Double Murder-Suicide Suspected in Oxnard Shootings

OXNARD, Calif. (KTLA) — Three people were killed in separate, but related shootings in Oxnard on Wednesday night, authorities said. Oxnard police received a call of shots fired around 4:30 p.m. at an apartment in the 1200 block of Hull Place. Officers who responded found two women fatally shot, one inside the apartment and the other outside. One woman was in her 40s and the other was her daughter, who was in her 20s, according to police. About 30 minutes later, a second call came in from the 200 block of South Marquita Street, just a couple of miles away. At that location, officers found a man in his 50s dead from a gunshot wound. Police said the gunshot may have been self-inflicted. Police said the two scenes are related. They are investigating the relationship between the victims, as well as a possible motive.

http://ktla.com/2013/01/31/double-murder-suicide-suspected-in-oxnard-shootings/#axzz2JZKCqNX0

Jealous Shaniece Dobson killed Sean Martin in Coatbridge

Shaniece Dobson, 21, stabbed Sean Martin, also 21, in front of his younger brother and sister at her home in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.

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Ann, 17, and 15-year-old Paul Martin both told how they witnessed Dobson attack 21-year-old Sean in a jealous rage after she caught him on his mobile phone to an ex. Dobson went to the kitchen, grabbed a large knife and returned to plunge it into Sean's chest, they said. The seven-and-a-half inch blade pierced both lungs and sliced open both his windpipe and his main artery. It emerged in evidence that Sean, from Coatbridge, had only been arranging for his former girlfriend to take his pet dog.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21276307

Nine people killed as freak hailstorm rains massive boulders down on Indian villages

Hailstones the size of boulders have rained down on villages in southern India. At least nine people were killed when the violent weather hit several villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The hailstorm which lasted for almost 20 minutes, destroyed crops, houses and live stock, causing devastating financial implications for residents.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271147/Nine-people-killed-freak-hailstorm-rains-massive-boulders-Indian-villages.html

Dog sentenced to death in Tennessee because he is 'gay'

I can almost hear it now: "Hey look, that damn dawg there is queer...!"

Fucking. Moron.

A dog is set to be put to death in Tennessee today after his owner abandoned him because he thought he was gay. The pitbull-type hound is currently languishing in an overcrowded animal shelter in Jackson but is due to be put this afternoon down unless a new owner can be found at the last minute. According to the owner of the shelter, the dog's master noticed him 'hunched over' another male dog, which led him to assume he was gay.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271147/Nine-people-killed-freak-hailstorm-rains-massive-boulders-Indian-villages.html

Lesbian lovers guilty of torturing and murdering pensioner, 67, in his home then returning to raid his freezer

Two lesbian lovers have been convicted of murder after torturing and killing a pensioner and then returning to the scene of the crime to empty his freezer. Retired bus conductor Barry Reeve, 67, was found murdered in his home in Norwich, Norfolk, in February last year. It is thought he lay dying for up to 48 hours after the attack, during which he was punched, stamped on and slashed with a knife in an attempt to force him to disclose his PIN number so the pair could take his money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271274/Lesbian-lovers-guilty-torturing-murdering-pensioner-67-home-returning-raid-freezer.html

Man charged after 155 dead cats found in his apartment

A Windsor, Ont., man was charged with animal cruelty Monday after 155 dead cats and kittens were found in his freezer and refrigerator. In addition, 49 cats were found in his apartment in poor conditions. The Windsor/Essex County Humane Society, which laid the charges against Jerry Miernecki, said he had been ordered to provide food, water, litter boxes and a clean area for the cats on Dec. 13, but the animals were removed a day later after he failed to comply with the order. WECHS director Melanie Coulter said Miernecki informed them about the dead cats and kittens, and said "he had been keeping them to bury together when he was able to buy a home."

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/29/man-charged-after-155-dead-cats-found-in-his-apartment

New reports of starving North Koreans resorting to cannibalism come amid renewed tensions between Pyongyang and Washington

A North Korean man suffering starvation was put to death after it was learned he ate two of his children, a new report claims. While the man’s wife was away, he reportedly killed his eldest daughter and then his son after he had witnessed the murder. ‘We have meat,’ he told his wife on her return.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/report-starving-north-korean-father-resorts-cannibalism-article-1.1250773

Family discovers bodies of stabbed mother and smothered 3-year-old in New Jersey

Tammy Pitts Gaddy's family broke into her Englewood apartment after not hearing from her for more than a day. They discovered she had been killed, stabbed repeatedly with a knife. A garbage bag was found near her 3-year-old daughter, leading investigators to believe she was suffocated.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mother-3-year-old-killed-englewood-article-1.1250888

Horror as lone gunman, 65, 'shoots dead school bus driver and takes rider, 6, hostage in bunker'

A lone gunman boarded a school bus, shooting dead its driver, and taking a six-year-old passenger hostage, authorities revealed Tuesday. The shooter, cited by many news sources to be 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, has barricaded himself in a bunker-like structure in his back yard, and continues to hold the child hostage. The Dothan Eagle reports that Dykes was supposed to appear in court on Wednesday for a bench trial over a menacing charge.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270487/Horror-lone-gunman-65-shoots-dead-school-bus-driver-takes-rider-6-hostage-bunker.html

Oregon teen hangs himself in schoolyard 'because he was bullied for being gay'

An Oregon teen was taken off life support after he attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself from playground equipment at an elementary school. Jadin Bell, 15, was driven to take his own life because he was bullied for being homosexual, according to his family. Officials at Bell's school, La Grande High School, said they were investigating reports that Bell was being bullied at the time that he hung himself. Bell had already suffered brain damage when a passerby found him hanging from playground equipment at Central Elementary School in La Grande, Oregon on the afternoon of January 19. He was rushed to Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland and put on life support, but as he was monitored for the next couple days, doctors found little brain activity. His family ultimately decided to take him off life support over the weekend.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270457/Jadin-Bell-Oregon-teen-bullied-gay-hangs-schoolyard.html

Father, 25, bled to death after being shot in the stomach with hunting bow following 'fistfight over on-off girlfriend'

A young father has been fatally shot with a hunting bow after an alleged fight with over a woman he was dating. Kereti Paulsen, 25, was hit in the stomach by a razor-tipped arrow and bled to death in a driveway in Berlin Borough, New Jersey on Monday night, according to authorities. He was pronounced dead at Virtua Hospital in Berlin a short time later, said Camden police.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270665/Kereti-Paulsen-25-bled-death-shot-hunting-bow-following-fight-girlfriend.html

Gang-raped and drowned at the age of FOUR: Latest horrific attack on girl shocks India a month after notorious bus assault

Two men face charges of raping and murdering a four-year-old girl in the town of Dabwali in Sirsa, India, while under the influence of drugs. The alleged crime is the latest in a series of rape cases that has seen the nation undergo debate, self-scrutiny and mass protests calling for greater punishments for rapists and more measures to increase the safety of women. Officers say the two men, identified by the aliases 'Chhiller' and 'Vikki', were on intoxicant capsules bought from a chemist at the time of the crime.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270589/Two-Indian-men-accused-raping-drowning-year-old-girl-Dabwali.html

Bernard Eugene Giles

I saw a documentary about him but couldn't find anything on this guy. Turns out that this was the first time ever he spoke about what he did after 40 years of silence.

J.A.C

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Mentally disturbed sex offender - Necrophilia
Number of victims: 5 Date of murder: September/November 1973
Date of birth: April 9, 1953
Victims profile: Nancy Gerry, 18; Paula Hamric, 22; Carolyn Bennett, 17; Sharon Wimer, 14, and Kristi Melton, 15
Method of murder: Shotgun in the back of the head
Location: Brevard County, Florida, USA
Status: Sentenced to life in prison on February 17, 1977

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Confessed murderer admits killing four more women

St. Petersburg Times

August 14, 1974

Bernard Eugene Giles, who already has confessed to one slaying, has pleaded guilty of killing four other young women and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms at hard labor. Giles, 21, was declared a mentally disturbed sex offender at his first murder trial in April, and Brevard Circuit Judge David U. Strawn reaffiermed that ruling Monday. Strawn ordered Giles sent to a state hospital for treatment as a mentally disturbed sex offender. Under state statute, Giles will not begin serving time in prison until he has been declared cured by a state psychiatrists. Giles has confessed to killing five Titusville-area women, whose partly clad and descomposed bodies were found over a two-month period late last year in orange groves near here. Giles confessed Monday to killing Paula Hamric, 22, a Titusville waitress; Carolyn Bennett, 17, of Mims; Sharon Wimer, 14, and Kristi Melton, 15, both of Titusville. At his first murder trial, Giles confessed to killing Nancy Gerry, 18, of Titusville, and faces a life sentence in the slaying. He also faces sentences for armed robbery of a Cocoa woman and for attempted rape.

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SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
MO: Necrophile slayer of female victims
DISPOSITION: Life terms on four counts, 1974; life term on another count + 15 years on lesser felonies, 1977.

http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/giles-bernard-eugene.htm

Executed: bodies of at least 65 Syrians found in Aleppo river

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 65 bodies were found in the Quweiq River, which separates the Bustan al-Qasr district from Ansari in the southwest of the city, but that the toll could rise significantly. A Free Syrian Army officer at the scene said at least 68 bodies had been recovered and that many more were still being dragged from the water, in a rebel-held area. "Until now we have recovered 68 bodies, some of them just teens," said Captain Abu Sada, adding that all of them had been "executed by the regime." "But there must be more than 100. There are still many in the water, and we are trying to recover them."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9834260/Executed-bodies-of-at-least-65-Syrians-found-in-Aleppo-river.html

Plane crash in Kazakhstan kills all on board

KYZYL TU, Kazakhstan - A passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Almaty on Tuesday and broke into pieces when it hit the ground, killing all 21 people on board.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/29/plane-crash-kills-22-in-kazakhstan

Man arrested for beating 84-year-old mother to death over breakfast dispute

KANAGAWA — Police said Monday they have arrested a 56-year-old man in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, for allegedly killing his 84-year-old mother. Masaru Takanashi is accused of punching and killing his mother, Teru Takanashi, at their home on Sunday morning. Fuji TV reported that Takanashi called the police himself to report the incident. Police say he was arrested at the scene and taken into custody. Takanashi was quoted by police as saying he punched his mother because she wouldn’t go out and buy breakfast, Fuji reported.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/man-arrested-for-beating-84-year-old-mother-to-death-over-breakfast-dispute

Mother gets 15-year prison term for drowning autistic son, 4, in bathtub

A San Diego mother has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for drowning her 4-year-old autistic son in a bathtub. U-T San Diego says 37-year-old Patricia Corby received the sentence Monday, about a month after giving a tearful guilty plea to murder. Several distraught relatives spoke to Corby before the sentencing, including the boy's father Duane Corby who called her 'a loathsome person.' After several angry family comments she moaned 'stop, stop.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269929/Patricia-Corby-gets-15-year-prison-term-drowning-autistic-son-4-bathtub.html

Surviving band member tells how his missing fellow musicians were 'blindfolded, kidnapped, shot dead, and dumped into well' by Mexico gunmen

The Colombian-style music group was playing at a ranch in northern Mexico when at least 10 gunmen entered the warehouse where the private party was being held and forced them and several crew members into waiting vehicles, a survivor of the attack told authorities. Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene said the survivor, a member of the Kombo Kolombia band, told police the 18 were blindfolded and driven on dirt roads until they stopped. He then heard the assailants ask fellow band members if they belonged to a drug cartel, shots were fired and the bodies were dumped into a well.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269954/Horror-band-members-blindfolded-shot-dead-Mexico.html

First woman to be put to death in four years faces lethal injection in Texas TODAY after killing neighbour

For the first time in three years a female inmate will be put to death in Texas by lethal injection. Kimberly McCarthy, 51, was sentenced to death for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of her 71-year-old neighbour Dorothy Booth. A retired college psychology professor, investigators say Mrs Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Dallas. It was among three slayings linked to McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist who'd been addicted to crack cocaine. Her lethal injection is scheduled for tonight.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270032/Kimberly-McCarthy-First-woman-executed-years-faces-lethal-injection-Texas-TODAY.html

Homeowner, 69, shoots dead 22-year-old after he mistakenly pulled into driveway of his house

A 69-year-old homeowner shot and killed a young man after police say the 22-year-old mistakenly pulled into his home's driveway while looking for a friend's house. Phillip Walker Sailers of Lilburn, Georgia told police he thought Rodrigo Abad Diaz and his friends were home invaders when he started firing at their vehicle on Saturday night. Sailors, a Vietnam veteran, is now being held on a malice murder charge after he fatally shot Diaz in the head, a charge that has left him 'very distraught,' according to his attorney.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270105/Phillip-Walker-Sailers-69-accused-killing-Rodrigo-Abad-Diaz-22-pulled-driveway-house.html

Fourteen women frighten off masked gunman by chanting 'Jesus' and 'Go in the name of the Lord'

A party hostess scared off an armed robber by calling on Jesus to get rid of him, she claimed this week. Jacquie Halger's 14 female guests then began chanting along with her, frightening the terrified gunman into fleeing her Florida home, she added. The homeowner was holding a jewellery party when Derek Lee ran in wearing a ski cap and bandana and brandishing his weapon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270071/Party-hostess-scares-armed-robber-calling-Jesus-house.html

British man, 32, arrested in France for sexual assault and murder of mother-of-three who was 'stabbed so many times her face was unrecognisable'

-British man, 32, arrested over the murder of a mother killed while out jogging in France

-'Pretty and petite' Joudia Zimmat's body was discovered lying on a track in Nimes in the south west of the country

-The 34-year-old, who had three children, had been stabbed, beaten and sexually assaulted, police in France say

-Neighbours described suspect, named only as 'Robert', as a 'nice, polite guy', who had recently moved to France from Chatham, Kent

-He was living with his mother in a luxury villa just a few hundred yards from the scene of Thursday's attack

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270054/Nimes-murder-British-man-32-arrested-France-sexual-assault-murder-mother-stabbed-times-face-unrecognisable.html

Father accidentally runs over and kills his ten-month-old baby

A ten-month-old girl was accidentally run over and killed by her father on Thursday night, it was revealed today. Around 5.15pm, police received a call saying the baby had crawled out to the driveway of the Slidell, Louisiana, home and was tragically killed. Deputies say the father was doing work on his car in front of the home, when the family pets got loose. As the pets were being gathered, the infant crawled out of the house. When the father returned to his car, he pulled back into the driveway and ran over his baby daughter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269529/Father-accidentally-runs-kills-month-old-baby.html

Eight dead, five wounded in weekend violence

Eight people were killed and another five wounded in weekend violence in Chicago — including two separate double-homicide shootings.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/17852628-418/eight-dead-five-wounded-in-weekend-violence.html

Woman, 20, 'shot dead by her boyfriend in her own home'

A 20-year-old Indianapolis man faces murder charges as police say he gunned down his girlfriend in her won home. Dymun Johnson, 20, was found dead of a gunshot would Saturday night in her home on the 3300 block of Devereaux Drive. Her body was discovered by police called to the scene shortly before 4 p.m. in response to a report of a shooting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269358/Woman-20-shot-dead-boyfriend-home.html

Man 'shoots dead his unarmed brother with shotgun for telling him to be quiet'

A man has been charged with murder after shooting and killing his younger brother for telling him to be quiet. Larry Peters, 63, is alleged to have shot his brother Ronald Peters, 50, twice during the domestic dispute which happened at around 3pm on Friday afternoon in Englewood, Chicago. The brothers lived at the same address on the 5800 block of South Shields Avenue. The argument is said to have started when Ronald Peters asked his older brother, who lived on the floor above, to stop making noise.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269420/Man-shoots-dead-unarmed-brother-shotgun-telling-quiet.html

Gunman killed by police after shooting ex-girlfriend and bouncer at Seattle bar

A man shot two people in a Seattle bar on Sunday night, before being killed by police officers responding to the incident. The unnamed gunman wounded his ex-girlfriend, 25, and a bouncer, 30, after an argument at the Twilight Exit bar in Seattle's Central District. The victims are in stable condition at hospital. Police apprehended the suspect as he was leaving the area but when they announced themselves, he shot at officers. They returned fire and killed him at the scene.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269538/Gunman-killed-police-shooting-ex-girlfriend-bouncer-Seattle-bar.html

Teenager, 16, stabbed in posh London street was 'heard screaming for his life before he was killed by sword-wielding gang'

A 16-year-old boy was heard screaming for his life before he was fatally stabbed by a gang armed with knives and swords, residents of a well-heeled area of London said today. The teenager, named locally as Hani Abou El-Kheir, was attacked in Pimlico, central London, shortly before 7pm yesterday evening and taken to a nearby hospital, but he died from his injuries two hours later. Shocked residents living close to the scene on Lupus Street, claimed today that a gang of black and white teenagers were seen carrying out the attack. Other witnesses have claimed that the victim's mother, named by locals as Pauline Hickey, rushed to the scene and was seen crying as she was kept behind a police cordon. She is said to have watched as paramedics battled to save her son. Family friend Mahmoud Abosiad visited the family today and said: 'He was a lovely boy. He did not deserve to end up on a slab.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269341/Pimlico-stabbing-Teenager-16-heard-screaming-life-killed-sword-wielding-gang.html

Garment factory fire kills 7 in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh – A fire swept through a two-story garment factory in Bangladesh's capital Saturday, killing at least seven female workers and injuring another five, police and fire officials said. The fire at the Smart factory occurred just two months after a blaze killed 112 workers in another factory near the capital city, raising questions about safety standards and treatment of workers in Bangladesh's $20-billion garment industry that exports clothes to leading Western retailers. The country has more than 4,000 garment factories.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/26/garment-factory-fire-kills-7-in-bangladesh/

Man charged as woman dies after S&M sex game

A man from Umeå in northern Sweden has been charged with aggravated assault and manslaughter after the death of 28-year-old German woman during a violent S&M sex game. The woman died in October and came to the attention of the authorities when the man called the emergency services, according to a report in the local Västerbottens-Kuriren newspaper. When the ambulance arrived they found the woman unconscious and unable to breathe by herself. She was rushed to hospital where she was kept in intensive care for a couple of days before she was declared dead.

The man has now been charged with aggravated assault and manslaughter after it emerged that the woman's injuries were sustained in a sadomasochistic sex game. According to a pathologist's report, the woman was hit at least 123 times with a paddle during their role play, sustaining injuries all over her body. It has been concluded that the blows did not alone cause the woman's death, with reports indicating that the pair had also consumed the drug ethylphenidate - a psychostimulant similar to cocaine. The prosecutor Åsa Jönsson has confirmed that she believes the cause of death to be suffocation perhaps caused by restriction of the airways with a condom containing nylon tights.

http://www.thelocal.se/45834/20130126/

Brazil nightclub fire 'leaves 200 dead'

Major Gerson da Rosa Ferreira, overseeing rescue efforts at the scene for the military police, told reporters that 159 bodies had already been identified and removed from the nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria. He said the victims had suffocated or been trampled, and that the death toll was likely to be above 200 people. Estado de S. Paulo reported on its website that as many as 2,000 people were in the nightclub when the fire started.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/9829734/Brazil-nightclub-fire-leaves-200-dead.html

17-year-old murder suspect inspired by ‘Halloween’ slasher flick

A Texas teenager told cops he murdered his mother and sister after watching the horror movie "Halloween." "I started watching Rob Zombie's ‘Halloween.’ In the movie a 12-year-old boy murders his stepfather, sister, and his sister's boyfriend. It was the third time this week that I watched it," Jake Evans, 17, wrote in a 4-page confession Oct. 4, the day after the killings. The statement, which was released by Parker County Judge Graham Quisenberry Thursday, shows that Evans empathized with fictional serial killer Michael Myers' complete lack of empathy. "While watching it I was amazed at how at ease the boy was during the murders and how little remorse he had afterward. I was thinking to myself, it would be the same for me when I kill someone," he wrote.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/halloween-inspires-murder-suspect-article-1.1248484

Thirty die in riots after Egyptian court sentences 21 to death for football violence which killed 74 fans

An Egyptian court today sentenced 21 people to death after they were involved in a riot following a football match in which 74 people were killed. The controversial verdict prompted further bloodshed, as 30 people were killed during reactionary riots outside the Mediterranean city of Port Said's main jail today. The unrest is part of a wave of violence that has swept Egypt, leaving a total of 38 people dead in two days.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268636/Egypt-riots-Twenty-sevendie-court-sentences-21-death-football-violence-killed-74-fans.html

Shotgun-wielding gunman slays tribal lawman, wounds two other officers after torching a mobile home in which officials later discovered a 78-year-old local man's body

A man shot three police officers - one fatally - in southern Louisiana Saturday with a shotgun after mysteriously torching a mobile home inside of which fire officials later discovered the charred remains of a 78-year-old local man. Wilbert Thibodeaux, 48, of Charenton was taken into custody after doctors treated him for a superficial gunshot wound he suffered when authorities returned his initial salvo of shot.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268979/Gunman-slays-lawman-wounds-torching-mobile-home-charred-remains-78-year-old-later-discovered.html

Father 'chews off his 5-month-old daughter's nose and upper lip because she wouldn't stop crying'

Little Radha can't be fed normally and may not be able to speak properly unless she undergoes extensive plastic surgery - because her nose and upper lip have been bitten off. The man who did this to the five-month-old was her own father, Bhadar Singh, a farm labourer in Siyana village of the Bikaner district in Rajasthan. The father chewed off his daughter's lips and nose because he was angered by her crying. He has been arrested and booked under various sections of the Indian penal code (IPC) for causing grievous hurt with dangerous means, which provide for a sentence ranging from 10 years in jail up to life imprisonment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2268910/Father-chews-5-month-old-daughters-nose-upper-lip-wouldnt-stop-crying.html

Congdon Anatomical Museum

The Siriraj Medical Museum in Bangkok is fairly well-known amongst world-travelers seeking out the unusual. A unique complex of six different medically themed museums, the Siriraj requires a fairly strong stomach and few hours of your time. Dylan and I visited the complex about a year ago, one of the last stops on a five week trip through South East Asia.

After spending a good hour and a half hopelessly lost in the rabbit-warren of hospital buildings that the museums are nestled in, we finally found the Siriraj. After touring museums of parasites, pathology, thai medicine, and feeling a bit nauseous over the extensive collection of photographs of murder victims in the forensics museum, we were ready to seek out the most historic museum, the Congdon Anatomical Museum.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/notes-from-the-field-congdon-anatomical-museum

The Lunatic's Tradition by Jay Parsons

Man torches wife for cheating, sending nude photo to another man

With glassy eyes and a calm demeanor, vicious firebug Carlos Diaz recounted how he blow-torched his estranged wife earlier this month ”to give her a little pain,” so 38-year-old Harlem mom Cathy Zapata “would learn a lesson." “Now she can worry about our kid and get serious instead of focusing on going out and other men," said a heartless Diaz during a 40-minute interview Friday from a dingy Rikers Island visitors room. Diaz turned himself in Jan. 16, after setting the woman aflame in an Inwood lot, then dousing his old auto shop with gasoline.

Diaz told the Daily News he was set off when he discovered a nude photo Zapata — who had recently gotten some cosmetic surgery done — had sent of herself to another man on her cell phone. “I couldn’t think straight. I wanted to pass out,” said Diaz, 35, nervously looking toward the ground. “I had to do something.” He stewed about the snapshot overnight, and the next morning lured Zapata to the parking lot where the unemployed mechanic had been sleeping most nights. Then, he unleashed the blowtorch. “I had to be a man about it. She hurt my pride,” he said of the woman who had dumped him. “I knew it was going to end up in a place like this but I didn’t care.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/teach-lesson-man-torches-wife-cheating-article-1.1248320

Dozens killed in Venezuela prison riot

A jail riot in south-western Venezuela has killed dozens of people, local media reports, in the latest incident in the nation's ongoing crowded prison crisis. Violence broke out on Friday (local time) after news of an inspection to confiscate weapons at the Centro Occidental jail, prisons minister Iris Varela said in a statement, without providing a death toll. Local media reports say between 26 and 54 people have been killed and dozens wounded. A prisons ministry source told Reuters that "many" had been killed, including one national guard officer, but declined to offer more details. The source said the ministry would hold a news conference on Saturday with details.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-26/dozens-killed-in-venezuela-prison-riot/4485684

‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of a Spree Killer, 1951

The story of the American mass murderer Billy “Cockeyed” Cook — who killed six people, including an entire family of five, during a terrifying three-week spree across several American states in early January 1951 — is barely remembered today. But in the shadow of the December 2012 slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and as the issues of gun violence and mental health again (for the time being, at least) dominate the national dialog, LIFE.com recalls William Cook’s killing spree of more than a half-century ago — if only as a reminder that the unspeakable and the sensational frequently go hand in hand, and that any lessons that might be gleaned from such savagery are, all too often, quickly forgotten.

http://life.time.com/history/im-gonna-live-by-the-gun-and-roam-portrait-of-a-spree-killer-1951/?iid=lf%7Clatest#1

Twenty-one sentenced to death by Egyptian court for football violence which killed 74 teenage fans

An Egyptian court today sentenced 21 people to death after they were involved in a riot following a football match, in which 74 people were killed. The violence during the match last year was the world's worst football related disaster in 15 years. Fans of al-Ahly, whose stands were attacked by rival club Al-Masry in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, had promised more violence if the accused did not receive death sentences. Families of the those killed during the disorder wailed in the courtroom as the judge gave the sentence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268636/Twenty-sentenced-death-Egyptian-court-football-violence-killed-74-teenage-fans.html

Quote Unquote: Edward T. Hall

Crowding, disrupts important social functions and so leads to disorganization and ultimately to population collapse or large scale die-off.

--Edward T. Hall

Mutilated animal corpses still appearing on streets of Kure

HIROSHIMA — Police in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, have received a series of reports of animals being dismembered and left in public places. Police say that incidents had been reported in which cats had been killed and dismembered. Police also say there have now been three reported incidents in which pigeons’ heads were removed and their bodies left near sidewalks and other public places to be found by passersby, Fuji TV reported Thursday. Since March of last year, 16 cats have been found killed and dismembered. Local residents were quoted as saying they are frightened and don’t now what to expect next. Police say the locations and timing of the recent incidents involving pigeons are different to those of last year involving cats. As such, they believe the latest incidents may have been committed by a different individual copying the modus operandi of the original perpetrator.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/mutilated-animal-corpses-still-appearing-on-streets-of-kure

Boy, 17, smiles and laughs as police arrest him for 'beating his mother to death with the butt of a shotgun'

A 17-year-old boy was reported smiling and laughing as police arrested him on charges of beating his adoptive mother to death with the but off a shotgun. Henry 'Hank' Laird had a long history of brutally attacking his mother Linda Laird, 56. The abuse culminated on Tuesday when he mercilessly bludgeoned her to death with 20 strikes to her head and neck at their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police say. Officers also arrested 19-year-old Josiah Sklar, Hank Laird's friend who told police that he saw the attack, but did nothing to call for help or stop it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268035/Boy-17-smiles-laughs-police-arrest-beating-mother-death-butt-shotgun.html

H.R. Giger - The Crucified Serpent

3 beheaded, 5 others killed in northeast Nigeria

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Officials say suspected fighters from a radical Islamist sect beheaded three people in a northeastern Nigerian city where gunfire has echoed through the street. The violence happened Wednesday in Maiduguri and appeared to be the work of the sect known as Boko Haram. Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said three people had been beheaded in an early morning attack in a Maiduguri neighborhood. Later, witnesses and officials said four dead bodies were found in another neighborhood. Residents say a Boko Haram fighter also shot and killed another person, drawing mortar fire from the military. Boko Haram is waging a bloody sectarian fight against Nigeria's weak central government, which has been unable to stop the violence. Authorities blamed the sect for killing five others Tuesday in the northern city of Kano.

http://news.yahoo.com/3-beheaded-5-others-killed-northeast-nigeria-175004441.html

Boy, 11, admits raping six-year-old girl

An 11-year-old boy has admitted raping a six-year-old girl near his home in North Wales.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9823234/Boy-11-admits-raping-six-year-old-girl.html

Missouri man, 93, charged with killing wife, 95

KANSAS CITY, MO. - A 93-year-old man accused of killing his wife thought he had also stabbed himself to death and asked paramedics en route to the hospital "why I am I still awake?" authorities said on Wednesday. Harry Irwin is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his 95-year-old wife, Grace, in south Kansas City, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said. A daughter of the couple found Grace Irwin bleeding on a bed and Harry Irwin laying still in a recliner with knife in his hand, according to a probable cause statement filed by detectives in the case. Harry Irwin had apparently slit his wrists and plunged a knife into his chest, detectives said in the statement. Grace Irwin was pronounced dead at the scene. On the way to the hospital, police said Irwin stated: "Yes, I killed her then killed myself. Why am I awake?"

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/24/missouri-man-93-charged-with-killing-wife-95

Woman throws newborn baby out of toilet window

SAITAMA — Police said Wednesday they have arrested a woman for allegedly killing her newborn baby son by throwing him out of a toilet window in an apartment in Honjo, Saitama Prefecture. According to police, Madoka Masuda, 26, Masuda was staying at her 30-year-old boyfriend’s apartment when she gave birth to the child in the toilet on the evening of Jan 19, TBS reported. Immediately following the birth, police say she threw the child out of the window and left it outside to die. Masuda’s boyfriend was quoted by police as saying that he noticed something was amiss due to an unusual odor in the bathroom and looked out of the window. He saw the baby’s body outside and notified the authorities.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/woman-throws-newborn-baby-out-of-toilet-window

Eight-week-old baby dies at home after suffering a heart attack

An eight-week-old baby died today after suffering a heart attack at home, it has emerged. Police officers and paramedics rushed to the house in Malvern, Worcestershire, at 8.50am. But despite the baby being airlifted to Worcester Royal Infirmary, it was later pronounced dead. Neighbours today expressed their grief over the 'tragic' incident and said the local community was in shock.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267163/Eight-week-old-baby-dies-home-suffering-heart-attack.html

Pensioner, 77, killed himself and wife in head-on smash 'after having diabetic fit at wheel'

A grandfather who died along with his wife in a head-on car crash may have had a diabetic fit at the wheel, an inquest heard. Driver William Burrows, 77, was seen with a 'vacant' expression on his face as his Fiat Punto car veered across a main road and ploughed into oncoming traffic, the hearing was told. Mr Burrows and his wife Jean, 80, were killed when their car clipped one car before smashing into an approaching Renault van outside Leek, Staffordshire.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267547/Pensioner-77-killed-wife-head-smash-having-diabetic-fit-wheel.html

Driver, 70, 'caused FIFTEEN crashes in drunken driving spree outside Atlanta that left one person dead and only ended after he slammed pickup truck into restaurant

Police in the Atlanta area are blaming a 70-year-old motorist for causing 15 crashes that left one person dead and another critically injured. Authorities say the pickup truck driver was drunk and that he left a trail of wreckage on streets in two counties in northern Atlanta's suburbs. He was apprehended after slamming into John Boy’s Home Cooking restaurant in Snellville Wednesday night. Police told CBS Atlanta the man faces several charges including drunken driving, vehicular homicide, hit-and-run and reckless driving.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267622/Driver-70-caused-15-crashes-drunken-driving-spree-outside-Atlanta-left-person-dead-ended-slammed-pickup-truck-restaurant.html

Quote Unquote: Francis Bacon

My painting is not violent, it’s life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

  --Francis Bacon

Suicide blast at funeral kills 18 in Iraq

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives during a funeral ceremony Wednesday at a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, killing 18 people, an official said.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/suicide-blast-funeral-kills-14-iraq-18292424

Unemployment, debt and relationship breakdowns: Why more middle-aged men are killing themselves, mental health charity reveals

The damaging effects of the recession have been blamed for the significant increase in the number of middle-aged men committing suicide, a charity has warned. Latest figures have revealed the suicide rate among men aged between 45 and 59 years old increased between 2007 and 2011 by 8.5 per cent to 22.2 deaths per 100,000 people - the highest level for a generation Overall UK suicides hit 6,045 in 2011, according to the figures released by the Office for National Statistics, with deaths among men accounting for a majority of more than 4,550.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266856/Unemployment-debt-relationship-breakdowns-Why-middle-aged-men-killing-mental-health-charity-reveals.html

The wife gunned down by police lieutenant who also killed their son, 5, before committing suicide

The first pictures have emerged of Las Vegas police lieutenant Hans Walters and the wife he murdered on Monday morning, along with the couple's son, age 5. Investigators say Walters shot Kathryn Walters, 46, and young Maximilian in the head and then set fire to their house in Boulder City, Nevada. The 20-year veteran of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department then confronted officers who had arrived outside the suburban house. After refusing to surrender, he stepped back inside the burning building and committing suicide, according to detectives.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266821/First-pictures-Las-Vegas-Lt-Hans-Walters-murdered-wife-Katheryn-murder-suicide.html

Ritual killings that have terrorised Cameroon: 18 young women are abducted, murdered and found with brains, eyes and genitals missing

A series of ritual killings of young women in the West African nation of Cameroon has caused panic in the capital city Yaounde. Families are now refusing to let their daughters go out after a spate of gruesome killings of young girls who were abducted by the drivers of motorcycle taxis before being murdered and dismembered. Police have found 18 mutilated bodies on the streets of the capital in the past two weeks, five of them outside a nursery school, and all are believed to be linked to occult rituals.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266688/Families-daughters-18-young-women-mutilated-murdered-Yaounde-Cameroon.html

Bank manager, 51, kicked to death by daughter's 'freaked out' horse as they travelled to showjumping event

A bank manager was kicked to death by his daughter's horse as they were travelling together to a showjumping event, an inquest heard. Peter McGuire, 51, was fatally hit in the head as he attempted to calm the gelding when it became agitated and began thrashing about in the back of his horsebox. Mr McGuire's wife Marie, 48, tried to rescue her husband but she too was injured by the animal. She then looked on in horror as the ten-year old chestnut coloured horse, called Hedgehog, 'freaked out' and broke free from his tethering before bucking its hind legs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266886/Peter-McGuire-Bank-manager-51-kicked-death-daughters-freaked-horse-travelled-showjumping-event.html

American boy, 10, loses half his face after horrific jet ski accident in Dubai

A 10-year-old boy needed extensive plastic surgery after being left with horrific facial injuries when a jet ski crashed into his head. Daniel Clamens was enjoying a banana boat ride with his friend on Al Mamzar boat beach in Dubai when the pair were thrown into the sea. The jet ski, which was allegedly being ridden by an off-duty policeman, crashed into the child's face before continuing its journey.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266862/American-boy-10-loses-half-face-horrific-jet-ski-accident-Dubai.html

'Have a nice life mum': Final words of boy, 12, who hanged himself hours after being expelled from school

A 12-year-old schoolboy who was excluded from school hanged himself just hours later, an inquest heard today. Jordan Green,12, had hurled chairs round a room, sworn at staff and threatened them. At first he was excluded from school for one day and when his behaviour worsened the ban was increased to five days before eventually the principal banned him permanently. And when he told his mother Heidi of the ban he said: 'Have a nice life mum, I just feel like killing myself'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266622/Jordan-Green-Final-words-boy-12-hanged-hours-expelled-school.html

Zimbabwe: Big blast at sorcerer's house kills 5

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Police in Zimbabwe say they are investigating a massive explosion at a tribal sorcerer's house outside the capital, Harare. Police officials said Tuesday the blast killed five people. The sorcerer, often known in the West as a witchdoctor, and a man seeking to improve his failing finances, were among the dead, witnesses said. The explosion damaged 12 nearby houses in the Chitungwiza township.

http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwe-big-blast-sorcerers-house-kills-5-150348188.html

Canadian kills himself after shooting two dead at Philippine court

A Canadian man in his 60s opened fire in a courtroom in the Philippines on Tuesday, killing a doctor and a lawyer before shooting and killing himself, police said. John Pope was at the courthouse in Cebu City Tuesday morning to face a charge of "malicious mischief and grave threat."

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/22/canadian-kills-2-in-philippine-courtroom-reports

Quebec boy, 12, shoots and kills brother, 16

DORVAL, Que. - A 16-year-old boy died Monday night after his 12-year-old brother accidentally shot him in the head. The tragic shooting happened inside a home about 6 p.m., but it's not known where the gun came from. The mother of the teens, who wasn't home at the time of the shooting, was taken to hospital suffering from shock once she learned of her son's death.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/01/20130121-215645.html

Texas man shoots estranged wife, then himself, at daughter’s 16th birthday

A Texas girl's sixteenth birthday collapsed into a horror show when her father shot her mother and then killed himself, authorities said. Kelly Suckla, 43, shot his estranged wife Kristi, 44, at the front door of her parents' home in Grapevine, outside Dallas, after the two began arguing during a party for their daughter's birthday, local TV station WFAA reported. Suckla then stepped into his in-laws' front yard, where he turned the pistol onto himself. Authorities said Kristi died some 40 minutes later at Baylor Regional Medical Center.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dad-murder-suicide-daughter-16th-birthday-article-1.1244142

Graphic footage shows 37-year-old bloodied in brutal lower East Side beating in front of dozens of drunken onlookers

A shockingly graphic video showing a boozed-up crowd beating a man until his skull is fractured is a key piece of evidence in a gang assault trial now in the hands of a Manhattan jury. The three-minute tape of 37-year-old Kyam Washington being brutalized on a lower East Side street as drunken onlookers cheer is so violent that jurors in the trial were cautioned about the gore they would have to watch.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/graphic-footage-brutal-les-beatdown-article-1.1244703

Nurse Arrested After Allegedly Having Sex With Corpse

RESEDA, Calif. (KTLA) — A male nurse at Sherman Oaks Hospital has been arrested on suspicion of committing a sex act on a corpse. Security guards reportedly caught Alejandro Lazo, 61, committing an act of necrophilia on Sunday and held him until officers arrived. He was arrested on a state Health and Safety Code violation because the body was deceased, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

http://ktla.com/2013/01/22/nurse-arrested-after-allegedly-having-sex-with-corpse/#axzz2IiXDB08i

17 people shot, 2 fatally, since Friday in Chicago

Weekend gun violence in Chicago left two men dead and at least 15 other people wounded, including a man shot during a party in the Loop’s historic Palmer House Hilton Hotel.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/17708874-418/17-people-shot-2-fatally-since-friday-in-chicago.html

Sisters, 6 and 11, strangled and dumped in street in their pyjamas in sickening crime which even shocked the 'country which hates women'

It is the brutal murder of two innocents which has outraged Guatemala - a country where thousands of women have been killed in the past decade, but where 90 per cent of cases are not investigated. Two little girls - one six years old, one 11 - their tiny dead bodies still wearing pyjamas and clutching rosary beads - dumped in a Guatemalan city street, apparently strangled. Elsewhere in Zona 11, a southern district of Guatemala City, two women also lay murdered, both shot, one reportedly in the face. Today, as their bodies are laid to rest six days after they were found - they are revealed as family.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266114/Guatemala-mourns-death-innocent-sisters-strangled-dumped-street-calls-government-end-countrys-war-women.html

Car crash kills 14 in southern Egypt

An Egyptian security official says a speeding truck collided with a minibus on a highway in the country's south, killing 14 people and injuring 13 others.

http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/ap_news/middle-east/article_50b0296c-49e3-5211-8cd8-74eaf564935b.html

Man arrested for biting 'snake-possessed' son to death

TOKYO — A 53-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of biting his adult son to death to get rid of a “snake haunting him,” Japanese media have reported. TV Asahi said Katsumi Nagaya seriously injured his son, Takuya, on Friday at the younger man’s apartment in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, by head-butting and biting him after the 23-year-old began writhing around and claiming to be a serpent. Takuya was taken to hospital but declared dead a short time later, the broadcaster said. The suspect reportedly told police he had attacked his son in order to remove the snake from his mind.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/man-arrested-for-biting-snake-possessed-son-to-death

Girl, 16, shot dead at side of highway by attacker who then turned gun on himself

A 16-year-old girl found killed on a motorway died of gunshot wounds, Oregon state police said. Kayla Ann Hendrickson, from Beaverton, Oregon was found dead along the Highway 6 east of Tillamook, late Friday night. The only suspect involved in her death, Jacob Allen Green, 24, reportedly shot himself in his car the following day. According to police Ms Hendrickson and Mr Green, from Newport, knew each other. Mr Green, who worked for a Newport area logging company, shot himself in his parked car in Humboldt County, California. He later died in hospital and is so far the only suspect in the investigation into Kayla Ann’s death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265739/Kayla-Ann-Hendrickson-16-shot-dead-highway-man-turned-gun-day.html

Boy, 15, 'shoots his pastor father and family dead with military-style assault rifle' in bloody gun rampage

A 15-year-old boy is accused of using an assault rifle to kill his pastor father and other family members in their home last night, police have said. The suspect, who was identified as Nehemiah Griego, was arrested shortly after the shooting at the Albuquerque, New Mexico, home. Inside, police found the five victims - a man, woman, two girls and a boy - who were each shot multiple times.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265472/Boy-15-shoots-adults-kids-dead-assault-rifle-bloody-shooting-rampage.html

Hanged for 'waging war against God': Iran publicly executes two men after they posted YouTube clip of themselves committing an armed

Amid the howls of grief and rage, a judge recounted their crime and delivered the verdict, that they would be hanged for ‘waging war against God.’ Sarvari seemed stoical. But the desperate Mafiha broke down and laid his head on the shoulder of a balaclava-clad Iranian police officer who put an arm around his back. Moments later nooses were looped around their necks as a group of women at the front of the crowd begged their captors for forgiveness. Their pleas fell on deaf ears. As the sun came up on Sunday morning, the executioners pressed the buttons to trigger their deaths. Mafiha, aged 23, and Sarvari, 20, were raised up by two extending cranes to a height of around 15 feet. They were dead within seconds.

The pair had been arrested after posting a video on YouTube in December showing them attacking a man with a machete on a Tehran street. It showed four masked men on motorbikes approaching their victim before assaulting him with a machete and taking his bag and jacket. The 37-second clip was later shown on Iranian television and caused outrage in an urban population terrified by rising crime levels, Mafiha and Sarvari, who are both unemployed, were arrested along with two other men. According to the Iranian Students News Agency, Mafiha had told his trial they had committed the crime because they were poor.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265763/Two-men-hanged-Iran-posted-YouTube-clip-committing-robbery.html

Horse wakes up to have its throat slit

Cruelty to horses exposed at Red Lion Abattoir by Hillside animal welfare group | Mail Online

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death, suicide, drug abuse, stupidity

University lecturer living next door to drug den kills herself with overdose after telling council she had 'reached the limits of her tolerance' | Mail Online

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Couple forced daughter to drink urine and exorcise her cause she's a witch

Couple 'forced daughter, 10, to drink her own urine and beat her unconscious as they tried to exorcise her' | Mail Online

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death, nature

Death toll in Jakarta floods rises to 15 - Australia Network News - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Woman has sex with dog, boyfriend takes pictures

Deranged woman 'had sex with dog while her boyfriend took pictures' | Mail Online

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Father and 2 children die in canoe accident

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264905/TRAGEDY-Mennonite-father--children--thought-dead-freak-canoe-accident-fast-moving-flooded-creek.html

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Woman stabbed a dozen times

Woman stabbed over a dozen times in NJ Bed, Bath, & Beyond while shopping with her infant son | Mail Online

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Musician strangles religious girlfriend to death

DJ strangled religious girlfriend to death after she left hair in the plug hole | Mail Online

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Families burnt and hacked to death in fresh Syria massacre

Entire families have been burnt or hacked to death in a small farming village in central Syria, activists have reported, in a grim manifestation of the sectarian hatred fomenting within the country.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9809329/Families-burnt-and-hacked-to-death-in-fresh-Syria-massacre.html

Trio of vigilantes 'killed and dismembered drug dealer, 19, with a machete in bid to 'rid the world of evil'

Three men from Kentucky have been arrested and charged Thursday with kidnapping, murdering and cutting up a 19-year-old convicted drug dealer. According to Boone County Sheriff's officials, the trio of suspects, two of them former U.S. Marines, told police they had killed Daniel Delfin in a bid 'to rid the world of evil.' Investigators say the accused killers, identified as Jeffrey Allen, 21, of Verona, Anthony Baumgartner, 23, of Florence, and Stephen Harkness, 22, of Verona, lured the unsuspecting victim to Ohio under the pretense of buying drugs. When Delfin and the three men arrived on location in the town of Walton, near Cincinnati, the suspects attacked the 19-year-old, choked him and then dumped his body n a field, where it was later dismembered. Authorities say Allen, Baumgartner and Harkness used a machete and possibly a saw to cut up Delfin's body. His legs and torso were later found in the field, while his head, feet and arms were tossed into a Dumpster.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264219/Trio-vigilantes-killed-dismembered-drug-dealer-19-machete-bid-rid-world-evil.html

Man is run over and killed by his dog after it hits accelerator and reverses over him

A man was killed after his dog pressed down on the accelerator of his car and ran him over. James Campbell, 68, had got out of his car to open metal gates at the driveway to his Florida home when the accident happened. As he stood by the gates his pet bulldog jumped into the well of the driver's seat and pressed down on the accelerator.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263458/dog-runs-man-James-Campbell-killed-pet-Boxer-hits-accelerator-reverses-him.html

Amityville killer 'on the run' after beating his girlfriend's four-year-old godson to death

A man is on the run after allegedly beating his girlfriend’s four-year-old godson, who was in his care, to death just one mile from the scene of the notorious Amityville Horror killings of 1974. Detectives on Long Island, New York are investigating the death of Adonis Reed who was found unconscious in his pyjamas at 4pm Wednesday and was pronounced dead in hospital shortly before 6pm. The suspect, Jonathan Thompson, was identified by live-in-girlfriend Lakisha Pitt, who has primary care of Adonis and his six-year-old sister after their mother ran into financial troubles.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264373/Amityville-killer-run-beating-girlfriends-year-old-godson-death.html

Boy, 12, accidentally hanged himself 'as he tried to play practical joke on his mother' who couldn't reach up from her wheelchair to help him

A 'happy' schoolboy who accidentally hanged himself with his coat may have been trying to play a joke on his mother, an inquest heard today. Marlowe Isaac Myers, 12, was found dangling from a kitchen coat hook with the zip of his fastened jacket compressing the front of his neck. His disabled mother Nicki Myers, 39, desperately tried to cut him down with a kitchen knife but was unable to reach from her wheelchair and had to fetch a larger knife while he continued to choke.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264100/Happy-schoolboy-12-accidentally-hanged-tried-play-practical-joke-mother.html

Quote Unquote: Christopher Marlowe

Faust: "Did not my conjuring raise thee? Speak."

Mephostophilis: "That was the case, but yet per accidens:
For when we hear on rack the name of God, abjure the scriptures and his savior Christ. We fly in hope to get his glorious soul. Nor will we come unless he use such means, whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring is stoutly to abjure all godliness and pray devoutly to the prince of hell."

(Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus c. 1594)

Quote Unquote: Howard Bloom

...the god who created our cosmos could't possibly be good. The universe was shot through with appaling threads - violence, slaughter, sickness and pain. These evils were the creator's handiwork. Surely he must be some perversely sadistic force, one who should be banished from influence over the minds of men.

--Howard Bloom

'Kiss my ass': Killer utters final words in Gaelic before he's executed in Virginia, the first to die by electrocution since 2010

Robert Charles Gleason Jr., 42, was serving life in prison for a 2007 murder and had also killed his cellmate in 2009. He said he would kill again if he wasn't put to death. But he also stood out because he said he only killed other criminals.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/killer-vowed-strike-put-death-va-article-1.1241730

17-year-old boy arrested for killing grandparents

HIROSHIMA — A 17-year-old boy turned himself in to Hiroshima police on Wednesday morning, saying that he murdered his grandparents. The youth, currently in the second grade of high school, presented himself to a police station in the city’s Asakita Ward just after midnight, TBS reported. Police said that he confessed to the murder of his 74-year-old grandfather and 73-year-old grandmother, with whom he lived. Police went to the residence and found the couple dead of stab wounds from what appeared to be a kitchen knife. According to police, the alleged murder took place at around 10 p.m. Tuesday. Police quoted the youth as saying he got mad at his grandparents because they kept scolding him for not going to school, TBS reported.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/17-year-old-boy-arrested-for-killing-grandparents

Hostages killed in strike on Algeria gas field

Media reports suggest dozens of people are dead after Algerian troops launched an assault on a gas facility where Islamist gunmen are holding hostages. Up to 41 foreigners - including Americans, British, French, Japanese and Norwegian nationals - and scores of Algerians were taken hostage on Wednesday. The militant group, which calls itself the "Battalion of Blood", said the raid is a reprisal for France's involvement in the Mali conflict. Algerian troops surrounded the desert site after the attack and refused to negotiate with the al Qaeda-linked militants. One of the militants has told Mauritania's ANI news agency that Algeria launched an air strike on the facility on Thursday night (Australian time). He said the strikes killed at least 34 hostages and 14 of the kidnappers as the Islamists tried to "ferry some hostages in vehicles to a safer place". He added that the gunmen will kill the remaining captives if the army approaches. Another source put the death toll lower, telling Reuters six hostages and eight of their captors were killed.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-17/hostages-killed-in-strike-on-algeria-gas-field-reports/4470218

Mother and her seven children jailed for 15 years in Egypt after converting back to Christianity from Islam

A mother and her seven children have been jailed for 15 years for converting back to Christianity from Islam in Egypt. Nadia Mohamed Ali was raised a Christian but converted to Islam 23 years ago when she married Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab Mustafa. Following his death, she planned to convert back to her original faith, along with the rest of her family. But a criminal court in Beni Suef, in central Egypt, sentenced them to jail for 15 years last week, according to reports. Seven other people, who were involved in the case, were also sentenced to five years in jail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263727/Mother-Nadia-Mohamed-Ali-seven-children-jailed-15-years-Egypt-converting-Christianity-Islam.html

More than 100 people ‘shot, stabbed and burnt’ to death in latest atrocity carried out by Assad’s troops in Syria

More than 100 people have been shot, stabbed and possibly burned to death in the Syrian city of Homs this week in a suspected massacre by President Bashar al-Assad's troops. A monitoring group said women and children were among the 106 victims killed by forces who stormed Basatin al-Hasawiya, an impoverished district on the fringes of the city. The reports, which are not independently verified, potentially shed further light on the authoritarian regime's use of violence against its own citizens.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263883/More-100-people-shot-stabbed-burnt-death-latest-atrocity-carried-Assad-s-troops-Syria.html

Young man dies at home after nurses give him 21 TIMES too much medication instead of a teaspoonful

A patient died after being given an overdose of SIX bottles of medication - when he was prescribed less than a teaspoon, a report has found. Joshua Gaffney, 22, who should have received less than a third of a 15ml bottle, had 21 times the prescribed amount of the drug clozapine. He died at home in Yeovil, Somerset, shortly after the liquid was administered allegedly in the presence of mental health nurses Amanda Young and Petia Gummer. A post-mortem examination and toxicology report found Joshua died from 'acute clozapine toxicology' after being given 84ml instead of just 4ml.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2263863/Young-man-dies-nurses-21-TIMES-medication.html

Student, 18, stabbed to death in broad daylight 'street execution' while walking home

A gap year student renowned for his politeness was stabbed to death in a 'street execution' as he walked home in broad daylight. Cricket lover Kieran Crump-Raiswell, 18, was knifed in the torso after his killer ran up to him armed with a blade. Paramedics dashed to the scene following a 999 call but Kieran died in hospital from his wounds despite attempts to revive him. Today murder squad detectives were baffled as to a motive for Kieran's murder in a busy road in the Whalley Range area in South Manchester. Local reports have described the killing as an 'execution' but it is understood officers investigating the stabbing do not believe it was gang related.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263844/Kieran-Crump-Raiswell-18-stabbed-death-broad-daylight-street-execution-South-Manchester.html

Collapse of apartment building in Egypt kills 22

CAIRO (AP) — An eight-story apartment building collapsed Wednesday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing at least 22 people in the second deadly accident to hit the country in as many days.

http://news.yahoo.com/collapse-apartment-building-egypt-kills-22-155558785.html

Oklahoma man found hanging from basketball rim of elementary school playground

A man was found hanging from the basketball rim of an Oklahoma elementary school playground in an apparent suicide. The grim discovery was made by teachers early Tuesday morning before students arrived at Ridgecrest Elementary School in Midwest City.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-found-hanging-basketball-rim-school-playground-article-1.1240490

Man defecating between subway cars tumbles to his death

A Bronx man tumbled to his death while defecating between subway cars on a moving 6 train in Manhattan Tuesday, cops said. The northbound local had just left the E. 125th St. station on the Lexington Ave. line around 4:12 p.m. when the 31-year-old man fell and was crushed, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. Within seconds of the foul incident, straphangers spotted a bloodied and battered 50-year-old man climbing out of the 4/5 express track bed across the platform, cops said. The man, who reeked of booze and is believed to be homeless, had a broken pelvis, a deep gash to his buttocks and a laceration on his legs, cops said. It was not immediately clear if he had been struck by a train. The bizarre incidents were unrelated.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/1-dead-1-hurt-deadly-subway-fight-article-1.1240740

'There is a need for us all to die': 'What former soldier told ex-girlfriend's teacher stepmother as he slashed her throat'

A former soldier murdered his ex-girlfriend's stepmother by slashing her throat after telling her: 'There is a need for us all to die', a court has heard. Barach Bandavad, 38, butchered Judith Ege, 58, after she arrived at his house with her husband to collect her step-daughter's belongings following their split, it was said. After appearing 'polite and co-operative' during the handover it is alleged that he suddenly 'flipped', revealing that he had a gun and two knives and demanded they take him for a drive. The couple refused and Mrs Ege's husband Augustine grabbed the car keys and fled in the hope that Bandavad would run after him and leave his wife alone. But the Ministry of Defence worker then repeatedly stabbed her as she sat in the back of the car before slicing her neck open, a jury was told.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263317/Judith-Ege-murder-suspect-Barach-Bandavad-said-There-need-die.html

Driver runs over and kills dog after turning around and chasing after the pet

Cops are hunting for the heartless driver who intentionally ran over and killed a defenseless dog in St. Petersburg, Florida. One witness said the vehicle turned around and chased the dog, who was 'running for its life.' The 6-year-old dog, Snoopy, was known to frequently dart out of the home of his owner, Paul Alves, but would always return.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263350/Horrible-Driver-runs-kills-dog-turning-chasing-pet.html

Woman, 51, 'smothers lover to death with her breasts during drunken row in caravan'

A buxom 14st woman faces manslaughter charges after allegedly smothering her lover with her breasts during a drunken row inside a mobile home. Donna Lange, 51, from Everett, Washington, is reported to have thrown herself down on top of her boyfriend at midday on Saturday. Police arrived at the scene following reports of shouting coming from inside the mobile home and found Lange lying on top of her boyfriend, 51, who weighed a stone less than her.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263190/Donna-Lange-51-smothers-boyfriend-death-breasts-drunken-row-caravan.html

British tourist, 33, 'shot dead for his camera' after battling muggers who attacked as he tried to take photos in Honduras

A British man has been shot dead by muggers who stole his camera in one of central America's most violent cities. The man, named locally as Omer Kaya, 33, collapsed after being shot in the neck during the violent robbery in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. Police were last night hunting a woman and two men said to have pursued him when he left a taxi, before attacking Mr Kaya while he was reportedly taking photographs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263188/British-tourist-shot-dead-camera-Honduras.html

Pilot who died in Thames skyscraper crash which also killed pedestrian had flown in James Bond film and for air ambulance

The pilot who crashed his helicopter into a newly-built tower in central London today, killing himself and a pedestrian, was today named as experienced aviator Pete Barnes, who has worked on a James Bond film. Witnesses said the helicopter - which had requested to divert via Heathrow air traffic control and land at Battersea Heliport due to bad weather conditions - hit a crane at the top of the tower near Vauxhall Bridge in Vauxhall at 8am. Mr Barnes, 50, was later confirmed to have died.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263213/Helicopter-crash-Vauxhall-London-2-dead-13-injured-aircraft-hits-crane-Thames-skyscaper.html

Shooter kills 2 at Brazil pre-Carnival party

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police are searching for a gunman who fired into a crowd at a pre-Carnival street party, killing two and wounding 10 other people. Such violence is highly unusual before and during Carnival, which attracts hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors annually. A police spokesman in the city of Novo Friburgo, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northeast of Rio de Janeiro, says they don't know the motive for the shooting and haven't located the gunman. A 43-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were killed.

http://news.yahoo.com/shooter-kills-2-brazil-pre-carnival-party-172148661.html

17 Human Heads Found at Chicago Airport

CHICAGO — A shipment of 17 human heads was discovered at O’Hare International Airport on Monday. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the specimens, still covered with skin, were taken to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. Authorities said no foul play was suspected, according to the newspaper.

http://ktla.com/2013/01/14/17-human-heads-found-at-chicago-airport/

Man suspected of killing 9-year-old granddaughter

TOKYO — Police said Tuesday that a man in his 60s is suspected of strangling to death his 9-year-old granddaughter and then trying to kill himself at their home in Tokyo’s Machida. According to police, the man lived with his son and his daughter. Fuji TV reported that the father returned home from working a night shift at about 9 a.m. and found his daughter, clad in her pajamas, lying on a futon. She had apparently been strangled to death. The man found his father in another room, where he had slit his wrists and tried to hang himself, police said. Police said the grandfather was taken to hospital where his condition is not life-threatening. He was quoted as saying that he killed the girl, Fuji reported.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/man-suspected-of-killing-9-year-old-granddaughter

Brutal teens 'kill and try to dismember' two men in trap at their home and are arrested as they play video games near the bodies

Two men have been killed and dismembered by four young adults who were caught playing video games in the home when police arrived at the scene of the gruesome murder. The bodies of Eric Glover and Terrence Rankins were found by police inside a home in the suburb of Joliet, Illinois on Thursday and the atrocious nature of the deaths shocked even veteran members of the force. It is thought the accused lured their victims into the home and killed them after trapping them inside. 'This is one of the most brutal, heinous and upsetting things I've ever seen in my 27 years of law enforcement,' Police Chief Mike Trafton said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262564/Brutal-teens-kill-try-dismember-men-trap-home-Joliet.html

Female vet 'gave her six pets lethal injection before using same drug to kill herself'

A vet is believed to have injected her six pets with a fatal dose of drugs before taking her own life at her veterinary surgery this morning. The body of Dr Edith Klein, 48, the owner and head vet at The Pet Health Care Center in Pelham, Georgia, was found alongside her four dogs and two cats by an employee at 8.30am today.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262624/Vet-Dr-Edith-Klein-dead-Pet-Health-Center-Pelham-Georgia-apparent-suicide-surrounded-dead-pets.html

Teenage boy finds mother bludgeoned to death at home as brother, 23, is charged with her murder

An 18-year-old boy discovered his mother bludgeoned to death at their home as his brother was charged with her murder, authorities said. The teenager, whose name has not been released, found Angela Lozano with a bloody head wound at their apartment in North Richland Hills, Texas in the early hours of Saturday. Several hours later, police arrested his 23-year-old brother Justin Cody Collins over Ms Lozano's death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262200/Teenage-boy-finds-mother-bludgeoned-death-home-brother-23-charged-murder.html

Former chauffeur, 72, 'killed estranged wife before taking his own life' TWO YEARS after they separated

A father is believed to have killed his estranged wife before taking his own life two years after they separated. Chauffeur Terence Kirby, 72, was found dead next to his wife Mynra Kirby, 57, at his bungalow home in Cheshunt, Herts. It is understood the couple, who have been named locally, separated around two years ago and Mrs Kirby moved out of the family home and into a flat in Waltham Cross, Herts. Police were called to the house at around 6.30pm on Friday and discovered Mr Kirby and his wife dead. Mrs Kirby is believed to have visited the family home on Friday before the incident took place.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262238/Former-chauffeur-72-killed-estranged-wife-taking-life-years-separated.html

Boy, age 10, convicted of murder for shooting his abusive neo-Nazi father in the head while he slept

A California judge is weighing the fate of a boy who, at age 10, shot his neo-Nazi father in the head while he was sleeping. Joseph Hall, now 12, is being tried for first degree murder in the killing of Jeff Hall, 32, who defense lawyers say was an abusive parent who routinely beat and kicked his son. Riverside Superior Court Judge Jean Leonard is hearing the case without a jury. He alone will decide whether the boy knew what he was doing was wrong and whether the murder was premeditated. If found guilty of premeditated first-degree murder, Joseph could be imprisoned until his 25th birthday for the May 2011 shooting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262180/Murder-verdict-expected-trial-boy-age-10-shot-abusive-neo-Nazi-father-head-sleeping.html

8 dead in NE China mine accident

SHENYANG - Eight people died and three others were injured on Saturday in a coal mine accident in Northeast China's Liaoning province, local authorities said Sunday.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-01/13/content_16110455.htm

Woman crushed to death between boat and bridge

A South Florida woman was fatally crushed during a boating accident this weekend in which her vessel got caught in the current near one of the bridges connecting Miami to Miami Beach. Authorities say that Janette Africano, 35, of Hialeah was pronounced dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami after a valiant effort to revive her that included the administration of nearly 45 minutes of CPR. Africano was motoring south on Saturday around 5 p.m. with a male companion in an 18-foot red-and-white boat through the Intra-coastal Waterway that separates Miami, proper, from the South Beach area of Miami Beach, according to various media outlets.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262003/Tragedy-Woman-fatally-crushed-boat-bridge-boating-accident.html

Woman, 70, 'shoots dead her husband - 30 years after killing previous husband in the same house with the same shotgun'

A 70-year-old woman has been arrested for shooting dead her husband - the second time in nearly 30 years she's been accused of killing a spouse. El Dorado County officials say Colleen Ann Harris was arrested last Sunday after deputies were called to her home in rural Placerville and found 72-year-old Robert Harris dead of a gunshot wound. Sheriff's officials say Robert Harris was Colleen Harris' third husband. They are believed to have divorced in 2004 but later reconciled.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262168/Woman-shot-killed-second-husbands-house-shotgun.html

Reptile's head discovered on beach sparks fears over huge great white

A decapitated crocodile lies washed up on a South African beach, leaving locals speculating about the identity of the killer. The gruesome scene was photographed and videoed by Neale and Brigitte Cary-Smith and has quickly become an internet hit, with people wondering how the animal met its end. Some believe the mighty croc fell victim to poachers, will others are blaming hippos and tiger sharks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261622/Shark-blamed-decapitated-crocodile-beach-South-Africa.html

High tech coffin with speakers linked to web allows living to update playlists for the dead

Music and video equipment store owner Fredrik Hjelmquist said his hi-fi coffin would entertain the dead and provide solace for grieving friends and relatives by making it possible for them to alter the deceased's playlist online.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/9796179/High-tech-coffin-with-speakers-linked-to-web-allows-living-to-update-playlists-for-the-dead.html

Judge weighs the right of a free press against the right of a fair trial in case of Erwin Simants, who admitted to gunning down six people in 1975

As crimes go, this one looked like a short cut to the electric chair. On Oct. 18, 1975, in the tiny western Nebraska village of Sutherland, population around 900, police entered the home of the Kellie family and found six people with gunshot wounds to the head. Dead were retired farmer, Henry Kellie, 66, his wife, Marie, 57, and three of their grandchildren, Florence, 10, Deanna, 7, and Daniel, 5. Clinging to life was David, 32, the couple’s son and father of the two younger children. He died later at the hospital. It didn’t take long to identify a suspect.

Erwin Simants, 29, an unemployed laborer and town drunk, had confessed to his father, Amos. Dad at first did not believe his son’s words, so he made an anonymous call directing police to the Kellie home. Once the worst was confirmed, Amos admitted that his son was their man. By then, the killer had vanished. Police immediately contacted KNOP-TV in North Platte, and told them to broadcast a warning to the community to lock all doors and windows. “There’s a sniper loose with a shotgun and he’s killing people.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/mass-killing-case-free-press-article-1.1238976

3 found murdered in Nagoya house

NAGOYA — Police said Saturday that three people were found murdered in a house in Nishi Ward, Nagoya. The three were identified as real estate company owner Sumio Hayakawa, 68, his wife Noriko 64, and her mother Shizue, 84. According to police, the three were found by the Hayakawas’ 35-year-old son at about 9:30 a.m. Police said that Sumio had been beaten several times about the head, while Noriko and Shizue had been strangled with ties, which were still around their necks. Meanwhile, TBS reported that the Hayakawas’ 39-year-old daughter is missing. Her locked car was found in nearby Komaki City late Saturday.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/3-found-murdered-in-nagoya-house

Slain boys, 14 and 15, among 6 shot since Friday

A boy just days away from his 15th birthday was among two young teens killed in gun violence in Chicago since Friday afternoon, authorities said. Separate shootings wounded four other people, most of whom are also in their teens.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/17530670-418/slain-boys-14-and-15-among-6-shot-since-friday.html

Mentally challenged girl, 15, 'gang raped under her desk during class as teacher did NOTHING'

A mentally challenged 15-year-old New York girl endured a brutal gang rape as she was trapped beneath her by two boys with her teacher only feet away, alleges a lawsuit filed Friday. The special needs student, identified only by the initials K.J., was allegedly sexually assaulted for 10 minutes as another student 'hit her on the head whenever she tried to escape,' during a science class at Martin De Porres Academy in Elmont, N.Y. The girl's mother, who filed the suit, alleged that the teacher ignored the assault even as one student danced on the desk while another attempted to sodomize K.J.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261576/Mentally-challenged-girl-15-gang-raped-desk-class-teacher-did-NOTHING.html

Tragedy as British girl, 8, on holiday in Jamaica dies in shooting at her family's grocery store

An eight-year-old British girl on holiday in Jamaica with her family was shot dead when an assailant opened fire at a grocery store on Friday evening. Imani Green, from Balham in South London, was at her cousin's small shop on the island's north coast, in the town of Duncans in Trelawny Parish, when violence broke out during an argument. She was struck in the head by a bullet from the shooter's 9mm pistol and then was hit in the shoulder by a second bullet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261599/Tragedy-British-girl-8-holiday-Jamaica-dies-shooting-familys-grocery-store.html

Boy, 14, brutally executed on his doorstep in Chicago is sixth teenager shot since Friday

Witnesses say two gunmen shot and killed a 14-year-old Chicago boy Friday night as he stood on his porch, and then left him to die in the front hallway of his own home, authorities said. The shooting came just hours after a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in a separate attack. The death marks the sixth shooting of a teenager since Friday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261381/Boy-14-brutally-executed-doorstep-Chicago-sixth-teenager-shot-Friday.html

Dozens killed in Nepal bus crash

Police in Nepal say at least 29 people were killed at 12 others injured when a bus fell 600 metres after veering from a narrow mountain road in the country's west. The bus tumbled down a steep hill in Doti district about 2.00am (local time) after the driver lost control on the road during a thick fog. "Twenty-nine passengers have been killed in the crash. Twelve passengers who have been seriously injured are being treated in hospital, 50 kilometres from the site," said Nara Bahadur Air, an officer in Doti.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-12/dozens-killed-in-nepal-bus-crash/4462322

Deaf man stabbed multiple times after his sign language is mistaken for gang signs

Police in North Carolina say a deaf man was stabbed several times after his sign language was mistaken for gang signs by another man. Burlington Police Sgt. Mark Yancey said 45-year-old Terrance Ervin Daniels was using sign language with another deaf man. He said a third person saw them, thought they were flashing gang signs and stabbed Daniels with a kitchen knife.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261162/Deaf-man-stabbed-multiple-times-sign-language-mistaken-gang-signs.html

Witness's running commentary to 999 operator as he watched woman knife grandmother to death in street

A 999 caller delivered a terrifying running commentary to an operator as he watched a woman stab a grandmother to death in the street. Nicholas Morris screamed, 'She's bloody killing her!' as he watched Nicola Edgington, 32, go on a violent early morning rampage near Bexleyheath high street, a court heard today. He saw the killer first try to stab Kerry Clark, then 22, before going into a butcher's and grabbing another knife, which she used to almost decapitate 59-year-old Sally Hodkin.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2260915/Shes-bloody-killing-Witnesss-running-commentary-999-operator-watched-woman-knife-grandmother-death-street.html

Two men stabbed to death on busy shopping streets in Birmingham city centre

Two men have died after a double stabbing in Birmingham city centre, West Midlands police said tonight. Police flooded the area around Martineau Place and Union Street after receiving reports of the stabbings at 5.50pm. The two victims are believed to be in their 40s. West Midlands Police said one victim was stabbed outside a Sainsbury's store on Martineau Place while the second man was found slumped near Boots in Union Street.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261003/Two-men-stabbed-death-busy-shopping-streets-Birmingham-City-centre.html

Man, 57, 'had sex with dog over a four-month period'

A 57-year-old man is facing life in prison after he was charged with sodomy for having sex with a dog over a four-month period. Charles Ralph Horton, from Cedar Springs, is accused of having sexual relations with the dog - a lab/shepherd mix - between August and November 2012. Authorities called the act an 'abominable and detestable crime'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2260864/Charles-Ralph-Horton-57-sex-dog-month-period.html

61-year-old Florida woman tortured ex-husband with cattle prod, dragged him behind truck in jealousy-fueled attack

A 61-year-old Florida woman and two others beat and tortured her ex-husband with an electric cattle prod, hog-tied him to the back of a truck and then dragged him for a half-mile before he managed to escape, authorities said. Jeanette Morris was charged with attempted murder for allegedly beating and dragging Robert Hall, 54, through a dirt road in rural Volusia County on Tuesday night Police said Morris, a truck driver, snapped after learning that her estranged ex brought his girlfriend to her house while she was out of town for work.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-drags-behind-truck-article-1.1237589

China landslide kills 18, many more buried

A landslide in south-western China has killed at least 18 people, with many more still buried. A total of 46 people were buried in the disaster in landslide-prone Yunnan province, according to local media reports. Authorities say the victims include seven people from one family. More than two dozen people were trapped after the landslide, which buried 16 homes. So far, two people have been rescued.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-11/deadly-landslide-in-china/4461690

Gunman who carried out 'cold-blooded execution' of father, 32, as he slept alongside his girlfriend and son, 3, jailed for life

-Sleeping woman and child in bed next to him didn't hear a sound as shotgun was held so close to his skull when it was fired

-The intended target was actually the alleged shooter's brother, as the two family members shared years of animosity and violence

-Gunman Martin Fieldhouse now been jailed for life with minimum of 30 years for the 'cold-blooded execution'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247462/Gunman-Martin-Fieldhouse-carried-cold-blooded-execution-father-32-slept-alongside-girlfriend-son-3-jailed-life.html