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These items have been culled from 'Anna's News Clippings'. Clippings archives are at this URL. The most recent are at the bottom.
18 June 2019

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.'

21 July 2019

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.

27 August 2019
New Jersey's Courier-Post reports on the recent evening when 29-year-old Taija Russell was invited over to a Woodbury home for late-night sex. When she arrived, the man who had summoned her had fallen asleep. He didn't hear her at the door, and he didn't hear her ring him eight times. He did, however, notice flames whipping through the building at about 4:30am, about half an hour after Russell's purchase of lighter fluid, matches, and a cigarette lighter from a nearby petrol station. He removed a window frame to escape the building, from which rescuers were able to salvage nothing but his dog.
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.

29 September 2019
Several happy families...
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.

20 October 2019

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.

20 November 2019
Russian historian and Légion d'Honneur recipient Oleg Sokolov, 63, fell into St Petersburg's Moyka River while drunk. Rescuers managed to salvage him and his rucksack, which contained a woman's arms. Investigators working nearby took things from there. The arms turned out to belong to Anastasia Yeshchenko, a 24-year-old woman who had studied the Napoleonic era under Prof. Sokolov in more ways than one, and a matching armless corpse was found at his home. He then admitted to having killed Yeshchenko during an argument.
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.

15 January 2020
David Ostrom is a 40-year-old Kansas man who, embroiled in a custody dispute with ex-wife Bridgette, has filed a motion for trial by combat. This includes requesting the district court in Shelby County to allow him 12 weeks to obtain or manufacture suitable katanas and wakizashi swords. He explains that the idea of meeting her and her attorney and/or champion, Matthew Hudson, 'on the field of battle where I will rend their souls from their corporal bodies' was inspired by trial by combat never having been explicitly banned or restricted 'as a right in these United States', and he concludes that he has 'met Mr. Hudson's absurdity with my own absurdity'.
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.

11 March 2020
An enraged woman stormed into the banqueting hall at Asif Rafiq Siddiqi's wedding festivities in Karachi, Pakistan. One of the bride's relatives asked 'what's the matter?' and received the answer from the woman, Madiha Siddiqi, that 'he is my husband, and he is the father of this child'. Under Pakistani law, a man may wed as many as four women but only if all his current spouses have consented. They had not. Madiha Siddiqi revealed that she'd learnt of wife 2, Zehra Ashraf, on account of a text message from her, and it was Ashraf who'd alerted her to the plans for the latest marriage, his third.
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.

20 July 2020
We begin with a happy family...
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.

24 September 2020
A happy family...
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.

31 October 2020
Shortly after Anchorage, Alaska, news anchor Maria Athens announced via Facebook that she would soon report on the mayor having posted photos of his naked body on an 'underage website', the Fox/ABC affiliate barred Athens from its studio. She then released an image described as the backside of mayor Ethan Berkowitz, 58. This was followed by denials from his office and release of a voice-mail message described as death threats made by Athens against the mayor and his wife.
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.

12 November 2020
When Louisiana's Oscar Urias, 23, and girlfriend Elizabeth Tornabene, 31, returned from a bedroom, their family members received quite a fright - connected less with the devil mask Urias had donned than with the two large knives he proceeded to stab into Tornabene. Intervening, his teenaged brother and sister failed to save her life and ended up with knife wounds. Urias then ushered the other two people in the home outside. One of them was Tornabene's teenaged sister, who fled to a home down the street. According to the homeowner, Urias followed her into a garage there, killed her with a machete, and left with some of the girl's internal organs draped around his neck.
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.

24 January 2021
Nathan Larson, 40, has not led a quiet life. His history includes serving a 14-month prison term for threatening to kill either the outgoing or the incoming US President in 2008 and running for Congress as an 'anarcho-capitalist' and 'quasi-neoreactionary libertarian' who advocates benevolent white supremacy and has identified himself as a 'hebephilic rapist'. Yet he hoped to keep a low profile when recently flying to his home state of Virginia with a 12-year-old California girl he had persuaded to run away with him. They were apprehended during their layover in Colorado, even though he'd told her to disguise her age by wearing a long-haired wig and to reduce suspicion by pretending to be mute. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims reported that the girl has been returned home, and she will go through therapy to address the 'sophisticated' grooming she received at Larson's hands.

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.

22 February 2021
A nice stable environment in which to bring a new life into the world...
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.

19 March 2021
It takes a special set of circumstances to provide quotations such as 'He cooked the heart with potatoes to feed to his family to release the demons', but we have such a story this time, thanks to Oklahoma's Lawrence Paul Anderson, 42. While visiting his uncle Leon Pye's family in Chickasha, he killed their neighbour Andrea Lynn Blankenship and returned with her heart. His ungrateful family refused to eat it, so Anderson stabbed his aunt in the eyes and killed both Pye and Pye's visiting four-year-old grand-daughter.
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.

20 April 2021
Setting a good example...
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.

10 July 2021
According to the Opa-locka, Florida, police, local resident Michael Williams, 26, made his 10-year-old son happy by agreeing to take him on a van ride past a gathering of local children for a 'drive-by shooting'. At the target yard, in the Miami area, the boy scored several hits. One was on a member of the crowd who mistook the shots for a genuine attack: adult Gregory Barns retaliated via a single shot into the van, which caused the injured boy to fall from the vehicle. The van then proceeded to run him over. Williams was later arrested for child neglect, and the boy was treated for his injuries.

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'.

S[IMG: Belly]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'.

3 August 2021
When a 12-year-old girl experiencing labour pains arrived at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital, questioning led them to the identity of the father, 24-year-old Juan Miranda-Jara. They also determined his current whereabouts: since impregnating the girl, he had been sent to prison for an unrelated rape. Further investigation revealed that the girl's mother had 'permitted' what is classed as first-degree rape of a minor and thrown a baby shower to celebrate the upcoming birth. She faces charges of enabling child sex abuse and of child neglect.

4 October 2021
It's just a typical story of what can happen when a romantic relationship goes sour: Valeria Udalova is accused of cutting through a metal wall at the cryonics facility she had run with ex-husband Danila Medvedev, then draining several vats of their liquid nitrogen and hauling away some brains and bodies of the 81 rich people and 47 pets within. After all, Udalova, 61, needed to populate her rival facility, Open Cryonics.
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.

27 October 2021
When India's Uthra Kumar, 25, died in her sleep from a snake bite, her family accused husband Sooraj of releasing a cobra onto her bed. Explaining that he had been harassing them for a larger dowry, they pointed out that she'd been hospitalised two months earlier for a bite from a Russell's viper that ostensibly had entered her bedroom via a (conveniently repositioned) tree branch.
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.

17 January 2022
Our first happy family of the year:
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.

13 April 2022
Upon finding her son's severed head in a bucket in the basement, a Green Bay, Wisconsin, woman contacted the police and pointed them toward the woman who had been down there with him earlier. That woman, Taylor Denise Schabusiness, explained that she'd become carried away after the victim put a chain around his neck during sex: she enjoyed choking him too much to stop, even when he started to cough up blood. Schabusiness, 24, told the police that, after 2-3 hours of sex with the corpse, she dismembered it with kitchen knives. She added that detectives were going to have fun trying to find all of the organs but that, because drugs had made her lazy and paranoid, her plan to remove the limbs from the premises was limited to a foot or leg. She even forgot to take the victim's head with her.

A rather less grim item, with a wholesome family
W[IMG: Sky box in ball pit] 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.

21 May 2022
Finding a bin-bag-wrapped corpse in a freshly dug hole, sheriff's officers in Edgefield County, South Carolina, uncovered a link with a body discovered in the same yard a short while earlier. The person in the mostly filled hole (60-year-old Patricia Ruth Dent) had been strangled to death, and the other body belonged to her boyfriend (Joseph Anthony McKinnon, 65), who died of a heart attack after setting his shovel down.

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.

16 Augsut 2022
Some lovely families...
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.

9 November 2022
Since his divorce earlier this year, Florida man Michael D. Williams had been living with his ex-wife despite an ongoing dispute over the electrical supply to their shared home. He thought he'd found a solution before leaving the premises over the weekend: turning off the house's power and locking its junction box so that his ex and her son couldn't leave the lights on when leaving a room. When the 47-year-old Williams returned, however, the two had turned the electricity back on and attached their own lock in place of his.
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.

31 December 2022
Some happy families this time...
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'.

6 February 2023
A Belgian couple travelling from Tel Aviv to Brussels on 31 January were unaware that Ryanair wouldn't let their infant onto the aeroplane without a ticket, whether for a 'lap baby' or involving a separate seat. When informed of this shortly after check-in closed, they made a dash for the security queue and gate, leaving the child on the check-in counter. A Ryanair representative later reported that the airport's security staff 'retrieved the passengers, and this is now a matter for local police', and the Israeli Airport Authority indicated that the parents have been reunited with their child.

When [IMG: the child on CCTV]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.

20 April 2023
Singapore's Straits Times reports on a Mr K. Kawshigan, who threatened to sue object of his affections Nora Tan after she told him that she viewed him as a friend only. Detecting no progress after 1.5 years of a compromise in which she attended his counselling sessions, she severed contact. Therefore, he filed a $3 million High Court claim for causing trauma and damaging his 'stellar reputation', and her receipt of an expedited protection order was met with a $22,000 magistrate's court claim: by breaching an agreement to improve the relationship, she had reduced his earning capacity as an 'active high-capital trader by night and a busy CEO by day'.
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'.

23 March 2023
Six days after Tory Hart filed for custody of son Eli from the six-year-old's mother, Minnesota's Julissa Thaler, she purchased a shotgun and arranged a shooting-range visit. It wasn't long before cops pulled over a bloody-haired Thaler, warning her that she was driving on a tyre rim. They learned later that Eli was in the boot, alongside the gun, which had sent an estimated nine rounds into him.
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.

12 May 2023
Where a fucked relationship can lead...
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'.

29 August 2023
In China's Jilin province, a Mr Liu, arriving for a match-maker-arranged blind date at a restaurant frequented also by his date, a Ms Zhang, found that she had 23 relatives in tow. At the end of the meal, a panicked Liu fled when handed the bill for all 25 people's food, cigarettes, and alcohol. While Zhang settled up, she contacted Liu to insist that he cover half of the total. His counter-offer of one fifth earned him a lawsuit from the Zhang family and comments that he had failed their generosity test.
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'.

25 September 2023
Two lovely families this time...
'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.

9 November 2023
Payton Shires was a newly minted social worker who decided to go above and beyond the call of duty when counselling a 13-year-old Ohio boy as part of the foster-care system. Shires, 24, allegedly had sex at least twice with the boy, whose mother subsequently discovered associated inappropriate text messages on his mobile phone. With Columbus Police detectives listening in, the mother rang Shires and obtained a confession, according to local media. Shires no longer is part of the National Youth Advocate Program.

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.

12 January 2024
A woman showed up at the Atibaia, Brazil, police station with the announcement 'I came to introduce myself, because I just cut off my husband's penis'. The 34-year-old woman explained that, having tempted him into the bedroom and tied him to the bed, she'd razored off her spouse's appendage as retaliation for sexual intercourse with her 15-year-old niece. Before flushing the problematic penis down the loo - she had 'heard that it was possible to reattach it' - she took a photograph of it for posterity.
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'.

28 February 2024

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.

2 March 2024

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.

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