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2/13/10 Man
sodomized with Taser will receive six-figure
settlement The City of Boise wants
to make it clear that they are not admitting
guilt in the case of a man sodomized by
Boise police with a Taser gun.But they
are also dishing out an estimated $150,000
to Gerald Amidon to prevent this matter
from going to court.In some circles, this
is called “hush money.”
2/6/10
Judge
seals video in racially-charged Taser ‘homicide’ A
potentially explosive video showing the death
of a Louisiana man after being Tasered nine
times in 14 minutes will be kept from the public
for at least another five months, after a judge
ordered the tape sealed.Former Winnfield police
officer Scott Nugent has been charged with
manslaughter and malfeasance over the death
of Baron "Scooter" Pikes
on January 17, 2008. Pikes was handcuffed
during each of the Taserings. Winnfield police
say Pikes was resisting arrest on an outstanding
warrant, (doesn't this qualify as a 'hate
crime'?)
1/27/10
2 LAPD Metro Division officers arrested
in off-duty assault
Two off-duty Los Angeles Police Department
officers were arrested for allegedly attacking
and pistol-whipping a man in Whittier on
Tuesday night.
In a separate incident, an off-duty Los Angeles
County sheriff's deputy got into a fight
in Highland Park and suffered wounds, while
her foe was shot by a relative of the deputy,
authorities said.
LAPD Officer Brandon Valdez, 29, and LAPD
Officer Patrick Fitzgerald, 38, were arrested
Tuesday night by Whittier police on suspicion
of assault with a deadly weapon after the
victim was hospitalized with head trauma.
The elite LAPD Metro Division officers, who
have been with the department since 2002,
were immediately placed on administrative
leave.
Update...suspect
shot and killed.
WANTED:
Maurice Clemmons.....'This guy should have
never been on the street'
Police are looking for this man for the cold
blooded, planned murder of four Lakewood
police officers Greg Richards, 42, Tina Griswold,
40, Ronald Owens, 37, and Sgt. Mark Renninger,
39. The four were killed when a gunman opened
fire on them at a Parkland, Wash. coffee store
on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. The
manhunt came as authorities in two states took
heat for the fact that Clemmons was allowed
to walk the streets despite a teenage crime
spree in Arkansas that landed him a 95-year
prison sentence. He was released in 2000 after
then-Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted his sentence.
Police
Misconduct News Watch 11-19-09
Fire Chief Shot By Cop In Ark. Court Over
Tickets
It was just too much, having to return to
court twice on the same day to contest yet
another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don
Payne didn't hesitate to tell the judge what
he thought of the police and their speed
traps.
The response from cops? They shot him.
Right there in court.
FBI
probe of Burbank police focusing on alleged
excessive force involving 12 officers The
FBI investigation into the Burbank
Police Department is focusing on allegations
of excessive force by officers, court documents
obtained by The Times show.Federal investigators
have told the
Burbank officials to turn over reports
involving 12 current and former officers,
according to a federal grand jury subpoena
obtained by The Times.The subpoena specifies
information related to "use of force,
defensive tactics, Tasers, pepper spray,
or the rules and ramifications pertaining
to the use of excessive force or a violation
of civil/constitutional rights."
Unarmed
man in speedos shot dead by police An
unarmed man wearing only swimming trunks
was shot dead by a plainclothes police
officer who had confronted him for driving
erratically. Tyler Heilman, 24, had just
arrived home in Kasota, Minnesota, after
a day's swimming with friends when he was
accosted by Todd Waldron, a sheriff's deputy,
who had been following him in an unmarked
car.According to the friends, the two men got
into an argument and ended up wrestling
on the ground.As Mr Heilman got up, he finally
saw the police badge on Mr Waldron's belt,
said Kris Hoehn.
"Then came the gunshots, just as my
buddy's hands were going up," he said. "It
was too late this officer flew up off the
ground, gun in hand. If we would have known
he was a cop, none of this would've happened."
California
Police Officer admits to sexual assault
while on duty A former California
police officer accused of sexually assaulting
a motorist during a traffic stop pleaded
guilty in federal court, federal prosecutors
said Friday.Feliciano Sanchez, 34, admitted
in court Thursday that while on duty on
May 16, 2007, he pulled over a female driver
in a traffic stop and forced her to perform
oral sex on him, according to a news release
from U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien,
who heads the office for the Central District.
7/21/09
Cops
tasered 3 kids, threatened one with sodomy
A shelter for adolescents in southern Illinois
is suing the local sheriff’s office for
what it describes as an unprovoked attack by
two police officers on four children, three of
whom were tasered, and one of whom was threatened
with sodomy by a sheriff’s deputy.
According to the legal filing, quoted in
the Mount Vernon Register, one
deputy “physically pushed R.E. towards
his bunk and shocked him repeatedly with a
taser. … R.E. was tased multiple times
to multiple locations on his person, including,
but not limited to, his neck. Deputy Bowers
shouted to B.B. to lie down in his bunk and
physically forced him to lie down.
“Without physical provocation and/or
physical gestures from B.B., Deputy Bowers
held B.B. down on his bed and shocked him repeatedly
with a taser. While he was tasing B.B., Deputy
David Bowers threatened to sodomize B.B. As
a result of this repeated and excessive tasing,
B.B. urinated and defecated himself. Deputy
David Bowers was aware that B.B. urinated himself
after the tasing.”
“As Z.P. was being repeatedly tased,
[17-year-old] Megan Geisler pleaded with Deputy David Bowers and Deputy
Lonnie Lawler to stop.
Deputy David Bowers ordered Deputy Lonnie Lawler
to handcuff Megan Geisler. … Deputy
David Bowers grabbed Megan Geisler by her arms,
lifted her off her feet, and carried her through
the male dormitory to a nearby closet. On the
way to the closet, Deputy David Bowers lifted
Megan Geisler off the ground, pressed her against
a wall and choked her. While choking her, Deputy
David Bowers said, ‘do you want to live
or die bitch’ to Megan Geisler. Megan
Geisler was then thrown into a closet. At this
time she began vomiting and heaving.”
USA
Patriot Act Defines Chemotherapy Pushers,
CPS Aggressors as Terrorists
New
Jersey police officer pounds man on tape
6/4/09Dallas
ISD hall monitor held in road-rage case A
Dallas Independent School District hall monitor
is accused of waving a gun and threatening
a woman in a road-rage incident Thursday
morning. Bobby Strogen, 47, is being held
on suspicion of aggravated assault in the
Dallas County jail
5
Ala. officers fired for beating caught on
tape BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Five Birmingham
police officers were fired Wednesday
for beating an unconscious suspect ejected
from a car after a chase, an attack captured
on a patrol car videotape that didn't surface
publicly for a year. Police Chief A.C. Roper
said the officers, who were not identified,
were seasoned veterans but acted in a "shameful" manner
.4/20/09Epidemic
Of Police Brutality Sweeps America An
epidemic of violence is sweeping the country.
Police are being trained that the general
public are the enemy and that they can engage
in outright brutality without recourse. Taser
deaths are skyrocketing because the police
have been ordered to use "pain compliance",
otherwise known as torture, to subdue and
oppress the citizenry. It is time for police
to remember that their duty is to protect
the general public from criminals and not
act as enforcers for a tyrannical police
state.
GVSU
student, Derek Copp, shot in chest by police
for smoking marijuana: Executing children
for the War on Drugs. ALLENDALE -- Apartment
neighbors of Grand Valley State University
student Derek Copp say they cannot fathom
what prompted police to shoot him late Wednesday
in a drug-related raid.
Ohio
ex-cop convicted in lover's death CANTON,
Ohio - A former police officer who tearfully
told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant
lover was convicted Friday of murdering her
and their unborn child 2/15/08 |
FAMILY
and other VIOLENCE
3/20/10
Tea party protesters use racial epithet
against Georgia's John LewisWASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside
the U.S. Capitol , angry over the proposed
health care bill, shouted "nigger" Saturday
at U.S. Rep. John
Lewis , a Georgia congressman and civil
rights icon who was nearly beaten
to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.
The protesters also shouted obscenities
at other members of the Congressional
Black Caucus , lawmakers said.
"They were shouting, sort of harassing," Lewis
said. "But, it's okay, I've faced this
before. It reminded me of the 60s. It was
a lot of downright hate and anger and people
being downright mean."
Shooting unsettles Utah neighborhood In
the Salt Lake City suburb of Bluffdale,
two neighbors on the lookout for troublemakers
find themselves in a standoff, with guns.
Now one is paralyzed and the other is facing
trial.
2/25/10
Dad
Confesses to Tossing Infant Daughter into River
SAYREVILLE, N.J. -- A New Jersey man pleaded
not guilty Thursday after police say he told
them he threw his 3-month-old daughter off
a bridge, as searchers and relatives held out
hope that the infant might still be found alive.
Rodney
Alcala 'Guilty' in Samsoe Murder, 4 Others KTLA
News / A 66-year-old former photographer
was convicted Thursday of killing a Huntington
Beach girl and four other women more than
30 years ago.
Rodney Alcala had already been convicted
and sentenced to death twice for the
murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe.
Both convictions were overturned on appeal
due to technicalities.
This is Alcala's first conviction for the
four additional murders.
2/15/10
Relatives
wonder how Ala. prof in slaying hired Grieving
relatives of three professors gunned down
at a university faculty meeting questioned
why their accused colleague was hired despite
a dispute with a former boss who received
a pipe bomb and the shooting death of her
brother.
2/13/10
Accused
Alabama prof shot, killed brother in 1986 The
professor accused of killing three colleagues
during a faculty meeting was a Harvard-educated
neurobiologist, inventor and mother whose
life had been marred by a violent episode
in her distant past.
More than two decades ago, police said Amy
Bishop fatally shot her teenage brother at
their Massachusetts home in what officers
at the time logged as an accident — though
authorities said Saturday that records of
the shooting are missing.
2/12/10
Prof.
in custody in fatal shooting on Ala. campus Authorities
say a woman opened fire during a faculty
meeting at the University
of Alabama's Huntsville campus,
killing three biology professors and injuring
three other school employees.
University
spokesman Ray Garner said the shooter was
caught outside the building without incident,
and no students were harmed in the shooting
Friday.
Several students identified the woman
who was being taken into custody as Amy Bishop,
an instructor and researcher at the university.
She was taken Friday night in handcuffs from
a police precinct to
the county jail and could be heard saying, "It
didn't happen. There's no way .... they are
still alive."
Sister
of Pa. woman who was tortured, killed
says handicap, kindness made her vulnerable Joy
Burkholder says her sister Jennifer Daugherty
trusted everyone. Burkholder spoke Friday
at a news conference alongside Westmoreland
County authorities about Daugherty's killing.
The 30-year-old woman's body was found in
a garbage can Thursday. Police charged six
people who they say fed the woman vegetable
oil, spices, detergent, urine and medications
before she was killed. (What kind of
sick people do we have in this world that
could do this....obviously today.....way
too many!)
1/29/10
Father
Accused of Killing 2-Year-Old Son A
father is accused of stabbing to death his
own son at a Covina home.A relative called
Covina police Tuesday night to report 28-year-old
Alex Trujillo was acting strange. When police
arrived at his house, one officer spotted Trujillo through
a window and he appeared to be stabbing himself.Police
kicked open the door and restrained him after
a brief struggle.Then they spotted his wounded
son. The boy died after being rushed to a
hospital.
1/20/10
Murder
over loud Denver party yields 45-year prison
term A 20-year-old man who fatally
shot a neighbor, after the victim asked
him and others to quiet down a party, has
been sentenced to 45 years in prison.Ruben
Sotelo-Sianez, of Denver, received a sentence
Tuesday that was three years short of the
maximum in Colorado for second-degree murder,
according to a media release from the Denver
District Attorney's Office.
Former
Texas minister convicted of killing wifeA
former Texas minister was convicted late
Wednesday of slipping his wife sleeping
pills,
smothering her to death with a pillow and
faking her suicide note so he could be
with his mistress.Jurors deliberated more
than seven hours before convicting Matt
Baker, 38, of murder in his wife's
2006 death, which initially was ruled a suicide.
1/18/10 Rapes
of elderly women terrify central Texas
towns YOAKUM, Texas – With a serial
rapist on the loose, Cassandra
McGinty has developed a new routine when
she arrives home: search room to room,
a handgun or stun gun drawn.
The predator has been assaulting older women
in central Texas over the past year, terrifying
residents and frustrating investigators who
have only a vague description of the suspect.
Pepper spray has
been flying off the shelves in the towns
where the attacks have occurred, and McGinty
said her landlord in Marquez handed out stun
guns as Christmas gifts. Nearly
200 miles away in Yoakum, elderly volunteers
at the local museum have been locking its
doors during business hours.
"I used to think I was too old for
anybody to mess with," said McGinty,
55. "I can't say that anymore."
Beginning with the rape of a 65-year-old
woman in Yoakum last
January, authorities have linked eight sexual
assaults or attempted sexual assaults to
the suspect, who has been dubbed the "Twilight
Rapist" because most of the attacks
occurred around dawn. They also believe he
robbed or attempted to rob four other women.
The victims have all been women, ranging
in age from 65 to 91. One rape victim played
piano at her church on Sundays. An 81-year-old
woman scared off an intruder with a gun,
firing several rounds for good measure. A
66-year-old woman was attacked twice, despite
having moved across town following the first
assault.
12/30/09
Calif.
deputies say man savagely kills dog, runs naked
in tennis club, pours coffee on head
A man savagely killed a dog, ran naked through
a tennis club and poured hot coffee on his
head before he was finally arrested early
Wednesday, Orange County sheriff's deputies
said.
Bayron Reyes Lopez, 26, of San Clemente,
was hospitalized after being captured at
the tennis club where he worked as a maintenance
man, sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said
12/22/09
Pictured:
The baby-faced teenage girl who stabbed driver
six times with an ICE PICK in dispute over
parking spot Caitlen Watkins, 18, of
Springfield, Missouri, was yesterday charged with
first-degree assault and armed criminal action.Watkins
was a passenger in a vehicle when she confronted
a driver on Sunday in a shopping centre car
park, according to court documents.
12/15/09
Mom
sentenced for putting son in boiling water
A 22-year-old North Carolina woman who put
her toddler in boiling water and burned his
foot with a cigarette has been sentenced
to prison.
12/5/09
 Police
search for Wis. father linked to 4 slayings
Wisconsin authorities on Saturday searched
for a father who they say is linked to the
deaths of his two young daughters and their
mothers. The man has been charged in two
of the slayings and police have warned that
he is armed and dangerous.
Tyrone Adair, 38, of Middleton, was charged
Friday with first-degree intentional homicide
in the deaths of his 33-year-old girlfriend,
Tracy Judd, and their 23-month-old daughter,
Deja Adair. Judd's older daughter told detectives
Adair called her Thursday to say her mother
and Deja would not be home because they had
been in a bad accident
Mom
pleads no contest in quadriplegic girl's
death A Flint woman accused of starving
her adopted quadriplegic daughter to death
and stashing the body in a storage unit pleaded
no contest Friday to involuntary
manslaughter.
Lorrie Thomas' plea came four days before
she was to go to trial on second-degree murder
and other charges.
The body of 9-year-old Shylae Thomas was
found inside a 33-gallon container in a storage
unit in Vienna Township, about 65 miles northwest
of Detroit, in April. Police have said the
girl was starved to death.
Her body was covered in mothballs and stored
for about six weeks before it was discovered.
NOTE: The Michigan Office of Children's
Ombudsman investigated the case and found
there was nothing the state
Department of Human Services should
have done to prevent the death, investigator
Mike Roxberry said Thursday. (SEEMS A 'NO BRAINER-ONE'....she
was so starved, her bones were sticking out
of her skin....how could anyone miss that?
Another example of the 'system' failing.
Ind.
teen charged, his parents grieve slain
son
Showing no emotion and with his parents a few
blocks from the courthouse, an Indiana teenager
pleaded not guilty to killing his 10-year-old
brother. His mother and father were greeting
mourners who came to pay respects to their
slain younger son.
Andrew Conley, 17, was charged as an adult
in Ohio Circuit
Court with murdering his brother,
Conner Conley,
a decision that the boys' parents supported,
said Dearborn-Ohio
County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard.
In front of a few of his friends, the teen
answered only basic questions during Friday's
hearing. His attorney, Gary Sorge, entered
a not guilty plea on his behalf, and left
the courthouse without talking to reporters.
11/30/09
Ore.
woman, shot from back seat, still struggling
A Coos County woman, Ashley Kendall, seriously
wounded by her husband who was hiding the back
seat of her vehicle is fighting off a bacterial
infection and faces more surgery.
She is in critical condition after her estranged
husband, Travis kendall slipped into the back
seat of her car and shot her. He then killed
himself.
11/27/09
4
relatives shot dead at Fla. Thanksgiving
party Police were searching Friday for
a man suspected in the Thanksgiving shooting
deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old
cousin during a family celebration.One of the
sisters, Lisa Knight, 33, was pregnant, said
Jupiter Police spokeswoman Sally Collins-Ortiz.
She did not say how far along the woman was
in her pregnancy.
Jupiter Police Sgt. Scott Pascarella said officers
were looking for Paul Michael Merhige, 35,
of Miami. Merhige is a cousin of the 6-year-old
victim, Makayla Sitton, and has no criminal
record, police said.
11/6/09
Stepfather
convicted in death of 'Baby Grace' A Southeast
Texas man was convicted Friday of capital murder
in the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old
stepdaughter whose battered body was found
in a container floating in Galveston
Bay.
Jurors deliberated for 4 1/2 hours before
finding Royce Clyde Zeigler II guilty in
the death of the child known as "Baby
Grace." He will receive an automatic
life sentence because prosecutors did not
seek the death penalty. Jurors also could
have convicted Zeigler of
a lesser charge of manslaughter.
Zeigler and his wife, Kimberly Trenor, the
toddler's mother, were accused of killing
her during a discipline session that spun
out of control. Trenor was convicted of capital
murder in February and also received an automatic
life sentence.
10/31/09
Up
to 6 Bodies Found at Ohio Home A convicted
rapist who fled before police arrived to
arrest him on new rape charges was arrested
Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood,
after police found as many as six bodies
at his home.
Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said
Anthony Sowell was walking down the street
on the east side of Cleveland when authorities
spotted him and took him into custody.
10/28/09
Girl
gang-raped outside California high school
as onlookers laughed A 15-year-old
girl was gang raped by up to 10 teenagers
outside a California high school homecoming
dance as others laughed and took photographs.
In a crime that has shocked America up
to two dozen passers-by were said to have
seen the crime happening and failed to
report it as the girl was subjected to
an ordeal lasting two-and-a-half hours.
10/8/09
Gun-toting
soccer mom, husband found shot dead A
soccer mom who gained national attention
when she openly carried a loaded gun to her
5-year-old daughter's game was shot dead
Wednesday along with her husband in what
appeared to be a murder-suicide, police said.Meleanie
Hain and Scott Hain were pronounced dead
Wednesday night at their home in Lebanon,
about 80 miles west of Philadelphia. Children
said 'daddy shot mommy'.
10/1/09
2
sons arrested in Morgan Hill on suspicion of
abuse of mom bitten by ferrets
Brian Carter, 41, and Jon Carter, 50, who are
their mother's primary caregivers, were booked
into the Santa Clara County Jail on felony
charges of elderly abuse likely to produce
great bodily harm, according to police.
8/16/09
Police:
Anger Over Breakup Reason For 2 DeathsPolice Say 24-Year Old Shot 2 in the Head
After Breaking Up With Girlfriend
Chicago: 3
Wounded in Uptown Shooting Three people
were shot early Sunday while driving through
an alley in the North Side Uptown neighborhood.
8/14/09
Boy
left beaten and starving in locked closet;
2 arrested A woman and her 16-year-old
male roommate were arrested after authorities
said they found her 5-year-old son locked
in a closet, emaciated, battered and bruised.
Desiree Gonzalez, 31, and the unidentified
roommate were taken into custody Tuesday
after San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies
received an anonymous call saying a child
was being held hostage and denied food
and water. They also were told that he
was being burned and beaten.
8/4/09
Silent
gunman's Pa. health club shooting kills 4 An
armed man strolled to the back of an exercise
class at a health club in suburban Pittsburgh
on Tuesday night and then pulled out two guns
and started spraying bullets, leaving four
people dead, including himself, and injuring
at least 10 others, authorities said.
7/24/09
4
Ariz. boys accused of raping 8-year-old
girl Officers responding to a report
of hysterical screams found an 8-year-old
girl partially clothed and four boys, barely
in their teens, running from an empty shed.
The boys, ages 9 to 14, face charges ranging
from sexual assault to kidnapping, police
said Thursday. Authorities in Phoenix say
it's one of the most horrific cases they've
ever seen.All five children are refugees
from the West African nation of Liberia.(and
to make the matters worse, the parents
are from a culture that blames the girl
and has rejected her now, so she can't
go home..these people need a big lesson
in compassion and to examine their culture
belief systems)
7/23/09
3
Kids Found Starved in Texas Hotel Bathroom DALLAS — Three
children were kept in a hotel bathroom
for about a year and were "horribly
emaciated" when police found them
earlier this month, authorities said. One
claimed to have been repeatedly sexually
assaulted. The children's mother,
30-year-old Abneris Santiago, is charged
with injury to a child. Her 37-year-old
live-in boyfriend, Alfred Santiago, is
charged with aggravated sexual assault
and continuous sexual abuse.
7/20/09
Lawsuit:
Drunk Sweet 16 Party Crashers Molested
Girls, Beat Up Guest
It was supposed to be a pretty
cheerleader's dream Sweet 16 party.
But the $50,000 celebration turned sour
when thugs attending a wedding at the same
catering hall in the borough of Queens crashed
the affair, molested teenage girls and walloped
the guest of honor's cousin, a new lawsuit
alleges.
7/18/09
6
slain in Tenn., Ala.; suspect in custody
Five people were found slain in two homes
in southern Tennessee Saturday, some of whom
were related, and a sixth person at a Huntsville,
Ala., business, said authorities who have
a suspect in custody.
Tennessee Bureau
of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin
Helm said in an e-mail that 30-year-old
Jacob Shaffer, of Huntsville, was being
questioned but no charges have been filed.
She said he was sitting
on the front porch of one of the
homes in Lincoln County when deputies arrived
and that he was being held by local authoritie
7/12/09
Motive
probed in slaying of Fla. pair with 16 kids
Investigators are looking at business ties
among other leads for a motive in the slaying
of a wealthy Florida couple who adopted 12 children
with developmental disabilities and
other problems, authorities said Monday.There
may be multiple motives and more arrests
are possible after three men were jailed
Sunday, two of them on murder charges, in
the shooting deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings
at their sprawling home near Pensacola, Escambia
County Sheriff David Morgan said.
6/10/09 Wilmington
man stabs wife, two daughters A Wilmington
man stabbed his wife and two stepdaughters
Sunday when they returned home from church,
police said Monday. William Zelazduez, 44,
was arrested about 8:30 p.m. at his home in
the 1000 block of East O Street, Los Angeles
police Officer Norma Eisenman said. Zelazduez
was home drinking while his family was at church.
When they returned, he stabbed his wife for
unknown reasons, and the stepdaughters when
they intervened, Eisenman said.
Teen
gets 100 years for child sex abuse A teenager
who has profound mental disabilities was sentenced
to 100 years in prison after pleading guilty
to charges in a sex abuse case involving his
6-year-old neighbor.Aaron Hart, 18, of Paris,
was arrested and charged after a neighbor found
him fondling her stepson in September. The
teen pleaded guilty to five counts, including
aggravated sexual assault and indecency by
contact, and a jury decided his punishment.
Hart has an IQ of 47 and was diagnosed as mentally
disabled as a child. He never learned to read
or write and speaks unsteadily.Despite being
a target of bullies, he was courteous, well-behaved
and earned money by doing chores for neighbors,
supporters said. His parents say he'd never
acted out sexually.(There are 'others' who
are not mentally retarded and have done much
much worse and do not have sentences like that,
indeed they get a slap on the wrist.....yes,
Justice is blind)
6/5/09Pa.
mom charged with beating infant with crib
part A western Pennsylvania woman is
in jail on charges she fatally beat her
3-month-old son with a piece of a crib
she was assembling last August.Uniontown
police say 25-year-old Lori Beth Workman
fractured her baby's skull and inflicted
other injuries when she became upset that
he wouldn't stop crying. Police say she
told them she concealed the beating from
her husband because she was afraid he'd
get mad at her.
5/22/09Ga.
father gets 100 years for poisoning kids'
soup A Georgia man is sentenced to
100 years in prison for poisoning his children
to extort money from Campbell's Soup Co.William
Cunningham was sentenced Thursday
after a jury found him guilty on seven
counts of aggravated assault for forcing
the children in 2006 to eat soup laced
with prescription
drugs and lighter
fluid.His 3-year-old son and 18-month-old
daughter were hospitalized twice. A family
member said the youngsters may suffer lifelong respiratory
problems from lung damage caused
by the lighter fluid.
Shootings
erupt in West Palm Beach after Easter Sunday
suspect released WEST PALM BEACH -
Authorities are looking for whoever shot
two people in a drive-by shooting near
Fifth Street and Division Avenue over the
weekend, police said. Police suspect the
shooting, which happened about 5 a.m.,
was related to a drive-by shooting on Easter
Sunday that left a 15-month-old boy and
a 34-year-old man wounded.
4/19/09Md.
Father Kills Wife, Kids Before Taking Own
Life An accountant for a railroad operator
killed his wife and their three children
before fatally shooting himself in a northwest
Maryland home, leaving a gruesome scene
that was discovered Saturday by the youngsters'
grandfather, authorities said.
4/17/09MA
woman accused of killing unborn child,
daughterOhio
dad who shock-collared kids gets 16 years David
Liskany of Jamestown had pleaded guilty
to charges of felonious assault and attempted
felonious assault.The judge said Liskany
punished the children in 2006 and 2007
by putting them in cold showers, holding
them underwater and using the shock collar,
which is commonly used to train dogs
.1/31/09
DNA
tests confirm remains are Caylee Anthony
Skeletal remains found in the woods
are the Florida 3-year-old who has been
missing since June, but they don't reveal
any clues about how she was killed, a county
medical examiner said Friday. A
utility worker stumbled upon the remains
last week, less than a half-mile from where
the girl lived. DNA tests confirm that
the remains match Caylee Anthony's genetic
profile, said the medical
examiner, Dr.
Jan Garavaglia.
6
dead, 2 wounded in Wash. state shooting
spree ALGER, Wash. - A shooting rampage
Tuesday afternoon in northwest Washington
has left six people dead, including a sheriff's
deputy, the State Patrol said. A suspect
in the shootings has surrendered.
Two people were wounded during the violence
in Skagit County,
including a state
trooper who reportedly was grazed
in the arm by a bullet.A man was arrested
after turning himself in at the Skagit
County sheriff's office in Mount
Vernon, Trooper Keith Leary said.
The man was not immediately identified but
Leary said he is known to authorities as "someone
with a mental illness."The dead were
found at multiple crime
scenes. They included the deputy shot
while responding to a call and a second person
killed at the same location near the small
town of Alger; two construction
workers found shot nearby, and a third
body found a few houses away, Leary said.
Authorities were investigating any connection
among those sitesReport:
Son
Dismembered Dad After Being Raped CORTEZ,
Colo. -- A 20-year-old man accused
of killing and dismembering his father
told police that after his father raped
him, he shot his father, skinned and decapitated
him and then fed his flesh to coyotes,
according to court documents obtained by
the
Cortez
Journal.Teen
Accused In 'Mortal Kombat' Killing Makes
Court AppearanceGREELEY, Colo.
-- The teenaged girl accused
of killing her 7-year-old step-sister
appeared in court in Weld County Wednesday.
Heather Maria Trujillo, 16, and her boyfriend,
Lamar Roberts, 17, have been charged as
adults with felony child abuse resulting
in death in connection with the Dec. 6
death of Zoe Garcia. Trujillo told Johnstown
Police that she and Roberts were imitating
the Mortal Kombat video game when they
began attacking Garcia. An arrest affidavit
said the two kicked, karate-chopped and
body-slammed slammed Zoe while imitating
the video game
Man
opens fire outside California church LOS
ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A
man with a rifle opened fire near a church
Saturday morning in the San Fernando Valley
and wounded three people, Los Angeles police
said.
Fernando Diaz Jr., 33, was arrested on
suspicion of attempted murder, said Los
Angeles Police Officer Ana Aguirre. He
was held in Van Nuys jail in lieu of $1.5
million bail."I
don't really have too much to say about that.
It's a personal thing between me and the
church," Diaz said to The Associated
Press before being taken to jail.
Disabled
pregnant woman used as target practice ALTON,
Illinois (AP) -- Banished to the
basement, the 29-year-old mother with a
childlike mind and another baby on the
way had little more than a thin rug and
a mattress to call her own on the chilly
concrete floor. Dorothy Dixon ate what
she could forage from the refrigerator
upstairs, where housemates used her for
target practice with BBs, burned her with
a glue gun and doused her with scalding
liquid that peeled away her skin.They torched
what few clothes she had, so she walked
around naked. They often pummeled her with
an aluminum bat or metal handle.Dixon --
six months pregnant -- died after weeks
of abuse. Police have charged two adults,
three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy with
murder in the case that has repulsed many
in this Mississippi River town.
3/22/08
Dad
gets 20-plus years in prison in tot's killing PHILADELPHIA,
Pennsylvania (AP) -- A man who
killed his 17-month-old daughter in a rage
over a broken Xbox was sentenced to more
than two decades in prison. Prosecutors
said Tyrone Spellman, 27, killed Alayiah
Turman in September 2006 with at least
five blows to the head when she pulled
down his Xbox console. The force of the
blows cracked the toddler's skull several
times.
3/15/08 Dad
accused of forcing girl to kill pet cat MUNCIE,
Indiana (AP) -- A man was jailed
Thursday on charges that he forced his
7-year-old daughter to kill the family
cat by holding a knife in her hand and
making her stab the pet.Danield J. Collins,
39, told his children during a visit to
his home Sunday that he wanted them to "learn
how to kill" and gave his 11-year-old
son a knife to do it, according to an affidavit
filed in the case.The boy tried to save
the cat by hiding it under a sofa bed and
putting ketchup on a knife when Collins
went to the bathroom. But when the father
realized that the cat was not dead, he
forced his daughter to hold the knife and
then held her hand tightly as he drove
the knife into the animal, Muncie police
Detective Jami Brown said.
3/15/08 Family
Massacre Casts Pall Over Town EMORY,
Texas — Penny Caffey played
piano in a gospel band and her husband
studied to be an ordained minister. They
were asleep when police say their teenage
daughter's boyfriend crept into their bedroom
around 4 a.m. and started shooting.
3/8/08 Louisiana
Mother Says Revenge-Seeking Woman Tortured,
Killed Her Baby
BOGALUSA, La. — A
mother whose 6-week-old baby died after
being burned, beaten and drugged says she
thinks the motive was revenge, a Bogalusa
newspaper reports.The child's
mother, Lindsey Daigle, 19, told The Daily
News she believes Amy Leighanne Thomas,
22, harmed the baby after finding out that
Daigle had tattled on Thomas for taking
something from a co-worker's locker.
3/8/08 Pennsylvania
Hair Stylist Shoots Client Unhappy With
Cut
She thought she
was getting a bad haircut, but police in
southwestern Pennsylvania say when Lauren
Newton complained, she got a bullet in
the back. Newton's hairstylist
is now facing charges of aggravated assault
and reckless endangerment.
3/8/08 Acid
poured on slain soldiers TACOMA, Wash.
- A Fort Lewis soldier killed a married
couple — both fellow soldiers — and
poured acid on their bodies in an attempt
to dispose of them, a prosecutor said Monday.Spc.
Ivette Gonzalez Davila also is accused
of taking the couple's 6-month-old girl.
The 22-year-old was ordered held without
bond for investigation of aggravated first-degree
murder and kidnapping.
3/3/08 6
dead, including 2 children, in Memphis MEMPHIS,
Tenn. - Police found the bodies of six
people, including two children, as well
as three critically wounded children in
a Memphis home
on Monday in a case authorities were treating
as a multiple homicide.
3/3/08 Police:
Dead student victim of serial rapist
2/17/088
wounded in Los Angeles street shooting LOS
ANGELES - A gunman fired into a crowd of
children and adults at a South Los Angeles
bus stop just after schools let out Wednesday,
wounding eight, authorities said.
2/27/08 Man
randomly stabs two in theater during
horror film Two men were stabbed
while watching a horror film about brainwashed
killers in what appears to have been
a random attack, police said.Officers
were sent to the AMC Fullerton 20 shortly
before 7:30 Sunday night for a report
of a bag being found containing illegal
substances, police Lt. Tom Basham said.While
officers were on the scene, people started
running out of the theater showing "The
Signal," including two bloody men
.Iraq
war veteran charged with raping 3-month-oldJACKSON,
Mich. -- A former Army paratrooper who
served two tours of duty in Iraq has been
ordered tried on charges of raping and
critically injuring a 3-month-old girl.
Kirk Coleman is charged with first-degree
criminal sexual conduct and first-degree
child abuse, charges that carry up to life
in prison.
2/21/08
Cops
seek clues in NYC therapist slaying NEW
YORK - Psychologist Kathryn Faughey didn't
sound worried about her safety in the hours
before she was butchered in her office,
said a friend who exchanged e-mails with
her that evening.
2/15/08 NIU
gunman stopped taking medication DEKALB,
Ill. - The man who gunned down five people
at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal
rampage became erratic after halting his
medication and carried a shotgun to campus
inside a guitar case, police said Friday.
6
dead in N. Illinois U. hall shooting DEKALB,
Ill. - A former student dressed in
black walked onto the stage of a lecture
hall at Northern Illinois University and
opened fire on a packed science class Thursday,
killing five students, wounding 16 and
setting off a panicked stampede before
committing suicide
2/14/08 US
Marine accused of rape in Japan
2/11/08NYC
jury hears gruesome child-death case NEW
YORK - After police discovered the frail,
battered body of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown
in her home in 2006, authorities say her
stepfather was quick to admit he had bound
her to a chair with duct tape and beat
her on a daily basis.
2/11/08 Woman
kills 2, herself at La. college BATON
ROUGE, La. - A young woman killed two female
students in a college classroom at a vocational
college Friday, then killed herself, police
said.
2/8/08 Quarter
of U.S. women suffer domestic violence:
CDC 2/7/08
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About a quarter
of U.S. women suffer domestic violence,
U.S. health officials reported on Thursday,
with ongoing health problems that one activist
likened to the effects of living in a war
zone.
6
dead after gunfire at Mo. meetingBy CHRISTOPHER LEONARD, Associated
Press Writer 13 minutes ago
KIRKWOOD, Mo. - A gunman with a history
of acrimony against city leaders stormed
a council meeting Thursday night, killing
two police officers and three other people
before law enforcers fatally shot him,
authorities said. The man's gunfire injured
the mayor, a newspaper reported.
6/7/09
Louisiana
teen held in infant's killing, police say
A 17-year-old Louisiana
man faces first-degree murder and aggravated
rape charges in the beating death of his
girlfriend's 8-month-old son, police said.
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