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Newlywed, 25, killed just hours after vows when husband, 27, loses control of their car as he drives away from their reception

A newlywed bride has been killed just hours after her vows after her husband lost control of their car, sending them off the highway and ejecting her from the passenger seat. Kali Dobson, 25, was next to her new husband, 27-year-old Ryan Quinton, as he drove the Pontiac Firebird from their reception at Wheeler House in Ball Ground, Georgia on Sunday night. At around 8.30pm Quinton lost control of the vehicle, sending it hurtling off the highway and ejecting Dobson, who was not wearing a seatbelt.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531689/Newlywed-25-killed-husband-27-loses-control-car-drives-away-reception.html

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Man, 38, 'kills ex father-in-law, 53, in love triangle showdown over the woman they both pursued'

An Oklahoma man entangled in a shocking love triangle was killed Friday, allegedly at the hands of his adversary: his own former son-in-law. Police say Rodney Aaron Wilson, 38, of Stilwell shot and killed Rickey Lee Harlin, 53, on the evening of December 27 before calling 911 to report he'd fired in self-defense. Meanwhile, the victim's daughter and ex-wife of the accused killer Stacie Catron, 36, has unwittingly become a fourth player in this deadly game and says the two men were feuding over the affections of the same woman. What's more, investigations have revealed that Wilson has had deadly encounters with family before.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531488/Man-38-kills-ex-father-law-53-love-triangle-showdown-woman-pursued.html

'I love you Momma': Unrepentant killer's last words as he becomes sixth man executed in Oklahoma this year

Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a 48-year-old man convicted of the 1998 stabbing death of a horse trainer from Ringling. Johnny Dale Black was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. Tuesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester after telling his mother he loved her. He was the second inmate executed by the state in the past two weeks and the sixth put to death in Oklahoma this year. Black was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing Bill Pogue, 54, during a roadside attack near the southern Oklahoma town that left Pogue with 11 stab wounds, broken ribs and punctured lungs. Pogue's son-in-law, Rick Lewis, was also attacked. Lewis suffered more than a dozen wounds but later recovered. He had been looking for someone else, according to court documents. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525648/I-love-Momma-Unrepentant-killers-words-sixth-man-executed-Oklahoma-year.html

Double murder, suicide in Atlanta suburb as man bursts into ex-girlfriends apartment and shoots her and her boyfriend dead before taking his own life

Police in Georgia have confirmed that a man burst into his ex-girlfriends apartment, shot her and her current boyfriend dead and then shot himself. The shocking double murder, suicide occurred in Cobb County at the Ivy Ridge Apartments when Pericles Demoura, 45, entered 35-year-old Thelma Vinhal's home and opened fire, killing her and Euclides Guinato-Bernardes, 30. Moments later Demoura shot himself and when officers responded to the scene they discovered the Brazilian nationals all dead inside.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531519/Double-murder-suicide-Atlanta-suburb-man-bursts-ex-girlfriends-apartment-shoots-her-boyfriend-dead-taking-life.html

Mother 'kills daughter, 13, after force-feeding her four children narcotic drugs to murder them all' on Christmas Day

An Arizona mom is in jail after allegedly trying to poison to death her four children on Christmas Day. Police say Connie Villa, 35, forced her kids aged 13, 8, 5 and 3 to swallow prescription narcotics, killing her oldest Aniarael Macias. Adam Villa first called police Wednesday night to report that his crazed ex-wife Connie had attacked and stabbed him repeatedly in the torso after luring him to her.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530955/A-daughter-13-dead-mothers-shocking-Christmas-Day-attempt-poison-four-children.html

Student facing death sentence in China for hanging two prostitutes, shipping their bodies to his home and having sex with the corpses

A 23-year-old university student in China will be executed after hanging two prostitutes and having sex with their corpses. The student, whose surname is Lee, was studying design at Jilin University in Changchun and told police that he had been failing a lot of classes and called the prostitutes to help relieve the pressure. He also told detectives that he used to have fantasies about having sex with dead bodies and decided one morning that he could no longer resist carrying it out. On March 6 this year he hired a 20-year-old prostitute called Cai through the internet, according to iFeng.com.

Lee then hanged her and had her body shipped back to his house in Changping , where he had sex with the corpse. It was then dismembered and the parts buried in Lee’s garden. On March 23 he carried out the same macabre act on the body of another prostitute that he’d hanged and shipped home. A forensic psychiatrist determined that Lee wasn’t insane and was criminally responsible for the crimes. The Second Intermediate People's Court found him guilty of intentional homicide and sentenced him to death. It also ordered him to pay 80,000 yuan (£8,000) in compensation to the victims’ families.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531090/Student-facing-death-sentence-China-hanging-two-prostitutes-having-sex-corpses.html

Two young children find their mother's body on Christmas Day after 'she was beaten to death by her husband'

A Maine man stands accused of beating his high school sweetheart wife to death on Christmas Day. Hilary Saenz, 29, was found dead by paramedics after husband Christopher Saenz, 30, called them to their home Christmas Day. The couple married in their teens and have two children together - they found their mother's lifeless body. One neighbor told a local television station the violent man has a drug problem that likely led to the woman’s murder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530939/Man-accused-beating-high-school-sweetheart-wife-death-Christmas-Day.html

At least 10 killed in SECOND terror attack in Russian city of Volgograd in 24 hours - just six weeks before Winter Olympics

At least 10 people have been killed and 22 injured in an explosion on a packed trolleybus in Russia's Volgograd city. Russia's Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said a suicide bomber was behind this morning's terrorist attack. The deadly blast comes a day after a suicide bombing killed at least 17 people in the southern city's main railway station. Investigators believe the blasts may be connected.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531018/At-10-killed-second-suicide-bomber-attack-Russian-train-station.html

'Single mother', 18, dies in fireball next to level crossing after running from house covered in flames

An 18-year-old woman died in a ball of flames next to a level crossing. Police believe the woman was set alight at a nearby property in New Malden, Surrey, before stumbling towards the tracks. The teenager - the mother of a three-year-old boy - was pronounced dead at the scene in the early hours of this morning.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530716/Teenage-girl-18-dies-fireball-level-crossing-running-house-covered-flames.html

Father fled the scene after running over his own four-year-old son and killing him

An Ohio father allegedly fled the scene of an accident in which his own son died, after being hit by the minivan the father was driving, the day after Christmas. Authorities say the four-year-old son of Natividad de Jesus Hernandez, 30, fell from the minivan Hernandez was driving and was hit by the car. A witness to the incident says Hernandez stayed on the scene with the child until an ambulance arrived, then jumped back in the van and drove away.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530591/Father-fled-scene-running-four-year-old-son-killing-him.html

Robber wanted for killing cop in bank heist shot dead after attempting THIRD robbery in one week

Authorities say the man suspected of killing a police officer in a Tupelo, Mississippi bank robbery last Monday has been killed trying to carry out another heist in Arizona. According to ajc.com, the agency made the connection late Sunday and announced that the bank robber subject of a nationwide search was shot and killed outside a Phoenix bank yesterday. His name was not released. On exiting the bank the man encountered a police detective and shots were fired, CNN reported, it is not believed the detective was wounded. The new and final development in the case came just hours after the FBI announced that the man was a serial bank thief and had attempted a robbery just hours before his fatal heist in Mississippi.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530499/Man-suspected-killing-police-officer-bank-robbery-caught-camera-just-hours-earlier-attempting-heist.html

At least 14 killed and scores injured by 'female suicide bomber' at Russian train station

At least 14 people have been killed and dozens more injured by a suspected female suicide bomber at a train station in Russia today. Around 50 people are thought to be injured by the blast which occurred in the southern city of Volgograd. It is believed a female suicide bomber is behind the attack which has raised concerns surrounding terrorism ahead of the Winter Olympics next year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530665/13-killed-scores-injured-suicide-bombing-Russian-train-station.html

3 dead, 2 wounded in shootings

Three people were killed and two others were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Thursday evening and early Friday. Most recently, police found a male shot to death in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/24613791-418/3-dead-2-wounded-in-shootings.html

Young chemistry whiz Graham Frederick: Young used his 'talents' to kill his stepmother and poison other family members

He seemed to be just an odd kid with a passion for science, but then Graham Frederick Young, 14, used his chemistry set to kill. The first victim was his stepmother, Molly Young, 37. Early in 1961 she began to complain of stomach cramps and pain. Before long, other members of the London family — Fred Young, Graham’s father, and Winifred, 22, his older sister — were suffering similar symptoms. Even after a schoolmate, Christopher Williams, another chemistry enthusiast, took ill, everyone chalked it up to some kind of stomach bug.

At least that was the theory until November, when Winifred became violently ill on the train to work. Doctors discovered that she had somehow taken belladonna, the ancient extract of deadly nightshade that was a favorite method for disposing of people in the Renaissance. Winifred suspected her brother, whose behavior was weird, even more so than the average teenager. He idolized Hitler and wore a swastika to school. He drew pictures of family and friends being hanged or dangling over vats of acid. He reveled in tales of famous poisoners like 19th century serial killer Dr. William Palmer. One of his chemistry experiments blew up the family kitchen.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/kid-pure-poi-son-article-1.1560398

Rapper blinded in attack three years ago is shot dead in Alabama nightclub alongside college student celebrating her 21st birthday - while six others are left injured

An up-and-coming rapper and a young college student were killed and another person is clinging to life after a shooting Saturday that also injured five additional people inside an Alabama bar. Glenn Thomas, known on stage as Doe B, and Kimberle Johnson, 21, were killed as shots rang out in a packed Montgomery bar just before 1am Saturday morning. Mr Thomas, 22, was a member of superstar rapper TI’s Hustle Gang and had come home to celebrate a recent hit song. Ms Johnson was celebrating her 21st birthday, according to WAKA.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530596/College-student-celebrating-21st-birthday-killed-crossfire-gunman-aimed-rapper-Doe-B-shot-dead.html

Toddler found beaten and abused in blood splattered nursery dies in hospital as mother and father are both charged with murder after blaming each other

A Georgia couple faces murder charges after being accused of savagely beating their toddler to death. Two-year-old Aiden Calvo’s battered body was covered in bruises, blood was splattered on his bedroom wall, he had broken bones – parents Elizabeth Calvo, 21, and Adam Garber, 25, were arrested while the baby was taken to the hospital Dec 16. The extent of the boy’s injuries has upset even the most grizzled of police veterans.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530608/Toddler-badly-beaten-blood-splattered-room-mother-boyfriend-charged-murder-death-days-later.html

Fire kills 26 people on Indian train after passengers were trapped inside because doors were locked overnight

At least 26 people have been killed in a fire on board an Indian train after its doors were locked overnight leaving passengers no hope of escape. Officials say many of those trapped suffocated as the result of smoke inhalation after the blaze that took place in the early hours of the morning. Two children are among the dead whose carriage was derailed from the rest of the train to prevent the fire from spreading.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530357/Fire-Indian-train-kills-26-people-doors-trapped-passengers-tried-escape-early-hours-morning.html

Woman abducted and raped on Christmas Eve was kidnapped and gang raped by another group as she tried to make her way to safety

A woman was abducted and raped on Christmas Eve before being attacked and gang raped by another group of seven men just minutes later, it has been reported today. The 20-year-old woman's horrific ordeal took place while she was out with friends in Karaikal, Tamil Nadu, reports suggest. The woman, who is believed to work for a computer company, had been out sight seeing with a female friend and the latter's boyfriend, 17. The two women decided to go home to change during their visit on December 24. Three men, who the victim says had been watching her for a while, abducted her while she walked alone, taking her to a secluded place. One of group then allegedly raped her.

The woman says she was then released by the man and attempted to get to safety and find her friends. The woman says that within a few minutes she was taken by another group of seven men. Six of the vile gang then took turns to rape her, she says. The woman's friends are reported to have made desperate attempts to find the girl - eventually finding the group and confronting them. When a fight broke out, a neighbour called police who arrived on the scene, according to The Times of India.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529990/Woman-abducted-raped-Christmas-Eve-kidnapped-gang-raped-group-tried-make-way-safety.html

Man, 20, 'bashed boss's wife and daughter to death with cement block because he got fired', police say

A 20-year-old allegedly went to the Indianapolis home of his former boss during the middle of the day and murdered the man's wife and daughter after getting fired from his job, court documents claim. Christian Rene Haley was identified on Thursday as the suspect in the gruesome murder of Marylyn Erb, 52, and Kelley Erb, 23, on Friday December 20 at their house in Westfield. The two women were found dead in the basement near a pool of blood, according to a probable cause affidavit, with the time of death said to be between noon and 1pm, reported MyDesert.com.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530233/Man-killed-bosss-wife-daughter-got-fired.html

Chinese cab driver burns himself alive while grabbing hold of traffic officer who refused to cancel a parking ticket

A rickshaw driver set himself on fire after he spotted a policeman giving him a parking ticket. Guo Huang, 43, was setting down a passenger when he spotted the traffic officer writing him a ticket for illegal parking in a no parking zone in the city of Tangshan in Hebei province, northern China. According to the passenger, the driver leapt out of the taxi and started shouting at the official, Hsin Ch'in, who refused to cancel the ticket. Huang then grabbed a can of liquid from the taxi and doused himself in it, saying he was going to burn himself to death.

But when the the policeman went to remonstrate with the driver, he grabbed the officer and then flicked the switch on the lighter, engulfing them both in flames. The cop managed to break free of the man's grip and escaped with slight burns. Officer Hsin told local TV: 'It was terrifying, he was trying to get to me after I broke free but he couldn't see, even his face was in flames. I just ran and kept on running. I didn't even look back.' Huang's charred and blackened corpse lay on the side of the road after the incident, terrifying passers-by.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530013/Chinese-cab-driver-burns-alive-grabbing-hold-traffic-officer-refused-cancel-parking-ticket.html

Woman found murdered in Scarborough apartment

TORONTO - A 64-year-old woman was found dead with “obvious injuries” in her 17th-floor north Scarborough apartment late Thursday. Toronto Police now say the death at the 80 Alton Towers Circle highrise, south of McCowan Rd. and Steeles Ave., is the city’s 56th homicide of the year. The slaying has spooked neighbours, who said they heard screaming in the hallway around 11:30 p.m. When next-door neighbour Vincent Mak ventured out to see what was going on, he said he saw a woman “freaking out.” “We heard screaming, we weren’t sure what was happening,” Mak said Friday. “So I went out, she was screaming, she was in panic saying that someone murdered her mother.” Down the hall, James Wong, 60, was watching a late-night movie when he heard the screams. When he went out, he said a woman — who identified herself as the female resident’s daughter-in-law — was screaming “and the son kept saying that it’s horrible in there, it’s horrible in there. ‘Don’t look, don’t look, it’s horrible in there.’” “She said, ‘Someone murdered my mother-in-law, someone murdered my mother-in-law! She’s gone, she’s gone!’ And she starts crying,” Wong said.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/27/woman-found-dead-in-scarborough-apartment

Newlywed shoots dead his wife, former mother-in-law and ex-boss before killing himself in Christmas murder suicide

A Louisiana newlywed locked in a bitter custody dispute killed his wife and shot dead his ex-mother-in-law and boss before turning the gun on himself Thursday evening. Ben Freeman, 38, of Houma, killed wife Denise Taylor Freeman, ex-mother-in-law Susan ‘Pixie’ Gouaux and boss Milton Bourgeois before killing himself, officials said. Three others, including a local politician, were injured in the rampage. Ben Freeman and Denise Freeman were married six months ago. Mr Bourgeois was CEO of the hospital where they both once worked before Mr Freeman was terminated in 2011, according to Houma Today.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529929/Man-kills-wife-former-law-old-boss-shooting-rampage-turning-gun-himself.html

Security guard crushed to death by 15ft python in front of terrified crowd outside luxury Bali hotel

A security guard was strangled to death by a python in front of terrified onlookers today outside a luxury hotel on Indonesia's resort island of Bali. Ambar Arianto Mulyo, 59, who worked at a nearby restaurant, had offered to help capture the 15ft-long snake which had been spotted several times near the hotel in Bali's Sanur area. Mulyo managed to secure the snake's head and tail and put it on his shoulders, according to Agung Bawa, an assistant security manager at the hotel, which is closed for renovations until 2015.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529854/Security-guard-crushed-death-15ft-python-terrified-crowd-outside-luxury-Bali-hotel.html

Children listened as father 'shot his girlfriend before killing himself after Boxing Day row'

A father has died after 'shooting' his girlfriend before turning the weapon on himself while their two young boys were in the home. Paul White, 37, is believed to have attacked long-term partner Shani Cockrell, 33, in Bircotes, Nottinghamshire the early hours of this morning. Two boys, aged around two and four, who are thought to be the couple's children, were found unharmed inside the terraced property. The couple are understood to have been having an argument before the shooting. Shani, a mobile hairdresser, survived the shooting and is today in a serious but stable condition after being rushed to hospital. Nottinghamshire Police officers found Mr White dead and his partner seriously hurt when they arrived at the home, around ten miles south of Doncaster, at around 12.50am this morning. A spokesman for the force said a 37-year-old man was found dead in a bedroom after he had suffered suspected shotgun injuries. He added that a 33-year-old woman is also thought to have been shot.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529878/BREAKING-NEWS-Man-dead-woman-critically-injured-shooting-home-children.html

Two teens killed, one wounded in Newark shooting were victims of mistaken identity

Zainee Hailey, 13, and Kasson Morman, 15, were outside their Schley Street building when they were shot with 14-year-old Abdul (Scooter) Frazier on Christmas night. Hailey and Morman died at the hospital, where the third teen remains in critical condition.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2-teens-killed-1-injured-newark-shooting-victims-mistaken-identity-neighbors-article-1.1558802

Texas father is 'shot dead in front of his children by fiance's son'

A Texas father has been shot dead in front of his two children and two nephews. Ronalee Deandre McGuire, 37, was shot around 2.a.m. at his home in the 6000 block of Bobby Burns Street in Houston and police are searching for the suspect who they believe is the 19-year-old son of the victim's fiance. The gunman fled the scene with his mother, who hasn't been named, after the shooting early Thursday, police said. Neither have been seen since.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529749/Texas-father-shot-dead-children-fiances-son.html

Boy, six, and his alleged kidnapper found dead on Christmas Eve after three-day hunt

A six-year-old Jefferson City boy and the St. Louis man charged with kidnapping him have been found dead at a southeastern Missouri home in what police said Wednesday was an apparent homicide-suicide. Officers in Cape Girardeau were summoned to a home Tuesday night and found Markell X. Beasley and 40-year-old Demetrius Beasley dead of gunshot wounds. An Amber Alert had been issued just hours earlier for Markell, whose mother Michelle Gelling had let him travel to St. Louis over the weekend with relatives of Demetrius Beasley, The Jefferson City News Tribune reported.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529743/Boy-six-alleged-kidnapper-dead-three-day-hunt.html

Father and son die in tragic Christmas day diving accident while testing out their new equipment they'd gotten as presents

A father and son died trying out new diving equipment they received as presents for Christmas while attempting to descend into a cave that's been described as the 'Grand Canyon' and 'Mount Everest' of diving. Brooksville, Florida native Darrin Spivey, 35, and his 15-year-old son Dillon Sanchez arrived at the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Refuge around 11am Christmas morning to dive into the 300-foot Eagles Nest Sink. But Spivey's fiancee Holly King started to worry when the two didn't return and she couldn't get through to Spivey on his cell phone.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529634/Father-son-die-tragic-Christmas-day-diving-accident-trying-new-equipment-cave-thats-described-Grand-Canyon-cave-diving.html

At least four people killed and dozens injured as gas explosion rips through Chinese shopping mall

At least four people have been killed and 35 others injured after a gas explosion ripped through a Chinese shopping centre. The fire broke out on Thursday evening in the Mo'erma shopping mall, Luzhou city, Sichuan province, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. It is thought the flames were triggered by a natural gas explosion.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529798/At-four-people-killed-dozens-injured-gas-explosion-rips-Chinese-shopping-mall.html

Bus plunges 230ft off bridge into ravine in Thailand killing 29 people after driver 'fell asleep'

A bus carrying New Year travellers plunged off one of Thailand's highest bridges in the kingdom's northeast, leaving at least 29 people dead. The accident occurred around midnight on Thursday in Lom Sak district, Phetchabun province while the bus was en route to the northern province of Chiang Rai. 'We suspect the bus driver fell asleep,' said Major General Sukit Samana, police commander of Phetchabun province.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529786/Thailand-bus-crash-leaves-29-dead.html

Two dead, six injured in Louisiana bar fight shooting

Two people were killed and six injured on Thursday in a volley of gunfire after a bar fight spilled out into the streets of Slidell, near New Orleans, police said. One man died at the scene in the city's bar district and the other a few hours later in an area hospital. The wounded were reported to be in either stable or guarded condition, Slidell police said.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/26/two-dead-six-injured-in-louisiana-bar-fight-shooting

Decapitated body found in NW Side apartment, 18-year-old man arrested

As children across Chicago dreamed of Santa in the early hours of Christmas morning, something unspeakable was happening in the basement of a North Side apartment building, authorities say. And when police responded to a 911 call at the home in the 2500 block of North Kildare shortly after 2 a.m., they made a grisly discovery: the mutilated, decapitated body of a 41-year-old man.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/24587578-418/decapitated-body-found-in-nw-side-apartment-18-year-old-man-arrested.html

Shooting outside New Jersey strip club leaves 3 dead, 2 injured on Christmas

An armed man angry because he wasn’t allowed inside a New Jersey jiggle joint Christmas morning opened fire, killing three men — including the bouncer — and wounding two others, officials said. The man tried to enter Slick’s GoGo Bar in Irvington with his gun, but was stopped by a bouncer after he was patted down and the weapon was found around 12:45 a.m., according to officials and reports. That’s when the shooter stepped back and blasted the bouncer before shooting at least one other man outside the club, reported the Star-Ledger.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-strip-club-shooting-leaves-3-dead-christmas-article-1.1558062

66-year-old man in Yokohama stabs brother to death

YOKOHAMA — Police said Wednesday that they have arrested a man for allegedly stabbing his younger brother to death at their home in Yokohama. According to police, the two men, identified as Akio Kurihara, 66, his wife, and his brother Shiro, 63 had lived together for many years. Fuji TV reported that emergency services received a call at around 8 p.m. on Tuesday from Akio in which he said he had stabbed his brother. When police arrived at the scene, they found Shiro with stab wounds to his stomach and other parts of his body. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. Police said Akio had admitted to stabbing his brother and quoted him as saying, “Shiro had caused me a great deal of trouble in my life.”

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/66-year-old-man-in-yokohama-stabs-brother-to-death

Three children die in Christmas Day blaze as fire rips through mobile home

Three children have died after a fire broke out in a Louisiana mobile home they were staying in on Christmas Day. Their father was seriously burned as he tried to rescue a 12-year-old girl, and two boys aged 11 and nine, as flames quickly took hold of the home at about 1.30am. At least eight people were inside the home, in Whispering Oaks Trailer Park, including the children who were visiting from Alabama.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529315/Three-children-die-Christmas-Day-blaze-fire-rips-mobile-home.html

High school baseball star, 17, 'beat his mother with a bat then fatally slashed her throat and stabbed her in the eye after Christmas Eve argument'

A 17-year-old high school baseball star has been charged with murder after beating his mother with a bat then viciously hacking her to death on Christmas Eve, police say.

Police found Sharon Hill Aydelott in a pool of blood at her home in Gulf Breeze, Florida, with her throat slashed and a large kitchen knife sticking out of her eye socket about 6pm Tuesday. Her son, William Brandon Aydelott, a promising pitcher on the Gulf Breeze High School baseball team, was arrested and confessed to killing her after a heated argument, authorities say.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529305/High-school-baseball-star-17-beat-mother-bat-fatally-slashed-throat-stabbed-eye-Christmas-Eve-argument.html

Missing girl, 19, is found stabbed to death and trapped under ice in river days after abusive ex-boyfriend shot himself

A 19-year-old Michigan girl missing since Saturday has been found stabbed to death and dumped in a river the day after her abusive ex-boyfriend was due to be sent to jail. The body of Kaley Brooks was spotted trapped beneath the ice in the river on Christmas Eve, a few days after her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Jackson, was found dead after apparently shooting himself. Several stab wounds were found on Kaley and blood stains believed to be from her were discovered in a car belonging to Jackson.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529330/Missing-girl-19-stabbed-death-trapped-ice-river-days-abusive-ex-boyfriend-shot-himself.html

The burglar who returned to rape his victim... and the awesome courage that saved her

Daniela Vinci was finding it hard to sleep. It had been an exceptionally difficult time for the unmarried 40-year-old, who had suffered a break-in at her three-bedroom maisonette in Slough just two nights before. Though unhurt, she had been deeply unsettled by the burglary, during which her mobile phone, laptop and bank cards had been taken while she slept. The following day Daniela, 40, had replaced her locks, but she still felt unsafe in her own home. Just after 11pm she checked that everything was secure and went to bed and, after tossing and turning, eventually fell into a deep sleep. Three hours later, she was woken by a flashlight shining in her face — and found herself plunged into a nightmare.

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‘As I awoke I became aware of something on my bed. I thought it was my cat, Texas, who loved cuddling up to me,’ says Daniela. ‘Suddenly I sensed a torch shining in my face. I stretched out, still half-dreaming, to switch on my bedroom light. ‘Then I saw him. I immediately realised I was in serious danger and knew instinctively it was the same man who had stolen my belongings two days before. ‘In that awful moment, the training I had done when I began work as an airline stewardess kicked in. ‘Keeping my voice as steady as I could, I said: “What’s your name? What are you doing here?” ‘He replied: “My name is Josh and I am 19.” ’ Police would later discover that he was Joseph Innocent Mwaura — a Kenyan who had committed a violent knife crime within a year of being granted a British passport at the age of 16.

As Daniela would discover, he decided to pay her another visit when he saw her photographs on the laptop he had stolen. Daniela, who is softly spoken and slightly built, found herself in a desperate fight for survival. ‘I asked him: “What do you want?” There was a terrible pause before he replied menacingly: “I want your t**s.” ‘I knew then that this was not a simple robbery. The realisation that he planned to rape me was truly horrific. ‘I tried to stay still, desperately trying to stay calm. But I was alone in my bedroom with no one else in the house and no means of calling for help. The odds were truly against me.

‘Slowly he raised his gaze and looked me square in the eye, before saying: “I’ve been watching you.” My stomach flipped in fear and I started to shake.’ What followed was terrifying. ‘He pulled up his top, rubbed his chest and said: “Do you want some of this?” Then he lunged at me, grabbing my body and saying filthy things to me,’ says Daniela. ‘Somehow, I found the strength to push him away, frighteningly conscious I was naked under the duvet. I felt so vulnerable. ‘I began saying “No” again and again as firmly as I could. I knew that it was imperative I remained calm. ‘I had to get him out of the bedroom to give me a chance to escape or call for help, so I took a gamble and said: “You can do what you want, but let’s go downstairs.” ‘He didn’t object so, as he walked out to go down the stairs, I leapt out of bed, pulled on my pyjamas and followed him.’

Daniela thought the only chance for survival would be if she could keep him distracted, so she tried to strike up a conversation. ‘I felt physically sick. His actions were strange and detached, but I tried to talk to him. ‘I said: “The best thing you can do is to leave my property now. There’s the door.” ‘He replied: “How do I know you won’t call the police?” I said: “Take my phone and hide it.” He walked into the kitchen with my new mobile phone, but suddenly, something seemed to click. ‘His strange, almost robotic compliance ended and he wrenched open a kitchen drawer and pulled out a large, sharp knife.

‘I threw myself down the stairs. I’d managed to half-release the lock on the front door when my attacker grabbed me by the throat and pulled me back. ‘His words came spitting out. “I’m going to rape you,” he snarled. I screamed and screamed. He pushed the knife against my throat and spat: “If you do that again, I’m going to kill you.” ‘I thought I was going to die there, like that.’ Then Daniela did something extraordinarily brave.

‘I smelt the sickening sweet smell of marijuana on his breath and felt anger surge through my body. I thought: “I can fight him — he’s under the influence of drugs.” I rolled on top of him and grabbed the knife. ‘I acted so quickly it took him by surprise. I put it to his throat and screamed “Get out — now,” kicking the door open with my foot. ‘He shouted “Bitch!” and punched me hard in my left eye. But then he grabbed the knife and ran. ‘Though my head was swirling from the force of the blow, I managed to slam the door shut after him. I half-ran, half-crawled upstairs and rang 999.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2529249/The-burglar-returned-rape-victim-awesome-courage-saved-her.html

Fatalities after boat capsizes off Turks and Caicos

MIAMI - Eighteen Haitians died on Wednesday morning off the Turks and Caicos islands after a sailboat carrying more than 50 suspected immigrants capsized while being towed into port, officials said. Thirty-two Haitians were pulled from the waters about 100 meters off Providenciales, an island in the Turks and Caicos islands north of Haiti in the Caribbean, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The survivors are being held in a Turks and Caicos immigration detention and removal center.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/25/fatalities-after-boat-capsizes-off-turks-and-caicos

Man seeking warmth killed in car fire

TORONTO - A 54-year-old Scarborough man died in a car fire early Wednesday morning — an apparently indirect victim of the ice storm. The victim was found by crews responding to a 911 call for a vehicle fire at the rear of 2424 Kingston Rd., just west of Midland Ave., shortly after 2 a.m., the Toronto Fire Service said. “When Firefighters arrived on the scene the vehicle was fully engulfed in flames,” Capt. David Eckerman said. “Once the fire was out they realized there was an occupant inside.” The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been released. Those who knew the victim said his apartment was among the 70,000 or so homes in the city that were still without power on Christmas Day. “He was in his truck trying to keep warm because it was so cold where he lived,” said Pauline Soule, an area resident who knew the man. The hydro was knocked out at her home as well and she decided to spend Christmas Eve at a friend’s place rather than shiver in her apartment. So Soule said she could understand why the man would have hopped into his vehicle to warm up. “It’s sad,” she said of the tragedy. “Especially because he was such a nice guy.”

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/25/man-seeking-warmth-killed-in-car-fire

Three mass graves found in South Sudan

A mass grave containing some 75 bodies has been found in South Sudan's Unity State and two other mass graves have been reported in the capital Juba after ethnic violence, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on both sides to protect civilians and warned that political and military leaders could be held to account for crimes. "Mass extrajudicial killings, the targeting of individuals on the basis of their ethnicity and arbitrary detentions have been documented in recent days," Pillay said in a statement. "We have discovered a mass grave in Bentiu, in Unity State, and there are reportedly at least two other mass graves in Juba."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/south-sudan/10537035/Three-mass-graves-found-in-South-Sudan.html

Multi-millionaire, 86, jumps to his death off 16th floor balcony after giving almost all his $800MIILLION fortune to charity

A multi-millionaire killed himself yesterday by jumping off the his luxury apartment building in Manhattan after giving away his millions. Robert Wilson was an 86-year-old Wall Street mogul whose personal fortune was estimated to be about $800million- but he recently told friends he had given all but $100million to charity. He apparently could not give away the rest because it was tied up in long-term investments. He jumped from his 16th-floor apartment in the luxury San Remo building on Manhattan's Upper West Side on Monday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528944/Multi-millionaire-86-jumps-death-16th-floor-balcony-giving-money-away-charity.html

Two month old baby girl shot dead on Christmas Eve by family member after handgun goes off accidentally

A two-month-old baby girl in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been killed after a family member accidentally shot her dead on Christmas Even while handling a handgun. Police in East Lampeter Township say the family is cooperating with authorities and they don't expect to file charges. The infant, who was born in October and did not even live to seen her first Christmas, was shot a single time when a family member's handgun fired by accident.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529115/Two-month-old-baby-girl-shot-dead-Christmas-Eve-family-member-handgun-goes-accidentally.html

Bomb explodes near Baghdad church during Christmas Mass killing 15 people and injuring 30

Iraqi officials say a car bomb went off near a Baghdad church during Christmas Mass, killing at least 15 people. A police officer says Wednesday's explosion took place in the city's southern Dora neighbourhood, which has a small Christian population. The officer says more than 30 people were wounded in the bombing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529146/Bomb-explodes-near-Baghdad-church-Christmas-Mass-killing-15-people-injuring-30.html

Thug repeatedly 'shot father of two, 23, after photobombing victim's group picture inside a nightclub'

A Wisconsin man has been arrested for allegedly shooting a stranger after a scuffle over a photo-bombing incident. Thamar Harper, 29, was charged Monday with first-degree attempted homicide in the shooting of 23-year-old Marcus McKinnis the day before in the Eagles Club parking lot in Beloit. According to a criminal complaint, McKinnis and several friends were attempting to take a group picture at around 1.40am Sunday when the suspect jumped into the frame.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528997/Thug-repeatedly-shot-man-23-photobombing-victims-group-picture-inside-nightclub.html

Afghan woman’s nose and lips ‘cut off by her heroin addict husband because she refused to sell jewellery to fund his habit'

An Afghan woman has had her nose and lips allegedly cut off by her husband after refusing to sell her jewellery to fund his heroin addiction. The mother-of-four - known only as Setara - was reportedly beaten and mutilated by her partner at their home in Herat, Afghanistan. He allegedly hit her on the head with a stone, before using a knife to slice off her nose and lips.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528880/Afghan-womans-nose-lips-cut-heroin-addict-husband-refused-sell-jewellery-fund-habit.html

Inmate chops off his own penis after telling other prisoners he won't need it because he is not being released before Christmas

A Kenyan death row inmate chopped off his own penis after missing out on a presidential pardon. After telling fellow prisoners that he would not need the organ anymore, Francis Karuri chopped off the appendage and then continued his work, before passing out on the floor in his cell. He was discovered by guards and taken to the Kenyatta Nation Hospital to be treated for the wound, and unconsciousness due to loss of blood.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528863/Inmate-chops-penis-told-not-allowed-released.html

Four dead and 25 trapped in cars as storms disrupt Christmas getaway

More than 20 people were trapped in their cars overnight because of the storms which battered the UK, and claimed four lives. Train companies have suspended services this morning to clear the lines of debris and trees brought down in gales of up to 92mph, while airports and ports are warning of severe delays as millions of people try to get home for Christmas.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10536614/Four-dead-and-25-trapped-in-cars-as-storms-disrupt-Christmas-getaway.html

Woman dies after apparent jump in front of oncoming Brooklyn train

The woman, believed to be in her 40s, died after she jumped in front of an oncoming train at the Myrtle and Wyckoff Aves. station on Monday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/person-struck-brooklyn-train-article-1.1556303

Utah man kills wife, himself with family's three children in the house during shocking tragedy

An argument turned into a devastating tragedy as a Utah man killed his wife and then shot himself early Sunday morning with the couple's three children in the house, police said. Bret Pepper, 39, got into a heated argument with his wife Jill, 37, in the couple's bedroom around 1:30 a.m. when he pulled out a handgun and shot her, Lt. Shawn Horton of the Layton Police Department told the Daily News on Monday. Pepper then turned the gun on himself, Horton said. The shocking incident occurred as the couple's 20-year-old daughter listened outside the room. The girl, who was home from college, then alerted police, Horton said. The couple has two sons, ages 10 and 13, who were also home at the time of the shooting, he said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/utah-man-kills-wife-children-home-article-1.1556685

Man dies after setting fire to himself, son on school grounds

TOKYO — A 49-year-old man doused his son and himself with a flammable liquid and then set fire to himself and the boy on the grounds of a school in Tokyo on Monday morning. According to police, the boy was playing baseball with his teammates when his father entered the grounds of Shiomi elementary school in Bunkyo Ward at around 10:30 a.m. NHK reported that the man took his son away from the group and then poured liquid, believed to be heating oil, on him and himself. He then held onto the boy as he set fire to himself. Police said the man was pronounced dead on Monday night, while the boy remains unconscious. NHK quoted police as saying that the man is estranged from the boy and his mother and that the woman consulted police last year about her husband’s abusive behavior.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/man-sets-fire-to-himself-son-on-school-grounds

Devastating 'barrel bomb' air raids by Syrian government forces on rebel-held areas kill 45 people including 12 children in one day

Some 45 people were killed yesterday - including at least 12 children - as government forces widened a bombing campaign in rebel-held areas of Syria, activists said. One strike hit Syria's largest city of Aleppo, while another on the Turkish border town of Azaz was claimed to be the latest attack using powerful-but-inaccurate ‘barrel bombs’ on the northern region. The Azaz attack suggests the Government is expanding its targets a week after it began a heavy air offensive against Aleppo on December 15, dropping the bombs on rebel-held areas from helicopters.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528718/Devastating-air-raids-Syrian-government-forces-using-barrel-bombs-leaves-45-dead-including-12-children.html

Tiger at San Diego Zoo is killed during botched attempt at mating after male fatally mauls female

A female tiger has been mauled to death by her intended mate during an attempt to breed the rare animals at San Diego Zoo. The four-year-old female Malayan tiger, named Tiga Tahun, died of neck injuries and breathing difficulties following the attack on Saturday. It was the first breeding encounter for either animal, the only Malayan tigers at the facility. No visitors saw the attack.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528809/Tiger-San-Diego-Zoo-killed-botched-attempt-mating-male-fatally-mauls-female.html

1,000 dolphins dead following epidemic break out

ORLANDO - More than 1,000 migratory bottlenose dolphins have died from a measles-like virus along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard in 2013 and the epidemic shows no sign of abating, a marine biologist said on Monday. The death toll exceeds the 740 dolphins killed during the last big outbreak of the then-unknown virus in 1987-88.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/23/1000-dolphins-dead-following-epidemic-break-out

Colorado man fatally shoots stepdaughter mistaken for burglar

DENVER - A 14-year-old Colorado girl mistaken for a burglar was shot and killed by her stepfather early on Monday morning at the home they shared, police said. Police in Colorado Springs were called to respond to a report of a burglary on the city's north side and arrived at the scene to find the girl gravely injured from a gunshot wound, according to a police statement. The girl was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead, said police spokesman Larry Herbert.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/23/colorado-man-fatally-shoots-stepdaughter-mistaken-for-burglar

Nine dead, half a million homes without power and hundreds of flights delayed while East Coast enjoys heatwave: First weekend of winter brings wild mix of weather to U.S.

-The first weekend of winter brought a wild mix of weather across the U.S., from a record-shattering heat wave on the

-East Coast to deadly flooding in Kentucky and ice and wind in Michigan and New England

-Snow and ice knocked out power to 440,000 homes and businesses in Michigan, upstate New York and northern New England

-By Sunday evening, more than 700 airline flights had been canceled and more than 11,000 delayed, stranding thousands of travelers

-At least nine people were killed in storm, including five people who died in flooding in Kentucky and a woman who lost her life after a tornado with winds of 130 mph struck in Arkansas

-The weather is expected to be much more seasonal Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527932/A-bizarre-mix-weather-country-results-tornadoes-ice-storms-record-breaking-warmth-weekend.html

Mystery of man and woman shot dead at point blank range in Paris bar

A man and a woman were shot dead at a Paris bar on Sunday evening by a gunman who then fled on foot, it emerged this morning. Police have described the crime as 'mysterious' and admitted they do not yet any motive for the murders. The two were shot at point-blank range with one bullet each as they were in the outside terrace of the Cafe Chineur bar in a residential part of the French capital's southern 14th arrondissement, or district.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528308/Mystery-man-woman-shot-dead-point-blank-range-Paris-bar.html

Plasterer, 22, kicked to death in front of horrified shoppers in packed town centre after long-running feud that started after he called one of his attackers 'a muppet'

-Jonathan Fitchett, 22, was chased across a car park outside a JD Sports store in Prescot

-Subjected to 'barrage of punches and kicks' while shopping for football

-Had a petty long-running feud with attackers that started after he called one of them 'a muppet'

-One of the killers boasted: 'That’s how you knock someone out lad'

-Fitchett was taken to hospital but died next day from a brain haemorrhage

-Gerard Childs and Stephen Price jailed for life after being convicted of murder

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528332/Plasterer-22-kicked-death-packed-shopping-centre-shopping-girlfriends-nephew.html

Three killed in horrific fireball crash where car ploughed into Warburtons lorry 'during high-speed late night race': Two other drivers arrested for dangerous driving

Three people died when their car burst into flames after it collided with a lorry. The car, a Subaru Impreza, was travelling westbound on the A406 Bowes Road, part of the North Circular. It hit the central reservation near the junction with Natal Road at around 12.30am, the Metropolitan Police said. It then hit a lorry traveling in the opposite direction before bursting into flames. The car was reportedly racing at high speed on the dual carriageway moments before the crash.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528294/Three-killed-Subaru-Impreza-crashes-lorry-bursts-flames-busy-London-commuter-route.html

Bronx woman fatally stabbed by husband after violent fight at home

A 52-year-old man was arrested after grabbed a knife and stabbed his 47-year-old spouse once in the back inside the home on Carpenter Ave. in Wakefield, cops and sources said. Ana Hernandez was rushed to Montefiore Hospital, where she later died, police said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/bronx-woman-fatally-stabbed-husband-cops-article-1.1556162

Man 'kills' brother, shoots himself in front of WIFE AND 9 CHILDREN after drunken row

An Oklahoma man allegedly killed his brother before shooting himself in an apparent suicide attempt on Saturday -- in front his wife and nine children. According to Wagoner County Sheriff Bob Colbert, Randall Grigg Jr., 33, and his brother Jeremiah Roberts, 32, were drinking when they got into a heated argument in Coweta. Grigg allegedly grabbed a rifle and shot Roberts multiple times, NewsOn6 reports.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528197/Man-kills-brother-shoots-WIFE-AND-9-CHILDREN-drunken-row.html

Boy, 15, charged with murdering older brother, 25, because he was 'bullying him'

An Illinois teen is accused of plotting and carrying out the brutal murder of his older brother as revenge for bullying. Michael Tigue, 15, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 25-year-old Steven Tigue. He was ordered held on $2 million bond Sunday. Officers were called to the Tigue family's home in the quiet village of Flossmoor at around 1 a.m. Friday after a report of a domestic disturbance and when they arrived discovered Steven with multiple stab wounds. He was rushed to South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, where he was pronounced dead at 1:38 a.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. An autopsy conducted Friday revealed the death was a homicide, making it the first murder in Flossmoor in more than three decades, police said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528240/Michael-Tigue-charged-Boy-15-charged-murdering-older-brother-25-bullying-him.html

Fourteen killed in Brazil as bus drives off road and plunges into a ravine

At least fourteen people were killed in Brazil yesterday when the bus they were travelling in drove off the road and plunged down a steep ravine. The bus, which was carrying around 50 people, was heading from the city of Curitiba to Rio de Janeiro when it careered off the road in a wooded area close to Sao Paulo. The bus then tumbled some 165 feet down the gully, killing 13 of those on board with another passenger later dying in hospital.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528245/Fourteen-killed-Brazil-bus-drives-road-plunges-ravine.html

'I want to be the best dad and husband. Nothing is more important': Chilling words of father who jumped from Manhattan highrise with son, 3, killing them both after judge awarded his ex-wife custody

A 35-year-old threw his three-year-old son to his death from the roof of a 52-story skyscraper and then jumped killing himself, after a judge ordered him to hand over the boy to his estranged wife. The killer dad has been identified as Dmitriy Kanarikov, a systems analyst from Brooklyn. His son Kirill plunged 46 stories after being pushed from a ledge on the roof of the building. He landed on a sixth floor landing before crashing down onto a John Jay College building next door to the highrise. He was alive when paramedics arrived on scene, but died minutes later at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527996/Holiday-horror-man-35-three-year-old-boy-leap-death-Manhattan-high-rise.html

Jealous boyfriend who stabbed ex-girlfriend 83 times after wrongly accusing her of having an affair is jailed for life

A jealous boyfriend who stabbed his partner 83 times with four different knives after wrongly accusing her of having an affair has been jailed for life. Cornelius Brown, 23, tortured and killed 30-year-old Jade Riley-Ward in the kitchen of her house in Somercotes, Derbyshire, in September last year. Brown then called his mother and asked her to come to the house where, still covered in his girlfriend's blood, he begged her to kill him because he 'wasn't man enough to do it.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527984/Jealous-boyfriend-stabbed-ex-girlfriend-83-times-wrongly-accusing-having-affair-jailed-life.html

Gunshots celebrating wedding in Jordan kills 16-year-old musician

Ever heard of blanks...?

 man celebrating a wedding with gunshots reportedly killed a 16-year-old musician at the ceremony in Jordan. In a video of the incident a man is holding a Kalashnikov rifle upright in a fairly well attended open area with music playing. The man starts with firing a series of shots at one end and then walks across the courtyard begins firing more shots into the sky. The man seems calm when firing and the people around him do not seem frightened though a few people do duck when the shots are fired. But the gunman did reportedly kill a 16 year-old musician at the wedding ceremony in Ramtha, according to LiveLeak.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/video-man-accidentally-shoots-musician-wedding-article-1.1555015

Connecticut psycho, posing as Good Samaritan, rapes and murders college student days before Christmas in 1989

While Christmas shopping on Dec. 16, 1989, Julia Ashe lugged an armload of bags out of Bradlees in Waterbury, Conn., and discovered she had a flat tire. Miraculously, a man appeared and offered to help. But he was no Good Samaritan. He was shopping too, in a sense. For two days, he had been lurking in his own car in that lot, waiting for lone women shoppers to arrive.

Twice, he used a valve stem remover to deflate a tire on the car of likely victims, then offered to change the flats when they returned from shopping. The first two potential targets declined his help. His third target, Ashe, a 22-year-old University of Connecticut student, did not. Who could blame her? It was 18 degrees.

As he slapped on Ashe’s spare tire, the man said his own car had broken down and asked for a lift to a gas station. She agreed. But once in the car, the man directed Ashe to drive to a wooded pull-off barely a mile from the store, beside a dam on City Mills Pond. Though well-concealed, the spot is a stone’s throw from busy I-84. As traffic whizzed by, he ordered Ashe into the back seat. He rifled her pocketbook, taking $300, and then raped her. But the horror was just beginning.

He gagged Ashe and bound her mouth, hands and feet with fiberglass-reinforced tape. He carried her to the dam, then shoved her off the wall. She fell 23 feet and landed on a concrete apron covered with eight inches of water. Julia Ashe, petite but feisty, would not die easily. Thrashing in the icy water, she maneuvered her body to a metal shard on the dam and cut her wrists and ankles free, gouging her skin in the frantic process of trying to stay alive. Still gagged and missing a shoe, she moved toward shore. Her tormentor was waiting there.

He had watched from above as she freed herself, then scrambled down the bank to finish the job. He seized her by the hair and held her face-down in the water until she stopped kicking. He returned to Ashe’s car and took clothing that she had purchased as Christmas gifts. He then walked back to Bradlees, got in his car and drove home, pausing at the dam to confirm that his quarry was dead. Her fiancé reported Ashe missing that night, but her body would lie undiscovered for days.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/conn-creep-rapes-murders-college-student-1989-article-1.1555439

Man 'killed girlfriend's baby son because he was crying during a football game'

An Oklahoma man killed his girlfriend's baby son because he started crying as he watched football on TV, police said. Tre'viance Markese Walker, 22, allegedly grabbed 5-month-old JB so aggressively that his head "snapped back." He is then accused of dropping the infant from a height of 2-feet. JB was found four hours later "unresponsive" in his playpen, with bruising to his head and blood in his ear. Rushed to the hospital, he was pronounced dead soon after — with an autopsy revealing he'd suffered severe head trauma and a hematoma on the brain. Walker, who'd been looking after the baby for just a few hours on Dec. 7, was reportedly watching the University of Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State football game on TV. Arrested, he initially denied harming the child. But Fox 25 reports that he later confessed to the abuse, which allegedly happened at around 2 p.m.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-killed-girlfriend-baby-son-crying-football-article-1.1554829

Body of newborn boy found abandoned in Chiba park

CHIBA — Police said Saturday that the body of a newborn boy was found abandoned in a park in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture. According to police, the infant’s body was found in Taibusamisaki park at around 11:15 a.m. on Friday. TBS quoted police as saying a park maintenance worker discovered the body while picking up leaves. Police said the dead infant was concealed under a a semi-transparent vinyl tarp, wrapped in a white blanket. The child’s umbilical cord was still attached. Police said they using park surveillance camera footage to try and identify who brought the baby to the park.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/body-of-newborn-boy-found-abandoned-in-chiba-park

One dead, 9 wounded in shootings since Friday

One man was killed and eight others were hurt in shootings across the city since Friday afternoon.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/24521314-418/one-dead-9-wounded-in-shootings-since-friday.html

Tragedy as girl, 19, dies from inhaling DUST OFF cleaner as 'huffing' craze spreads among teenagers

A 19-year old girl's family discovered her unconscious in her bedroom next to a pool of her own vomit. Shayla Ream was rushed to a local Eugene, Oregon hospital on December 13 after she most-likely inhaled the household product called Dust-Off to get high. Doctors agree with the girl's family that the Dust-Off is the most probable cause of death. Despite her grandfather's efforts to give her CPR before the paramedics arrived, the girl was in critical condition and died in the hospital the next morning.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527742/Girl-19-dies-inhaling-household-product-Dust-Off.html

Escort 'lured man to motel where he was forced at gunpoint to increase credit card limits before being robbed and shot dead'

A 20-year-old woman was allegedly used to lure a client to a Florida motel, where masked men robbed and then shot him. Koral Ben Shimon, who said in an escort advert that she was 'looking to have an amazing time', told police she set up Gustavo Cabral, a 31-year-old who was robbed and murdered. Security camera footage from the Pompano Beach Super8 motel showed Ben Shimon arriving with Mr Cabral and, shortly after, showed him being forced into his car by two men. Ben Shimon, who police say advertized herself as an escort, has been charged with murder, robbery and kidnap. Her alleged accomplices, Ilmart Christophe and Jefty Joseph, both aged 20, are also facing murder and robbery charges. When she was arrested on Wednesday Ben Shimon told police she didn't know Christophe and Joseph planned to kill the victim. She told police that when she took Mr Cabral to the Super8 motel, her accomplices jumped out of the bathroom, wearing masks and armed, NBC 6 reported. The victim was tied up and then forced to increase the limits on his credit cards. He was 'so scared he could hardly talk', Ben Shimon allegedly told investigators. She added that he begged for his life, claiming he had been told he would be killed if he didn't give into their demands.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527680/Escort-lured-man-motel-forced-gunpoint-increase-credit-card-limits-robbed-shot-dead.html

Paint sprayer beaten to death on his way home in 'motiveless attack' had been doing extra shifts to pay for his wedding

A paint sprayer who had been doing extra shifts in order to pay for his wedding next year has been killed in an apparently motiveless attack while he made his way home from work. Simon Holdsworth, 36, died of severe injuries after being attacked by 'one or more' people as he walked across fields close to his home in Sheffield, South Yorks. Simon was due to marry his fiance Carleen McKeown in August and had just booked time off work, and was also about to celebrate his stepson's fourth birthday on Christmas eve.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527575/Paint-sprayer-beaten-death-way-home-motiveless-attack-doing-extra-shifts-pay-wedding.html

Three people dead and 'a number of people seriously injured' in crash involving a car, motorbike and van

Three people have died in a crash involving three vehicles. Police were called to a road in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, at about 9.50pm on Friday. The crash on Debdale Lane is believed to have involved a car, motorbike and van.

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Karl Denke a.k.a. "The Cannibal of Ziębice"

For reasons unknown, Denke engaged in cannibalism, killing his first victim, one 25-year-old Emma Sander, in 1909. From that point on, he continued his series of killings, claiming the lives of dozens of people. Reports suggested that he also disposed of the flesh of his victims by selling it as pork and/or offering to what guests he had in the house. His killings ended on December 21, 1924, when he attacked a man named Vincenz Olivier with an axe. Olivier escaped and identified his attacker as Denke to a coachman named Gabriel, who then called in the authorities. Denke was investigated, and officers found identification papers for twelve travelers, assorted clothing, a pair of drums holding large pieces of meat in brine, numerous types of bones, and pots full of fat. Officers speculated from the amount of remains that Denke had killed about thirty victims. He was arrested, and the following day, Denke committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell. Decades later, the case has been mostly forgotten, with those who are still aware of Denke addressing him as "the unusual case" or "the forgotten cannibal".

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Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher of Hannover

Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (October 25, 1879 – April 15, 1925), also known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover was a German serial killer who is believed to have been responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924. He was convicted, found guilty of 24 murders and executed.

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Szilveszter Matuska

Szilveszter Matuska (January 29, 1892 – disappeared c. 1945), was a Hungarian mass murderer and mechanical engineer who made two successful and at least two unsuccessful attempts to derail passenger trains in Hungary, Germany and Austria in 1930 and 1931. He was born in Csantavér (now Čantavir, Serbia).

Matuska made at least two failed attempts to derail trains in Austria in December 1930 and January 1931.

Matuska's first successful crime was the derailment of the Berlin-Basel express train south of Berlin on August 8, 1931. Scores of people were injured, but there were no deaths. Because of the discovery of a defaced Nazi newspaper at the scene of the crime, among other things, the attack was believed to have been politically motivated. A bounty of 100,000 reichsmark was put on the perpetrator.

Matuska's second and more notorious successful crime was the derailment of the Vienna Express headed towards Vienna as it was crossing the Biatorbágy bridge near Budapest at 12.20am on 13 September 1931. 22 people died and 120 others were injured, 17 of them severely. Matuska carried out his crime by blowing up a portion of the bridge, causing the engine and nine of the eleven coaches forming the train to plunge into a ravine 30 meters deep. Matuska was discovered at the scene of the crime but, having passed himself off as a surviving passenger, he was released.

Investigators in the three countries were on his trail, however, and he was arrested in Vienna one month later, on 10 October 1931, whereupon he soon confessed. Matuska was tried and convicted in Austria for two unsuccessful attempts. He was later extradited to Hungary on condition that he not be executed. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment as agreed with Austria.

Matuska reportedly escaped from jail in Vác in 1944. According to some reports, he served as an explosives expert during the latter stages of World War II; he was never recaptured and his fate is unknown. Rumours have circulated that he appeared on the communist side in the Korean War, but there is no evidence to support this. Matuska's motives remain unclear. His first attack was initially thought to have been politically motivated. At his trial, Matuska claimed to have been ordered to derail the express by God. Matuska has also been quoted as explaining his crimes by saying: "I wrecked trains because I like to see people die. I like to hear them scream." It was reported that he achieved orgasm while watching the trains he had sabotaged crash.

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Gunman kills Philippine mayor, his wife, a child and another man outside airport

MANILA, Philippines — A gunman attacked a Philippine mayor as he left the country’s main airport on Friday along with crowds of Christmas travelers, killing him, his wife, a child and another man, authorities and witnesses said. The gunman fired on Labangan Mayor Ukol Talumpa outside Terminal 3 at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport, named after President Benigno Aquino III’s father, who was assassinated there 30 years ago. The terminal handles international and domestic flights, and is supposed to be a relatively well-guarded facility. Talumpa had arrived from Zamboanga del Sur, the southern province where Labangan is located. There was no word on a possible motive, but violent attacks linked to political rivalries, family feuds and business disputes are common in the Philippines, and have left hundreds of people dead over the years. Talumpa himself had survived at least two earlier assassination attempts, according to local media reports.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/gunman-kills-philippine-mayor-wife-child-man-airport-article-1.1554069

Queens boy, 8, killed by tractor-trailer driver with suspended license less than a block from school

An 8-year-old Bangladeshi boy was fatally hit by a tractor-trailer this morning in Queens while walking to school on the last day of classes before holiday break. Third-grader Noshat Nahian was walking with his 11-year-old sister to Public School 152 around 8am, clutching a red gift bag for his teacher, when driver Mauricio Osorio-Palominos struck the boy with the back wheels of his tractor-trailor. Police arrested the 51-year-old from Newark, New Jersey when they discovered he was driving on a suspended license. He was headed southbound on sixty-first street, turning left onto Northern Boulevard, when the incident happened, just half a block from Noshat's school.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527325/Queens-boy-8-fatally-struck-tractor-trailer-driver-suspended-license-block-school.html

MISANTHROPIA: THE BOOK

This is a one of a kind print of MISANTHROPIA: Death, Lies, Human Folly & Personal Fetishes made in MMXII. Hardcover, 221 pages.

Hero Iraqi policeman wraps his arms around suicide bomber and save lives of dozens of Shia pilgrims in blast that killed five in town north of Baghdad

An Iraqi policeman has been hailed a hero after throwing his arms around a suicide bomber to shield others from the blast. The bomber struck in Khales, northeast of Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 10 on a Shia pilgrimage, a police colonel and a doctor said. But the toll would almost certainly have been higher were it not for the officer's selfless actions, police said. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526858/Hero-Iraqi-policeman-saves-dozens-Shia-pilgrims-wrapping-arms-suicide-bomber-shield-blast.html

Schoolgirl, 14, found dead at a care home just days after her teenage friend was found hanged at a house party

A friend of a girl who was discovered hanging at a house party nine days ago has been found dead at a care home. Danielle Formosa, 14, died at East Farmhouse Children’s Home in Consett, County Durham, on Tuesday. Police have said there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death and an inquest will be opened at Crook Civic Centre, in County Durham, today.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526947/Schoolgirl-14-dead-care-home-just-days-teenage-friend-hanged-house-party.html

Man kidnaps two brothers, sexually assaults both, tries to kill one before they escape

JACKSON, Miss. — A man lured two brothers, ages 5 and 8, from their yard in south Mississippi and took them to his camper trailer, where he sexually abused them and slashed the older boy’s throat, authorities said Thursday. The 8-year-old boy is hospitalized and is expected to survive the Wednesday attack, said Don Bass, chief deputy with Hancock County sheriff’s office on the Mississippi coast. Bass said the older brother, with his throat cut, escaped the suspect’s trailer Wednesday evening and ran about 500 yards to a neighbor’s house. The neighbor called police. The children were abducted Wednesday afternoon from a residence in Pearl River County and taken to the trailer in rural Hancock County where he sexually abused both boys, Hancock County Sheriff Ricky Adam said in a news release.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-kidnaps-brothers-sexually-assaults-kill-escape-article-1.1553422

Student Who Threatened Moorpark High Kills Himself on Train Tracks

A 16-year-old student who triggered a lockdown at Moorpark High School on Thursday after leaving a threatening later killed himself by stepping in front of an Amtrak train, authorities said. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call from the school at 8:20 a.m. saying someone had found a letter the student had left on campus, said Capt. Don Aguilar. The contents of the note were not made public, but did prompt school officials to take immediate action. Moorpark High was evacuated and nearby schools were also locked down. Notifications were sent to parents, advising them to pick up their children early from school, officials said. Sixty-nine deputies were at the scene, along with a bomb squad and a K-9 unit, and a sweep of the campus was being conducted, according to the Sheriff’s Department. During the campus search authorities were notified that body was found on train tracks located about a mile north of the school. The teenager was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Man, 34, dies after being electrocuted helping his neighbor hang Christmas tree lights

An Anne Arundel County, Maryland man died Monday evening while hanging Christmas tree lights. Jason Byrnes, a 34-year-old resident of North Beach, was helping decorate his neighbor's house when he got electrocuted. According to police, Byrnes had climbed up a ladder that had somehow come into contact with a power line.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526709/Man-34-dies-electrocuted-helping-neighbor-hang-Christmas-tree-lights.html

Graphic pictures shed light on annual whale kill in the Faroe Islands dating back 400 years

For more than four centuries, the dwellers of the remote Faroe Islands located 200 miles off the coast of Scotland have been killing pilot whales for blubber and meat. Recently, the gory tradition has piqued the interest of an American photographer with ties to the region who travelled to the archipelago to capture the horror and grotesque beauty of the annual whale hunt. Benjamin Rasmussen, of Denver, visited Faroe Islands, a protectorate of Denmark, to shed light on the startling practice in which entire villages go out in boats, herd pods of pilot whales close to shore and then cut their necks, turning the waters red with blood.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526851/Blood-water-Graphic-pictures-shed-light-annual-whale-kill-Faroe-Islands-dating-400-years.html

Man shoots woman at West New York nail salon, then kills himself outside

An unhinged dad entered a West New York nail salon Wednesday and shot his child’s mother to death before running to a nearby parking lot and killing himself, police said. The unidentified man stormed Solo Nails at 50th St. and Bergenline Ave. around 5 p.m. and pistol-whipped the New Jersey salon’s owner, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office told The Jersey Journal. The man then shot the unidentified woman in the face and fled, heading down Bergenline to a parking lot between 51st and 52nd Sts., where he took his own life, cops say.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/man-shoots-woman-nj-nail-salon-kills-article-1.1552446

Girl, 11, killed after being hit by a pensioner's car while her mother fights for her life in hospital unaware her daughter is dead

An 11-year-old girl was killed after a pensioner's car veered on to the pavement and struck her while she waited at a bus stop. Lily-Rose Murphy was with her mother when when the vehicle came off the road and collided with them in Stanmore, north west London. A member of the public desperately performed CPR on the schoolgirl but she was pronounced dead when paramedics arrived at the scene. Samantha Hyde, 46, was taken to hospital after the collision and is in a critical condition. It is believed she has not yet been informed of her daughter's death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526452/Girl-11-killed-hit-pensioners-car-mother-fights-life-hospital-unaware-daughter-dead.html

Ringleader of lesbian gang rape who repeatedly asked victim if she ‘liked men now’ during attack is found guilty

A man has been convicted after he raped a woman for being a lesbian, asking ‘you like men now, don’t you?’ as he assaulted her. The 33-year-old victim, who has not been identified, wiped away tears as she testified about the brutal 2008 gang-rape during the trial of Humberto Salvador, 36, in Contra Costa County, California. She recounted the terrifying moment she was robbed, forced to strip naked, carjacked and passed between men - an attack prosecutors claim stemmed from her sexuality. 'You like men now, don't you? Tell me you like men,' Salvador uttered after he started attacking her, the woman said. She explained that she screamed 'yes' as she feared for her life. Salvador has been convicted of 15 felonies including kidnapping, carjacking and gang rape in the December 13, 2008 attack. Salvador did not react when he was convicted, except to glance at his crying mother.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526365/Ringleader-lesbian-gang-rape-repeatedly-asked-victim-liked-men-attack-guilty.html

Danish priest HANGS 'elf' from gallows outside his church, saying they must not be associated with Christmas as they serve Satan

A priest sick of 'mixed' Christmas messages has declared war on Santa's elves by hanging one from a noose attached to the front of his church. Jon Knudsen, 45, from Lxkken, Denmark, believes elves are historically minions of Satan and they should not be associated with the Christian festival. Jon claims there is a Trojan horse effect associating previously bad cultural creatures such as elves with the birth of Jesus.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526438/Priest-HANGS-elf-gallows-outside-church-saying-not-associated-Christmas-serve-Satan.html

Washington man admits to murdering 3-year-old son in Montana

DILLON, Mont. — A Washington man pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering his 3-year-old son in a remote Montana field, telling the judge he wanted to take accountability for his actions and "get this over." Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, appeared in District Court in Dillon wearing prison stripes and ankle bracelets. He spoke haltingly as he admitted killing his son Broderick on July 8 in a field 5 miles outside the southwestern Montana town of Anaconda. Cramer told Judge Loren Tucker he decided to change his plea from not guilty because a prison sentence doesn't much matter with his son dead. "After a few months of thinking about it, I'm taking accountability for it," Cramer told Tucker. "Whether it's eight years or 80 years, my son's not here. I just want to get this over."

Cramer was arrested July 8 after an Anaconda convenience store employee found him washing blood from his clothes in the business's restroom. Cramer's wife, Nataliya, told police in Lacey, Wash., that her husband had taken their son and had not answered phone calls or text messages. Investigators found Broderick's beaten and stabbed body the next morning in the field. Beside the body were a knife and two rocks covered with blood and hair. Police found bloody keys and a knife on Cramer when he was arrested. They also found an empty container for a generic substitute of the stimulant Adderall that had been filled five days earlier, according to court documents.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/father-admits-killing-3-year-old-son-article-1.1550762

Father and son found dead in suspected murder-suicide in Mie

MIE — Police in Ise, Mie Prefecture, said Tuesday that a 44-year-old man and his 8-year-old son were found dead in their home in what appears to be a murder-suicide. According to police, the bodies of Junji Hamaguchi and his eldest son Satsuma were discovered collapsed and covered in blood on the first floor of their residence at around 8 p.m. on Monday. Hamaguchi lived with his wife, son and one-month-old daughter, Fuji TV reported. The wife and daughter were unharmed. According to police reports, Hamaguchi’s wife and the girl were in a room on the second floor when she heard her son scream. However, as the door to the first-floor room where she heard the scream come from was locked, she was initially unable to enter. Police said the woman went outside and asked a passerby to help her get in through a window, at which point she discovered the bodies. Police said the bodies of Hamaguchi and his son had knife wounds.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/father-and-son-found-dead-in-suspected-murder-suicide-in-mie

Two teenage girls die racing pickup driven by one of their boyfriends who is now facing life in prison for their deaths

Two teenage girls died in Washington state on Monday night and a third was seriously hurt after a high speed race ended in tragedy. Rebbekah Barret, 18, and her 17-year-old front seat passenger, Shanaia Bennett were pronounced dead at the scene when their Toyota Camry slammed into a tree along a notorious stretch of road in South Kitsap after a race with a 1997 Toyota pickup. The driver of the pickup, 20-year-old Robert Rundquist, who was dating Barret, returned to the scene and was arrested and booked into Kitsap County Jail after the crash on Baby Doll Road at around 9.40 pm. and charged with two counts of vehicular homicide - which could land him life in jail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525630/Two-teenage-girls-die-racing-pickup-driven-boyfriends-facing-life-prison-deaths.html

Knife-wielding 'roid rage' body builder raped a woman in the street and a teenager three times in her own home - and forced her mother to watch

A drug-crazed bodybuilder armed with knives violently raped a woman in the street and a teenager three times in her own home after he smashed his way in. Former Royal Navy chef Nicholas Totty, 25, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 10 years following his four-hour rampage in the Rotherham area of South Yorkshire. A mother was forced to watch her daughter being raped three times by Totty and another woman only escaped a sex attack because her dog frightened him off.

Sheffield Crown Court heard powerfully-built 18-stone Totty, who is 6ft 4 inches, was hooked on anabolic steroids and was discharged from the Navy in 2010 for using the drugs. Andrew Dallas, prosecuting, said Totty had a girlfriend but had several other affairs. The court heard he had a high sex drive and indulged in violent sexual role plays with women.

His rampage began at 9.15pm on Friday, September 27 when he tried to sexually attack a 24-year-old woman as she walked her dog on a footpath alongside a main road in Rotherham. Totty cycled up in front of her and waited in the shadows until he pounced on her with his arm outstretched trying to grab her neck. He made three grabs for her but her dog intervened and jumped up, forcing him to flee. The victim recognised him as someone she knew from school.

Totty then went home to check his Facebook but was out on the streets by 11.15pm where he banged on a steelworker’s door hoping to find a woman but made a story up about asking directions. A few minutes later he accosted a 27-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant in the street as she walked home from the town’s railway station. He shone a torch in her face before hitting her with it on the head and pushing her to the ground. He told her if she shouted out he would slit her throat with a chef’s knife and then forced her to twice perform a sex act. He produced some kitchen roll out of a carrier bag which he used to wipe her head wound in a bid to get rid of any evidence. After she ran away he caught up with her and ripped off her trousers and underwear but a passing motorist heard the woman’s screams and Totty ran off, leaving a second knife on the ground.

Mr Dallas said Totty then tried to get into the home of a woman with whom he had a previous sexual relationship but she slammed the door in his face. The worst attack was on a mother, 46, and her teenage daugher who were at home alone in bed at 12.45am. Judge Mr Justice Globe on Totty's attack on a mother and her teenage daughter The mother had lost her husband only weeks before and it is thought Totty may have known he would find her and her daughter alone as he knew the teenager’s relative. Totty smashed his way into the house through the front and inside doors and as the mother dialled 999 he raced upstairs. He pushed them both onto the floor and threatened to kill them before dragging them both by their hair to the bathroom. He forced the teenager to perform a sex act before raping her three times. When her mother tried to intervene, Totty knocked her to the floor and stamped on her face and neck.

Totty then suddenly changed and 'became sympathetic' when the mother spoke of her husband’s death. He ran off leaving their mobile phones in the garden. He was arrested three days later after a massive police hunt.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525330/Body-builder-Nicholas-Totty-raped-woman-street-teenager-times.html

Man, 21, found guilty of raping and strangling to death 16-year-old Special Olympian with mental capacity of a fifth-grader

-Tyler Savage will spend the rest of his life in prison for the death of Kimberly Daily in August 2010

-Daily was found dead in blackberry bushes with her shirt and bra tied around her neck

-Savage, then 18, confessed to detectives that he choked her when she tried to leave and then went to play Dungeons & Dragons

-Defense tried to convince the jury that Daily had consensual sex with Savage and asked him to choke her

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525609/Tyler-Savage-guilty-strangling-death-16-year-old-Special-Olympian-mental-capacity-fifth-grader-raping-woods.html

Gunman kills one, injures two - including female doctor - before shooting himself in armed rampage at Reno hospital

Gunshots rang out inside a Nevada hospital this afternoon, leaving the gunman dead from a self-inflicted wound and at least three other people injured, one of them fatally. The shooting took place at around 2.15pm on the third floor of Renown Regional Medical Center's Center for Advanced Medicine B in Reno. Reno Police Deputy Chief Tom Robinson said just before 3.40pm local time that two people were dead, including the gunman, and at least two others were being treated for gunshot wounds.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525540/Gunman-kills-injures-including-female-doctor-shooting-armed-rampage-Reno-hospital.html

Cannabis user jailed for 24 years for stabbing his grandmother to death 50 times in bed ‘because she got on his nerves’ and then trying to kill nine-year-old

A cannabis user who murdered his 84-year-old grandmother, stabbing her 50 times as she lay in her bed, and then attempted to kill a nine-year-old boy has been sentenced to life in prison. A judge today told Nathaniel Flynn, 27, that he will face at least 24 years behind bars as he passed a life sentence at Bradford Crown Court. Mr Justice Keith said the most likely explanation for why he killed retired teacher Louisa Denby was that 'she just got on your nerves'. Flynn admitted killing Ms Denby at their home in Shipley, West Yorkshire, in July, and stabbing Jason D’Arcy in a nearby skate park later the same day. The court heard that Jason suffered a shallow wound to his chest and a much more serious injury to his arm as he tried to defend himself. The judge heard that three psychiatrists found he had no diagnosable mental illness but said he had been influenced by his heavy, 'entrenched' use of cannabis and other drugs. Speaking after Flynn pleaded guilty earlier this month, police officers said they had no idea what drove Flynn to commit the 'brutal and frenzied' attacks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525792/Nathaniel-Flynn-26-admits-murdering-grandmother-85-trying-kill-year-old-boy.html

Zookeeper mauled to death by rare tiger as he cleaned its enclosure at Shanghai animal park

A keeper at Shanghai zoo was mauled to death by a rare tiger after they entered its enclosure to clean it, officials confirmed today. According to state media, the victim was a 56-year-old man with the surname Zhou. Colleagues of the man said he went into the nine-year-old male south China tiger's enclosure and 'did not come out again'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525402/Zookeeper-mauled-death-rare-tiger-cleaned-enclosure-Shanghai-animal-park.html

Mexican cartels use social media to post gruesome victim photos, sexy selfies

Cartel thugs have become increasingly savvy with social media: posting photographs and videos of themselves decapitating victims with chainsaws and machetes; wielding gold-plated assault weapons; pouting in sexy poses; and warning civilians not to snitch on them. ‘They do this to intimidate us,’ said a Daily News source who belongs to a self-defense group that has been battling violent cartel Knights Templar.

This screengrab is from the opening sequence of a video on Facebook, which declined to remove it last month but then relented. The horrifying footage shows a Mexican woman being beheaded by a self-proclaimed member of the Los Zetas cartel.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/mexican-drug-cartel-thugs-post-atrocities-social-media-article-1.1515860