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Top 5 Douchebags of the Week 2
This week's What Wouldn't Jesus Do? 3
Susan Powell Disappearance: Her Parents Finally Turn on Husband Josh Powell
By Pete Kotz in homicide, missing persons, unsolved
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 4:03PM
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Most of our readers knew all along there was something wrong with Josh Powell's story. He supposedly took a midnight camping trip with their young children from their suburban Salt Lake City home -- in the middle of the winter...

Tags: Utah
Eddie Salazar's Claim that Masked Men Kidnapped, Murdered Son Is Bogus, Say Police
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 1:25PM
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No one seems to know yet what really happened to 8-month-old Eddie Salazar Jr., but police seem pretty certain that he wasn't kidnapped and killed by masked intruders, as his dad claims...

Tags: Missouri
Joshua Tabor, Army Sergeant, Waterboarded 4-Year-Old Daughter for Not Knowing ABCs
By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Douchebags, assault
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 12:51PM
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Joshua Tabor, a 27-year-old Army sergeant who did 15 months in Iraq, was found wandering around his neighborhood drunk and threatening to break windows with his Kevlar helmet. Police in Yelm, Washington might have given him a pass, if not for what they found when they arrived at his apartment...

Michelle Riley Shot, Tortured and Enslaved Mentally Disabled Pregnant Mom for Months
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, assault, bizarre, homicide
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 12:29PM
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Dorothy Dixon was a 29-year-old mother with another child on the way. She was also mentally disabled with the mind of a child, which made her Social Security checks rather attractive to Michelle Riley. So Riley invited Dixon into her Alton, Illinois home, only to make her the house slave...

Tags: Illinois
Jebidiah Stipe Used Craigslist Rape Fantasy Ad to get Revenge on Ex-Girlfriend
By Pete Kotz in Douchebags, Sex crimes, bizarre
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 11:13AM
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U.S. Marine Jebidiah James Stipe apparently wanted to take revenge on his ex-girlfriend. So he took out a Craigslist ad asking for "a real aggressive man with no concern for women." The ex, from Casper, Wyoming, saw the ad and asked Craigslist to take it down...

Douchebags of the Week: Dr. Yazeed Essa Charged With Poisoning Wife, Fleeing Country
By Erich Burnett in Douchebags, Lists, fugitives, homicide, robbery, unsolved
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 9:00AM

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​Welcome back to Douchebags of the Week, our carnival of the criminally impaired. Today we meet Dr. Yazeed Essa, who proves that all the liquor in Lebanon can't make a murder rap go away. But first let's honor our parting contestants...

What Wouldn't Jesus Do?: Father Richard Abourjaily Lied About Having Cancer To Fleece His Flock
By Denise Grollmus in Lists, Stupid Criminals, bad clergy, fraud
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 8:00AM
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Today's edition of What Wouldn't Jesus Do? proves that religious folk are capable of committing all sorts of crimes -- not just creepy sex ones. Just ask Father Richard Abourjaily, who pretended to have cancer in order to cheat people out of their hard earned cash...

Fugitive Watch: Benito Vargas, Sex Trafficker, Still On The Loose
By Denise Grollmus in Sex crimes, fugitives, kidnapping
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 7:00AM
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To be awarded a spot on our weekly Fugitive Watch, you can't be just any old sucker running from the law. Take, for example, this week's person of interest: Benito Vargas, a notorious human trafficker who is now hiding in Mexico after one of his slaves was discovered by police...
 
Reader: Lynn Geter's Shown Her Mean Spirit in Public Before
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse, bizarre
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 6:03AM
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Reader Lana responds to Lynn Geter Forces Son to Kill Hamster with Hammer Over Bad Grades. She says Geter shops at the grocery she works for, and the woman has shown her mean spirit in the past...


Caught on Tape: Robber Attacked by Clerk's Trusty Canine, Thwarting Heist
By Pete Kotz in Heroes, Video archives, robbery, unsolved
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 4:59AM

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​A bad guy walks into a store and suddenly pulls a gun on the clerk. What he doesn't know is the clerk's loyal dog is resting behind the counter. As the man pulls his gun, the dog leaps up and bites him in the arm. The bad guys flees awfully fast...

True Crime Report is Off Until Tuesday
By Pete Kotz
Friday, Feb. 5 2010 @ 4:08AM
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We'll be at company meetings pretending -- in vain -- to be important. But we'll be back with our regularly scheduled programming bright and early Tuesday morning. In the meantime, may your days be festive and creep-free. -pete

Campus Blotter: Police, Students Explode into Drunken Brawl at San Francisco State
By Erich Burnett in assault, classroom creepiness
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 12:00PM

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​San Francisco State University's reputation for activism dates back to the civil rights era. The school's protest keggers, however, still leave something to be desired. Yes it's time again for Campus Blotter: the eyes, ears, and overworked liver of academia...

Top 5 Police Blunders Of The Week: The Police Brutality Edition
By Denise Grollmus in Police bungling, assault, homicide
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 9:00AM
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This week, we couldn't help but notice how officers around America were getting their excessive force on something fierce, from beating teenagers in Santa Fe to killing a man in Boston. For that reason, we bring you this very special "Police Brutality Edition" of the Top 5 Police Blunders of the Week...

Lynn Geter Case: Maybe Her Friends and Family are Just as Bad as the Mom
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse, bizarre
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 7:46AM
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Reader Alisia responds to Lynn Geter Forces Son to Kill Hamster with Hammer Over Bad Grades. She believes Geter's friends and family  may be just as much of a problem as a mom who would do such a cruel thing...

Dainley Green Savagely Beat, Strangled Family Dog in Front of His Kids
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 7:00AM
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Who knows what set Dainley Dewayne Green off. But whatever it was, he decided to take it out on his family's 2-year-old dachshund. Police were called to his Lawrenceville, Georgia home after his wife claimed her husband attacked the small canine...

Paula Sladewski Murder: Police Sketch of Man Last Seen with Model at Nightclub
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 6:00AM
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Thursday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire: A suspect sketch is released in the case of a murdered model. The famed penis gluers of Wisconsin get a lenient sentence. And a Texas bad-ass gets what's coming to him...

Caught on Tape: Robber Attacks Liquor Store Clerk with a Hammer
By Pete Kotz in Video archives, assault, robbery, unsolved
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 5:08AM

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​A robber attacks a clerk with a hammer during a liquor store heist in Ventura, California. As you can see from the video, the beefy clerk give him a run for his money, but still suffered serious injuries. That bad guy hasn't been caught...

Joseph Gullotta, Teacher, Ran 4th Grade Fight Club at Queens Elementary School
Wednesday, Feb. 3 2010 @ 2:25PM
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10-year-old Tomas Rivera was pissed. He'd duked it out with friend Justin Stokel, 9, in their classroom at PS 65 elementary in Ozone Park that day. But he wasn't mad about the fight. He was mad that more classmates were cheering Sokel than him...

Tags: New York
14-Year-Old Hit with Child Porn Charges for Sexting Naked Photo of His Ex-Girlfriend
Wednesday, Feb. 3 2010 @ 1:42PM
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An unnamed 14-year-old in Lacey, Washington received a cell phone message from his girlfriend containing a photo of her naked. This, of course, was while they were still dating. Problems didn't arise till after the young couple from Chinook Middle School broke up...

Travis Ballenger, Would-Be Rapist, Gets What He Deserves: A Finely Executed Beatdown
Wednesday, Feb. 3 2010 @ 12:55PM
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Travis J. Ballenger, 29, fancies himself as having a touch with the ladies. So he asked a woman to hook up at a home in Marco Island, Florida. But the woman found him unworthy of romantic pawing. She said no...