterson's Third Wife's Death Determined to be Homicide
    Drew Peterson and the Blue Barrel
    Drew Peterson's airplane
    New search warrant for Drew Peterson
    Drew Peterson Can't Get a Date
    Stacy Peterson's steamy sex messages
    Win a date with Drew Peterson
    Drew Peterson on a lie detector in front of the entire world?
    Drew's Second Wife's Death Officially Ruled a Homicide
    Scott Peterson's sons subpoenaed by the Grand Jury
    Revelation of some of Stacey Peterson's last days before her disappearance that MIGHT be a motive for her murder
    Drew Peterson faces delay on return of his guns and Drew laments his sinister image.