- 23 October 2008
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Japanese police report that a 43-year-old woman took her virtual
divorce from her 'husband' in the online Maple Story game world badly. The
33-year-old office worker whose character she had 'married' had given her his login
information during their times of bliss, and she used those details to kill
off his character. When he noticed that his avatar, one year in the
creating, no longer existed, he contacted the police. A police official in Sapporo
said the woman explained that she had been divorced without any warning and that
this had made her angry. Arrested for illegal access on a computer and
manipulating electronic data, she could face a prison term of up to five years or a fine
of roughly 4000 euros.
- 10 November 2008
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Further information has been released on events surrounding Czech
woman Barbora Skrlova, who fled to Norway in the guise of a 13-year-old to avoid
testifying against Klara Mauerova in a child abuse trial (see 21 January 2008
Clippings). Mauerova's two sons - along with a seemingly innocent Skrlova -
had been freed from Mauerova's home by police officers after images from the
home's child monitor reached a similar system owned by a neighbour.
A court in Brno has heard that relatives had partially skinned
Mauerova's eight-year-old son, Ondrej, and ate the raw flesh. He was made to
eat some himself as well. Ondrej and his 10-year-old brother described
having cigarettes stubbed out on their skin by Mauerova and other relatives, being
kept locked in a cellar, being forced to cut themselves with knives. etc.
Mauerova has been sentenced to nine years in jail, and several others have been
given shorter prison terms in connection with the affair.
Japan's Tatsuhiko Kawata agreed to wed his mistress. On the night
before the ceremony was to take place, he splashed oil on the floor of the
wedding venue, in a resort hotel in Hokuto, and started a fire. When he didn't
show up for the wedding, his mistress rang him, whereupon he told her that he'd
not invited any guests. The woman cancelled the wedding, which prompted the hotel
to link the fire with the couple.
Kawata later explained to the police that 'I started the fire
because I didn't want to break up with my wife ... and I didn't want to split with
my mistress either'.
- 5 January 2009
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A search for a missing child was mounted also in Florida, where Meagen
McCormick had told police that her six-month-old son and his nanny had
vanished. After a search over Christmas, she confessed that neither the boy nor the
nanny had ever existed and that she'd made up the tale to bring ex-boyfriend John
Buchness back into her life. Buchness, who did indeed return to Miami to plea
for the return of his son, was unaware that McCormick had had a miscarriage in
March.
Police, about 20 of whom participated in the search for the
nonexistent child on Christmas Eve and Christmas day, have asked the state attorney's
office to make McCormick pay for the wasted resources.
- 23 January 2009
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In northern Germany, two other young people decided that they had
somewhere to go in a hurry. According to Holger Jureczko of the
Hanover police, six-year-old Mika and five-year-old Anna-Bell 'are
very much in love and decided to get married in Africa where it is
warm'. Mika's seven-year-old sister would be a witness.
On New
Year's Day, the three children packed summer clothes, sunglasses, and
provisions for the journey and left their
apparently sleeping parents behind. The children caught the attention
of a guard while waiting
for a train to the airport. He struck up a conversation with them and convinced
them that getting to Africa would be difficult without much
money or an aeroplane ticket. They were treated to a mini-holiday in
the form of a tour of the police station, where their parents
collected them.
Dr. Richard Batista says he is tired of custody negotiations with his
ex-wife and that he is demanding that she return the kidney he gave
her. Batista, 49, said he would settle for $1.5 million, alternatively.
He says that he had no regrets about the kidney donation, which
he described as 'as if I could put my arm around Jesus Christ', and
adds that 'to this day I would still do it again'.
- 15 February 2009
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A Chardon, Ohio, woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for
exercising her husband to death. Surveillance video shows
41-year-old Christine Newton-John (also known as John Vallandingham)
pulling 73-year-old James Mason around a backyard swimming pool by the
arms and
legs for some time. After watching surveillance camera footage,
Middlefield police chief Joseph Stehlik said that he counted 43
times in which Newton-John prevented Mason from leaving the water when
he was gasping for breath. Mason died of a heart attack.
- 22 March 2009
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Police were called in to resolve a domestic disturbance that erupted
in Overland Park, Kansas, when a woman found out that her husband was
married to
the resident of another flat in the same building. Charles L. Clemens
Jr. was splitting his time between the woman he'd married 22 years
ago and a woman he wedded in 2006 with the aid of his father's
identity. In addition to the bigamy, Clemens is accused of stealing
jewellery and money from his second wife.
- 7 May 2009
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Florida's Lorena Alvarez went out for a drive to look for her
boyfriend. When the 33-year-old Alvarez found him sitting in his
truck in a supermarket car park, she decided to ram the truck with her
car, with her children, ages one and seven, along for the ride. She
later explained to the police that she had crashed into his truck in
an attempt to prevent him from driving while intoxicated.
- 20 May 2009
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Maliea Martin reported that she'd been assaulted, so the Hannibal,
Missouri, police visited her home to investigate. When they arrived,
the man of the house confronted the officers, making threats. One of the officers
displayed a Taser. In response, Martin, 20, handed her one-year-old
child to the man, as a human shield to prevent the officer from using the Taser. Both
adults were taken into custody, and the child was placed with another
family member.
From Bakersfield, California, we have Angelo Vidal Mendoza, Sr., a
34-year-old man who decided to bite out one of his son's eyes and
badly mutilate the other. After rendering the boy blind, he then
rolled his wheelchair out of his flat and attacked his own legs with an axe. The
child later explained to the police that 'my daddy ate my eyes'.
A report later said that the elder Mendoza was showing signs of being
under the influence of PCP. Both he and the child's mother had
pleaded no contest to child endangerment charges related to PCP use in
2006, and a warrant had gone out on the mother last year for failing to
complete a drugs-related programme.
After ending a long-term relationship, Janet Cunliffe moved back to
England to move in with her 29-year-old daughter, Jane. To cure her
depression, Janet decided to undergo surgery to look like Jane,
explaining: 'Why shouldn't I? She's good-looking. [...] I love her
look and she's part of me. So why not?', while her daughter was
against the surgery at first. The two now put on identical clothes and
make-up before going out for the evening.
- 9 June 2009
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Not sure what was going on here, but it probably wasn't healthy
A California woman decided to kidnap her daughter's boyfriend and haul
him to another part of the state. The mother, 35-year-old Anna
Gaffney, and an older woman of no fixed address showed up at the man's home
with duct tape and explained their plan for getting him to leave the
daughter, 21-year-old Savannah Lackey, alone. The would-be kidnappers
were arrested. Lackey was arrested later for her attempts to get her
boyfriend to tell the police he'd made up the story.
- 5 October 2009
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Michigan's Aimee Louise Sword gave up her five-year-old son for
adoption about a decade ago. The 35-year-old Sword recently got back
in touch with him over the Internet. She is accused of seducing
him and successfully cultivating a sexual relationship with him.
Others, defending Sword, claim that he was the one doing the seducing
and that she was taken advantage of.
- 11 March 2010
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Off to a good start...
According to AP reports, Idaho bridegroom Nathan Lewis, 21, was
arrested twice on his wedding night. First he was booked for drunken
and disorderly conduct. Once released on bail, he proceeded to slap and
choke his bride. He also racked up a charge of interfering with a
report of domestic violence.
The Baltimore Sun reports that Harold Montaize Alford was
unhappy with his girlfriend for communicating with a male on the Facebook social
networking site. Alford, 22, woke her at her home and began attacking
her. Her nephew, 27-year-old Adam Couther, intervened. For his trouble, he was fatally
stabbed in the neck with the knife attachment of a bottle opener. Later,
Alford stressed his innocence and explained that he had seen something
fly through the air just before Couther began bleeding. He has been arrested anyway.
- 28 April 2010
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A Crestview, Florida, man sent a text message to lady-friend Jennifer
Lovett to report that he wouldn't arrive home for a while. Lovett
responded that she would wait for him at his home. She did not;
she left early, after stealing his computer, camcorder, calculator,
and leather bag. The next two text messages in the exchange were a
demand for the return of these items and 'Good luck finding me'.
Authorities arrested Lovett some time later, after she pawned the bag
and computer, and she faces various charges.
Mainichi Shimbun reports that 58-year-old Masako Iwase woke to
her son asking her: 'Who cancelled the Internet?'. It was her husband
who had terminated the family's ISP contract, but son Takayuki decided
to stab her too with a kitchen knife. In total, he stabbed five
members of his family, then set light to his futon. The 30-year-old
Takayuki later told the police: 'I thought the house should be burnt
down and I wanted to kill my family'.
- 20 October 2010
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If you want to date a teenaged girl these days. you have to dress well.
Mindful of this advice, Ohio's 31-year-old Patricia Dye dressed up as
a 14-year-old boy in order to go out with a 16-year-old girl. Under
the alias 'Matt Abrams', a short-haired Dye met the girl's parents,
wooed her, and perpetrated 'sexual imposition' upon her.
Prosecutors deny claims that they had tried to strike a plea deal
with Dye. Of the ongoing trial, the girl's mother said: 'They need to
throw the book at her and throw away the key.'
In Ohio, about 150 people attended a birthday party for a
three-year-old girl. All were invited guests, but that didn't stop
the eruption of a brawl that involved half of the guests - of
those not involved, half were children. Elmwood Place Police Chief
William Pesking said that officers 'actually had to wait until they got
backup there in order to make entry because there were so many people
throwing bottles and chairs'. At least five of the 15 people injured
were hospitalised. The girl's princess-themed birthday cake was one
of the few things to survive unharmed.
The fight apparently started because of a long-standing disagreement
between the birthday girl's father and her mother's boyfriend.
And starting a family in a manner qualifying her for these pages
is a Japanese woman - if you don't know what to do with the bodies of your dead babies, be
aware that you might end up getting caught if you leave their frozen
corpses in a shopping trolley outside a supermarket. Atsuko
Fujiwara, a 49-year-old resident of Aichi Prefecture, along
with her son and eldest daughter, are accused of making just such a
drop-off. In a search of Fujiwara's home, a third dead baby of hers
was found, this one in a rubbish bin on the balcony.
- 1 November 2010
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He may not have relationship problems yet, but he's off to a good
start:
Police in Berkeley, California, have arrested a 29-year-old man who,
they say, disguised himself as a towel-clad dark-sunglasses-wearing
woman in order to enter a university locker room, where he then took
photographs of more authentic women. The man, Gregorio Hernandez, got
away with this the first time, but he returned a couple of days later,
this time calling further attention to himself by wearing an obvious
wig. He was arrested after he left the locker room.
- 5 December 2010
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Mario Francisco Hernandez is a romantic chap. This 22-year-old Los
Angeles man painted 'Will you marry me?' on his car. The car proved
handy when his girlfriend, the mother of his two young children,
refused his proposal: he used it to chase her through a Burger King
car park. The chase ended when two of his tyres couldn't cope with
his attempt to mount a kerb. Hernandez faces a charge of felonious
assault with a deadly weapon.
After separating, Turkey's Ramazan and Emine Çalçoban continued to
argue with each other, by mobile phone. In August 2007, the
24-year-old Ramazan decided to send a message to Emine: 'you
change the topic whenever you run out of arguments'. Faulty
localisation meant that Emine's mobile phone didn't interpret it that
way: because an 'i' appeared with one rather than two dots over it,
Emine read: 'you change the topic whenever they are fucking you'.
The 20-year-old woman showed the message to her father, who rang
Ramazan to yell at him for treating her like a prostitute. Arriving
at the family's home to apologise, Ramazan was greeted by Emine, her
sisters, her father, and several knives. Ramazan removed a knife from
his chest and turned it back on Emine. He fled, she bled to death,
and Ramazan later hanged himself in jail. Now, Emine's family members
facing trial.
According to Nebraska's /Lincoln Journal Star/, a 19-year-old woman and
her 30-year-old boyfriend had begun arguing when the woman decided
that she didn't want her name associated with him. She tried to slice
the tattoo of her name off his neck. According to police captain
Anthony Butler, the boyfriend suffered only minor injuries, mainly
scratches.
Arkansas media report on the death of two-year-old Harley Davidson.
The girl's mother, Kristy Davidson, claims that she was at work
when her 26-year-old boyfriend, Jesse Holloman, arrived to tell her
that something had happened to the baby. She said that she raced back
to his mobile home and found that all of the food from the fridge had
been removed, to make space inside for the baby girl.
Holloman, by contrast, claims that he'd fed Harley half a bottle of
the antibiotic Amoxicillin, killing the child and placing the body in
the fridge because Kristy had told him to do so. He said she'd asked
him to kill the dog also but that he couldn't find it.
Holloman has been charged with first-degree murder.
In other dead baby news, Rhonda Coshatt was checking up on dozing niece
Lyndsey Fiddler when she heard Fiddler's washing machine make
clunking noises at the end of its cycle. Coshatt discovered Fiddler's
10-day-old baby, Maggie Trammel, entangled with the laundry within.
In a call to emergency services, Coshatt is heard to say to Fiddler:
'No, I did not kill your baby. You did.'
According to court documents, the mother had been using
methamphetamine, amphetamines, benzodiazepine, and opiates. An arrest
for drug use while she was pregnant led Fiddler's family to try to get
her children taken into care. Now, her remaining two boys have been.
- 8 February 2011
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What to do once your relationship is pretty much over...
According to the Italian press, Calogero Lo Coco recently visited his
former home near Agrigent, Italy, where ex-wife Rosa Nicosia now lived
with her boyfriend, and they killed him. The manner of the killing
could have come straight out of a murder mystery: the couple apparently
suffocated him with butter shoved down his throat, which later
melted.
The couple told authorities that he had arrived intoxicated,
attacked them, been tied up, and then suddenly died. However, traces
of melted butter or margarine were found in the dead man's airways
in a post-mortem examination.
Louisiana's The Courier reports on fairly mild domestic strife.
According to Jerry Voisin, 51, his girlfriend had been drinking when
she wanted to cool a mixed drink in the freezer but found no space for
it. The girlfriend, 47-year-old Edith Tassin, allegedly created space
in the freezer by removing a frozen beefsteak. She is accused of
aggravated battery for solving the problem of where to put the steak
by throwing it at Voisin, hitting him in the side of the face. He was
bleeding when officers arrived.
- 5 June 2011
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Life imitates urban legend. The Barrie, Ontario,
police, report being called to a coffee shop where two people had met
for a blind date. Their Web site describes the incident as follows:
'The male victim advised he arranged to meet with a female he met
"online" at this location. However, the "date" turned out to be his
current girlfriend.'
An off-duty officer arrested the 49-year-old girlfriend after she
threw a cup of coffee in her boyfriend's face and slapped him.
Britain's The Sun ran an article about beautician Kerry Campbell,
who hopes daughter Britney will become a star - 'a model, actress, or
singer' - thanks in part to the Botox injections that Kerry lovingly
administers every three months. Eight-year-old Britney also receives
monthly full-body waxes and says that she looks forward to a 'boob and
nose job soon, so that I can be a star'.
Public criticism was swift for Kerry, who now lives in the US. She
decided to appear on national television to clear her name. Britney
appeared alongside her, stressing that she no longer 'cries that much'
when given the injections and that it's worthwhile not to have
wrinkles appear when she smiles. For her part, Kerry stressed that
'I'm not the only one who does it'. She is, however, the one who's
called enough attention to herself that her star-to-be has now been
taken into care.
Justin Beynen, an 18-year-old man arrested for car-theft-, traffic-,
breach-of-probation-, and drug-dealing-related offences, asked the
courts to extend his sentence from six to nine months so that he could
spend more time with his cellmate, step-father Jason Hastings.
Hastings had been given a nine-month sentence after selling cocaine to
undercover police officers a few times.
Taking into consideration that Beynen would have nowhere to live
until his cellmate's release, Ontario Court Justice Normand Glaude
accepted the request, though pointing out that the courts are not a
social agency.
Brittni Nicole Colleps taught English at a high school in Texas. She
has now resigned, however, in connection with the orgy she held at her
home with five male students. She'd had an ongoing relationship with
at least one of the boys.
While all of them were at least 18 years of age, Colleps still
faces up to 10 years in prison under Texas law since they were her
students. As for the publicity surrounding the case, her husband,
serving with the US military, said: 'I hope that you will not pass
judgement on her because you do not know all of the facts or details
according to this situation' at a press conference.
- 29 June 2011
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When his 18-year-old girlfriend had either an abortion or a
miscarriage, New Mexico's 35-year-old Greg Fultz spoke his mind.
In mid-May, he purchased a highway billboard showing him with an
outline of a baby in his arms. The sign reads: 'This Would
Have Been A Picture of My 2-month-Old Baby If the Mother Had Decided
to NOT Kill Our Child!' The (now former) girlfriend has sued him on
grounds of harassment and invasion of privacy and claims that this is
part of a pattern, in which Fultz also posted 'intimate cyber shots of
me from one of our cyber dates'.
A judge has ordered that the billboard be removed, but Fultz's
attorney says that his client will instead go to prison if necessary.
He describes the whole case as stemming from an 'either you marry me
or I'm not going to have this baby type of thing'.
- 25 July 2011
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Last Christmas, Minnesota's Tamara Lee Mason suggested that her sons -
Jacob (age 17) and Andrew (18) Cobb and their stepbrother Dylan C.
Clemens (25) - play the dice game Yahtzee. They didn't like the idea
and, now that her decomposing corpse has been found, are accused of
her ensuing murder.
They have reportedly confessed to the police that Jacob strangled
Mason while Andrew fastened a plastic bag over her head with a belt.
It was Dylan who hid the remains, taking them to South Dakota and then
back to Minnesota for burial in the backyard once the ground had
thawed.
Steven County Sheriff Randy Willis said: 'She wanted to play Yahtzee
and they didn't. It's very strange.'
In other automotive news, New York bar bouncer Ricaury Peña struck his
23-year-old girlfriend, a waitress at the bar, with a Honda Pilot SUV
in response to her attempt to get into the SUV with him after work.
Apparently intoxicated, he left her semi-naked and bleeding in the
street. She was soon hospitalised with critical head injuries. Five
hours later, the 28-year-old Peņa flipped the vehicle and was rushed
to hospital with critical injuries of his own.
When his wife, Rosa Estevez - the owner of the SUV - arrived there to
be by his side, it didn't take her long to learn of the earlier
incident and declare the marriage to be over: 'We don't have a
relationship now, only a daughter [...] He's my husband - he's
supposed to be not cheating.'
- 22 August 2011
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A 24-year-old Texas woman is accused of forcing her six-year-old daughter to use a
mobile telephone camera to videotape her having group sex. The mother
confessed to three such incidents, involving six men. The girl has
been removed from her mother's home. Marissa Gonzales, speaking
for Texas Child Protective Services, said of the girl: 'Physically,
she's fine.' The mother has been charged with indecency involving a
child.
A woman arrived at a Scottsdale, Arizona, home for an interview for a
job as a professional assistant and found her two potential employers
- Vanessa Klein, 24, and Steven C. Lester, 60 - dead on the front
porch. The woman rang the police, who reported that both had died
from gunshot wounds. The double shooting is still under
investigation, but initial reports are that Lester shot girlfriend
Klein and then killed himself.
Someone in Success Village, Connecticut, waved down local police
officers in order to report that a mother was feeding beer to her
children in a public park. Approaching the scene, they noticed an
empty 40-ounce bottle of Steel Reserve beer on the ground and a baby
bottle containing a dark liquid. Witnesses reported that mother
Juliette Dunn, 29, had ordered her four-year-old son to chug the
beer and he had complied, whereupon she called him an alcoholic.
In addition to beer, Dunn's 10-month-old daughter was found to have
cocaine in her system. Police are now looking after Dunn, as well as
her 33-year-old companion, Lisa Jefferson. Dunn claims that it is
Jefferson who gives the boy a bottle of beer each day.
- 26 September 2011
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Ohio's Ashley N. Jessup, 24, is charged with raping and endangering
her 10-month old son. The incidents, alleged to have taken place at
her mother's home, are recorded on video. Franklin County Prosecutor
Ron O'Brien explained that 'over a period of time she was exchanging
progressively worse materials via e-mail to her boyfriend in Michigan'
and that her behaviour with the child had been discussed beforehand.
The case came to light because an ex-girlfriend of that
boyfriend apparently found the video and contacted the police. While
the investigation continues, another party has become involved: the
baby's father, Jonathan Vasquez, is reportedly working to gain custody.
In 2000, Canada's Shirley Anderson, now 73, was awarded 10 Canadian
dollars a month in support from each of her adult children under the
British Columbia Family Relations Act, which deems adults responsible
for supporting their ill, aged, or impoverished parents. One of
her sons, 47-year-old Ken Anderson, refused to pay the higher sum she
insisted upon - CN$ 750 per month - so she initiated a lawsuit.
He has explained to the court that she hadn't provided financial
documents backing up her assertions and has also pointed out that he'd
had to quit school at age 15 when his parents abandoned him, leaving
him to fend for himself when they moved house with his younger brother.
He says: 'I'm done paying her and if the court awards her more money,
after she's used government money to go after us for the last 12
years, I won't pay a cent.'
- 23 October 2011
- Lanarkshire's Richard and Kirsty Finlayson have gained rather more
publicity than they might have desired, for acting on their desires
last year. Kirsty, then 17, was homeless and had apparently met
with older brother Richard to borrow money. While waiting for his
train, she suggested going outside Motherwell train station to smoke.
As soon as they entered the lift, he suggested sex, which commenced
within seconds. A worker, seeing the surveillance camera video,
raised the alarm, but the pair were not apprehended until after they'd
returned to the lift for a repeat performance.
Each blames the other: Kirsty says she was drunk, and Richard said
he just 'went along with it'. Both have been convicted of incest and
are on probation. Kirsty must also receive counselling related to
mental health, substance abuse, and employment issues.
- 8 November 2011
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New York's Todd J. Remis isn't satisfied with the photographs that
were taken at his wedding, so he is suing the studio, which missed
the last dance and the throwing of the bouquet, for the $4,100 cost of
the photographs and for an additional $40,000 to redo the wedding so
that proper photos can be taken.
Remis, whose wedding took place in 2003, isn't sure where the bride
is now, however. She may have moved back to Latvia after the couple
divorced.
South Carolina's Susan Hendricks decided to collect some insurance
money. After making this decision, the 48-year-old woman reported
that her son had shot himself in the head at the family home.
However, she didn't think she would get enough money from his life
insurance policy alone, so she killed her other son, her ex-husband,
and her stepmother - all with the same gun. Prosecutor Walk Wilkins
said: 'We see greed involved in a majority of the cases we prosecute.
However, I don't think we've seen greed rise to the level of a
quadruple homicide.'
According to Pickens County Assistant Sheriff Tim Morgan, she may
have been responsible also for the fatal shooting of a man who had
entered the house without permission in 2006, but there wasn't enough
evidence at the time.
According to authorities in Colorado Springs, Kevin Gaylor booked a
date with a university student he'd 'met' on the Web site Craigslist
and then things got complicated. His girlfriend returned home for the
evening. Therefore, when the Craigslist woman arrived at his home,
Gaylor rang the emergency services to report that there was a
gun-wielding burglar trying to get in.
Instead, it was the 24-year-old Gaylor himself who was arrested, for
making a false report to authorities.
- 27 November 2011
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In Florida, L.B. Williams was hoping to get his wife to stay with
him though she'd already filed for divorce. The 50-year-old man admitted to
police that, to get her to reconsider, he had set light to a cross
next to the marital home and then left a note purportedly from the
KKK. His wife, Donna, described the note as saying 'they were
watching us - I assumed me and the kids - and that I better not leave
that nigger'. She contacted the police, expressing surprise that the
Ku Klux Klan would support interracial marriage.
Freemon Everett Seay punished his 16-year-old daughter for trying to run away
from home. The 38-year-old Washington man started by using a willow
switch on her. He then engaged her in battle with wooden swords for
two hours, stopping at 4am, when she could no longer stand in the
armour she had been made to wear for this. The girl later sent
pictures of her injuries to friends, who contacted the authorities. The
Renaissance fair enthusiast was arrested, as was his wife, Julie May
Seay, who works at the Loving and Learning Childcare Center.
Japan brings us the case of a 45-year-old mother who accepted money
from 72-year-old male acquaintance Shoichi Koshio in a hotel room this
summer and then remained in the room while he twice tried to rape her
primary-school-aged daughter. Perhaps the most worrying thing about
the case is that the girl was in her mother's custody at all: The two
adults had been arrested previously for prostituting the woman's eldest
daughter, who is in her early teens.
- 24 December 2011
- Laurie Ann Martinez is a prison psychologist in California who wanted to move to a safer
neighbourhood but needed to convince her husband that such a move was
necessary. She faked her own rape.
Martinez, 36, tried to be thorough. This included scraping
sandpaper across her knuckles, splitting her lip open with a pin,
having a friend punch her in the face with boxing gloves, and wetting herself in order to
give the appearance that she had been knocked out after a struggle.
So how did police find out that her story wasn't legitimate? After
hundreds of hours of work on the case, detectives got their break when
one of Martinez's prison co-workers reported that Martinez had spoken
about faking a crime.
She can now move pretty much wherever she pleases, as she and her
husband have divorced.