Tuesday, July 31, 2012

When fishing with GRENADES goes terribly wrong


‘Gone fishing’ is a phrase usually associated with a quiet afternoon out on the water, fishing rod in hand, pondering the world.

But these fishermen decided to forget rod and reel, opting for much more heavy-duty bait, a hand grenade.

The stupid men are lucky to be alive after their attempt at catching fish in Russia.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181552/When-grenade-fishing-goes-terribly-terribly-wrong.html

Video captures Chinese take-out owner torturing tiny kittens simply for twisted pleasure

A Chinese restaurant owner in Philadelphia has been caught torturing six helpless kittens in a spine-chilling video filmed by CCTV cameras. Local SPCA enforcement officers were called to the scene after police officers investigating an unrelated shooting found the footage of 25-year-old Yu Zhen Chen recorded in what looks like the back room of his take-out restaurant, Red Star Chinese. During the ten minute clip, Chen tosses the tiny creatures into the air, chokes them, tugs at them and throws them across the ground like bowling balls.


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181604/Spine-chilling-video-captures-Chinese-restaurant-owner-torturing-tiny-kittens-flinging-air-choking-tugging-limbs.html

Boy, 10, dies and three other children injured after 'trying to build rocket out of fireworks'

A ten-year-old French boy has died and three other children were injured after getting badly burned while playing with fireworks. One of the wounded youths, aged nine, was in critical condition and two others - the dead boy's twin and an 11-year-old friend - had burns on up to 20 per cent of their bodies, police said. The boys were discovered in a vacant lot in the northern city of Tourcoing, near the Belgian border, with a canister of flammable material, firecrackers and fireworks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181615/Tourcoing-Boy-10-dies-children-injured-trying-build-rocket-fireworks.html

Boy accidentally kills younger brother in Waller County

A 12-year-old Hockley boy accidentally shot and killed his younger brother when they were playing with shotguns unsupervised, officials said. The boys were alone about 11:15 a.m. Sunday at their home in while their parents were at work. They were playing with the guns, a 12-gauge pump shotgun and a 20-gauge shotgun, found in the bedroom closet, said Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith. Shot from the 12-gauge struck the younger brother, 11, in the left shoulder, Smith said. The older boy called his mother and told her his brother had been hurt, Smith said. She drove home from work in Magnolia and called 911. The 11-year-old was taken to Tomball Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead about 12:26 p.m.

http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/07/boy-accidentally-kills-younger-brother-in-waller-county/

Keys woman known as ‘sea hag’ accused of killing man over beer refusal

A 62-year-old Conch Key woman was arrested on a murder charge Sunday night after being accused of shooting a Keys fisherman five times after he refused to give her a beer. Carolyn Dukeshire, who the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said is known as "the sea hag," reportedly shot Martin Mazur, 64. The incident happened at 53 N. Conch Ave. shortly after 7 p.m. Deputy Becky Herrin said Casey Whippo, 30, of Conch Key told deputies that he and Mazur went to dinner at the Brass Monkey in Marathon. They returned to the house and were sitting outside. They had just opened a beer when Dukeshire walked around the side of the house and asked if she could have one. Whippo said Mazur refused to give her a beer, so Dukeshire shot him twice in the abdomen, twice in the back and once in the wrist, according to Herrin.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/30/2920869/keys-woman-known-as-sea-hag-accused.html

Mother, daughter fatally stabbed in Aichi apartment

AICHI — A 43-year-old woman and her 19-year-old daughter were fatally stabbed in their apartment in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday afternoon. Police said they received a call at about 5 p.m., saying that a man was bleeding from the stomach in a parking lot. The man, in his 20s, was quoted by police as saying that he tried to kill himself and that there had been some trouble in the nextdoor apartment, TV Asahi reported. Police entered the apartment and found the two women with stab wounds to the stomach and chest. They were taken to hospital where they were pronounced dead a short time later, TV Asahi reported. Police said the daughter’s 2-year-old baby girl was found in another room with head injuries, but she is in a stable condition.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/mother-daughter-fatally-stabbed-in-aichi-apartment

Couple are stoned to death for adultery in Mali and 'approved their own punishment'

A couple accused of engaging in extramarital affairs have been stoned to death by an Islamic militant group in control of northern Mali. The young pair were publicly executed in the remote town of Aguelhok, near the vast West African nation's northern border with Algeria, on Sunday, a spokesman for the Ansar Dine ('defenders of the faith') group said. 'These two people were married and had extra-conjugal relations. 'Our men on the ground in Aguelhok applied sharia [Islamic law],' Sanda Ould Bounama said on Monday. 'They both died right away and even asked for this application. 'We don't have to answer to anyone over the application of sharia,' he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181534/Couple-stoned-death-adultery-Mali-approved-punishment.html

Horror as devoutly Catholic mother shoots her son, 11, and daughter, nine, dead before killing herself in luxury home... and husband says he was reading a book downstairs

A mother, her 11-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter have been found shot dead in their home in what police suspect was a murder-suicide - while her businessman husband read downstairs. Officers arrived at the large house in the affluent suburb of Glendale, Missouri after 11 a.m on Monday and found the bodies of Cathy Murch and her children in different parts of the home. Investigators believe Mrs Murch shot her children before turning the gun on herself, Glendale police Sgt. Bob Catlett said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181377/Glendale-mother-Cathy-Murch-kills-son-11-daughter-9-murder-suicide.html

'Well-dressed' hammer-wielding man savagely attacks Spanish tourist in New York's City Hall Park

A Spanish tourist was brutally attacked by a hammer-wielding man in Manhattan's City Hall Park yesterday leaving him with a fractured skull and self-defense wounds. Hugo Alejandre, 31, from Barcelona, had been sitting on a park bench when Brooklyn native, John Carlos Yoos, 43, approached the Catalonian and began shouting obscenities. Striking him on the left side of his face just above the eye, with the claw of the hammer, Yoos screamed at his victim calling him a 'Nazi motherfucker'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181554/Well-dressed-hammer-wielding-man-savagely-attacks-Spanish-tourist-New-Yorks-City-Hall-Park.html

Monday, July 30, 2012

British man stabbed ex girlfriend 50 times after she dumped him in 'brutal and barbaric murder'

A jilted British man was jailed for 19 years today for stabbing his ex girlfriend nearly 50 times after she dumped him. Judges called Alan Daulby's attack on the blonde bar worker ‘brutal and barbaric’ as they sentenced him to just one year short of the maximum jail term that prosecutors were demanding. A jury last month found the 27-year-old British expat guilty of the stabbing murder of Irish woman Avril Flanagan, 20, at his flat on Spain's Costa Blanca on May 29, 2009.

He was convicted of knifing her 47 times around the head, neck, chest, arms and legs before hiding her body in plastic sheeting under his sofa as part of a clinical clean-up of the murder scene and going on the run. Mr Daulby, 27, from Liverpool, Merseyside confessed to killing Miss Flanagan at the end of his trial but claimed he had confused her with an intruder after bingeing on drink and drugs and panicked when he woke up to find her dead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181125/Jilted-Alan-Daulby-stabbed-lover-50-times-dumped-him.html

New internet drug kills 14 young Swedes

All known victims of the substance 5-IT were men in their twenties, autopsied after the National Board of Forensic Medicine (Rättsmedicinalverket) suspected their deaths were caused by overdoses, wrote national newspaper Dagens Nyheter. FHI warns of the dangers associated with online drugs. “Often several different substances have been mixed into the powder or tablets that people buy, without their knowledge. And on chat forums different dosages are recommended. This makes the online drugs deadly,” said FHI’s investigator Anders Persson to the newspaper. Despite the dangers, drugs sold over the Internet have exploded in popularity over the past couple of years, and authorities have difficulty keeping up with the constant stream of new ecstasy and amphetamine-type stimulant substances.

http://www.thelocal.se/42284/20120728/

Man held for setting former partner on fire

"We have detained a man for attempted murder with an alternative charge of aggravated assault," said Kent Lind at Dalarna police to the Aftonbladet daily. The woman is reported to have gone home to her former partner on Saturday evening to leave their 5-year-old daughter and to inform him that she had begun a new relationship. According to information from several family members, the man became angry, poured petrol over her and set her alight. The woman sustained severe burns in the attack and is currently in the care of Linköping University Hospital. According to information obtained by the newspaper the woman is very badly hurt and will be keep in a drug-induced coma for an extended period of time. The former couple's five-year-old daughter is thought to have witnessed the attack. The man was detained by police after the attack and was on Sunday formally arrested on suspicion of attempted murder with an alternative charge of aggravated assault.

http://www.thelocal.se/42306/20120730/

100 peacocks die in Pakistan

Officials on Monday confirmed the deaths of at least 60 peacocks in Thar desert, part of southern Sindh province, over the last week. Local reports say more than 100 of the exotic birds have died. The wildlife ministry said tests were being done to diagnose the cause of death, but said the wild peacocks had been weakened by starvation, deforestation and a lack of safe drinking water blamed on delays to the annual monsoon rains. "Wild peacocks have become susceptible to bacterial and fungal attack, which further suppressed the immunity of the birds that paved the room for viral attack," it said. Experts are alarmed by the number of deaths, suspecting they may have been afflicted with Newcastle disease, known locally as ranikhet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/9437944/100-peacocks-die-in-Pakistan.html

Rowdy group of eight women stab Manhattan subway rider after he makes wisecrack

A 63-year-old Vietnam veteran from Queens was stabbed on a Manhattan subway train Sunday after making a sarcastic comment about a rowdy gang of eight girls and young women, cops said. Ralph Carnegary of Queens said the raucous riders were being so loud “you couldn’t hear yourself think” as their downtown-bound 6 train neared the 23rd St. station about 6 a.m, officials said. Carnegary, who lives in a veterans shelter in Long Island City, was on his way to work as a souvenir vendor on Wall St. “I couldn’t identify the girl who stabbed me. All my attention was on the knife coming at me,” Carnegary told the Daily News Sunday night. He said the girls turned on him after they overheard him talking to his pal, James Santiago, about how noisy they were. “I just said, ‘Those girls must be retarded because they can’t hear each other talk,’” Carnegary recalled.

Within a second, the furious gals, whose ages range from 15 to 20, went berserk and started pummeling Carnegary with their fists. He was trying to block the blows when he heard another girl yell, “Go for him” and a third girl say, “Cut him.” One of his attackers plunged a knife into Carnegary’s left shoulder, leaving a wound that required seven stitches. “I didn’t think they were actually going to knife me. The oldest one didn’t look no more than 18 or 19. I couldn’t believe they did that,” he said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/rowdy-group-women-stab-manhattan-subway-rider-tells-calm-article-1.1124361

Buried alive, suffocated by dirt: Lesbian couple confesses to torture, murder of college student

A lesbian couple admitted to luring one of the women’s former lovers into the woods, beating her and strangling her, and finally burying her in a shallow grave as she took her last breaths. Pennsylvania prosecutors are weighing whether to seek the death penalty for Jade Olmstead and Ashley Barber, the Erie Times-News reported. Their victim, Olmstead’s 20-year-old ex Brandy Stevens, suffocated on the dirt they shoveled into the grave they’d dug in advance of the horrific crime, autopsy results showed. On May 17, the two women told police, Olmstead convinced Stevens to come see a fort she was building in the woods outside their home near Cochranton. Barber, Olmstead’s new girlfriend, was lying in wait at the scene.

They savagely beat Stevens, stuffing a cap into her mouth because “they were freaking out from her screams,” state police Trooper Eric Mallory testified. Barber strangled Stevens with a rope as Olmstead continued to bludgeon her, and head-butted her so hard that she bruised her own forehead. Olmstead and Barber rolled Stevens into the makeshift grave, they said. When they saw that she was still breathing, they slammed a rock into her face and poured water into her nose and mouth before piling on the dirt that eventually killed her.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/buried-alive-suffocated-dirt-lesbian-couple-confesses-torture-murder-college-student-article-1.1124416

Richmond man jumps in front of 18-wheeler after stabbing girlfriend

A 33-year-old Richmond man, who died after standing in front of an 18-wheeler Sunday night, had earlier stabbed his girlfriend multiple times, police said. Jack Lopez, 33, and his girlfriend Stacy McDonald, 34, got into an argument Saturday evening at their apartment complex at 2010 Thompson Highway in Richmond, according to the Richmond Police Department. Lopez allegedly stabbed the woman multiple times. She was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital by LifeFlight. Officials said she was in serious but stable condition at the time of the initial report. No update on her condition was immediately available. Officers said Lopez then drove his car to U.S. 59 near Highway 6 in Sugar Land and parked his car in the HOV lane. He got out of his car and stepped in front of an 18-wheeler. He died around 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Richmond-man-jumps-in-front-of-18-wheeler-after-3746331.php

Man fined after child killed by pit bull

A Melbourne man has been fined $11,000 over the death of a four-year-old girl who was attacked by a pit bull terrier last year. Lazor Josevski, 58, of St Albans, pleaded guilty to four charges over the death of Ayen Chol, 4, who was attacked and killed inside her own home by a neighbour's pit bull terrier. The dog, which had no previous history of being violent, escaped from the backyard of Josevski's home when the roller door on his garage failed to close.

The animal attacked three people outside the house and was beaten off with a handbag. But it followed a young child inside and mauled Ayen Chol as she grabbed her mother's legs. Josevski pleaded guilty to charges of owning a dog that attacked and killed a person, two counts of owning a dog that caused serious injury and owning an unregistered dog. It was the first time Josevski has appeared in court to face the family. He was minding the dog for his son, who was overseas.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-30/man-fined-over-fatal-dog-attack/4163046

Horror as seven killed after truck smashes head-on into van carrying 80,000lb of soda on freeway

Seven people were killed in a fiery head-on collision on the freeway near Phoenix, Arizona when a semitrailer truck crossed the median and slammed into a van on Sunday. Department of Public Safety spokesman Carrick Cook said all of the van’s occupants died in the crash that happened on Interstate 10 near the town of Salome. The tractor-trailer was traveling in the westbound lanes near the Burnt Wells rest area at around 11am when it crossed the highway’s median and hit the van in the eastbound lanes, according to Cook.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180872/Seven-killed-truck-smashes-head-van-carrying-80-000lb-soda-freeway.html

32 people burned to death after inferno rips through overnight express train while they slept

Thirty two sleeping passengers were killed last night as a fire tore through an express train carriage in India. The horrific blaze broke out on a long distance service from New Delhi as passengers slept in the early hours near the town of Nellore, in Andhra, Pradesh. The most likely cause is believed to be an electrical short circuit as investigators got under way.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181026/India-train-32-people-burned-death-inferno-rips-overnight-express-slept.html

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Ebola virus kills 13 in Uganda

The CDC, WHO and local authorities are working together to combat an outbreak of the deadly and untreatable Ebola virus that killed at least 13 people in Uganda; a previous outbreak in 2000 killed 224.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/outbreak-ebola-virus-kills-13-uganda-article-1.1124030

3 Killed, 1 Injured In Crash Near Craig

CRAIG, Colo. -- Three men were killed when the car they were in slammed head-on into a tractor-trailer near Craig in northwestern Colorado. Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis says the men, whose names have not been released, were traveling on U.S. Highway 40 when they crashed in to the semi just after 3 a.m. Saturday. All three were pronounced dead at the scene, and the driver of the semi suffered what Lewis described as moderate injuries.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31314287/detail.html

Serial killer sentenced to death in SW China

KUNMING - A man was sentenced to death on Saturday for killing 11 people in Southwest China's Yunnan province, a court ruling said. Zhang Yongming, 57, was accused of fatally strangling 11 people in Jinning county from March 2008 to April 2012, according to the Kunming Intermediate People's Court ruling. After the murders, Zhang used various means, including dismemberment, burning and burial, to destroy the evidence, it said. Zhang was given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve in 1979 for the crime of intentional homicide. He was released in September 1997 after receiving a number of sentence reductions, the ruling said. Zhang was given a piece of land by the village and a subsistence allowance from the local government, but he did not feel grateful and continued to commit crimes, the ruling said. Zhang did not show any remorse in court and refused to apologize to the relatives of the victims.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-07/28/content_15627892.htm

3 shot dead in Pa.; girl taken, found safe in Ohio

QUINCY, Pa. - July 28, 2012 (WPVI) -- A man in south-central Pennsylvania confronting his wife about custody arrangements for their daughter shot to death three people, then fled with the 4-year-old girl before the two were found about 250 miles away in Ohio, authorities said Saturday. Kevin Cleeves was trying to contact his wife Friday to make arrangements to pick up his daughter Leia, but she didn't answer the phone, so he went to a home in Quincy Township, the (Waynesboro) Record-Herald reported, citing court records. Police said Cleeves, 35, found a woman and a man sitting in a car and began arguing with them, then was ordered to leave. He then shot to death both of them as well as another woman and took the girl, authorities alleged.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8752756

Man arrested after triple killing in Sydney's west

New South Wales Police have confirmed three people are dead and a man has been arrested after a shocking incident at a home in Sydney's west. Superintendent Peter Lennon said officers were called to a ground floor unit on Melbourne Road, at the corner of Canley Vale Road, in St John's Park just after 7:00am (AEST). Superintendent Lennon said there police found the bodies of two men and a woman. All the bodies were found in the main bedroom, with two on the bed and one on the floor beside the bed. He said there was a lot of blood inside the unit, and that the bodies of two dogs had also been found at the scene.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-29/three-reported-dead-after-st-johns-park-incident/4161818

Tragedy as girl, 13, 'runs over and kills 17-year-old mother while on a joyride in truck she stole from her parents' home'

A 13-year-old girl could face second-degree murder charges after stealing her parents’ truck then crashing into and killing a 17-year-old driver. The suspect was speeding away from authorities when she careered into another car - killing the driver, Aubrey Nothum, who has a one-year-old son. The suspect and her 11-year-old brother, who was a passenger in the truck, suffered non-life threatening injuries.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180359/Girl-13-stole-truck-parents-hits-kills-17-year-old-mother.html

Man, 33, 'murdered his elderly parents at their home before abducting adopted sister, 12'

A 33-year-old who fled after allegedly murdering his church-going elderly parents and abducting his 12-year-old adopted sister has been found with the girl nearly 150 miles away. Police had launched a massive manhunt for Antonio Whitlow after his parents were found dead at their home in Little Rock, Arkansas and his younger sister, Amber Whitlow, was missing. They have now been found on foot in Memphis, Tennessee after police 'received information'. They have been taken into custody and the girl does not show any signs of physical injury, police said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180506/Antonio-Whitlow-Man-33-killed-parents-abducting-adopted-sister-12.html

Thug who shot policeman in the face as he begged for his life sentenced to death for murder

A man who killed a police officer by shooting him in the face while he pleaded for his life has been sentenced to death. Jerry Lard was found guilty of capital murder on Thursday, 15 months after gunning down officer Jonathan Schmidt during a routine traffic stop in Truman, Arkansas. A judge accepted the jury's recommendation that the 38-year-old killer should receive the death sentence for his crime.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180499/Thug-shot-policeman-face-begged-life-sentenced-death-murder.html

Father kills seven-year-old daughter and shoots son in head before turning gun on himself in horrific murder-suicide after wife left him

In Oxford, Massachusetts, a seven-year-old girl is dead and her nine-year-old brother seriously injured with a gunshot wound to the head after their 41-year-old father apparently shot both before turning the gun on himself, ending his own life. Authorities said that a family member found the bodies of 41-year-old Daryl Benway and his daughter, Abigail, on Saturday night in their Oxford home. Benway's 9-year-old son, Owen, was shot in the head and taken to a hospital in serious condition. Abigail and her father were found in the master bedroom of the Benway's 128 Main St. residence and his seriously injured son was discovered in the kitchen and transported to UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center in a critical condition.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180519/Father-kills-daughter-shoots-son-head-turning-gun-horrific-murder-suicide-wife-leaves-him.html

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Prague zoo gorilla hangs himself

A gorilla accidentally hanged himself at Prague zoo.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic/9433146/Prague-zoo-gorilla-hangs-himself.html

Syrian troops kill 6-year-old fleeing into Jordan

The boy, killed in the early hours Friday, was the first Syrian shot to death by border guards while trying to escape into neighboring Jordan from the bloodshed of their homeland's 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad. The slaying underlined not only the dangers of the passage, but the fine line Syria's neighbors have to tread in trying to help Syrians while avoiding being dragged into the conflict.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/syrian-troops-kill-6-year-old-fleeing-jordan-article-1.1123809

Maryland police arrest possible Aurora copycat in workplace shooting threat

A possible Colorado copycat, armed to the teeth and billing himself as “a joker,” was arrested Friday after threatening a mass shooting at his Maryland workplace, authorities said. Neil Prescott, wearing a T-shirt declaring “Guns don’t kill people, I do,” was busted at his Maryland home — where cops found a lethal arsenal of 25 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. “What we believe was a significant threat has been averted,” Prince George’s County Police Chief Mark McGaw told a news conference after the 28-year-old suspect was arrested.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/maryland-cops-thwart-aurora-theater-shooting-copycat-discover-gun-stash-included-20-weapons-400-rounds-ammo-article-1.1123265

Horror as father 'pushes baby and ex out of third-floor window... then climbs down fire escape to attack them again'

A 19-year-old father has been arrested after he pushed his ex-girlfriend and three-month-old baby out a third-floor window then climbed down the fire escape so he could continue attacking them as they lay unconscious on the ground. Frederico Bruno, of Belleville, New Jersey, was found hiding in a refrigerator on Friday evening after the brutal attack, which has left the 20-year-old woman and her baby fighting for their lives, according to NBC News. Police said Bruno let himself in to his former girlfriend's Jersey City apartment on Friday morning and hid while he waited for her to come home.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180169/Horror-father-Frederico-Bruno-pushes-ex-girlfriend-baby-floor-window.html

Friday, July 27, 2012

Crazed gunman shoots dead innocent bystander and dog and injures two police officers after 'fight with ex-lover'

A man was shot dead in a hail of bullets fired by a crazed gunman engaged in a deadly stand-off with police. He got caught up in Thursday night's gunfire as he sat in his car in the Indianapolis town of Pendleton. The unnamed victim was fatally shot by Jim Kenneth Bailey when the killer opened fire on two policemen responding to reports of shots being fired. After a seven-hour manhunt Bailey then turned the gun on himself. One of the officers, Marty Dulworth, was fighting for his life following the violent attack. He was air-lifted to hospital where he remains in a critical condition, undergoing surgery, having been shot in both legs.

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Adding to the tragedy Dulworth's dog, Kilo, was also caught up in the gunfire and was killed, indystar.com reported.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179866/Pendleton-shooting-Crazed-gunman-Jim-Kenneth-Bailey-shoots-dead-innocent-bystander-dog.html

Witches’ Sabbath by Frans Francken

Witches’ Sabbath

•Object: Oil painting
•Place of origin: Antwerp (city), Belgium (painted)
•Date: 1606 (painted)
Artist/Maker: Francken, Frans (II), born 1581 - died 1642 (painter (artist))

The Victoria and Albert Museum

Wall collapse kills 11 people in central Indonesia

MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — Police say 11 people were killed when a high concrete wall collapsed in a housing complex on central Indonesia's Sulawesi island. South Sulawesi police chief Maj. Gen. Johny Waenal Usman says the 23-foot-high (7-meter-high) wall collapsed and buried several houses Sunday in a housing estate in Makassar, the largest city on Sulawesi. Usman says rescuers found 11 bodies, including a 7-year-old boy, buried under debris. Eight injured people were taken to hospitals, many with cuts, broken bones and head wounds. Police are investigating the cause of the incident, which occurred during a heavy downpour. Last week, a busy bridge collapsed on central Indonesia's Borneo island, leaving at least 21 people dead and scores missing and feared dead.

http://news.yahoo.com/wall-collapse-kills-11-people-central-indonesia-142450799.html?_esi=1

Man steals dog, drags it to death after car

Police in county Småland in southern Sweden are searching for a man in his fifties who tied a dog to his car and dragged it after his vehicle for over an hour.

http://www.thelocal.se/42258/20120727/

Chopper crash kills six Eurocopter staff

All six people on board a helicopter owned by the chopper manufacturer Eurocopter died on Wednesday when the aircraft plunged into a mountain in south-eastern France, sources said.

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/chopper-crash-kills-six-eurocopter-staff-sources

Man kills father, brother in Alp village shooting

A 23-year-old man killed his father and 8-year-old brother, and left his 17-year-old brother in a coma after a shooting spree in the village of Bozel in Savoie in eastern France.

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/young-man-kills-father-brother-in-alpine-shooting

Party kiss murder: Teen named

Theodore Derrick-Hardie was just 17 when he pulled out a knife and stabbed Warren Rosillo at a birthday party last year. Derrick-Hardie had initially pleaded not guilty to murder but changed his plea on Monday morning, the day his trial was due to start at the High Court in Auckland. The court heard this morning how Derrick-Hardie carried knives in the months leading up to the killing and discussed stabbing people on the social networking website Facebook. On July 29 he and his ex-girlfriend were at a birthday party in the east Auckland suburb of Pakuranga.

Crown prosecutor Warren Cathcart told the court that Derrick-Hardie's ex had been flirting and talking with Mr Rosillo before Derrick-Hardie asked her to leave with him. They went to the front of the property where an argument broke out. Mr Cathcart said Mr Rosillo stepped in. Derrick-Hardie accused his ex-girlfriend of being unfaithful. She responded by kissing Mr Rosillo who returned the kiss. Derrick-Hardie grabbed Mr Rosillo by the neck, and stabbed him in the chest, face and abdomen. Mr Rosillo died at the scene.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10822567

Christian Pilgrims operator stole $400,000 by organising tours to the Holy Land which never happened

-John Baird was jailed for five years after pocketing money from 138 customers

-Many of his devoutly religious clients were elderly and of limited means

-He advertised in Catholic magazines and enlisted church leaders to endorse his trips

-Instead he used their money to pay for groceries, baseball tickets and his mortgage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179197/John-Laird-Christian-Pilgrims-operator-stole-400-000-organising-tours-Holy-Land-happened.html

Man sought in boy's killing is impaled, dies

DELANO, Calif. -- A man wanted in the beating death of a 2-year-old Kern County boy has been killed in a gruesome accident, authorities said Monday. Delano police made the revelation after the mother of Juan Felix, Noemi Mendoza, 23, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading no contest to willful cruelty to a child, The Bakersfield Californian reported. Juan died after being taken to a hospital in January 2011 by the mother's live-in boyfriend, Cesar Osuna. An autopsy performed on the boy showed that he died from blunt force trauma. He suffered multiple rib fractures, tearing of abdominal membranes and a skull fracture, according to Delano police reports filed in court. Mendoza was charged for leaving her child in the custody of someone considered dangerous, said Kern County prosecutor Arthur Norris. There were indications the boy had been abused on other occasions, Norris said. After Juan's death, Osuna fled to Mexico, where he worked in construction. While on the job, he touched a live wire, fell and was impaled on a fence, said Delano police Cmdr. Lynn Venables.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/07/24/20120724california-man-sought-boys-killing-impaled-dies.html

Fukushima couple stabbed to death in home

FUKUSHIMA — Police in Fukushima said Friday they have arrested an unemployed 45-year-old man in connection with the murders of a couple who were found murdered at their home on Thursday. Police said the suspect, identified as Akihito Yokokura, allegedly stabbed to death 55-year-old Nobuhiro Endo and his wife 56-year-old Yukiyo Endo at their home in Aizumisato. Their bodies were found at around 6 a.m. on Thursday by family members, TBS reported. A blood-stained knife, that police believe to be the murder weapon, was also discovered nearby. Police said that an eyewitness reported seeing a man running from the area at around the time police estimate the murder took place.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/fukushima-couple-stabbed-to-death-in-home

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Killed by a pheasant: Motorcyclist dies after bird flies into him at 60mph

A motorcyclist was killed in a freak accident after he was knocked off his bike by a flying pheasant. Musician Matthew Johnson, 32, was thrown off balance when the bird flew out from a near-side hedge and hit the side of his helmet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179414/Killed-pheasant-Motorcyclist-killed-bird-flies-60mph.html

Wife, son suffered depraved abuse before crossbow killing at library

TORONTO - Zhou “Peter” Fang and his mother Nora Fang suffered graphic abuse and degradation that is too obscene and depraved for any Hollywood script. “William” Si Cheng tormented his son “Peter” Fang since he was a crying one-month-old baby until the 24-year-old killed him in a crowded Toronto public library in December 2010. Senior forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hy Bloom described the Fangs’ abuse case as “one of the worst and most chronic child and spousal abuse scenarios he has ever encountered.”

READ ON: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/25/wife-son-suffered-depraved-abuse-before-crossbow-killing-at-library

Nigerian husband of six ‘raped to death’ by wives demanding his attention

I just don't know what to say to this...

A well known man married to six women in a small Nigerian town has allegedly been “raped to death” by his wives. Uroko Onoja, a businessman living in Ogbadibo, returned from a local bar at 3 a.m. and headed to his youngest wife’s room. At that time, the other wives - who are said to have planned their attack while Onoja was away - entered the young woman’s room “with knives and sticks, demanding that their husband have sex with all of them at once,” Nigeria’s Daily Post reports. Onoja allegedly stopped breathing when the fifth wife was en route to his bed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/nigerian-husband-raped-death-wives-demanding-attention-article-1.1121792

113 dead kittens found in apartment in coastal California town; 51 found alive but neglected in nearby house

SEASIDE, Calif. - Authorities said they found 113 dead kittens in an apartment believed to belong to a cat hoarder, and dozens of ailing adult cats were discovered in a nearby house. None of the dead kittens appeared to be more than two months old, they said. Seaside police and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County discovered the animals on Tuesday, SPCA Sgt. Stacy Sanders said. Officers were alerted by a property manager who discovered dead kittens during an inspection.

They received another tip that more cats were moved to a nearby house. There, another group of investigators found 51 adult cats that were alive but sick and neglected. "The cats were living in extremely horrible conditions," Sanders said. "They were separated into two groups and locked into rooms with little to no ventilation. The floors were saturated in urine and feces." Officers stayed about six hours to recover all the cats because an occupant in the house had lost count of how many were there. "We had to go through every nook and cranny, pull apart every bed and chair," Sanders said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/113-dead-kittens-found-apartment-coastal-california-town-51-found-alive-neglected-nearby-house-article-1.1122124

Burglar who called 911 after finding victim’s body gets prison term

A 38-year-old Leavenworth man, who called 911 after finding a woman’s body in the home he was burglarizing, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison. Bryon Keylon admitted that on Jan. 8, he broke into a home in the 1900 block of South Fourth Street in Leavenworth. Once inside, he found a dead woman and called police, according to the Leavenworth County Attorney’s office. When police responded, they found the woman in her bed with no indication of foul play.

During their investigation, police found that a window had been broken and learned that the woman’s purse was missing. They also found a button in the broken window. Police asked Keylon why he was in the house, and they noticed that his jacket’s buttons matched the one they found. Keylon eventually admitted to entering the home through the broken window and throwing the purse in a trash bin nearby.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/25/3723313/burglar-who-called-911-after-finding.html

Man who shot St. Charles County deputies is killed after stabbing officer

O'FALLON, Mo. • Deputies shot and killed a man who shot two deputies in an ambush early today and stabbed a police officer who was trying to capture him after a long manhunt near O'Fallon, the St. Charles County sheriff said. One St. Charles County deputy was shot in the wrist; the other was shot twice in the arm and hit by flying glass after bullets shattered a window on his patrol car at about 1 a.m. today. Their injuries were not life-threatening.

Then, at about 5:30 a.m., a St. Louis County police officer who was part of that department's SWAT team was stabbed by the suspect as the man confronted a team of searchers. The SWAT member was stabbed in the shoulder; he was wearing heavy gear, and the wound wasn't life threatening, said Sheriff's Lt. David Tiefenbrunn. Just as the officer was stabbed, other officers in the group fatally shot the suspect, a 61-year-old man from the Wentzville area. The officers who fired at him were just feet away, Tiefenbrunn added.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/sheriff-man-who-shot-st-charles-county-deputies-is-killed/article_faa3f99a-d645-11e1-9010-001a4bcf6878.html

Man convicted of stuffing woman's body in suitcase and leaving it among trash on sidewalk

A man who admitted hitting a woman with a frying pan and strangling her before stuffing her body in a suitcase and abandoning it on the street has been jailed for 20 years. Hassan Malik, 57, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Betty Williams, 28, whose body was found in the suitcase left among trash on a sidewalk in New York City, U.S., three days before Christmas in 2010. Malik, from East Harlem, who was on probation due to an unrelated attempted robbery case at the time of the killing, apologised to the victim's family as he was sentenced in Manhattan's State Supreme Court.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178567/Hassan-Malik-convicted-stuffing-womans-body-suitcase-leaving-trash-New-York-sidewalk.html

Mystery of the beast of the East River: Was washed-up pig really a dead rat - or even a dog?

Dubbed the 'Manhattan monster', a horrifying mystery creature with a mutilated face, snarling snout and five toes on each foot has washed up under the Brooklyn Bridge, perplexing New Yorkers. Amateur photographer Denise Ginley snapped the ghoulish pink carcass while walking along the East River on Sunday and the grisly images, first published by The Gothamist on Monday, have sparked an array of conspiracy theories as to whether it is a giant water-logged rodent, a cooked pig that a family couldn't fit in, a ballooned dog or some other, more sinister, being. 'We were horrified by it and we took some camera phone pictures and then finally we decided to come back with my camera and I got up the courage to climb over the fence and get closer to it,' Ms Ginley told blog Animal NY.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179062/The-beast-East-River-Was-washed-pig-really-dead-rat-maybe-dog.html

Man 'high on bath salts' beat girl, 7, unconscious in attempt to steal her little pink bike

An Alaska jury has convicted a man of assault and robbery charges for delivering a knockout punch to a then-7-year-old girl when she refused to give up her bike. Byron Syvinski, 34, of Anchorage, was convicted on Wednesday of robbery and six counts of assault in the June 2011 incident. He was accused of punching Am-marie Martin in the head. She fell unconscious and he allegedly hit her several more times. KTUU reported the child, who is now eight years old, was present in the courtroom to hear the verdict. However, she did not testify during the trial.

The vicious attack left Am-marie with skull fractures and a brain injury. Although she has since recovered, her mother said the little girl still suffers from headaches and has difficulties reading and writing. Police said Syvinski appeared to be delirious during his arrest. The defense said he was using bath salts, which mimic effects of cocaine and ecstasy, but there was no trace of them in his system following the attack. During the trial, the doctor who treated Syvinski after the attack confirmed the diagnosis of drug-induced psychosis, rejecting the idea that the defendant was suffering from a mental illness.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179084/Man-guilty-beating-girl-7-unconscious-attempt-steal-little-pink-bike-high-bath-salts.html

Armed robbers drowned boy, 12, in bath of boiling water after they raped his mother and killed both his parents as they feared he would recognise them

A 12-year-old boy was drowned in a bath of boiling water by robbers who raped his mother before killing both his parents in a violent house robbery. Three men broke into the family's home in Walkerville, Johannesburg, where they assaulted and shot dead Tony Viana, 53, and brutally raped and killed his wife, Geraldine. They then tied up and gagged the sobbing boy, Amaro, and pushed him into a bath of boiling hot water to drown him, 'because he would be able to identify them'.

The family’s gardener, Patrick Petrus Radebe, 24, their domestic servant’s son, Sipho Mbele, 21, pleaded guilty to three charges of murder and one charge of rape each, reported Sowetan Live. David Motaung, 20, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to robbery charges. They then left the South African court and walked back their cells laughing, according to Beeld newspaper. The family dog was killed by having his stomach cut open.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179171/Walkerville-family-murders-Horrific-death-boy-12-drowned-boiling-water-robbers-raped-mother.html

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Four masked men break into migrant's home and rip off his penis after he 'had affairs with local women'

Police are hunting four masked men who burst into a man's house in the middle of the night and ripped off his penis. Fei Lin, 41, was asleep in bed at his home in Niqiao village near Wenling city in east China's Zhejiang province when the attackers struck at 4am.

The men put a bag over his head, Mr Lin told police. He said: 'They put something over my head and pulled down my trousers and then they ran off. 'I was so shocked I didn't feel a thing - then I saw I was bleeding and my penis was gone.' It is thought Mr Lin was targeted because he had been having a number of affairs with local married women.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178820/Four-masked-men-break-migrant-Romeos-home-rip-penis.html

Woman 'tied up at gunpoint, stunned, handcuffed and put in a bondage mask before being raped' escapes attacker's home

A woman who was bound, gagged, stunned, raped and held captive at a man's home was dramatically rescued when she managed to break free from her ties and run from the house. The 40-year-old victim was running naked and screaming from the Clermont, Orlando, home of Terry McBride, 31, when she was spotted by neighbor Joe Sambuco who was mowing his lawn. McBride fled from the scene but was later arrested on charges of sexual battery and false imprisonment.

Mr Sambuco told WKMG Local 6: 'I was out here cutting my lawn, heard some screaming, there was a white guy chasing a black girl. 'She was bound in handcuffs, with her feet and her hands behind her back. She had one of those bondage masks on (and) when I looked over she was getting beaten by him. 'So I ran in the house, grabbed my son, he dialed 911. We ran back out (and) when I came back over to that house, he jumped off of her, started walking back to that house across the street there, and at that point I ran across the street to help the girl,' he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178387/Terry-McBride-Woman-tied-gunpoint-tasered-handcuffed-bondage-mask-raped-escapes.html

Plumber arrested after burning ex with acid

A 44-year-old Italian plumber is behind bars after being arrested for pouring sulfuric acid over his former girlfriend and her partner in a Geneva suburb.

http://www.thelocal.ch/page/view/plumber-arrested-after-burning-ex-with-acid

Sunbed tanning kills 800 per year

Sunbed tanning causes 800 melanoma deaths in Europe every year, with indoor tanners running a 20 percent higher risk of developing skin cancer, according to a new French-Italian study.

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/sunbed-tanning-causes-800-deaths-per-year-study

9-months pregnant Amish woman, unborn child killed by lightning strike

A pregnant Amish woman picking berries in the woods near her Pennsylvania home was killed by lightning along with her unborn baby.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/9-months-pregnant-amish-woman-unborn-child-killed-lightning-strike-article-1.1121418

Monsignor Lynn sentenced to 3-6 years for Catholic child-sex-abuse

The sentencing of Monsignor William J. Lynn of Philadelphia marks the first time a U.S. Roman Catholic official has been given a prison sentence for covering up child abuse in the Church. The judge told Lynn he had let 'monsters...destroy the souls of children.'

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/monsignor-lynn-sentenced-3-6-years-catholic-child-sex-abuse-article-1.1121189

Prestigious public school housemaster jailed for sexually assaulting five boys during 20-year campaign of abuse

A housemaster at one of Britain’s most prestigious public schools was jailed for 11 years today after being found guilty of sexually assaulting five young boys during a ‘20-year campaign of abuse’. Predatory paedophile Bruce Roth, 46, would sneak into the dormitory of £30,000-a-year Wellington College to molest his victims as they slept. He was also convicted of assaulting two eight-year-old boys at £26,000-a-year King’s School, in Kent, where he worked before his recent post at the Berkshire boarding school. Throughout the trial, the court heard that ‘highly manipulative’ maths teacher Roth had performed sex acts on some of the boys and had encouraged one child to do the same to him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178403/Bruce-Roth-Prestigious-public-school-housemaster-jailed-sexually-assaulting-boys-20-year-campaign.html

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

German Shepherd Mix Mauled to Death by Mountain Lion

GLENDALE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A mountain lion mauled a 1-year-old German-Belgian Shepherd mix to death on Saturday in Glendale, officials said. The dog, named "Cookie," was last seen Friday night before her owners went to bed for the evening at their home in the 1800 block of Emerald Terrace. The following morning at about 8:30 a.m., they discovered that Cookie had been killed.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-glendale-dog-mauled-mountain-lion,0,622513.story

Video confession of beating, dismembering victim played in Fresno courtroom

A prosecutor on Monday played Brian Waldron's videotaped confession with police -- a chilling account of how the former Fresno paralegal beat a 21-year-old man to death with a metal pipe, cut up the body in a bathtub, then buried the remains in a shallow grave near Courtright Reservoir nearly four years ago.

(...)

Waldron is charged with murder and mutilation of a corpse, because police said he didn't call 911 after the killing and had cleaned up the bloody mess inside his apartment before surrendering to police. He also put charcoal with the remains to hide the odor, according to his police interview.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/07/23/2919547/in-video-fresno-suspect-describes.html

1 dead, 13 wounded in shootings since Monday night

A 17-year-old boy is dead and at least 13 others have been wounded in shootings since Monday night.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/13965148-418/1-dead-13-wounded-in-shootings-since-monday-night.html

'Suicide' pilot flies into cliff with his pet dog by his side: Former Navy commander left a note before dying in fireball

A Former Royal Navy officer has died after apparently deliberately crashing his light aircraft into cliffs with his beloved dog in the cockpit next to him. Falklands veteran Andrew Stillwell-Cox, 55, was killed outright with his border collie Archie as the plane burst into flames on impact. Witnesses watched in horror from the beach below near Porthreath, on the North Cornwall coast.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177661/Retired-Navy-commander-died-light-aircraft-crashed-deliberately-flown-plane-cliff.html

Lesbian woman, 33, tied up and stripped naked by masked home invaders who carved words into her BODY and daubed hate slogans on walls of her home

Three masked men broke into a woman's home, bound her hands and feet before carving anti-gay slurs into her body in a vicious hate crime, authorities said. The attackers also spray-painted 'we found you ****' on a wall at the woman's home and tried to set it on fire. Police in Lincoln, Nebraska refused to elaborate on what had been carved into the 33-year-old woman's body with a knife in the horrific attack on Saturday night.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178033/Lesbians-home-stormed-masked-men-carve-anti-gay-slurs-body.html

Teenage girl's 'feet sawn off while she was still ALIVE' and her dismembered was body found stuffed in duffel bag'

Police were told the killer of teenager Carina Saunders may have sawn her feet off while she was still alive, it emerged today. Documents reveal a witness told officers one of the men charged with Carina's murder beat her, tied her to a table and tortured her by sawing off her left foot. The suspect then tried to cut off the 19-year-old's right foot before the saw broke, it was claimed. Carina's dismembered body was found in a duffel bag in Bethany, Oklahoma City, in October 2011, 15 miles away from her home in Mustang. Authorities believe she was murdered to scare female witnesses so they would cooperate with a drug and human trafficking ring that the suspects were allegedly involved in.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178189/Two-men-charged-horrific-torture-murder-dismembered-woman-dumped-duffel-bag-feet-sawn-alive.html

Fishing trip turns to horror as man finds 248 human foetuses dumped in Russian forest

A Russian fishing trip turned to horror when a man collecting firewood in the dead of night stumbled across hundreds of human foetuses scattered in the woods. The 248 embryos, which were already formed into babies' bodies, had been stashed inside four huge vats of formaldehyde and dumped near the town of Nevyansk, in the industrial heart of Russia's Ural Mountains. It is unclear how long the 15-centimetre bodies, aged between 12 and 16 weeks, had been lying there, but some had shrunk as if mummified.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178232/Fishing-trip-turns-horror-man-finds-248-human-foetuses-scattered-Russian-forest-collects-wood-campfire.html

Monday, July 23, 2012

Young woman beaten for being a 'bad Muslim'

The young woman, originally from Morocco, was driving home from the party on Friday night when two other cars trapped hers, newspaper Midi Libre reports. The men are reported to have beaten her up before leaving without saying anything. After they had left, the woman drove home. Shortly afterwards, she headed towards the local police station to report the attack. On her way to the station, the seven men tracked her down again and assaulted her a second a time. According to the woman, the men issued threats and said: “You are a bad Muslim”, and “you bring shame to Islam because you went to a party on a day of Ramadan.”

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/young-woman-beaten-for-being-a-bad-muslim

Jeweller kills thief in 'self-defence' shooting

Fuck that piece of shit scum... let him die...

The jeweller, named Alain, 60, shot the man last week after he entered the shop, in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, with a pistol in his hand. It was the third time Alain’s shop had been burgled, with the thieves shooting at him on both previous occasions. An autopsy revealed the man had been shot twice, in the shoulder and the hip. The jeweller, who had a licence for the gun he kept in his safe at the shop, has been released on bail and banned from keeping a firearm. Alain’s lawyer, Laurent-Franck Liénard, told news agency AFP his client would be claiming he acted in self-defence. “He regrets the death of the man, but is sure he didn’t have any other choice. It was either him or the thief.”

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/jeweller-shoots-thief-in-self-defence

Father and child jump to death into the sea fleeing Spain fire

A vacationing French family of five jumped off a seaside cliff in a desperate attempt to escape a raging wildfire, with the father and one of his children plummeting some 165 feet to their deaths, authorities said on Monday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/9421019/Father-and-child-jump-to-death-into-the-sea-fleeing-Spain-fire.html

3 killed, 28 hurt in shootings since Friday night

Three men are dead and at least 28 other people wounded from gun violence across the city since Friday night.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/13945436-418/3-killed-28-hurt-in-shootings-since-friday-night.html

Couple dies in Burke shootings

Authorities say they received a 911 call about 4 a.m. Sunday from a man, using a pay phone at a convenience store. The man told authorities he had shot his wife accidentally. Deputies arrived at the couple’s home and found Irene Clemmens dead of a gunshot wound. Jackie Clemmens was nowhere to be found, and deputies began searching for him. He was spotted shortly before 7 a.m. on a nearby road, carrying a shotgun. Deputies say that when they asked Clemmens to put the gun down, he shot and killed himself instead.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/07/23/3399818/couple-dies-in-burke-shootings.html

Five killed in horror crash: Two children among dead after SUV flipped over and burst into flames

An SUV smashed into a concrete pillar and flipped over before bursting into flames killing three adults and two children and reducing the vehicle to a mangled mess. Three adult passengers, all women, an 8-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy were declared dead at the scene on Atlantic Avenue in Queens, New York around 3.15am on Sunday. The 2008 Mercedes Benz SUV was traveling east on the road when it hit a pillar supporting the AirTrain to John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177465/Atlantic-Avenue-crash-2-children-5-dead-New-York-SUV-flipped-burst-flames.html

Schoolgirl, six, killed after mantelpiece collapses on her head at home

A six-year-old public schoolgirl has died from head injuries after a mantelpiece collapsed in the family home. Ambulance crews and medics were unable to save Isabella Pritchard - known as Bella - after being called to the house in Burkes Road, Beaconsfield on the afternoon of Saturday July 7, just days before the end of the school year. Bella, who attended the £10,275 a year Maltman's Green School for Girls in Gerrards Cross, was rushed to Wexham Park Hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177597/Schoolgirl-killed-mantelpiece-collapses-head-home.html

13 dead and 10 injured in horrific Texas crash after pickup smashed into trees

Authorities say a pickup truck has crashed in South Texas, killing at least 13 people in the vehicle and injuring 10 others. Louann Presas, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, says the crash occurred about 7pm on Sunday near Berclair when the truck ran off the highway and crashed into some trees. Presas says all the victims were in the same Ford F-250 pickup. At least 23 people were crammed into the bed and cab of the pickup truck when it veered off a highway and crashed into trees on Sunday evening in Berclair, about 100 miles southeast of San Antonio.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177536/13-dead-12-injured-horrific-Texas-crash-pickup-smashed-trees.html

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Man dies after jumping off Devil's Bridge in Kirkby Lonsdale

A man has died after jumping from a bridge into the River Lune in south Cumbria. It happened just after 17:00 BST on Saturday at a popular, but unsafe jumping spot at Devil's Bridge in Kirkby Lonsdale. The 22-year-old man from Manchester was one of a group who had been jumping from the bridge into the water. (...)

Allan Muirhead, from Kirkby Lonsdale Town Council, said: "It is regrettable that accidents like this do happen, fairly frequently, despite warnings and signs being put up."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-18943954

Crowbar-wielding 'Jesus' threatens 'Antichrist' neighbor in Florida

A Florida man who claims to be Jesus Christ opted not to turn the other cheek, and instead menaced his neighbor with a crowbar, police said. Kenneth David Peterson, 51, said the neighbor in question was, conveniently, the Antichrist, WKMG-TV reported. Cops in Palm Bay investigated a report of a disturbance between the two men Thursday. When they arrived, Peterson was reportedly professing to be Jesus and threatening the neighbor with the crowbar and another weapon.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/crowbar-wielding-jesus-threatens-antichrist-neighbor-florida-article-1.1119590

Man jailed for incest after fathering daughter's three children when she was just FOURTEEN

A 56-year-old man has been jailed after fathering three grandchildren with his daughter. Charles Shamblin Jr is alleged to have had an incestuous relationship with his daughter over a 13 year period. The alleged abuse began when the girl was seven years old and continued until she was 20. Police in Charleston, West Virginia, said the girl gave birth to three children. An investigation into the incest was launched earlier this year when the woman, now aged 35, told police that her father began abusing her when she was seven years old. She told detectives she gave birth to her first daughter when she was 14 years old. Further children followed when she was aged 19 and 20.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177232/Man-jailed-incest-fathering-daughters-children-just-FOURTEEN.html

Ten dead as record rain pounds Beijing

The heaviest rain to hit Beijing in 61 years left at least 10 people dead over the weekend. Torrential rain pounded the capital all day on Saturday, flooding roads and forcing the cancellation of more than 200 flights. More than 30,000 people were forced to evacuate amid the heavy rain, mostly from Beijing's outlying mountainous districts.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-22/ten-dead-as-record-rain-pounds-beijing/4146690

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Christian charity tells schoolchildren abortion 'doubles risk of breast cancer'

A Christian charity has come under fire after it emerged it is teaching schoolchildren that abortion causes holes in the womb, depression and infection. Lovewise, which conducts hundreds of presentations at secondary schools across the UK, claims that women who have abortions are twice as likely to get breast cancer. However, the National Cancer Institute in the U.S concluded in 2003 that having an abortion does not increase the risk of breast cancer at all. The charity also claims that 93 per cent of rape victims who abort 'regretted their decision' while 70 per cent of those who had babies did not regret it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2176020/Christian-charity-tells-schoolchildren-abortion-doubles-risk-breast-cancer.html

Teacher, 26, killed after being struck by bus while rushing to aid of accident victim

A newly wed school teacher hit by a bus while dashing to the aid of an accident victim in a busy roadway has died police say. Ali Cole Hostetter, 26, was killed after compassionately rushing to help another woman who crashed her scooter in a busy Murray, Utah road on Wednesday afternoon. Police say Mrs Hostetter stepped directly in front of an oncoming UTA bus, in a 35-40 mph area, while rushing to help the injured woman.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176826/Teacher-Ali-Hostetter-26-killed-struck-bus-rushing-aid-accident-victim.html

Ohio woman beat son with frying skillet

An Ohio couple faces criminal charges for beating the woman’s 15-year-old son with a frying skillet, shoving him down a flight of stairs, and binding him with duct tape, a local NBC affiliate reports.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ohio-woman-beat-son-frying-skillet-article-1.1118587

Hundreds of dead baby birds wash up on Oregon beach after pelican invasion

Hundreds of dead baby birds have washed up on an Oregon beach, victims of what researchers said was a massacre by invading pelicans. About 300 dead young murres - a medium-sized diving species - were found on just a three-mile stretch of Agate Beach in Newport, KATU-TV reported. Oregon State University professor Rob Suryan said there are likely even more dead birds. He explained that a group of brown pelicans landed in a murre colony Monday night as adults were raising their chicks. Many of the adults fled, but most of the babies fell into the water or were eaten by the pelicans and washed ashore. "This looks like the final disruption at that colony, where it's gonna be a near failure this year," he said. It’s also one of the deadliest, according to KATU.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nature-tooth-claw-hundreds-dead-baby-birds-wash-oregon-beach-pelican-invasion-video-article-1.1118613

South Carolina boy killed from rare brain infection

COLUMBIA — A South Carolina boy has died from a rare brain infection caused by an organism that lives in warm, fresh water, according to state health officials. The Sumter County boy, whom the Department of Health and Environmental Control did not identify, was killed Tuesday by an amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri. Deaths caused by the organism, which lives in lakes, rivers and hot springs, are extremely rare. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were only 32 documented cases of this kind of infection between 2001 and 2010.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/south-carolina-boy-killed-rare-brain-infection-article-1.1118492

At least 24 killed in Mexican bus crash

A bus heading to a beach in western Mexico went off a cliff early Friday, killing at least 24 people, authorities said. Nayarit state prosecutor's spokesman Leonel Escobedo said three children, two boys and a girl, were among the dead, though he didn't have their ages. Another 31 people were injured in the accident in the town of Tequepexpan. The passengers were vacationers from the northern state of Chihuahua who were heading to Guayabitos beach in western Nayarit state, authorities said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10821164

Friday, July 20, 2012

Teenager killed his father and attacked his mother after taking drugs and playing violent video games

A teenager who stabbed his father to death and injured his mother in their bedhad been detained indefinitely after it emerged that drugs and violent video games had 'contributed' to his mental illness. Jordan Ryan from Blackburn, Lancashire, who is was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, had been playing a violent video game and also smoked cannabis and taken ‘bubble’ – a street nickname for mephedrone - on the night he fatally knifed Neil Ryan, 46, and injured his mother Deborah, 41. The 19-year-old TA soldier was made subject of an indefinite hospital order after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility in what the serving judge called the 'saddest case' in his time at Preston Crown Court.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176605/Teenager-killed-father-attacked-mother-taking-drugs-playing-violent-video-games.html

Husband hacked lawyer wife to death with Samurai sword after she discovered his secret love child and demanded a divorce

A former bookmaker was today jailed for life for murdering his wife with a Samurai sword after she discovered his secret love child. Crazed Robert Dunson, 54, hacked his wife Jean, 47, to death with a knife in one hand and a sword in the other as she slept in her bed. She tried to fight him off but he sank the blades into her chest, back and throat ten times at their home in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, last May.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176550/Husband-hacked-lawyer-wife-death-Samurai-sword-discovered-secret-love-child-demanded-divorce.html

A cat put in a tumble dryer and filmed for the internet... A dog abandoned after falling on to a motorway at 80mph... So much for this nation of animal lovers

Two shocking acts yesterday starkly illustrated the seam of cruelty that runs through parts of our supposed animal-loving society. In one incident, a thug filmed his terrified pet cat being put through a tumble dryer cycle three times. In the other, an owner abandoned his injured dog after she was thrown on to a motorway at 80mph. The RSPCA is investigating both cases which have been variously described as callous, savage and vile.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168597/A-cat-tumble-dryer-filmed-internet-A-dog-abandoned-falling-motorway-80mph-So-nation-animal-lovers.html

Dog owner jailed after Rhodesian Ridgeback named Tyson savaged boy, 6, who will be scarred for life

A dog owner was jailed for four months today after a six-year-old schoolboy was brutally savaged by his pet called Tyson. Erfan Ali was scarred for life when the Rhodesian Ridgeback - bred to hunt lions - pounced from over the next door neighbour’s fence as he was helping his mother bring in washing from the garden. He had both sides of his face ripped off by the dog and only survived because the dog was eventually wrestled off.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176437/Man-jailed-lion-hunter-dog-Tyson-brutally-savaged-face-schoolboy-6-leaving-scarred-life.html

Woman found strangled to death in home; boyfriend commits suicide

TOKYO — Police said Friday that a 21-year-old woman was found dead at her home in Tokyo’s Nakano Ward after failing to show up at work on Thursday. The woman, identified as Misaki Yokoyama, was found by her employer who visited her house at around 7:40 p.m. Thursday night, Fuji TV reported. She was found lying face up on her bed with blood on her face. Police said she had been beaten and then apparently strangled to death. According to police, the woman lived in the apartment with a 22-year-old man said to be her boyfriend. His body was found in Shibuya at around 5 a.m. Friday after he apparently jumped from a building rooftop, Fuji TV reported.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/woman-found-strangled-to-death-in-home-boyfriend-missing

Two children killed and six others wounded when hyenas pounce on sleeping family in the dead of night

Two children were killed and six other family members wounded when a pack of hyenas pounced on them in the middle of the night. The animals attacked as the family slept in their home in Wajir County, Kenya, in the latest example of animals coming into conflict with people in the increasingly populated country. A ten-year-old boy who was among the injured was airlifted from Wakir to Nairobi yesterday as his condition deteriorated and he needed better medical care.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176389/Two-children-killed-wounded-hyenas-pounce-sleeping-family-dead-night.html

Graduate, 24, dies on dream South African holiday with fiancé after horse bolted and dragged her along the ground

A university graduate was killed on a dream riding holiday with her fiance after her horse bolted and dragged her along the ground. Gemma Wilson, 24, was riding the animal on a trek through remote mountains of South Africa when it took off and flung her from the saddle. Fiance James Langton watched in horror as Miss Wilson was pulled along the floor with one foot still in the stirrups. Her head bounced along the hard ground and she suffered severe head injuries. She was not wearing a helmet at the time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176404/Graduate-24-dies-dream-South-African-holiday-falling-bolting-horse-dragged-ground-fiance.html

Gunman in a gas mask shoots dead 14 people - including children - at midnight screening of Batman premiere in Denver

A masked gunman shot dead 14 people and wounded 50 others at a midnight screening of the new Batman movie in Denver. The 6ft tall man, dressed in black and wearing a gas mask opened fire at the showing of The Dark Knight Rises in a mall in Aurora, Colorado and set off a smoke or tear gas bomb. Witnesses said that the man, thought to be in his early twenties, burst through the emergency exit at the front of the auditorium, wearing body armour, and began firing into the audience with a rifle and two handguns as he made his way up the stairs, picking his victims at random.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176377/The-Dark-Knight-Rises-screening-shooting-Gunman-gas-mask-shoots-dead-10-people--including-children--midnight-screening-Batman-premiere-Denver.html

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Capuchin Monastery

Catacombs with thousands of well dressed mummies


http://atlasobscura.com/place/capuchin-monastery

'I saw a lifeless woman's bloodied head': witness

The 33-year-old woman was discovered around 3.30am on Wednesday morning by passersby on a street in central Malmö after a man asked them for help lifting what witnesses quickly realized was a human body wrapped in a blanket. "He had opened the door of the minivan and was trying to lift the body in. He was completely exhausted, he had no strength left. He also seemed gripped by panic," the witness told the Aftonbladet newspaper.

"The blanket slip off and I saw a lifeless woman's bloodied head...she didn't move or make a sound. The witness and his companions immediately alerted police and then surrounded the 42-year-old man's vehicle in order to prevent him from leaving the scene. "It was an accident, it was an accident," the man said as he leaned on the minivan, according to witnesses. Police and emergency services arrived shortly thereafter and the woman was taken to hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

http://www.thelocal.se/42108/20120718/

Father suspected of killing family, self

A relative of the family discovered the father in the garage where he had hanged himself. His wife, her mother and two children aged 7 and 10 years old were found dead in different rooms of the house. According to a police source quoted by Le Parisien, the other family members were stabbed to death and were found on Tuesday evening. The father, a computer scientist, had set up a device to hang himself and had even tied his hands in front of himself to make sure his suicide attempt was successful. This detail led the police investigators to suspect he had carefully planned the deaths.

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/father-suspected-of-killing-family-self

18-year-old killed after lying down in traffic

An 18-year-old woman wandered into traffic and lay down in the middle of the road before being struck and killed by a car in south Auckland last night. The woman had been travelling in a vehicle on Karaka Rd in Drury before she got out and stepped into the lane about 8pm. Sergeant Paul Latham of the Counties Manukau police serious crash unit said the woman then walked in front of several vehicles before lying down in the middle of the road.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10820751

Disillusioned German Islamists Abandoning Jihad

More than 200 Islamists are believed to have left Germany to join the jihad in Pakistan. But, after learning what life there is really like, many of them are abandoning the cause and heading home -- right into the unwelcoming arms of the law.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/disillusioned-german-islamists-returning-home-to-germany-a-844799.html

Teen Sentenced For Killing Toddler Over Cellphone

DENVER -- A Greeley teen was sentenced to six years in prison for causing the death of his 2-year-old cousin after police said he punched the child in the chest in a scuffle over a cellphone. Jesus Cornelio pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse resulting in death in June. Under the terms of his plea deal, Cornelio was given a suspended sentence of 18 years in the Department of Corrections, which is contingent on his successful completion of six years in the Youth Offender System, said Heath Montgomery of the Weld County District Attorney's Office.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31283714/detail.html

Mother suspected in murder of 1-month-old baby boy

TOKYO — A 1-month-old baby boy was fatally stabbed in an apartment in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward on Wednesday night, police said Thursday. The infant’s mother, 37, was found lying beside the body, police said, adding she had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. According to police, the woman’s father visited the apartment at about 8 p.m., TV Asahi reported. He found his daughter and her baby lying on the floor in the bathroom. The baby had been stabbed in the chest. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/mother-suspected-in-murder-of-1-month-old-baby-boy

Kinky sex-slave 'driven by jealousy to murder Marine's wife who she thought was trying to seduce her master'

A jealous woman, who was part of a kinky sex slave ring, strangled a beautiful Marine's wife who she thought was trying to come between her and her 'master', according to newly unsealed search warrants. Jessica Lopez, 25, is one of three suspects accused of murdering 22-year-old Brittany Killgore, whose body was discovered near a Southern California lake in April. Three days before her disappearance she filed for divorce from Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, who was serving in Afghanistan at the time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175844/Killgore-killing-Jealous-sex-slave-accused-murdering-Marines-wife-thought-trying-seduce-master.html

Boy, 12, dies in hospital after being crushed on the beach when 6ft sand tunnel collapsed on top of him

A 12-year-old boy who was crushed when a sand tunnel he was digging on a New Jersey beach collapsed has died in hospital from his injuries. The unnamed child was playing on Long Branch beach, an hour south of New York City, during a day out with his mother and brother when disaster struck on Tuesday. Rescuers dug the boy from the tunnel and he was rushed to a nearby hospital, but died the following day.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175935/12-year-old-boy-crushed-beach-sand-tunnel-collapses-died-hospital.html

Jilted lover 'murdered mother-of-three by stabbing her 19 times' after she ended their eight-year affair to save her marriage

A mother-of-three was stabbed to death by her jealous lover after she ended their eight-year affair to save her marriage, a court has heard. Martin Bunch, 44, is accused of stabbing Jeanette Goodwin 19 times in the chest at her Southend home in Essex and then leaving her to bleed to death on her patio. A court was told how Mrs Goodwin had reported Bunch to the police for harassment on several occasions following their split and in the months leading up to her death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175797/Jilted-lover-murdered-mother-stabbing-19-times-ended-year-affair-save-marriage.html

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Mechanic 'drilled holes in wife's genitals so he could seal them with a PADLOCK when he went to work'

She was brought into hospital after attempting to commit suicide with rat poison. But when nurses examined Sitabai Chouhan, they make a horrific discovery that was medieval in its barbarity. Four years ago, the housewife had been drugged by her husband Chouhan who then punctured holes with a needle on either side of her genitals. He had carried out the agonising assault so he could seal her private parts with a padlock when he went to work to stop her having sex with anyone else. When she was admitted to the Maharaja Yashwant Raoin Hospital in Indore, India, the crudely-fashioned chastity belt was still in place. It was only removed when police tracked down her husband and retrieved the key. He had kept the keys in his socks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175512/Sohanlal-Chouhan-drilled-holes-wifes-genitals-seal-PADLOCK-went-work.html

Cheerleader killed in tubing accident as boat pulling her and a friend slams them into dock

A teenage girl was killed when a fishing boat pulling her and a friend on an inflatable tube steered too close to the shore. Deviny Boes, 15, hit a steel piling when the inner tube hit the dock near Tampa Bay, Florida, throwing both girls into the air. She was given CPR by the boat’s driver and other witnesses but later died at St. Petersburg General Hospital.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175225/Cheerleader-killed-tubing-accident-boat-pulling-friend-slams-dock.html

Man 'killed his girlfriend's Pomeranian dog and then beat her with the dead animal'

A 27-year-old man from Georgia has been arrested for brutally killing his girlfriend's Pomeranian dog and then using the dead animal's body as a club to beat her with. After repeatedly kicking Cooper the dog and breaking the tragic pooches neck, Emmanuel Alfredo Tadeo turned the corpse into a weapon as he battered his 40-year-old girlfriend, Andrea Armintrout. Arrested on battery and animal cruelty charges, Sandy Springs police took Tadeo into custody in the Fulton Country Jail as he waits trial for the felonies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175469/Man-killed-girlfriends-dog-beat-dead-animal.html

'Seven dead' and many injured after explosion on bus carrying Israeli tourists at Bulgarian airport

At least seven people have reportedly been killed and more than 20 left injured after an explosion on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian city of Burgas, police said. Unconfirmed reports suggested a bomb attack was behind the blast. Bulgaria's interior ministry spokeswoman Vanya Vulkova told Sky News there was an explosion on a passenger bus at Burgas Airport on Wednesday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175508/Bulgaria-explosion-2012-Seven-dead-explosion-tour-bus.html

Accident Bizarre

Dead man confesses all in self-written obituary

Val Patterson, of Salt Lake City, died of throat cancer on July 10, at the age of 59. The death notice he wrote for himself appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune this past Sunday. "Now that I have gone to my reward, I have confessions and things I should now say," Patterson wrote. He starts out admitting to a crime.

Obituary Val Patterson

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/17/dead-man-confesses-all-in-self-written-obituary

Couch potato lifestyle kills five million every year

Lazy fucks...

A third of the world's adults are physically inactive, and the couch potato lifestyle kills about five million people every year, experts said in the medical journal The Lancet on Wednesday. "Roughly three of every 10 individuals aged 15 years or older - about 1.5 billion people - do not reach present physical activity recommendations," they said in a report that described the problem as a "pandemic."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10820454

Utah murder suspect tries to steal plane, commits suicide

Utah's St. George airport was closed on Tuesday morning after a man accused of murder reportedly attempted to steal a plane and then committed suicide. The airport said the closure was the result of a “ground incident,” but local law enforcement told reporters a fugitive on the run from Colorado had hopped over a fence at the airport, boarded a plane, and crashed into another aircraft when he tried to take off. The suspect was Brian Joseph Hedglin, 40, police told Salt Lake City’s Fox 21 and ABC 4. Hedglin has been identified as a Sky West pilot and a member of the National Guard who was wanted for questioning in the death of Christina Cornejo.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/utah-murder-suspect-steal-plane-commits-suicide-article-1.1116341

3 People Attacked by Dogs in Whittier Neighborhood

WHITTIER, Calif. (KTLA) -- Two dogs attacked several people Monday as they walked in a Whittier neighborhood after the animals escaped their yard and attacked, according to officials. The dogs -- one a pit bull, the other a husky/pit bull mix -- attacked the three pedestrians about 3 p.m. in the 7600 block of Greenleaf Avenue. One of the victims, an 11-year-old boy, suffered serious injuries to one of his arms, officials said. A woman was bitten on the buttocks.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-whittier-dogs-attack,0,721268.story

KC man charged in triple slaying in January

Casts of footprints, analyses of shell casings, DNA testing and a map of movements provided by cell phone records led to charges Tuesday against a 46-year-old Kansas City man in the January killing of three people in central Kansas City. Jackson County prosecutors charged Anthony W. Walker with three counts of first-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action and first-degree burglary.

He is charged in the January 16 killings of 62-year-old Donna Pike, her son Herschel Pike, 41, and Edward Williams, 57, an acquaintance of the Pikes, who interrupted the crime and was shot in the head as he approached the front of their home in the 3900 block of Paseo. Walker was arrested about two weeks after the killing after he sold a .40-caliber handgun to a confidential source cooperating with police. Walker was charged Feb. 2 with being a felon in possession of a firearm and has been in custody since then, according to federal court records.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/17/3708599/kc-man-charged-in-triple-slaying.html

Attila Ban guilty of murdering Heathrow hotel colleagues

A Heathrow airport hotel receptionist who hid in a bed for two days after killing two of his colleagues has been found guilty of their murder. Attila Ban, 32, stabbed to death Tibor Vass and Alice Adams in the Radisson Edwardian Hotel's staff accommodation last August, the Old Bailey heard. Ban evaded police, investigators and a pathologist by climbing into a divan bed, which Mr Vass's body was lying on. Miss Adams had been stabbed 22 times. All three had worked at the hotel.

Ban had denied murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Mr Vass, a student from Hungary, had been due to return home. The court heard that Ban, who is also Hungarian, had developed a crush on Mr Vass and was devastated when he found out that he was due to leave. Mr Vass was heterosexual and did not return his feelings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18888596

Two decapitated torsos, three legs, a saw and a suitcase found floating in Detroit River

The decapitated bodies of a man and a woman were pulled from the Detroit River and a nearby canal on Tuesday, about an hour before a fisherman discovered body parts just beneath the surface, along with a circular saw and a suitcase. The bodies, which were also missing hands and feet, didn't provide any immediate clues about the deaths or potential suspects, Detroit police said. Police wouldn't comment on whether the fisherman's grisly discovery was connected, but did confirm that additional body parts were found along the concrete and steel seawall. ‘It was a gruesome sight — something you don't want to see on the river when you want to relax,’ the fisherman, Hollis Fussell, said from the river bank as police divers prepared to go into the river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175192/Two-decapitated-torsos-legs-saw-suitcase-floating-Detroit-River.html

Shocking CCTV footage shows bystanders walking past dead hit-and-run victim and boarding a bus without hesitation

A surveillance video released by police has captured bystanders walking past a dead hit-and-run victim and boarding a bus without hesitation. The shocking footage was made available by the Arlington County Police Department in a bid to find witnesses to the fatality in Virginia on July 1 at around 9:30pm. Edgar Francisco Aguilar, 35, was struck by a vehicle while traveling westbound on Columbia Pike at the Four Mile Run Drive intersection, according to authorities.

Video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175108/Shocking-CCTV-footage-shows-bystanders-walking-past-dead-hit-run-victim-boarding-bus-checking.html

Man 'who shot dead ex-girlfriend and her pregnant sister' found dead in remote cabin

The ex-convict and Iraq war veteran being sought nationwide for shooting his ex-girlfriend and her pregnant sister in Michigan has been found dead. The U.S. Marshals Service, following up a lead, discovered the body of Thomas Fritz in a remote cabin in Tyler County, West Virginia. As yet no details of how he died have been released. 24-year-old Lisa Gritzmaker, 34-year-old Amy Merrill, as well as their mother Robin Lynn McCowan were shot at about 11:40pm on Friday in Blissfield, Michigan, about 20 miles northwest of Toledo, Ohio.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175331/Police-looking-killer-Lisa-Gritzmaker-Amy-Merrill-Thomas-Fritz-dead.html

Nurse stabbed daughter to death then tried to kill herself as she faced sack for leaking patient details to 'cash for claims' firm

A nurse stabbed her four-year-old daughter to death and tried to kill herself by drinking bleach after she faced the sack for leaking patient details to an accident 'cash for claims' law firm. Dawn Makin, 33, who is now permanently wheelchair bound following her attempted suicide, had been unmasked as a health centre 'mole' after she secretly fed confidential data to her boyfriend who was trying to sign up patients for a personal injury litigation company.

But as health bosses investigated the scandal, Makin who faced losing her job, stabbed Chloe Burke to death and then cut her wrists and drank toxic fluid, believed to be bleach, in a bid to kill herself. Today, at Preston Crown Court, she wept as she pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility after her 'not guilty to murder' plea was accepted by the prosecution.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175323/Nurse-left-wheelchair-bound-trying-commit-suicide-admits-killing-daughter-faced-sack-passing-patient-details-cash-crash-law-firm.html