Caught on Tape: Woman hires hit man to kill hubby 1
Teen strangled, slit 9-year-old's throat 2
Dad executes son accused of molesting 3
Surgeon Daniel Kultin Hires Russian Mafia to Kill His Business Partner
Saturday, Nov. 21 2009 @ 8:06AM
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Drug addled asshole Kenny Tamon Jackson beat his son for wearing the wrong gang colors
Saturday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire:

Seattle Surgeon Hires Hit Man
Daniel Kultin tried to get the Russian Mafia to whack his business partner.

Are Florida Kids More Violent?
Or are Florida courts? 70 percent of the nation's juveniles serving life for non-murder offenses are from Florida.

4-Year-Old Wore Wrong Gang Colors
Kenny Tamon Jackson gets only time served for beating his 4-year-old for wearing the wrong gang colors. See our original story here.

Reader: A Bad Mom Led to 10-Year-Old Girl Getting Tasered
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Police bungling
Saturday, Nov. 21 2009 @ 7:04AM
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Mom told the cop to taser her daughter because she wouldn't take a shower
Reader KPR responds to Cop Dustin Bradshaw Tasers 10-Year-Old Girl After She Kicks Him in the Balls

"This 10 year old girl has been abused (likely by mom or mom's likely parade of boyfriends through the house). I have children (one 10, BTW) and I have never called the cops because I've never had a child of mine act up the way this one apparently did. I've never witnessed a friend's child act this way.

"Therefore I assume she has been mistreated or else mom is such a crap-can parent that the girl has no idea what to expect from one moment to the next...

Tags: Arkansas
Undercover Video of Dalia Dippolito Trying to Hire Hit Man to Kill Her Husband
By Pete Kotz in Video archives, homicide
Saturday, Nov. 21 2009 @ 6:16AM

This undercover video shows Dalia Dippolito trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband. What she doesn't know is that the hit man is really an undercover Florida cop. Dippolito provides him with photos and the best time to kill her husband. They also discuss her $1,200 downpayment on the murder.

Caught on Tape: Video of Paul Chandler, His Wife, Kidnapped by Somali Pirates
By Pete Kotz in Video archives, kidnapping
Saturday, Nov. 21 2009 @ 5:54AM

The British couple, kidnapped by Somali pirates aboard their yacht in October, are people held on a $7 million ransom. So far, the British government has refused to negotiate. As you can see from the video above, the Chandlers tell the British government that the pirates are losing patience.

Alyssa Bustamante, 15, Charged With Slaying of 9-Year-Old Elizabeth Olten
By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Creeps, homicide
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 1:04PM

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Alyssa Bustamante reportedly killed the little girl just to see what it felt like
UPDATE: Alyssa Bustamante stabbed the little girl and then slit her throat. See update after the jump...

A Missouri judge ruled that 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante can be tried as an adult in the murder of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. According to police, she killed the little girl just because she "wanted to know what it felt like."

Elizabeth was last seen October 21 as she was leaving a friend's home in St. Martins, Missouri around supper time, just down the street from her own home. She promptly vanished. A massive search was launched to look for her body in the rural, wooded area...

Tags: Missouri
Pastor Jose Figueroa Admits To 1998 Bathtub Execution of Alex Martinez
By Denise Grollmus in cold cases, homicide
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 9:00AM
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Jose Figueroa has admitted to a 1998 murder. Police think it's because he found God.
It was 1998 when 17-year-old Alex Martinez got into the bathtub of his Buffalo, New York apartment. As he relaxed in the suds, his girlfriend and their 4-month old boy sat playing in the living room. Just another quiet Thursday evening, or so they thought.

That's when two masked men broke down the front door. They didn't say a word as they marched into the bathroom. One of the men pulled out his gun and shot Martinez through the head, execution-style. Then they simply walked out the front door, leaving behind a new widow, a dead teenager, and yet another fatherless infant... 

Tags: New York
Reader: Don't Blame Mom for Son Strangled in Wal-Mart Parking Lot
By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, assault, homicide
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 8:09AM
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Pissed that his wife reported him for beating her with a hammer, Charles Avey confessed to strangling his stepson at Wal-Mart
Reader Darwin responds to Charles Avey Strangles Stepson in Wal-Mart Parking Lot to Get Back at His Wife.

"Until you are the abused woman don't judge her. You have no frame of reference. I suspect several of the commentors are right, he probably NEVER hit the child. That is one way abusers can control the victim and make her think her beatings are "her fault" - no one else every gets hurt.

"I suspect the boy was at school when the mother went to the police station and got home without knowing what was going on and this A****** CAME HOME AND PICKED HIM UP (AS IT SAYS IN THE ARTICLE). The son and the mother probably never imagined such a thing could happen."




Lashawn Demaro Whitehead Set His Dog on Fire for Jumping on Couch
By Pete Kotz in Animal Cruelty, Creeps
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 7:00AM
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Worried that the puppy would jump on his newborn, Lashawn Whitehead severely beat the dog, then set it on fire
Twenty-year-old Lashawn Demaro Whitehead had a baby boy in July. This is not a good thing, since Whitehead should not be a father.

That much is clear by what happened in August. Whitehead was at home when his 3-month-old puppy jumped on the couch where the baby was resting. As his mom Sally Laws tells it, her son promptly lost it. He severely the beat the dog, then set it on fire before leaving it to die in a Greensboro, North Carolina park.

The dog was found by a passerby about two weeks later. It had burns over 60 percent of its body, and its ears were nearly burned off. It also had a broken jaw and teeth...

Caught on Tape: Clerk Wrestles Gun Away From Robber at Gold Shop
By Pete Kotz in Heroes, Video archives, robbery, unsolved
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 5:39AM

He's not a very good robber, and he's just run into a very brave -- or very stupid -- clerk. But when all's said and done, the robber is forced to flee the store with nothing. Not even his gun.

Seattle Band Sells T-Shirt Celebrating Officer Timothy Brenton's Assassination
By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Stupid Criminals, homicide
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 4:54PM
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The band Furious Styles thinks it's a good day whenever a cop is killed, hence the T-shirts
Earlier this month, we told you about the assassination of Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton, who was shot in a drive-by Halloween night as he sat in his squad. Another officer was wounded.

Police believe the senseless murder was the work of criminal justice student Christopher Monfort, who was shot when he pointed a gun at detectives who were trying to interview him at his apartment building.

Obviously, it was a stupid and senseless murder. As Seattle Weekly notes, "The city saw the murder of a cop as a good time to remember that peace officers have a very dangerous job and we should be thankful for the work they do." But hardcore metal band Furious Styles saw it as a way to get publicity selling T-shirts that celebrate the officer's slaying...

Tags: Washington