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This is part of the West’s bigger agenda of establishing neo-colonialism with the goal of ruthlessly controlling and exploiting the natural resources of the developing countries. It’s debatable whether Gadaffi was a hero or a villain but at the end of the western era, history will be re-written and the Western leaders will be declared murderous villains as the blood is also on their hands. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43018-why-the-unsung-hero-gaddafi-was-murdered-by-the-westThis is part of the West’s bigger agenda of establishing neo-colonialism with... more
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Crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger arrested
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Famed crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger arrested in Santa Monica
June 22, 2011 | 8:35 pm
Legendary Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who has been on the run for more than a decade, was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica, multiple law enforcement sources told The Times.
Bulger, 81, has been the subject of several books and was the inspiration for "The Departed," a 2006 Martin Scorsese film staring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson.
Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 as federal agents were about to arrest him in connection with 21 killings, racketeering and other crimes that spanned the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.
He was arrested by the FBI inside a building without incident, according to the sources, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. The details surrounding his arrest were unclear Wednesday night.
The FBI in Los Angeles declined to comment.
The arrest came as the FBI launched a media campaign in 14 cities to help determine Bulger's whereabouts.
The last credible sighting of Bulger was in London in 2002, the FBI said.Crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger arrested
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Couple Seduces, rapes, and kills female women.
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Posting from an iPod sorry if this looks terrible...Couple Seduces, rapes, and kills female women.
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Civilian killings by NATO forces in Afghanistan have been increased tremendously, UN report.Civilian killings by NATO forces in Afghanistan have been increased tremendously, UN... more
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For American expatriates, Bocas del Toro seemed the ideal retreat: an archipelago of white sand beaches, coconut palms and guesthouses off Panama's Caribbean coast. It was relaxed, friendly and sunny. Then people started to disappear.
It was a fluid community, people always coming and going, so there was no immediate alarm. Why worry? The only danger in this tranquil haven, it seemed, was the tap water.
But there was another menace: the cheerful husband and wife who ran a hostel were, it is alleged, serial killers who murdered up to nine people for their property and money.
William Dathan Holbert and Laura Michelle Reese were in a jail in Panama City today suspected of conning and killing seven fellow US expatriates and two Panamanians in cold blood.
The man known to neighbours as "Wild Bill" has confessed to murdering seven people, said Angel Calderon, a prosecuting attorney. "He has told us how many people he killed, why he killed them, how he killed them and where he buried them."
Posing as wealthy entrepreneurs, the couple allegedly befriended residents before shooting them in the head, burying them and taking over their homes and businesses. "He picked out his victims after making their acquaintance," Calderon told reporters. "Knowing that nobody would ask about them, he got rid of them."
President Ricardo Martinelli called it "one of the first cases of serial murders" in the central American country.
The tale has shades of The Talented Mr Ripley, the novel – and later film starring Matt Damon – about an expatriate killer, except that Holbert reportedly started out with bodybuilding, steroids, white supremacy and a fascination with Adolf Hitler.
The case broke when authorities found the bodies of Cheryl Lynn Hughes, a hostel owner from Missouri, and Bo Icelar, a retired gallery owner from New Mexico, in shallow graves. Suspicion turned to Holbert and Reese, who had lived in the archipelago under the aliases William Adolfo Cortez and Jane Cortez. They had supposedly bought Hughes's hostel and Icelar's house just before the disappearances.
Authorities have also linked the couple to the disappearance three years ago of Mike Brown, his wife and young son. Brown was wanted on drug charges and living under an assumed name, Calderon said. "Seeing that he had a lot of money and bank accounts, [Holbert] shot him in the head." The other two suspected victims were Panamanian workers.
Nicaraguan soldiers held the couple last Thursday as they attempted to enter the country illegally from Costa Rica. They were extradited in shackles and greeted in Panama City with a tumult of television cameras and questions.
Before disappearing into a cell, Holbert, 30, appearing upbeat, told a local TV channel: "The people of Panama are very friendly, and I like living here." Asked about the deaths, he laughed and said: "I need to speak to them [the authorities]about that. I just want to say, thanks for the trip." His wife reportedly said nothing beyond asking for a lawyer and US consular help. Both suspects were due to be given psychological evaluations.
Seven years ago Holbert was married with three children and running a landscaping business in North Carolina. The marriage failed, he filed for bankruptcy and stopped paying child support.
He reportedly started bodybuilding and taking steroids, which made him more aggressive, and developed a fascination with the TV gangster Tony Soprano. He also acquired white supremacy tattoos and sold memorabilia with swastikas.
Holbert briefly managed a gym, where he met his next wife, Reese, and impressed the boss despite stealing $25,000. "If only he could have focused himself, he had a brilliant mind," Kevin Hoover, who did not press charges, told the Associated Press.
Holbert then sold a $200,000 coastal home and a car he didn't own. He used aliases and eluded authorities in six states, once escaping in an off-road, high-speed chase in Wyoming, and landing a spot on America's Most Wanted.
Ariel Barria, a spokesman for Panama's police, said the fugitive was cooperative and greeted everyone when brought into custody. "He appeared very friendly, like a film artist who is greeting his fans."For American expatriates, Bocas del Toro seemed the ideal retreat: an archipelago of... more
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Reportedly due to land on Wednesday, Ireland's chief political leader offers stern warning to Israel.
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Irish humanitarian aid ship the MV Rachel Corrie is still sailing for Gaza, in spite of Israel's recent, devastating attack on other vessels in the Gaza aid flotilla, resulting in at least nine dead activists and hundreds of prisoners.
The ship, named after 23-year-old U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie -- who was crushed to death in 2003 by an American-built bulldozer operated by the Israeli army -- has been pleading with the international community to pressure Israel into leaving them alone.
The Irish government, for its part, has threatened Israel with "the most serious consequences" if any Irish national, captured or currently abroad an aid vessel, is harmed.
"If any harm comes to any of our citizens, it will have the most serious consequences," Taoiseach Brian Cowen said, according to The Irish Times.
"Taoiseach" is the position bestowed upon the individual who leads Ireland's government.
The MV Rachel Corrie is reportedly due to arrive in Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Irish officials have demanded Israel let the boat pass unimpeded. Ireland has long opposed Israel's military blockade of Palestine.
"The government has formally requested the Israeli government to allow the Irish-owned ship to be allowed to complete its journey unimpeded and discharge its humanitarian cargo in Gaza," Cowen said.
"The Rachel Corrie is carrying medical equipment, wheelchairs, school supplies and cement, a material Israel has banned in Hamas-ruled Gaza, organizers said," the Seattle Post-Globe reported.
Five Irish activists and five Malaysian activists were said to be aboard.
"In the names of our friends, we are more determined than ever to continue into Gaza with our humanitarian cargo and our support for the blockaded and suffering people of Gaza," read a message sent on behalf of the activists, published by Global Research. "We expect Israel to respond to the international condemnation of its violence by not impeding by any means the safe passage of the Rachel Corrie. We appeal to the international community and United Nations to continue to demand Israel our safe passage into Gaza."
Activist group Jewish Voice for Peace declared in an e-mail to supporters, "We still don't know the names of those who were killed or injured, or where they are from. And we don't know the whereabouts or well-being of more than 400 activists still being held by Israel." The group demanded Israel release the activists without condition or charge.
The activists' call echoed another from NATO, which demanded the prisoners' freedom and pressed the need for a "prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation" into the events.
In response to the activist killings, Egypt announced it would open a portion of border crossing into Palestine to allow in future shipments of humanitarian supplies. Turkey, reportedly the country of origin for some of the May 31st raid's victims, pledged it would send a military escort with future Gaza aid boats.Reportedly due to land on Wednesday, Ireland's chief political leader offers... more
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Do NOT watch this video! The description enough should be enough to get you angry enough to help do something about this...
Undercover Investigation Reveals Neglect, Cruelty, and Filth at Another Pet Trade Supplier
Another PETCO and PetSmart Supplier Caught on Video Mistreating Animals
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A PETA investigator went undercover at Sun Pet Ltd., an Atlanta-based wholesale animal dealer that supplies animals to numerous PETCO and PetSmart locations, among other retailers across the U.S. Video footage and photos taken by PETA's investigator show the widespread suffering of hundreds of birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils, mice, and rats in Sun Pet's enormous warehouses. On April 22, 2010, Georgia Department of Agriculture representatives descended on Sun Pet, which was, unfortunately, tipped off well in advance and apparently took the opportunity to clean up its act. PETA has requested an investigation into the leak that prepped Sun Pet for the Department of Agriculture's visit, but so far, no one has been held accountable for it.
In addition to the misery of confinement to extremely crowded containers, forcing animals to eat, sleep, urinate, and defecate all in the same space, PETA's investigator recorded the violent killing and abusive handling of hundreds of animals.
One worker put live hamsters into a bag and then bashed the bag against a table in an attempt to kill them—one of the animals was seen suffering and panting heavily minutes later. Other animals whom Sun Pet could not sell were gassed in a crude, filth-encrusted tank. Animals who got loose in the company's warehouse suffered horribly after ingesting the poison that Sun Pet sets out to kill them.
A supervisor trained PETA's investigator to determine animals' genders by forcefully squeezing their abdomens "like a … PlayStation controller handle" to make their genitals "come out." "You could throw them against the wall and they'll stand back up again and keep on running," Sun Pet's supervisor said to PETA's investigator when ordering him to pack and handle animals more quickly. In more than three months of employment, not once did PETA's investigator see anyone from PETCO's or PetSmart's corporate offices inspecting Sun Pet's facility.
Sun Pet also purchased animals from U.S. Global Exotics, the filthy Texas warehouse from which more than 26,000 animals were seized last December following another PETA undercover investigation. Sun Pet also purchased thousands of animals from unlicensed vendors, in apparent violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act, despite previous warnings by the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding such practices.
PETA's investigator documented that PETCO and PetSmart stores returned animals suffering from illnesses and injuries, sometimes without food or water, to Sun Pet instead of providing them with veterinary care or basic necessities or even putting them out of their misery. The animals were hauled around in cardboard boxes in the backs of trucks traveling hundreds of miles and many hours from store to store until they finally got back to Sun Pet, and many died as a result. View photos taken by PETA's undercover investigator.
You can help secure justice for the hamsters and thousands of sensitive individual animals peddled for profit by Sun Pet. PETA has received information indicating that Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. has instructed his office to halt its investigation of animal suffering at Sun Pet. Please complete the form below to urge Mr. Howard to investigate and file suitable cruelty-to-animals charges against the worker caught bashing hamsters against a table and also to file charges against other appropriate parties. Ask Mr. Howard what he thinks constitutes cruelty to animals if it's not bagging them up and bashing them against a table and then leaving them to suffer and slowly die of their injuries.
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A global justice gap is being made worse by power politics despite a landmark year for international justice, said Amnesty International today in its annual assessment of human rights worldwide.
Launching Amnesty International Report 2010: State of the World's Human Rights, which documents abuses in 159 countries, the organization said that powerful governments are blocking advances in international justice by standing above the law on human rights, shielding allies from criticism and acting only when politically convenient.
"Repression and injustice are flourishing in the global justice gap, condemning millions of people to abuse, oppression and poverty," said Claudio Cordone, interim Secretary General of Amnesty International.A global justice gap is being made worse by power politics despite a landmark year for... more
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This is a guest post from photojournalist Jeff Antebi. We discussed his work in Afghanistan previously on the blog. You can find Jeff on Twitter as @jeffantebi and his photo essays at jeffantebi.com.
When I mentioned I was going to spend Christmas photographing Juárez, people reacted as if I was planning a trip to Somalia.
They were not that far off.
How out of control is the city of Juárez? Compare the killings there to the war in Afghanistan. In Juárez in 2009 -- a single city with only 1.5 million people—almost 2,600 people have been murdered. The number of civilians killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2009 was about 2,038 in a nation of 28 million people.
In the last two years, upwards of 4,000 people have been murdered in Juárez, compared to about 30 homicides across the U.S. border in El Paso.
Juárez is the deadliest city in the world for a simple reason: for years, several powerful drug cartels have been fighting over control of the city. The region represents an extremely profitable route into the U.S., where consumers spend enormous sums of money to get high.
On average, 10 people are murdered each day. In September alone, 476 people were killed, most of them gunned down in the street in broad daylight.
Juárez has become synonymous with murder, but the murders here are extraordinary brutal. The killings often involve extreme sadism, mass executions, decapitations and torture. From the simple (cigarette burns, bones crushed to pieces) to the macabre (being buried alive) to the unpredictable. In two instances in September, narco mafiosos burst into drug rehab clinics, lined people up against the wall, shot 28 dead, most execution style.
The observations below encompass my personal experiences on the ground in Juárez, during a brief trip. For a broader understanding of what is happening there, I’ll direct you to Philip Caputo’s great piece on the Narco Wars in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly entitled The Fall of Mexico (with photographs by Julián Cardona). Highly recommend reading.
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I flew to El Paso and walked over a short bridge that connects to Juárez. The difference between the U.S. and Mexico was a mere blur.
I arrived at my hotel at 3:30pm expecting to take a minute to shower and eat, but immediately, my interpreter started rolling in with calls about murders. At least five people were gunned down in locations spread citywide.
By the time I returned to my room at 9:30pm, like clockwork, Juárez had filled its quota, right before my eyes.
As it was Christmastime, I was looking for signs to take the city’s pulse. The first noticeable thing was how sedate the mood was. More somber than quiet. There was very little in the way of public festivities or typical signs of holiday celebrations. Ubiquitous pickup trucks, filled with police and soldiers, roamed the streets with mounted machine guns. A candlelight vigil calling for peace, held in a large park in the center of town, brought only a handful of people.
“Bars.” My driver said when I asked about good places to visit. “You can take photos of the empty bars.” He said. “Everyone is scared to go into them. People who want to drink, they drink inside their homes now.”
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I went to a lot of murder scenes over the course of 72 hours. All involved execution style killings.
One young man was shot dead in his car, a big bullet hole in the side of his belly. His father was held back by other family members, screaming that it was a mistaken identity, his son was not involved with the narcos. The man I was traveling around town with whispered that in Juárez, there are no accidental killings. I heard that sentiment a lot, and it always felt like a way to avoid surrendering to a devistating truth: many murders were in fact cruel accidents, many victims were in fact bystanders.
Another scene I visited was in an area so deserted, the coroner’s van and a police tow truck had to follow me and my driver to the crime scene because they were lost.
There’s a subculture of local journalists armed with police scanners. A killing happens, and NexTel walkie-talkie beep-beeps volleys all over town, triangulating the location of even the most remote murders 24/7. On occasion, I arrived before most of the authorities had shown up. A soldier and I had to draw an invisible line with our eyes because not enough ‘Do Not Cross’ police barrier tape had arrived.
Once I passed a speeding ambulance leaving as I neared a scene. Although I first thought there were two dead victims, it turned out one was alive and being rushed to the hospital. He had been severely stabbed and had apparently faked his death to his killers. The other guy was not so lucky, discovered in the trunk of a car, hands bound with yellow straps, his face smashed into a swollen bloody mess of red. It looked like his pants had been removed.
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Rushing from one scene to the next, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, it was easy to forget the much wider, and more devastating, impact of all this killing. For the most part, I observed lifeless bodies, people who themselves were probably killers, as cartel-on-cartel murders are the most common. After being witness to so many scenes of death and destruction, I decided to visit memorial services for an alternate perspective.
I had a source inside a funeral home who was able to let me know when memorial services were taking place inside private homes. 9-times-out-of-10 the families were not interested in having an outsider in attendance. Given these were narco-deaths, that was not a surprise.
One very late evening, I was finally invited into a memorial inside a home. Probably because it was 20 degrees outside, I was dressed for winter in Los Angeles and my teeth were chattering uncontrollably. No one there spoke English except a young woman who walked me into a room with two open caskets. One containing an older woman and one with a middle aged man. The house was filled with grieving family and friends. Thirty or forty people reeling from the horror and tragedy. Young kids crying quietly to themselves. One woman was inconsolable, three people holding her.
What made the scene so difficult for me to fathom was that this seemed a world away from what I would have been thinking of a narco slaying. No one there looked like they were part of a depraved drug syndicate, especially the two people in the coffins. Both had been killed in front of a food stand outside of the U.S. Consulate building. Surely this was the result of a mistaken identity. Why would someone target these two of all people?
Once outside the house, a man I was with read the question on my face and said “Nunca coincidencias aquí. Incluso el innocent que mira a gente, allí es siempre una conexión a los narcos”.
“Never coincidences here. Even innocent looking people, there’s always a connection to the narcos.”
It made the tragedy a little easier to digest, but truthfully, I think we both knew better.
For more reporting on the drug wars in Mexico, watch Laura Ling's Vanguard: Narco War Next Door.
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Can you imagine being sold food that is lethal from a street vendor? Your punishment could be death while his is a fine or two years imprisonment. Where is the justice in that? Read full story http://socyberty.com/crime/street-vendors-who-kill/Can you imagine being sold food that is lethal from a street vendor? Your punishment... more
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Photojournalist Jeff Antebi visited Ciudad Juarez in Mexico over Christmas to document the on-going narco war. He wrote a guest post with a photo essay for the Current News Blog. Here's an excerpt:
I arrived at my hotel at 3:30pm expecting to take a minute to shower and eat, but immediately, my interpreter started rolling in with calls about murders. At least five people were gunned down in locations spread citywide.
By the time I returned to my room at 9:30pm, like clockwork, Juárez had filled its quota, right before my eyes.
As it was Christmastime, I was looking for signs to take the city’s pulse. The first noticeable thing was how sedate the mood was. More somber than quiet. There was very little in the way of public festivities or typical signs of holiday celebrations. Ubiquitous pickup trucks, filled with police and soldiers, roamed the streets with mounted machine guns. A candlelight vigil calling for peace, held in a large park in the center of town, brought only a handful of people.
“Bars.” My driver said when I asked about good places to visit. “You can take photos of the empty bars.” He said. “Everyone is scared to go into them. People who want to drink, they drink inside their homes now.”
I went to a lot of murder scenes over the course of 72 hours. All involved execution style killings.
READ MORE AND SEE MORE PHOTOS: http://blogs.current.com/news/2010/01/07/christmas-drug-wars-and-juarez/
Jeff's site: http://jeffantebi.comPhotojournalist Jeff Antebi visited Ciudad Juarez in Mexico over Christmas to document... more
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When police in Peru announced that they'd broken up a criminal gang who roamed the Andes killing peasant farmers, draining the fat from their dead bodies, and then selling it to European cosmetics manufacturers for use in expensive anti-aging skin creams, there was widespread shock and revulsion although medical experts were quick to sound a note of skepticism.
A functioning kidney, or liver, is worth thousands of dollars, but there is no black market in human fat, they pointed out. Surgeons carrying out liposuction operations throw away gallons of the stuff each week.
Yesterday, the experts were vindicated. Peru's police chief was forced to sack his top organised crime investigator amid growing evidence that he and several colleagues deliberately invented the elaborate story to cover up evidence of officers being involved in dozens of unlawful killings.When police in Peru announced that they'd broken up a criminal gang who roamed... more
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Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees. American and Iraqi investigators had already concluded that the shootings were unjustified, top Iraqi officials were calling for Blackwater’s ouster from the country, and company officials feared that Blackwater might be refused an operating license it would need to retain its contracts with the State Department and private clients, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Four former executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, who was then Blackwater’s president, had approved the bribes and that the money was sent from Amman, Jordan, where the company maintains an operations hub, to a top manager in Iraq. The executives, though, said they did not know whether the cash was delivered to Iraqi officials or the identities of the potential recipients.
Blackwater’s strategy of buying off the government officials, which would have been illegal under American law, created a deep rift inside the company, according to the former executives. They said that Cofer Black, who was then the company’s vice chairman and a former top C.I.A. and State Department official, learned of the plan from another Blackwater manager while he was in Baghdad discussing compensation for families of the shooting victims with United States Embassy officials.
Alarmed about the secret payments, Mr. Black cut short his talks and left Iraq. Soon after returning to the United States, he confronted Erik Prince, the company’s chairman and founder, who did not dispute that there was a bribery plan, according to a former Blackwater executive familiar with the meeting. Mr. Black resigned the following year.
Stacy DeLuke, a spokeswoman for the company, now called Xe Services, dismissed the allegations as “baseless” and said the company would not comment about former employees. Mr. Black did not respond to telephone calls and e-mail messages seeking comment.
Reached by phone, Mr. Jackson, who resigned as president early this year, criticized The New York Times and said, “I don’t care what you write.”
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Police and Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles,California are on the lookout for one of the most prolific criminals in the city's History. Authorities are looking for a 19 year old male who goes by the name of Brazyiak.
Brazyiak is a founding member of the West side Gangsta Bloods and is believed to be involved in upwards of 80 or more homicides committed in the city. Brazyiak is 6'2, thin, light skinned african american or latino with long hair. He is known to frequent the Mid City and Baldwin Village area of L.A.as well as the Central ave area of East South Central. He is heavily armed and extremely dangerous and should not be approached.
If you or someone you know have seen or know of his whereabouts do not try to apprehend but call law enforcement.
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Ciudad Juarez is a major Mexican city on the border with the United States, 1 and a half million inhabitants and a strong economic integration with neighbour El Paso, Texas. But unfortunately the city is known for his appalling crime rate that has made it the most violent city in the world.The Mexican president has sent 10,000 soldiers of the army to maintain order, but so far the results seem poor.Ciudad Juarez is a major Mexican city on the border with the United States, 1 and a... more
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The schoolgirl stunned cops by owning up to a serial killing spree that started when she was a 15-year-old.
She told detectives she wanted to confess before she turned 18 and could be tried as an adult.
The girl - too young even to be named - said she began targeting men in her home city of Sao Paulo, Brazil "for money, revenge and to bring justice".
what do you think about it? do you beleive she was hird by gangs or did it just go to her head?The schoolgirl stunned cops by owning up to a serial killing spree that started when... more
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Media news are by their nature deceptive. They tend to speak only of certain crimes and ignoring others, without logical reasons. In reality there is always a reason, only that we don't always understand it. Some crimes are ignored for political reasons, while others receive disproportionate attention for the same reason, especially in Italy. Some are ignored simply because that particular day, the media are working on something else.Media news are by their nature deceptive. They tend to speak only of certain crimes... more
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Police officials here said Thursday that the DNA of a 72-year-old Los Angeles insurance adjuster matched evidence found at five murder scenes spanning two decades.
The genetic material, as well as the ages of the victims — from 56 years old to 80 — possibly link the suspect to as many as 25 other unsolved murder cases and numerous sexual assaults through Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s, police officials said.
The police arrested John F. Thomas Jr., a convicted rapist, on March 31 after investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department linked his DNA to the unsolved murders of Ethel Sokoloff, 68, in 1972, and Elizabeth McKeown, 67, in 1976. The killings allowed investigators to link two series of rape and homicide cases in Los Angeles and Inglewood that had previously been thought unrelated.
Investigators said that they expected to file more charges shortly and that detectives with at least six law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were pursuing leads in four cities and two states.
“This is the tip of the iceberg right now; this is literally a case about history,” said Charlie Beck, Los Angeles deputy chief of police, whose father, now retired, supervised the first team of detectives to investigate the so-called Westside Rapist murders that terrorized Southern California in the ’70s and ’80s.
Chief Beck said investigators were awaiting additional DNA results, even as they pored through handwritten paper case files dating to the 1950s.
“We think he could be linked to as many as 30 cases in Los Angeles alone,” said Richard Bengtson, a homicide detective who is one of the lead investigators on the case. “But really we don’t know how many more.”Police officials here said Thursday that the DNA of a 72-year-old Los Angeles... more
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"The truth is that antidepressants are the cause of these violent rampages, and suicide that occur worldwide. How many more of these incidents need to occur until people wake up to what is widely known about these deadly drugs.""The truth is that antidepressants are the cause of these violent rampages, and... more
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