Tag: murder
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walsh’s most wanted case solved after decades
from dpa: One of the best known and longest running child murder cases in the United States has been solved. Police in Hollywood, Florida identified Tuesday a deceased serial killer and pedophile, Ottis Toole, as the man who abducted, murdered and decapitated six-year-old Adam Walsh. Toole was a convicted murderer who died in prison in…
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2 oregon cops killed after bringing bomb inside bank
2 confirmed dead in oregon bank bombingfrom times of india: Two police officers were killed and two people were injured after a bomb exploded at a bank in the western US state of Oregon, authorities have confirmed. The fatalities included a bomb disposal expert and a police chief who died after a suspicious package exploded…
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imagine john lennon at 68: 28th anniversary of beatles’ murder
from nydailynews: It was 28 years ago today that singer/songwriter John Lennon was fatally shot outside his Upper West Side apartment building by a deranged fan. Every year since the tragic event on Dec. 8, 1980, fans have gathered to pay tribute to the gifted musician near the site of the shooting. Despite the bitter…
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heiress von bulow dies after 28yrs in coma
from ap: Martha “Sunny” von Bulow, an heiress who spent the last 28 years of her life in oblivion after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband, died Saturday at age 76. She died at a nursing home in New York, her children said in a…
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3 strange deaths + 1 should’ve been
teens streams suicide live on webfrom threat level: A 19-year-old Florida teen’s suicide broadcast Wednesday on Justin.tv was a result of an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine, the Broward County Medical Examiner & Trauma Services Division said Friday. The Pembroke Pines teen was pronounced dead about 6 p.m. on Wednesday, coroner spokeswoman Sherri Baker said…
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come, let us celebrate our monsters
from winter patriot: Ninety years ago today, on November 11, 1918, World War I finally ended. Of course it wasn’t called that at the time; it was called The Great War. How could anyone have known it would be the first of many? Who could have guessed that barely twenty years would pass before the…
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the cia led US strike in syria that killed 8
from mcclatchy: A CIA-led raid on a compound in eastern Syria killed an al Qaida in Iraq commander who oversaw the smuggling into Iraq of foreign fighters whose attacks claimed thousands of Iraqi and American lives, three U.S. officials said Monday. The body of Badran Turki Hishan al Mazidih, an Iraqi national who used the…
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money murder meeting meltdown more
‘economic 9/11’ exacting grim psychological toll in USfrom afp: The murder-suicide of a Los Angeles financial manager who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself has highlighted the psychological toll of the economic meltdown. The bodies of Karthik Rajaram, a 45-year-old business school graduate, and his wife, three children and mother-in-law, were…
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uk top cop died from exposure on welsh mtn; suicide unproven
from guardian: Michael Todd, the former chief constable of Greater Manchester, died from exposure after ingesting alcohol and pills when his personal life unravelled, a coroner ruled today at the inquest into his death. The 50-year-old policeman was found dead on Mount Snowdon with an empty bottle at his side on March 11 this year.…
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geopolitiks: drugwars, radar & private military
drug violence kills at least 49 in tijuana this weekfrom ap: Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana… More than 400 people have been killed in drug-related violence in the city across from San Diego, California, this year, including at least 49 this week… Execution-style killings, beheadings and…
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war resister wins temporary stay in canada
from ap: An American Soldier who fled to Canada after learning his unit was being deployed to Iraq won a last-minute stay of deportation Sept. 22. Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled Jeremy Hinzman can stay in Canada while the court decides whether he can appeal his deportation order. “We’re elated,” Hinzman said moments after…
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totalitarian olympic updates
white house press corps plane detained in chinafrom ap: A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The flight crew of the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a…
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the manson family, martinsburg & susan atkins
manson documentary scene shot in wv townfrom ap: A new documentary about Charles Manson may feature a scene shot in a section of Martinsburg that looks a lot like San Francisco. Pamela Haynes, director of the West Virginia Film Office, says producers provided reference photos of the Haight-Ashbury district, where Manson spent time in the…
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puppy-killing marine to be booted
from ap: The Marine Corps is expelling one Marine and disciplining another for their roles in a video showing a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff while on patrol in Iraq. The 17-second video posted on YouTube drew sharp condemnation from animal rights groups when it came to light in March. The clip shows…
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thousands killed in 1950 by US’s korean ally
from ap: Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation’s U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950. With U.S. military officers sometimes present, and as North Korean…