During a pilgrimage to Kentucky's Creation Museum, James MacDonald
allegedly asked Harvest Bible Chapel deacon Emmanuel Bucor to hire a
hit man to dispose of his ex-son-in-law, Tony Groves. According to a
police report, MacDonald, who is the founder of HBC, offered to help
dispose of the body while he was searching the Internet for possible
'revenge porn' of his daughter. A similar report was filed by
Chicago radio personality Mancow Muller.
After MacDonald decided to take a break from his 30-year position as
head of HBC, the 13,000-member seven-church institution fired him.
In Texas, Sherman Palmer Fricks Jr.'s mobile phone stopped working, so
his father, 68-year-old Sherman Shirley Fricks Sr., took him to a
local electronics shop. On the journey, the younger man, age 27,
began kicking the back of his father's girlfriend's seat. This was
the last straw. The next day, the elder Fricks waited for the younger
to return from lunch and then, upon the latter's first 'smart remark',
'started shooting at him until nothing else came out' of the .380
pistol he was carrying, in the prosecutor's words.
Since the shots were not fatal, a 20-minute father--son talk
began, with the father clearing the air about a host of grievances.
The senior Fricks is accused of ending the talk decisively with a
kitchen knife shortly before emergency responders arrived to deal with
the 'domestic disturbance'.
Romanian newspaper Adevărul reports on Călin Laurențiu, a
55-year-old man who was over-enthusiastic with home-grown
vegetables while drunk. He later recounted that his partner, 59,
changed her mind shortly after agreeing to let him ravage her with at
least one carrot, shortly before falling unconscious, and some time
before he stopped. He'd pierced her colon, and she later died of
sepsis.
Laurențiu faces up to life in prison and is being held without bail
by decision of the local court in Ploiești.
Cheshire's Paul Cohen listed the bulk of his collection of football
memorabilia for sale online for the princely sum of five pounds
sterling 'to get my life back on track'. At least that's what
Cohen read online after someone snapped up the items, which he
claims are worth 9,000 times that amount.
While he'd been 'travelling for work', wife Shelly was alerted to
his presence in front of cameras at a Manchester City match. Paul
later admitted to lying about his whereabouts but denied knowing
the woman with whom he was shown interacting in what Shelly calls 'too
cozy' a manner.
Paul says that he can't forgive his wife of 10 years. She does have
regrets, explaining: 'Should have kept some more in case I ever catch
him doing this again.'
The arrest report for Jesus Oscar Ferrer Jr. describes physically assaulting
his long-time girlfriend for buying 'the wrong food' at McDonald's to bring
back to the pair's Zephyrhills, Florida, motel room. Allegedly, this assault
involved Ferrer, 38, repeatedly striking her in the face with sachets of
sweet-and-sour sauce before she grabbed him, was thrown to the ground, and
responded by ripping out a portion of his beard. Arriving at the scene
after Ferrer fled, the police noticed sauce marks 'consistent with her
statements', and he faces charges of felonious battery.
Last time he got in trouble in connection with a motel-room altercation
involving her, he pleaded guilty to only misdemeanour battery.
A Floridian was jailed for attempting to run over his soon-to-be-ex-wife, who had received several protection orders against him over the years. Upon hearing that Joseph Irby was about to be released until facing trial for this crime, Courtney Irby rushed to his flat to help fulfil the condition of him not owning, possessing, or carrying firearms. She brought her estranged husband's guns to the Lakeland Police Department, where she explained that he wouldn't have turned them in himself. Since she didn't have his permission for this, she was arrested for burglary - armed burglary, of course, on account of the weapons.
A woman in Buckeye, Arizona, called in her friends to help move her
belongings out of the home she shared with 21-year-old Jose Vega Meza.
Noticing Vega's furtive attempts to assist by placing a small box in one of
the vehicles, she asked him what was within. He didn't answer, so she
opened the box, and she then knew why he'd only smiled in response - and why
she shouldn't have let her dog out of her sight a short while earlier.
When taken into police custody, Meza confessed to having beheaded her dog
and cut it open with a razor blade, with the explanation that the woman owed
his mother rent money. He helpfully added that he has a history of
torturing and killing neighbourhood animals.
This family sound fun...
At the start of our next story, another 10-month-old child made a narrow
escape. About 11 years ago, Sherri Renee Telnas reported having tried to
drown young son Jackson in a river because 'thoughts or voices' told her to
do so. Under a plea bargain, she was placed in a state psychiatric
hospital, from which she was released after less than a year. She was
granted custody of Jackson in 2010 and soon reunited with his father.
Earlier this month, the police received a report that Telnas was acting
strangely and had taken Jackson and his younger brother out into some fields
in Porterville, California. The two boys were found in a drainage ditch.
Jackson did drown this time, though his brother survived.
And the same introductory comment might apply to this one:
In 2016, a 71-year-old Seguin, Texas, woman fell in her bedroom, where she
lay for a few days in agony before dying. The twist to this story is that
she did not live alone. Her decaying remains were recently discovered
during a Child Protective Services investigation at the home, which she
shared with her 47-year-old daughter, Delissa Navonne Crayton. Crayton has
been arrested, with one of the charges being injury to her own daughter, a
disabled teenager who had to live in the home while her grandmother died and
decomposed there. The girl has been placed in the care of other relatives.
Jennifer Lynn Via, of Huntington, West Virginia, told the police how husband
Thomas ended up with a 35 cm decorative dagger extending into his heart from
his back: ninja-film-related rough sexual foreplay had simply gone a bit too
far. In another of the explanations offered by the 49-year-old widow, he
slipped in some water and fell onto a screwdriver. One version of events
considered by authorities is that Thomas was impaled by the dagger because
he'd stood up too suddenly after dumping water into a toilet.
None of these accounts of events prevented her from being sentenced to 15
years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. A recent increase in his
life-insurance cover may have been another factor taken into consideration.
After a low-key wedding, Germany's Ralph and Christel Jankus opted for a
48-hour BDSM session instead of a honeymoon. After the session, Christel,
49, complained of intestinal discomfort, but a colonoscopy revealed nothing
out of the ordinary. That discomfort may have been related to her husband
intimately introducing her to a 20 cm spiked sex toy. North
Rhine-Westphalia judge Johannes Hochgürtel has ruled that Christel's death
of a perforated intestine less than a week later was accidental. He handed
Ralph, 52, an 18-month jail term, largely for not summoning assistance in a
timely fashion. The judge stated that the sentence was fairly short because
the accused is unlikely to repeat the act.
In court, Christel's family added a darker tone to the story, in which she
had, at various points in the eight-year relationship, fled to a women's
shelter and sought psychiatric treatment, been beaten by 30-year BDSM
veteran Ralph for visiting a hairdresser without permission, and withdrawn
abuse complaints under suspicious circumstances.
The man soon discovered that he had received text messages from Russell such as 'You wasted my money to come out here' and 'I see you wanna die'. He explained to the police that they were from 'side chick' Russell, who has since been arrested for arson, attempted murder, and other offences.
Side-chick side note: The same petrol station provided arson materials in April. These were purchased by 33-year-old Tasia Young after a threesome in which her boyfriend sent her home while the other woman stayed.
Two triplets were preparing food at the trio's Georgia home when one of them died. Kenneth Jernigan, 36 told the police that he hadn't meant to kill brother Kevin - he had intended only to hug him but had a kitchen knife in his hand at the time. The latter died of a knife wound to the chest. Corporal Matt Sitler, with the Columbus Police Department, stated that Kenneth's tale was not consistent with the evidence, and a murder trial has commenced accordingly.
Meanwhile in Nebraska, firefighters in Lincoln were summoned to a block of flats where a 19-year-old woman had been burning love letters from her ex-boyfriend. The woman, who has since received a ticket from the police for negligent burning, ended up causing about $4,000 in damage by falling asleep while the half-burned letters lay smouldering on the carpet, before awakening to the sound of smoke detectors beeping.
Alyssa Hatcher's boyfriend contacted authorities in Lake County, Florida, to report that the Hatcher, 17, had given a friend 'a lot of money' to kill her parents. Investigators determined that she had also paid someone else to perform this task earlier, without any luck. The amounts came via her parents' debit card, which had financed a cocaine purchase in addition. Upon Hatcher's arrest, she confessed. Her parents remain physically unharmed.
When authorities in Vernon Township, New Jersey, posted a
warning to 'anyone who has farm-like property' about hand-crafted
tyre-deflation devices left on or near farm roads, the numerous
responses helped them uncover a link between the tyre spikes and an
extended campaign of letters from a self-described 'animal lover who
is open to experimental dating', requesting farmers to arrange a meeting
and a sexual relationship with their livestock in exchange for
care costs.
The New Jersey Herald reports that 31-year-old
Richard Decker has now been arrested for asking to 'stud for' facilities such as stables and then, when his
romantic forays were ignored, retaliating by such means as negative
online reviews and his stash of caltrops. For instance, one woman
reported someone having 'reviewed over 50 barns with 1 star reviews
because we did not answer his email', and animal-rescue worker Caitlyn
McCurdy described finding her car's oil filter removed shortly after
she'd ignored a series of requests for a 'longer term relationship'
with one of her horses.
Decker remains in custody despite his attorney's argument that the
home-made firearms found in his home might not even work and that
his improvisations with dismantled fireworks weren't intended for
use against anyone else.
In 2014, a Florida family hired nanny Marissa Mowry to look after their 11-year-old son. She ended up doing a bit more than that, and she gave birth to his child later in the year. The family found out only in 2017, after the boy reported the abuse and a DNA test proved his claim. Pleading guilty to various sexual crimes, Mowry was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison. Meanwhile, the victim looks after the resulting child when the two young men aren't both attending school.
Sokolov reportedly planned to ditch the body parts and then commit suicide in a public location while dressed as Napoleon. Sokolov's lawyer, Alexander Pochuyev, says that the remorseful historian may have been suffering stress at the time of the argument.
Hudson's response took Ostrom to task for using the word 'corporal', rather than 'corporeal'; stated that, while he and his client 'do have souls to be rended [sic], they respectfully request that the court not order this done'; and stated that the possibility of death takes such a motion beyond the court's purview. While Ostrom apparently has no experience with sword-fighting, he was able to make a swipe in reply, pointing out that death has not always been required. Accordingly, he invited his opponents to 'cry craven' and yield.
At this news, wife 3's relatives responded by inflicting bruises on Mr Siddiqi until he retreated to a nearby police station. When he emerged, they resumed the attack, tearing his clothes and slapping him until he managed to crawl under a bus.
The head of the Taimuriha police station, Rao Nazim, reported that no formal complaint has yet been registered.
Florida's Sarah Boone says that the events in our next story were all
part of a game of drunken hide-and-seek... Thinking it would be amusing - at least to her
- she zipped boyfriend Jorge Torres, Jr, inside a piece of luggage,
and then she headed upstairs and fell asleep. Awakened by her phone
ringing in the morning, she headed downstairs, then rang the emergency services, who confirmed that
Torres had expired in the suitcase.
Orange County Sheriff's Office staff stated that the 42-year-old
Boone's statements have been 'inconsistent', and they report that mobile-phone
footage reveals that Torres screamed for help from within the
suitcase while she laughs. In one exchange recorded, Torres shouts 'I can't
fucking breathe, seriously'. Boone's response that 'yeah,
that's what you do when you choke me' received the reply 'oh, that's
what I feel like when you cheat on me'.
John Matthew Chapman, 40, drove a woman he mainly knew online from her
home in Pennsylvania to Nevada for what he described as a holiday and potential home
purchase in Las Vegas. He also took her for a bondage-themed photo shoot in the Nevada desert. This is where
someone stopping to urinate found her corpse tied to a sign post the
next month.
The victim, 33-year-old Jaime Feden, was considered a Jane Doe until
one of her friends requested a check on her welfare. Chapman was easy to find: he had been living
in Feden's home, from which he'd been posting Facebook messages from her
account. He has admitted to using his 'kill kit' to suffocate her, and a
court case is under way.
Having judged the novel coronavirus to be a hoax and deeming diagnoses of it to be part of a conspiracy, Florida mother and registered nurse Carole Brunton Davis decided to take her immunocompromised daughter, Carsyn, to a church-sponsored 'COVID party'. According to the medical examiner's report, the event, attended by 100+ mask-free children, left Carsyn with a telltale cough and headaches. When she did not improve, Davis initiated home treatment with azithromycin. That didn't help, so, when Carsyn 'looked gray', Carole attached the teenager to her grandfather's oxygen machine and then tried hydroxychloroquine, before finally taking the 17-year-old to a hospital for intensive care. Less than two days later, she was dead or, in her mother's words, 'pain free'.
Responding to a call from Myrtle Beach's La Quinta Inn, South Carolina
police found a young woman who explained that she'd invited a
19-year-old man to spend her birthday weekend with her but that he
arrived early, to be with another woman, and that an argument ensued.
The man, identified as Jahiem, said that they were actually engaging
in a threesome and that the birthday girl, 'Mary Jane', became upset
at some point, pulled him from the other woman by his genitals, and
threw him to the floor. What happened next isn't entirely clear, but
Jahiem and Mary Jane left the hotel room and then complied with the hotel
staff's request that they leave the premises also. The other woman
allegedly smashed a bottle of liquor on the ground while Mary Jane was
trying to ring the police, and Jahiem may have snatched her phone.
No charges have been filed.
A concerned citizen in Corbin, Kentucky, rang the state police to report an attempt at human trafficking near the petrol pumps at the town's Speedy Mart: someone was trying to sell a child for $2,500. The alleged perpetrator's driving-licence number led officers to 29-year-old Harry Day, and the four-year-old black boy involved was at home with his mother, Gertrude Henson, 26.
Officers found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia at her home, whereupon she admitted to having used drugs with Day earlier in the day. Both adults were taken into custody, and Day later pleaded guilty to promoting human trafficking of a child. He has been sentenced to 360 days in jail.
And a loving relationship...
The Hindustan Times reports that the police have arrested a man in
Uttar Pradesh for what his wife's family describe as an attempt
to check his unborn child's sex in the hope that he would have a son
rather than a sixth daughter. Although the man's medical implement of
choice was a sickle, which he may have thrown at his 30-something
wife, he maintains that he did not intend to injure her. He was
arrested anyway, according to the police's Pravin Singh Chauhan.
According to later reports, the seriously injured woman was moved
from Nekpur to Delhi's Safdurjung hospital, where she was listed as in
stable condition. And she ended up having a stillborn son.
He has since resigned and admitted to 'a consensual, inappropriate messaging relationship' with Athens. An investigation found no evidence of criminal conduct on his part. Athens, in contrast, was arrested for trespassing at the studio and assaulting the station manager - who is her boyfriend - for not letting her run her story.
Other people opt to confine their illicit sexual liaisons to the
workplace. This didn't do New Hampshire's Britany Barron and her
fellow medical-supply worker Jonathan Amerault much good, however. It
appears that Armando Barron discovered suspicious material on his
wife's mobile phone and then used the device to invite Amerault to a
park, where he was waiting with both Britany and a handgun.
Allegedly, Armando ordered Britany to shoot her lover upon his
arrival. According to court papers, she refused, so he performed the
task himself, thrice, and then offered to forgive her infidelity if she
would merely decapitate the corpse to thwart identification attempts.
She may even have buried the body. However, authorities found the head
elsewhere and arrested both Barrons.
Urias returned to the garage later and was arrested. He faces two charges each of attempted and successful first-degree murder, along with offences related to illegal immigration.
And we have a couple of happy families...
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports on the day when a flustered
Sidney Deal locked his keys in his new Nissan Altima after an argument
with his girlfriend. He sought assistance from nearby police
officers, whose efforts included trying to use a hanger and offering
to break a window. Deal balked; he didn't have the money for
repairs. The price cited for a tow truck didn't meet his approval
either. Next, the officers offered to call a locksmith, but Deal used
their phone to summon his brother Samid instead. Upon arrival, Samid
proposed wrapping his shirt around his hand and punching out the
window. Deal again balked, but the officers had had enough. Worried
about Deal's daughter inside the car, they broke the glass, above his
protests that the air-conditioning system was on. It turned out that
one-year-old Sayah was already dead.
A neighbour from whom the police had requested a clothes hanger
reported that these proceedings took hours in outdoor temperatures
that reached 35 degrees. Deal has been arrested for felonious child
abuse.
A Pasco County, Florida, couple entrusted with the care of six children chose to punish one boy's misbehaviour by confining him to a bedroom containing only a blanket and mattress, with a boarded-up window and no electricity, for up to 12 hours a day. One of his siblings, however, pushed a book of matches under the door, enabling him to set the mattress on fire. When fire crews arrived, the vermin and faeces in the room could not escape their attention, and detectives soon arrived to speak with the couple, Daniel and Kelly Davis. While officers had spoken with the children, all of them home-schooled and aged 10 and below, before, they couldn't speak freely at the time. On this occasion, however, even 37-year-old Daniel 'freely admitted, without hesitation, that the dogs in the household had more freedom and better living conditions', according to Detective Randall Jones. All the children are now in protective custody.
And a few fine families...
In San Angelo, Texas, Dustin Wayne Smock and girlfriend Christin
Chanelle Bradley rang the emergency services to report that the baby they were caring for had stopped breathing while they
were brushing their teeth. After hospital staff declared the
two-year-old girl, Brixlee Marie Lee, dead, they had some questions.
First off, Bradley, 37, explained that 21-year-old daughter Destiney
Harbour had given birth at the family home and not told anyone outside
the family. Harbour may have feared that Brixlee would join an elder
brother in foster care. Harbour, Bradley, and Smock didn't offer
answers to the other questions, about the needle marks, of various
ages, on the baby's extremities and head.
Tests revealed heroin in the baby's blood, and searches of the home revealed
suspected heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, and miscellaneous pills.
All three people have been charged with knowingly causing serious
bodily injury to a child, with other charges likely to follow.
Also in Texas, 27-year-old Taylor Parker left a bloodbath at the home
of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock, whose wedding photos she had
taken a year earlier. Parker murdered Hancock, who had been seven
months pregnant, and slashed open her abdomen to remove the baby.
Later the same morning, a state trooper pulled Parker over while she
was attempting to perform CPR on the infant in her lap, whose
umbilical cord was tucked into Parker's trousers. She told the trooper
that she'd given birth by the side of the road and needed
assistance.
A hospital visit followed. The baby, Braxlynn Sage, was declared
dead, and doctors determined that Parker was not the mother. She then
confessed to 'a physical altercation' with Simmons that had culminated
in kidnapping. Parker faces charges of capital murder, and her
partner now knows that she'd been only pretending to be pregnant.
In Chicago, James Dixon, 29, irked the host of a holiday party by digging into the come-agains with
his hands at about 3am. The host's boyfriend, Vincell Jackson,
responded by asking Dixon to leave. Then, on the porch, Dixon stabbed
Jackson at least nine times, in the forehead, nose, hand, leg, and
arms. The wounds proved fatal.
Dixon fled the scene but showed up at an area hospital a few hours
later for treatment of a small hand laceration, thought to be from his knife.
The injury didn't require medical attention, so Dixon was arrested
immediately. He was still carrying the bloody knife, along with
several spares.
Dixon's defence attorney later argued that Dixon was 'properly
defending himself'. He has been charged with first-degree murder.
Michele Boudreau Deegan, a 55-year-old psychologist who works with the
Washington state justice system, faced psychological pressure from a protracted battle for custody
of her twin daughters. Four days after a judge granted her joint
rather than sole custody of the seven-year-old girls, she resolved this pressure by feeding
sedatives to them, shooting them dead, and finally shooting herself.
According to her tenant of a little over a year, Deegan had been suffering bouts of
depression, sometimes lying in bed all day and subsisting on only ice cream.
However, she had largely ceased visiting her own therapist shortly after
filing for bankruptcy, since her health insurance didn't cover the
sessions.
Alabama's Kelvin Nicholas Coker, 32, shot two of the dogs he owned jointly with his father, Kelvin James Coker, 60. When the elder Coker found one of the canine corpses, he drove to his son's home with a pistol to confront him. According to two family members who witnessed what then transpired, the son's admission to dog-killing led the father to shoot the son in the thigh. The younger Coker responded with a fatal close-range shotgun blast before succumbing to his own injury. The Washington County Sheriff's Office reports that further investigation is under way.
In 2016, 19-year-old Caroline Létoile rang the Reims, France, emergency services, reporting that her three-year-old son was unconscious. In recordings from the portion of the call during which she was on hold, she can be heard telling partner Loïc Vantal: 'I said he fell down the stairs. The stair will do, right? The stairs to the apartment? And I'm hiding all the stuff from the argument.'
Vantal, 28, has now been sentenced to 20 years in prison for beating the child to death, and Létoile has been handed a three-year custodial sentence for failing to report physical abuse.
Illinois's Alexis Sykes seems to have thought it would be a good idea to pour
boiling water on her boyfriend while he was sleeping - and to video
herself doing so. According to the DuPage County state's attorney's
office, the 22-year-old Sykes also recorded the skin falling from his
arms afterward and posted the action to Snapchat, above a caption
stating that she 'kinda feel[s] bad now because he got 2 and 3rd
degree Burns from face to waist'.
Although she hid his car keys, he managed to retrieve them and drive
himself to the hospital for skin grafts. Sykes, meanwhile, is in
trouble with the law.
Good, healthy datang techniques...
Secreted three metres above a false ceiling at Onelife Fitness, in
Stafford, Virginia, 41-year-old Brian Anthony Joe was spying on the action
in a women's changing room when he shifted position and the ceiling
gave way. He landed on one woman and was restrained by others until
handcuffs arrived. Anthony has been charged with peeping into a
building, burglary, and vandalism.
A woman in Russia's Dagestan region desperately wanted to please her
husband by becoming pregnant. Laura Daudova's lie about a positive
pregnancy-test result snowballed, and soon she had rented a flat near
a maternity hospital in Stavropol. She later recounted: 'I knew I
wasn't pregnant, but I couldn't stop pretending.' Ultimately, she
chose to report to husband Daud that the twins she'd given birth to
had died of a cerebral haemorrhage. Her lies remained intact until
she returned to Dagestan to bury the babies at his family's graveyard
at his behest: there, a member of the family said that all those present
should honour the children by seeing their faces before the burial.
When Daud saw that the shrouds contained dolls, he could only repeat
'I had babies. I brought them to Dagestan to bury them.' After
Stavropol governor Vladimir Vladimirov reported that there were no
records of the supposed birth or death and after Laura underwent a
medical examination, she came clean.
On several occasions, one Jason Collier visited his girlfriend an
hour's drive away in Amarillo, Texas, while on the clock. The
girlfriend, Cecily Steinmetz, mentioned this online in a note to the
residents of Stinnett, where he is the chief of police. She mentioned
some other things too: 'He lied to me and presented me with fake
annulment documents when I found out he was married.' Steinmetz also
reported learning of a second girlfriend and comparing notes: Collier,
42, had apparently asked both women to marry him.
The city announced Collier's resignation and, thanks to the bogus
annulment record he'd sent to Steinmetz, his arrest for felonious
tampering with a governmental record with intent to defraud.
A Cajeme, Mexico, woman identified by local media as Leonora was
similarly incensed upon finding photos of husband Juan N. amorously
entangled with another woman. She was able to stab him a few times in the
arms and legs with a knife before he wrested the knife from her grasp
and demanded an explanation. It turned out that she was the women in the
images on his phone, which he had kept from before their marriage,
when she was thinner and wearing make-up.
Responding to neighbours' reports of a domestic disturbance, the
police arrested Leonora, while paramedics treated her husband at the
scene. She is being held in jail while a decision about charges is
pending.
Thanks to a hang-up 911 call, Anderson was soon behind bars, a familiar location for him. For instance, the governor had commuted his 20-year prison sentence in January, about three years in. As for the future, Grady County District Attorney Jason Hicks said: 'The death penalty is absolutely on the table.'
When hit man Dalvin Wilson visited a Louisiana home and asked to speak
to one resident in particular, Brittany Cormier replied that she was
the woman in question. Therefore, Wilson fatally shot her and
intervening neighbour Hope Nettleton. He then reported success to
friend Beaux Cormier, who'd asked to have his niece bumped off before
she could testify that he'd raped her. Brittany was Beaux's sister.
The authorities arrested Wilson, 22; convicted sex offender Beaux,
35; and Andrew Eskine, who'd let Wilson use his car and had taken part
in an earlier failed attempt to kill the niece. According to District
Attorney Joe Waitz, Jr, all three men face charges of first-degree
murder, for which 'the death penalty is definitely on the table'.
Indiana's Malik Halfacre and his girlfriend got into an argument about economic stimulus cheques: he wanted some of the payment she'd received. She didn't like this idea, so he shot her and took the cheque. Left wounded outside the house, she was later able to direct officers inside, where Halfacre, 25, had proceeded to kill a seven-year-old child and three adults. The charges against him include murder and robbery.
Our next story, set in Ludlow, Kentucky, begins after the stimulus money was spent. When first responders couldn't get her two-year-old son to resume breathing, 33-year-old Lauren Ashley Baker admitted that she had purchased fentamyl with her economic impact payment and fallen asleep after consuming some of it. This had left the boy free to rummage in her handbag and ingest the substance. Some of it was still strewn across the bed when the boy's father arrived on the scene and rang 911 too late to save him.
Virginia's Roanoke Times reports on the idea that Megan Anne Walthall devised while high on heroin: creating a video to show her overdosing boyfriend later as motivation for him to give up drugs. It shows her trying to get him to move by pouring water on him, repeatedly shaking him, and sexually abusing him. After 45 minutes of this, she gave up and rang the emergency services. By that point, it was too late, and he died in hospital. Officers found enough drugs and video content that Walthall faces 16 years in prison.
Let's end with two mothers setting a shining example for their offspring...
Pennsylvania high-school student Madi Hime was gobsmacked when the
cheerleading coach confronted her with a video of her breaking team
rules by smoking. After having a cry because she knew that no-one
would believe her in preference to 'proof', Hime told her mother, who
contacted the police. It then emerged that at least three members of
the cheerleading squad had featured in deep-fake videos of smoking,
drinking, and nudity and in doctored images based on their
social-media photos. An associated IP address led officers to the
home of Raffaela Spone, the 50-year-old mother of a cheerleading rival
whom the Hilltown Township Police Department believe was unaware of the
image manipulation or of related abusive calls from spoofed numbers.
Meanwhile in Florida, another 50-year-old mother was up to no good.
Laura Rose Carroll is a Pensacola-school-system assistant principal
accused of using her access rights to tweak hundreds of votes for
Homecoming Queen at her 17-year-old daughter's school. The
vote-rigging came to light after the system flagged a single IP address
as the source of 117 votes, all cast within a suspiciously short
time.
The daughter in this case is not off the hook: a state
law-enforcement report states: 'Multiple students reported that
Carroll's daughter described using her mother's account to cast
votes.' Carroll has been suspended from her job, and her daughter is
in custody.
Summoned to Florida's Dupont Middle School to discuss her daughter's violent outbursts, 34-year-old Edith Riddle showed up with a boxing glove on one hand. No, she didn't punch the vice-principal; Riddle explained that the glove had accidentally become glued on.
After the meeting, she accompanied her daughter to the school canteen, allegedly to serve as her daughter's champion in a fight against a rival female student. According to police reports, Riddle's daughter pushed the student to the ground and both females punched her until the school's safety officer arrived to break things up.
And some items on solid family communication...
Benno Neumair, a 30-year-old fitness instructor in Bolzano, Italy, was
not happy when his father, Peter, asked him to take the dog for a
walk. Fearing an argument about household chores, he fled to his room
and fell asleep while playing on his computer. The next time Peter
spoke with him, it was to ask Benno to pay an equal share of the rent
or move into the flat downstairs. An argument indeed began. Benno
later said: 'Dad accused me of being a failure. I just wanted silence.
So I shut him up.' He held a climbing rope around his 68-year-old
father's neck and 'squeezed very tightly'. He wasn't sure what to do
when his mother returned, but he 'felt like doing the same thing', so he
did. Benno confessed to the murders a couple of months later, when
the bodies were found in the local river.
Spain's Alberto Sánchez Gómez took another approach to disposing of corpses. Police checking on his 66-year-old mother at a friend's behest found body parts in various locations in her flat, and the trail led to Gómez. His defence team indicate that he may have been influenced by drugs and a personality disorder when he visited her, in violation of a restraining order, and killed and dismembered her. While he has stated in court that he doesn't recall cutting her body up and eating pieces of her, he previously confessed to strangling her and eating some body parts while feeding others to the dog.
India is a special place. A wedding in Uttar Pradesh was suspended upon the collapse of the bride-to-be, identified as Surabhi, from a mid-garland-exchange heart attack. A medic summoned to treat her pronounced her dead, so the families agreed that the festivities should proceed anyway. The dead woman's younger sister, Nisha, took her place. The /Times of India/ quotes their brother Saurabh thus: 'It was a bizarre situation as the wedding of my younger sister took place while the dead body of my other sister was lying in another room.' Their uncle Ajab Singh said that 'the grief over her death and the happiness of the wedding has yet to sink in'.
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outh Africa is a special place, one where
Gosiame Sithole made headlines back in June for giving birth to 10 babies. Since then, the
babies' claimed father, Teboho Tsotetsi, has stated that he has never
met any of the decuplets, and a subsequent examination at Tembisa
Hospital revealed that Sithole, 37, 'did not give birth to any babies
in recent times' and has not been pregnant in recent years either.
The aftermath includes her admission to a psychiatric hospital in
Pretoria and an admission from /Pretoria News/ editor Piet Rampedi that
'I used no investigative tool or checklist' before sending this 'story
of celebration' around the world, since Sithole 'had no reason to lie
to me'.
Seeing a crane lifting tanks out of the KrioRus warehouse, staff raised the alarm. The police stopped the lorries driven by Udalova's associates on a nearby road. Udalova fled the scene, the frozen goods continued to heat up before being returned to KrioRus deep freeze, and Medvedev has a mess to clean up while denying claims that his ex-wife had filed all of the papers required for 'repossessing' them. She and one of the brains remain at large.
Police officers responding to a domestic disturbance in Manchester, New Hampshire, were witnessing what seemed to be a run-of-the-mill tiff between partners when the female half of the couple referred to the male half as having placed their baby daughter in the home's clothes dryer and turned it on before she'd been able to intervene. The 34-year-old Michael Higgins now faces various charges.
The police produced a 1,000-page charge sheet after a man who had helped Sooraj procure both snakes shed light on a conspiracy involving several members of Sooraj's family. Thanks also to evidence related to sleeping pills and Sooraj's searches for how-to videos on agitating snakes, a Kerala court imposed a double life sentence and a fine.
In Milbank, South Dakota, Brent Monroe Hanson, 57, gave sister-in-law Jessica vague answers about what had become of her dog, which he'd promised to care for while she was in hospital. Her husband Clyde intervened once the ensuing argument had escalated to blows to her head, and the couple reported the incident to the police.
A few months later, police chief Boyd VanVooren called Brent in to ask whether there'd been further issues and to give him a Christmas card from church. Told that Clyde and Jessica 'no longer live t]here', VanVooren might have left it at that, but a call then came in from a food-delivery worker about blood on the Hansons' door. So the chief asked where the pair had moved. The answer was a throat-slitting motion and 'I snapped; I killed them on Sunday.'
Officers found their machete- and baseball-bat-mangled bodies behind a tarp and drywall. The couple's three-year-old son was unharmed; in the days since the three murders (Jessica was heavily gravid), Brent had been looking after him in another part of the house.
And another:
Seeking new beginnings, Arkansas's Laura Oglesby applied for a
social-security card on her daughter's behalf and used it to get herself
a driving licence. The 40-something Oglesby then moved to Missouri,
where she enrolled as a Southwest Baptist University student, gained
employment at a library, and began dating young men in the guise of
her 22-year-old daughter Lauren Hays. After roughly two years of this
life and $25,000 in debt accumulated under Hays's name, a traffic stop
led to things unravelling. She faces up to five years behind bars for
identity theft and has been ordered to pay restitution to her daughter
and the university.
And a chance at a relationship in strange times:
Chinese media report that a woman identified as Ms Wang was caught out
by a rapidly imposed COVID-19 lockdown after returning to her hometown
of Zhengzhou as the new lunar year approaches. In a WeChat post, she
stated: 'I'm getting quite old, so my parents arranged more than 10
blind dates for me.' She was on the fifth of these dates, at the home
of a man who wanted to prove his cooking prowess to her, when she
discovered that she would not be allowed to leave his home for at
least a few days. While describing the situation as 'not ideal', she
was satisfied with the meals cooked for her each following day.
A case in which the parties did not share the same idea of the
relationship:
A man probably thought he'd struck it lucky in Las Vegas after he met
Nikki Grandel and Staycee Johnson at Caesar's Palace and they
accompanied him back to his hotel room. However, his Rolex watch and
bag of cash were missing when he'd finished taking a bath. He
prevented the women from leaving the room, so Grandel rang the
police.
While officers were taking statements, the man's missing $6,500
bankroll was 'found bulging out of Johnson's pants', according to
their report. It had fallen from her vagina. In contrast, the
Rolex was still nestled in Grandel's genitalia. It has been marked
as evidence for the women's upcoming grand-larceny trial.
And another, in the same vein:
Louisiana's Rutledge Deas IV is at it again. Having been rumbled for
posing as a mentally disabled man in order to get female nurses to
'babysit' him and change his nappies, he pleaded guilty to attempted
human-trafficking (of care workers) and drugs charges and was given a
12-year prison sentence. That was suspended in a plea deal, however,
and the 31-year-old Deas has now been caught violating his probation
by not just employing the same ruse again but also asking at least one
victim to help find more caregivers to help with his ostensible
special needs. Police are still trying to find all of the possible
victims.
A rather less grim item, with a wholesome family
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hen her 11- and 14-year-old children told Pembrokeshire's Lucy
Brazier that they'd rather spend the day indoors with their
smartphones than on the family outing she'd planned, she acquiesced.
Before she and her fiance left for Tenby's Manor Wildlife Park, she
did acknowledge the Internet as part of her family - by inviting the
Wi-Fi modem along. When returning home several hours later, with
snaps of the device on slides, admiring zoo animals, etc., she found
that her desperate children had begun their chores. As a bonus, the
admittedly 'childish' antics saved money, since the Sky box didn't
demand snacks.
With a simpler resolultion than many such tales'...
A Nevada woman rang the emergency services in the wee hours to report
that violent ex-boyfriend Cameron Evan Pinson was trying to break into
her home. While she was expressing fears for her safety and that of
her current boyfriend and three children, dispatchers heard glass
breaking and Pinson entering. The caller produced her handgun and
told him to leave. He complied but soon returned, with his own
firearm, which he held to the new boyfriend's head. According to the
Las Vegas Police's Ray Spencer, the woman brought the incident to an
end with a single shot that killed the 31-year-old Pinson.
Speaking to first responders who were trying to save her unresponsive
baby Kai, Indiana's Megan Ford explained that the boy had been fine
only minutes earlier. That said, he had been 'a little fussy' while
she was strapping him into his car seat.
Kai survived until reaching hospital, where examinations revealed
bruises aligned with the seat buckles' locations. The baby, who also
had five broken ribs, was determined to have probably died from
'mechanical asphyxia due to chest and abdomen compression'. The
35-year-old Ford explained that, though she'd thrown away the
instruction manual for the car seat, she'd planned to ask her mother
that very day how to adjust it. Her mother had given her the seat
when Kai was half his current weight.
Ford has been charged with felonious neglect of a dependent
resulting in serious bodily injury.
As many parents do, a couple in Uttarakhand, north India, put an awful
lot into raising their offspring. Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad,
however, decided to do something when that investment didn't bear the
desired fruit: claiming to have suffered 'mental harassment',
according to the /Times of India/, they have sued their only son, and
his wife, for not having children of their own or even 'planning a
baby' in the six years since their lavish wedding. At the moment, the
son and his wife are working in separate cities.
In their court petition, the parents demand compensation worth more
than 500,000 euros (for the son's training as a pilot in the US, a
luxury car, etc., which they explain depleted their life savings)
should 'grandchildren to play with' not arrive within the next year.
Brazil's Genevieve Boghici, the 82-year-old widow of art collector Jean Boghici, was worried about her daughter's impending death, thanks to a supposed 'psychic' approaching her with dire prophecies featuring specific personal information. That was in 2020. In the following months, the daughter, 48-year-old Sabine Coll Boghici, took her to visit several other psychics too, who needed money for spiritual treatment and who warned her that paintings in her home were 'cursed with something negative, with negative energy that needed to be prayed over', according to Gilberto Ribeiro of the Rio de Janeiro police.
As Genevieve grew more sceptical than distraught, she was prevented from leaving her home, and she sought police help. That was after 16 painting had been removed. The ill-gotten gains are valued at roughly 150 million euros.
Sabine and four other people have been arrested. Two more remain at large, as do several paintings, though some works of art have been recovered from museums and from co-conspirators' under-bed stashes.
An elderly woman's funeral at California's Rolling Hills cemetery formed the backdrop for an argument between the deceased's feuding son and daughter. This escalated into what the Richmond Police Department characterised as a 'chaotic altercation' - a brawl involving 8-20 members of the family, at least some of them armed. And then the brother trying to hit his sister with a car. He struck another relative instead, along with several tombstones and his mother's casket. After the car collided with a water main, flooding the area (with at least one empty grave), he exited the car. He suffered minor injuries, from a cane-wielding family member hitting him in the head.
Shortly after that, Williams rang 911 to report having shot two people. He was taken into custody without incident while their bodies were being bagged up and his two younger step-children were being escorted from the home.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officers had to deal with the fallout from a family argument over a game of Monopoly. The incident began with someone flipping over the game table, and flying game pieces soon gave way to flying furniture. Matters escalated to John Ronald Dewayne Armstrong firing a bullet into the floor and chasing his stepsister and stepfather into the street at gunpoint.
Officer Danny Bean reported that Armstrong soon discovered that 'there are no GET OUT OF JAIL FREE cards in life'. He also reported that alcohol was one ingredient in the family's fun and games.
A 10-year-old Milwaukee, Wisconsin, boy explained to the police that
the gun he'd been twirling around his finger 'accidentally went off',
fatally shooting his mother in the head while she was doing the laundry
nearby. He later clarified that he'd used the gun-safe keys (stolen
from her) simply because she'd aroused his anger by letting him
oversleep and not letting him buy a VR headset from Amazon. He still
maintained that her death was an accident - she'd stepped into the
line of fire when his intention had been to 'scare her'.
The police discovered that he'd ordered that headset straight away.
Investigation also revealed why relatives had refused to babysit him:
acts such as damaging furniture in the home by setting light to a
balloon filled with flammable liquid, swinging his puppy around by its
tail, and causing multiple surveillance cameras to 'malfunction'.
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the Beech Grove, Indiana, police responded to reports of a young
person roaming a block of flats with a handgun, one resident explained:
'My son opened the door, and the little boy upstairs is standing there
with a firearm.' Asked whether the gun may have had an orange tip,
denoting a replica or toy, the neighbour expanded 'no, no [...]
looked like a large .45', adding 'I sell guns'. The child's father,
45-year-old Shane E. Osborne, reassured them, however, that there were
no weapons on the premises and that he'd been sleeping off a cold all
day. Then, someone next door produced CCTV footage of the nappy-clad
four-year-old waving a firearm around at a landing and even pulling
its trigger, whereupon Osborne clarified that he didn't know the boy
had left the flat and that the weapon must be his cousin's. Officers
recovered the firearm, which was loaded but had an empty chamber, and
Osborne is charged with neglect of a dependant.
State Courts deputy registrar Lewis Tan dismissed the latter suit, expressing refusal to abet Kawshigan's 'calculated attempt to compel engagement from the defendant who [...] has finally decided to stand up to his threats'.
Thaler, 28, was tracked down and arrested for intentional but 'not premeditated' killing. Her father, who had backed Hart's custody claim, reported having told the judge that 'I feared for Eli's safety' and for her ability to care for herself, let alone a child, given her mental-health history. A Thaler relative who had fostered Eli for nearly a year had repeatedly warned the authorities of worries that Thaler 'would kill Eli to prevent his father from getting custody'. Even Eli had weighed in on the matter, by locking Thaler outside.
Tilahun Teginge was driving along the Las Vegas Strip when he heard 'pop pop' noises and felt the impact from something hurtling through his open taxi window. His passengers' prompt 911 calls were not enough to save his eye, which was removed at a local hospital. Now, his 22-year-old daughter ferries him from place to place.
Teginge's injury is the result of another family's co-operation: Enrique Duarte Hidalgo explained that he'd wanted to help his young son cope with emotional fallout from the family fracturing. The mechanism chosen for this was slingshots, with which the pair had propelled rocks at buildings and cars while cruising the Strip.
A messed-up attempt at a relationship... or something:
Texas's Peter Brennan claims that, while sleeping at a Hilton hotel in
Tennessee, he was roused at about 5am by someone sucking on his toes.
Brennan recognised his uninvited guest as the employee who had fixed
the room's television set a day earlier, and a name tag identified him
as night manager David Neal. Neal, 52, made excuses about having smelt
smoke, then fled, discarding the cloned key card he'd used to enter.
Lack of response by the hotel's security staff prompted Brennan to
ring the police, and Neal - whose criminal record includes fatally
shooting a roommate, for example - was arrested. Brennan plans to sue
both Neal and the hotel.
A messed-up attempt at a relationship... or something:
CCTV images show David Lee capturing a seagull on a back street in
Sunderland, masturbating while kneeling over it and staring at his
phone screen, and finally re-fastening his trousers and kicking the
bird away. When confronted at a nearby take-away, he spun arresting
officers a quickly refuted yarn - worried that he'd found an injured
gull, he'd been searching online for a veterinarian's contact details,
not visiting porn sites.
Chairman of the Bench Fay Gilbert stated that, while 'as
experienced magistrates it is one of the most unusual cases we have
come across', the area court was able to conclude that Lee, 40, had
engaged in 'a deliberate or gratuitous attempt to cause suffering to
an animal or, shall we say, a bird'.
When the case was eventually resolved, the court decided that he need only pay a third of what he'd offered - i.e., for what he and Zhang had eaten.
Indiana's Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24, are
no longer the parents of a five- and a one-year-old boy, thanks to a
handgun found by the elder boy in their flat. At the time of his
death from a shot to the head, 16-month-old Isiah [sic] had marijuana
in his blood. Further complicating the charge sheet is the fact that
his brother tested positive for cocaine.
Although the parents removed some drugs from the flat after another
resident alerted the authorities to a shooting on the premises, nearly
100 fentanyl pills, marijuana, etc. remained there for officers to
discover.
I will let Brianna Kingsley, 40, explain the next item: ex-partner
William Wojciechowski 'retains possession of my surgically extracted
testicles, preserved in [a] Mason jar, kept in [the] fridge next to
the eggs'. Kingsley's claim filed with the Pontiac, Michigan, court
system demands 'immediate return of my human remains specimen and
damages of $6,500' (the maximal 'small claim') from the 37-year-old
man.
Wojciechowski, meanwhile, states that Kingsley 'took everything she
wanted' when the pair broke up, and he cites the filing as evidence of
persistent harassment and intimidation over the eight months since.
Donnie Adams is a 52-year-old man who visited the emergency facilities of a St.
Petersburg, Florida, hospital for a tetanus shot and antibiotics, then returned
three days later - flesh-eating bacteria had left him barely able to
walk. To thwart them, surgeon Fritz Brink had to remove roughly 70%
of the tissue from the front of the thigh, then conduct follow-up
surgery after some intensive-care time.
The interesting part here is the cause: doctors explained that Adams
had been bitten by a relative when intervening in a family altercation
two days before his initial hospital visit. Adams reports that the two
family members who had been feuding 'are very sorrowful'.
'Do as I say, not as I do' might be a suitable motto for Utah mother Ruby Franke's 2.5-million-subscriber parenting-advice YouTube channel 8 Passengers... if she continues it in the wake of her son's escape.
Despite duct tape and severe malnourishment, the 12-year-old climbed out a window of Franke's home and begged a neighbour for help. Not much later, he was joined in hospital by his emaciated 10-year-old sister, newly freed from the home of Franke's business partner, Jodi Nan Hildebrandt. Both women have been arrested, and two further children have been taken into care or placed with alternative family members.
Franke's adult daughter, Shari, responded: 'We've been trying to tell the police and CPS for years about this, and so glad they finally decided to step up.' Alongside Franke's strict parenting advice, Hildebrandt's pronouncements had been on the radar for a while: she nearly lost her licence to be a 'pornography-addiction therapist' after unauthorised public comments about a patient.
A 15-year-old student in Manchester had been advised to show up early
for her GCSE English exam, but the gates of Whalley Range High School
were locked when her father, delivery driver Hussein Alinzi, arrived
to drop her off. The 59-year-old father of seven concluded that she'd
planned to meet with a boy. She was even wearing make-up. So he began
beating her with the metal bar he kept under his seat for
protection.
After regaining consciousness, she entered the exam hall, but the
dizzy teen ultimately was ushered out and admitted to A&E, where
medics found evidence of past beatings and bitings. These turned out
to be why she'd been wearing cosmetics, on her mother's advice.
Manchester Crown Court handed Alinzi suspended prison time, 80 hours
of unpaid work, and 25 'rehabilitation activity days' after the girl
stressed that, notwithstanding his death threats etc., she loves him,
regretted shaming her family, and has a brother who needs a father.
Other sexual news brings us a wrinkle in the tale of Marcus Silva, who is suing each of his ex-wife Brittni's friends for $1 million for aiding and abetting her procurement of an abortion in Texas. She recorded a conversation in which she confronts him for reneging on his promise to drop the lawsuit in exchange for sex. The conversation also features Marcus threatening to send intimate videos of her to her employer, family members, and others unless she performs other acts for him - namely, doing his laundry.
A woman in Italy has won a lawsuit aimed
at removing her adult sons from her house. The 75-year-old Pavia
woman's filing explains that neither of the men, ages 40 and 42, had
been contributing to household fees from their salary or helping with
household chores.
Contradicting claims by the men's attorneys, Judge Simona Caterbi
wrote that no legislation truly gives an adult child an 'unconditional
right to remain in the home exclusively owned by the parents, against
their will and by virtue of the family bond alone'. If they do not
appeal her ruling, the two 'bamboccioni' (big babies) must vacate the
premises at least a week prior to Christmas.
Roughly 10 days after a woman kicked several family members out of her
home in Topeka, Kansas, her five-year-old daughter Zoey Felix showed
up at a petrol station with ultimately fatal rape-linked injuries
apparently inflicted by a fellow resident of an informal homeless camp
in the woods: 25-year-old Mickel W. Cherry, her step-father.
Among the neighbours who had helped feed, clothe, bathe, and
educate Felix before the eviction, Sharon Williams said that residents
'reported the neglect [on multiple occasions], but they didn't
obviously take it serious'. Sheryl Tyree, in turn, offered this
summary: 'Everybody loved Zoey, except her parents.'
No good deed goes unpunished, or at least that might be what Oklahoma's Desiree Castaneda thinks, now that the baby shower she threw for her daughter and 24-year-old Juan Miranda-Jara has landed her 15 years in prison. The main issue is that the daughter was 12 years old when impregnated. While Castaneda, 33, does time for child neglect and enabling child sexual abuse, Miranda-Jara, is serving a 20-year jail term. Meanwhile, the pre-teen girl's father is supporting the pattern with a 12-year sentence for first-degree rape in an apparently unrelated case.
While the 39-year-old man's condition is unclear, hers is that of an inmate awaiting trial for attempted murder.
Florida's James Paul Leach 'had issues with his nephew',
according to a witness who tattled on Leach for pouring a bottleful of
eye drops over the nephew's meatball sandwich. Reportedly, the witness's
remonstration that such poisoning 'could hurt someone' was met with
reassurance that the eye drops would merely make the younger man 'shit
himself and puke his brains out'.
The Pinellas Park police arrived after partial consumption of the
sandwich, and Leach, 45, now faces a charge of felonious poisoning.
Via a public defender, he has entered a plea of 'not guilty'.
This might count as light-hearted news in comparison to what
has been emanating from Russia lately. Social workers making at least
their 13th visit to Starosiverskaya man Vladimir's home since 2001
discovered that he had not been 'in Tibet for foot treatments' the
whole time. His 50-year-old wife Svetlana had been sleeping beside
his corpse and occasionally performing occult rituals with it.
Her eldest daughter recounted that Vladimir had collapsed in
December 2020, with Svetlana leaving him there for the next four hours
in the belief that he was 'playing dead'. Allegedly, she then hauled
him into the bedroom and warned her four children, now 8-17, that she
would ship them off to an orphanage or sanitarium should they reveal
the truth.
The parents of a Wisconsin boy were displeased with the attention
he'd received from his teacher, who had given him a Glock for his 13th
birthday. Sifting through his mobile phone's message history while he
was asleep, they discovered that the teacher, 35-year-old Tyesha
Bolden, had also sent him a picture of her bare chest and
professions of unconditional love. Once detectives entered the picture, Bolden
told school supervisors that she'd let the boy stay at her home, later
admitting that sex was included.
She stated also that she had called an end to the illicit relations
by refusing to supply a second handgun alongside the cash the boy had
requested. She nonetheless faces the prospect of 40+ years in prison.
Peters told the authorities that she had grown upset because she'd 'thrown him a 50th birthday party and he was not appreciative', adding that she 'should have just divorced' the selfish man.