Did gold digger kill her elderly boyfriend? 1
Top 5 Police Blunders of the Week! 2
Moron shoots up house trying to kill bat 3
By Pete Kotz in bizarre, unsolved
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 11:23AM
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​UPDATE: Bethany Storro received second-degree burns in the acid attack Monday. She's now in fair condition at a Portland hospital, but there's no word on whether she'll face permanent disfigurement. The substance was found to be either sulfuric or hydrochloric acid. See update after the jump...

Tags: Washington
By Pete Kotz in homicide, robbery
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 10:54AM

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​UPDATE: Scott and Marilyn Jondle didn't approve of their son Andrew's relationship with Cindy Lou Beck, who was 26 years older than Andrew and had lost her kids to the state for mistreating them. So the couple refused to give their son $500 for rent, and that's what led to their deaths. See update after the jump...

Tags: Oregon
By Pete Kotz in assault, homicide
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 10:25AM
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​Back in May, we brought you the story of gold digger Kristina Nikole Pongracz. She was living in the expansive Virginia manse of her boyfriend, 77-year-old William Herchenrider. But it seems she was far more into William's money than his love...

Tags: Virginia
By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Douchebags
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 9:52AM
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​Reader J responds to Edelwina and Steven Leschinsky Tortured 3 Adopted Girls With Excruciating Punishment. She worked in a group home and has seen first-hand the longterm damage done by parents who torture their children...

By Chris Parker in Lists, Police bungling
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 9:00AM
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​The corrupting influence of power was on display when former Camden, New Jersey police sergeant Dan Morris pleaded guilty to federal charges that could've been lifted from The Shield -- planting evidence, making false arrests, trading drugs for information...


By Pete Kotz in Stupid Criminals, bizarre
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 8:00AM
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​Bats suck. They tend to sneak into your house just as everyone's heading to bed. Which causes the women in your life to scream. Which in turn causes the dog to bark. Which in turn forces you to miss that late night game you were watching from the West Coast...

By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, homicide
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 6:50AM
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​Michelle Murdock spent the last three months plotting to kill her husband in their home in Pasco, Washington. But fortunately for her hubby, David Murdock, he married an idiot, for this may be the worst-planned whacking in this history of marital slayings...
 
By Pete Kotz in Corruption, Police bungling
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 6:05AM
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​Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: He says the Miami-Dade PD has become a menace, regularly abusing and humiliating the people it's sworn to protect -- and then lying about it. He's now risking his career by speaking out. Miami New Times has the story.

By Pete Kotz in Heroes, Video archives
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 5:09AM

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​Two little douchebags pull a gun and attempt to rob a California pot dispensary. Alas, they are but wee little boys, while the security guard is 100% man. Despite the advantage of two guys and a gun, the guard nonetheless drives them from the premises...

By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Sex crimes
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 8:07PM
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​Bedtime Reading from the Village Voice Empire: They carried on an 18-month affair with minor children in the house until the son was charged with child molestation. Thornton was charged with incest after failing to see a problem with boning her own son. Seattle Weekly has the story.

By Pete Kotz
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 3:43PM
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​Word from the IT Department is that they've repelled the infidel crusaders and things are back to normal. But since you never fully keep the spam dickheads away, please let us know if you have further problems.

Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 3:33PM
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​Either 18-year-old Joseph Hansen was the Walter Mitty of teen terrorists, or police just averted a mass murder. It's not like cops were unaware of the little psycho. Last year, a school cop reported that Hansen had looked up Columbine stories on the internet...

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, assault
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 2:51PM
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​Since yesterday's tale of an inmate beatdown brought so much debate, we bring your another today. But this one is much more lacking in moral clarity. Gary Gieselman was busted in 2005 for writing bad checks, then promptly dumped in the Potosi, Missouri Jail...

Tags: Missouri
By Pete Kotz in Douchebags, Sex crimes
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 1:47PM
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​Though Kansas is known as a rather straight-laced, conservative state, it appears that an Air Force sergeant discovered that the good people of Wichita like to get bonerific when the shades are drawn. He attended 21 swinger parties from January of 2009 until last July...

By Pete Kotz in Douchebags, Heroes
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 10:06AM
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​Reader Steph responds to Skyler Smith Can Now Legally Pretend to Be a War Hero. She recalls when the Westboro Baptist Church tried to protest at a mine explosion in West Virginia, and the good people there made it known what they thought about their "religion"...

By Chris Parker in Stalking, classroom creepiness
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 9:00AM
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​Prep school's rigorous curriculum is supposed to give its students a leg up, but Hill School tennis coach/teacher Carlos Ortega's lesson plan only highlighted how creepily persistent a horny guy's innuendo and unwanted advances can be. For coming onto a teenage student like the head-twitching stars of A Night at the Roxbury, Ortega aces this week's Weird Teacher Watch...

By Pete Kotz in Stupid Criminals, assault
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 7:53AM
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​There are few things more despicable than a wife beater. But when you happen to be the dumbest wife beater in all of Illinois, you're entering uncharted waters of stupidity. Meet Janusz Owca, a 32-year-old man from Maine Township, Illinois and our Moron of the Day...

By Pete Kotz in Sex crimes, bizarre
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 7:00AM
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​Young men have an esteemed history of employing their best lies to get into the pants of unsuspecting damsels. But 18-year-old Ryne Anderson of Grand Forks, North Dakota deserves some kind of Special Olympics medal for his skill with averting truth...


Tags: North Dakota
By Pete Kotz in Stupid Criminals, assault
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 6:00AM
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​Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: Kenneth Williams arrived home to find his brother in the egregious act of sucking at bean cooking. His pestering led to words, which in turn led to Larry taking a knife to his brother's face. Houston Press has the story.

By Pete Kotz in Stupid Criminals, Video archives
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 5:07AM

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​19-year-old Brennan S. Eden of Mason, Ohio comes flying past a cop on the side of the freeway. That's when he loses control, hits a berm, and sends the car airborne, crashing into the support structure of a bridge. The car practically disintegrates...