A PSYCHOTIC neighbour with a festering rejection complex was arrested for brutally butchering - and stealing organs from - a New York woman who owned an employment agency and declined to find him a job.
Police said the killing was the culmination of a campaign of harassment and assault that maniac Huang Chen, 47, waged against victim Qian Wu since 2006.
She took out nine orders of protection during that span, the New York Post reports.
Chen allegedly ripped Wu's lungs and heart from her body, and the organs still have not been recovered, police said.
On Tuesday, Chen allegedly followed Wu, 46, into her apartment in Flushing, Queens and allegedly stabbed her numerous times in the torso before fleeing.
A woman in Wu's building called emergency services when she saw blood seeping out of the apartment door.
Meanwhile Chen, clad in blood soaked sneakers, sought medical attention at New York Hospital Queens for a gash on his right hand and leg.
He claimed to have sustained the wounds while fighting off a robber during a home invasion, police said.
Investigators went to his apartment - which is a few doors away from Wu's - and found surveillance video of him entering his building in bloody clothing and leaving in fresh clothes.
The video also captured his neighbour, Wenxin Zhang, 54, carrying a bag walking a few paces behind him, police said.
The bag was later recovered in a nearby park and was stuffed with bloody clothing, a knife and hammer.
Chen had been arrested in May 2006 after punching Wu. He served 30 days in jail for the attack.
He was charged with second degree murder and tampering with evidence.
Take notice that the man was arrested first until further investigation of this matter.
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The mother of a 4-month-old boy who died after he was allegedly beaten by her boyfriend has been charged in his death.
Bullitt County police tell us Courtney Caro is charged with criminal abuse. Her son, four-month-old Aiden Caro, died after police say he was thrown on a couch and shaken earlier this month at the Whispering Oaks Mobile Home Park.
Aiden died at Kosair Children's hospital Jan. 14, two days after he was hospitalized.
Aiden's twin brother, Braiden, was also hospitalized with serious injuries, including internal injuries in the stomach and broken bones, according to Lt. Scotty McGaha with the Bullitt County's Sheriff's Office.
Caro's boyfriend, 18-year-old Samuel Harris, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the case.
Harris and Caro are being held in the Bullitt County Detention Center.Take notice that the man was arrested first until further investigation of this... more
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"I'm horrified but I must say it's comforting that it's not only Palestinians whose organs were taken," said Galia Golan, a professor of international relations and a longtime peace activist. "The real problem is what it shows about the level of morality in Israeli society. Here the Palestinians were just as much victims as the citizens of Israel."
Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families – a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend.
The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute, followed a furious row prompted by a Swedish newspaper reporting that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to use their organs – a charge that Israel denied and called "antisemitic".
The revelation, in a television documentary, is likely to generate anger in the Arab and Muslim world and reinforce sinister stereotypes of Israel and its attitude to Palestinians. Iran's state-run Press TV tonight reported the story, illustrated with photographs of dead or badly injured Palestinians.
Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab MP, said the report incriminated the Israeli army.
The story emerged in an interview with Dr Yehuda Hiss, former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic who released it because of the row between Israel and Sweden over a report in the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet.
Channel 2 TV reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
The Israeli military confirmed to the programme that the practice took place, but added: "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."
Apligraf is a matrix of cow collagen, human fibroblasts and keratinocyte stem cells (the kind found in skin), that, when applied to chronic wounds (particularly nasty problems like diabetic sores), can seed healing and regeneration.
Scientists have discovered that the spleen, long consigned to the B-list of abdominal organs and known as much for its metaphoric as its physiological value, plays a more important role in the body’s defense system than anyone suspected.Scientists have discovered that the spleen, long consigned to the B-list of abdominal... more
Some might calling it the mother lode of lifetime hoarding, but for artist Song Dong, his recent "Waste Not" artistic installation pays homage to his mom's belief in saving every last scrap, far before "going green" was a twinkle in our culture's eye.Some might calling it the mother lode of lifetime hoarding, but for artist Song Dong,... more
Bethany Jordan, six, was born with many of her organs back to front but amazed doctors who had warned her parents, Lisa, 37, and Robert, 44, there was little chance she would survive birth.
Her problems mean that, while she looks a picture of health, she cannot stand up to some of the normal rigors and strains of an average child.
Bethany, sufferers from Ivemark Syndrome, an extremely rare genetic disorder, characterized by a poorly-formed cardiovascular system and organs in the wrong place.
Strangely, when she exercises too much, her heart can be seen beating through her back.
There are so few sufferers that very little is known about the condition or what could be its cause.
Her mother Lisa, who is a full-time mom, said: “To look at her she just looks like a normal girl, but underneath her skin everything is back to front and jumbled up.
“When she was born the doctors said her insides were like a jigsaw.
“It has been a bit of a nightmare but she is my star and I love her the way she is - I always will.”
“She is doing very well despite all of her problems, I think she’s a very tough little girl.”
Ingrid Gladki, spokesman for the Ivemark Syndrome Association, said: “It’s still a mystery as to why it occurs and I think more money needs to be put into research into it.”Bethany Jordan, six, was born with many of her organs back to front but amazed doctors... more
RRIPE, Albania - Europe's top human rights watchdog is launching a probe into a bone-chilling allegation: That ethnic Albanian guerrillas may have kidnapped Serb civilians at the end of Kosovo's 1998-99 war, removed their organs and sold the body parts on the black market.
A United Nations inquiry into the issue in 2004 proved inconclusive. So did a recent investigation by The Associated Press, which obtained U.N. and Serbian documents detailing what was uncovered at a farmhouse in remote north-central Albania: bloodstains, syringes, empty bottles of muscle relaxant, surgical gear and other material. The family living in the house in Rripe offers a plausible explanation for everything the investigators found.
The allegations were first made public in a memoir last year by Carla Del Ponte, the former chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor. In "Madame Prosecutor," an account of her tenure as head of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, Del Ponte said her office was tipped to possible organ trafficking.
Although the information was "tantalizing," Del Ponte wrote, "in the end, the attorneys and investigators on the KLA cases decided that there was insufficient evidence to proceed." They left it to U.N. officials and the local Kosovo and Albanian authorities to investigate further, which never happened.
Now, a probe is being led by Dick Marty, the Swiss senator who headed an investigation into claims the CIA operated secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Marty, working on behalf of the Council of Europe, would not comment before his Balkans fact-finding mission is completed.RRIPE, Albania - Europe's top human rights watchdog is launching a probe into a... more
Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show HERE ON CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
Them & Us.
Cosmetic surgery.
Too much flour ?
Before & after.
They will know where we are and what we're doing.
Hyphen or dash ?
The Nolans.
Screaming.
The-Rant.co.uk
Something from "The Adams Family"
Starting your own podcast ?
Rabbiting for an hour.
The Peru shows.
The most important thing in your life ?
A summary.
Health.
Joe gets a dog. Americantalkusa.com
Cutting bits off our eye lids.
A white tissue.
My nieces kind dog.
Audacity. audacity.sourceforge.net/
Selling your organs.
More camera's than anywhere else.
Trusting the surgeons.
Sun damage.
It's "Animal Farm".
Little brown specks.
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WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UKThursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show HERE ON... more
Rachel Wright is a Mobile, Alabama artist with a unique vision. While the artist works primarily with sculpture while mixing media with photography, wood, iron, clay, and glass, she also works with fabric. Her dresses have been seen in art galleries and museums across the country.Rachel Wright is a Mobile, Alabama artist with a unique vision. While the artist works... more
Photographs of a plastinated reindeer at the Body Worlds exhibition in London, England on Thursday, December 11, 2008.Photographs of a plastinated reindeer at the Body Worlds exhibition in London, England... more
A visitor has delayed the restoration of a church's organ by napping on it. Four delicate pipes of the 130 year old organ were damaged.
The homeless man who fell asleep on the organ in the Northampton, Massachusetts church mistook the pipes for rolled-up rugs.A visitor has delayed the restoration of a church's organ by napping on it. Four... more
A 45-year-old taxi driver in Manilla received the strangest payment for ferrying a passenger early Friday in Quezon City: two jars containing human organs. Wilfredo Trandillo found the chemical-filled containers with a heart and intestines floating in them on the floor of the rear passenger seat of his car.
Trandillo said that his passenger, described to be in his early 20s and medium-built, asked him to stop at an automated teller machine so he could withdraw money. However, as soon as the passenger had gotten off, he reportedly disappeared. Leaving behind his two jars.
Ewwww.A 45-year-old taxi driver in Manilla received the strangest payment for ferrying a... more
A New Jersey dentist and leader of an organ-trafficking ring is sentenced to 18 to 54 years in prison.
Michael Mastromarino and his team stole body parts from corpses, including that of British journalist Alistair Cooke, and sold them to doctors.A New Jersey dentist and leader of an organ-trafficking ring is sentenced to 18 to 54... more
"Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant.
The "rapid-organ-recovery ambulance," still in the early planning stages, could raise a host of ethical questions and strike some families as ghoulish. But top medical officials in the Fire Department and Bellevue Hospital say it has the potential to save hundreds of lives.
Generally in the U.S., only people who die at hospitals are used as organ donors, because doctors are on hand with life-support machinery and other equipment to preserve the organs and remove them before they spoil. Surgeons have only a few critical hours before kidneys, livers and other body parts suffer damage that renders them unusable.
Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, the director of emergency medicine at Bellevue, said the ambulance project could spark an "amazing transformation" by substantially increasing the pool of donors. The system would be one of the first of its kind in the U.S., although similar ambulances have operated successfully in parts of Europe, he said.
The transplant ambulance would turn up at the scene of a death mere minutes after regular paramedics ceased efforts to resuscitate a patient. The team would begin work almost immediately, administering drugs and performing chest compressions intended to keep the organs viable.
Sometimes, those steps would be taken before getting approval from a relative and without knowledge of the departed's wishes regarding organ donation.
Any organ removals would be done at the hospital only. And no organs would be removed without getting the family's express consent.
But experts in medical and legal ethics said they still see potential for trouble.
"Starting this process without knowing whether the decedent wanted to be a donor could be a problem," said Maxwell Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Distraught relatives could be unnerved by the site of a transplant team arriving so soon after a death. Some might have a religious objection to organ donation, and be enraged to learn that a body had been moved and injected with fluids.
Other families might also - rightly or wrongly - question whether the paramedics curtailed their lifesaving efforts because a patient had valuable organs.
"A lot of people don't trust the medical system to begin with, and in the city, you have additional class and race issues to deal with," said Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "I could very easily see a family saying, 'If it was a white, rich person, that person would have been saved. But instead you've sent the meat wagon.'"
Doctors working on developing a pilot program say they realize the sensitivity of the issue and are building precautions into the system, which would start with just one ambulance."
By David B Caruso
Associated Press Writer "Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City... more
"A donation is a gift given, typically to a cause or/and for charitable purposes. A donation may take various forms, including cash, services, new or used goods as i.e. clothing, toys, food, vehicles, emergency or humanitarian aid items, and can also relate to medical care needs as i.e. blood or organs for transplant." (from Wikipedia...)
"A donation is a gift given, typically to a cause or/and for charitable purposes.... more
Pretty interesting that this would come on valentine's night.
"The webbing wraps around the heart and therefore does not come into contact with the blood stream. Inbuilt sensors recognize when the heart wants to beat and trigger a series of miniature motors which cause the web to contract – increasing the internal pressure and assisting the heart to pump the blood around the body."
Amazing stuff...Pretty interesting that this would come on valentine's night.
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