Teen strangled, slit 9-year-old's throat 1
Dad sets dog on fire for jumping on couch 2
Dad executes son accused of molesting 3
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."




By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Sex crimes, assault
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 8:01AM
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April "Diamond" Guadalupe served as Gonzalez' cathouse enforcer
Thursday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire:

The Luxury Brothel
Cult-like leader Hugo Gonzalez ran Florida whore house complete with tennis courts and disco balls.

Just Bustin' Your Balls
78-year-old man arrested during traffic stop for kicking cop in the balls -- twice.

The Boeing Terrorist
Former machinist Gino Augustus Turrella convicted of sending emails, a bullet to former employer.

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, assault, homicide
Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 5:04PM
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His wife went to police for beating her with a hammer, so Charles Avey took revenge by killing her son
Sr. was pissed. His wife claimed he beat her with a hammer the previous week. Now her mother had picked her up and drove her to the police station to file a report.

The Grafton, Wisconsin man kept trying to text her, but she wouldn't respond. So he drove around looking for her, only to find his mother-in-law's car at the police station. Avey went home, picked up his 14-year-old stepson, Cody A. Reetz, and drove to a nearby Wal-Mart.

As they sat in the parking lot, Avey grew increasingly pissed that his wife wasn't calling him back. So he decided to take it out on Cody. He used one necktie to tie his arm to a seat in his minivan. Then he used another to strangle Cody to death...

Tags: Wisconsin
Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 1:28PM

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Patriarch and pervert Burrell Mohler Sr. apparently introduced his four boys to pedophilia
UPDATE: Detectives find a load of child and incest porn at Burrell Mohler Sr.'s home. See update after the jump...

Beginning in 1988, police believe 77-year-old Burrell Edward Mohler Sr. started raping the young boys and girls in his extended family. Over time, it seems he also introduced his four sons to pedophilia, and they forced the kids to even have sex with dogs.

All all five men are now charged with raping at least five children under the age of 12. Police are searching property outside Bates City, Missouri, looking for notes the victims buried in glass jars over the years -- and also searching for bodies...

By Pete Kotz in assault, bizarre, unsolved
Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009 @ 5:16PM

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Zack Heddinger had a fight with Bears fans when someone offered him a drink to make peace. That's when he nearly died.
After the Steelers lost to the Bears at Soldier Field on September 20, Zack Heddinger and some friends headed to Kitty O'Shea's bar to drown their sorrows. Like Steelers fans everywhere, they couldn't help but talk some trash to the assembled Bears fans, which is never a good idea at away games.

Though Heddinger no longer remembers that day, he and his buddies apparently got into an altercation. A Chicago fan bought him a drink to make peace. Heddinger soon passed out and was rushed to the hospital...

Monday, Nov. 16 2009 @ 2:32PM
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Heather Ellis claims officers told her to go back to the ghetto
It was nearly three years ago when school teacher Heather Ellis was shopping with her cousin at a Wal-Mart in Kennett, Missouri. They split into two checkout lines, but Heather noticed her cousin's line was moving faster, so she went to join her.

Ellis had violated the time-honored elementary school rule against budging. But instead of adults being adults, all hell broke loose. The only question is who's responsible...

By Denise Grollmus in Creeps, assault, cold cases, homicide
Monday, Nov. 16 2009 @ 9:00AM
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Deborah Boothby was brutally beaten and killed in front of over 100 witnesses
In the shadow of the most recent case of a Richmond, California girl being brutally raped while dozens of people watched and did nothing, the story of Deborah Boothby is unfortunately all too familiar.

It was sometime after midnight on April 26, 1998 when Boothby entered the Blue Star Lounge in Covert, Michigan. She noticed her on-and-off-again boyfriend, Ivory Shaver, sitting in the corner with another woman -- Shevolier Gill. Boothby wasn't too pleased...

Tags: Michigan
Friday, Nov. 13 2009 @ 3:17PM

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Police found 11 decaying bodies in Anthony Sowell's indoor graveyard
UPDATE: Anthony Sowell was arrested last year for choking and attempting to rape a woman. But police didn't believe the victim and set him free. See update after the jump...

Fawcett Bess owns Bess Chicken and Pizza, across the street from the home of Anthony Sowell. This is where police found the bodies of 11 women -- left in the attic, stuffed in crawl spaces, and buried in his backyard. This is also where Cleveland police were called to at least five times in the weeks and months leading up to the discovery. But they did almost no investigation.

Bess recalls an incident two weeks before police discovered the bodies. He found a naked Sowell standing in the bushes next to his house. On the ground was a naked woman bloodied and beaten. Bess called 911 and an ambulance took the woman away. But police didn't arrive until two hours later -- and never bothered to interview him...

Friday, Nov. 13 2009 @ 2:08PM
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William T. Cole, prior to nose decapitation, decided to rob two men with a small screwdriver
Take note, aspiring criminals: When you want to do a robbery, make sure you have stealing something valuable in mind, and try to go armed with more than a screwdriver. Those lessons were apparently lost on William T. Cole, and it ended up costing him his nose.

According to police, two men were at home in Tuscumbia, Alabama when Cole walked into the house, went to a back room, grabbed a coat, and started walking out. One resident  confronted him. Though Cole had a knife in his back pocket, he decided to use a small screwdriver as his weapon of choice in this robbery. It didn't make him very scary...

Friday, Nov. 13 2009 @ 12:46PM
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He's accused of violently raping his girlfriend, then taking off with daughter Hailey Traynham in a stolen truck
UPDATE: In a very cool ending, a hunter talks a father into turning himself in for raping woman, kidnapping daughter. See update after the jump...

Gary Traynham Jr., and his girlfriend had been having troubles lately. They'd been estranged for two weeks, and Traynham was pinched for writing a bad check on October 26. So when he showed up drunk at the unnamed girlfriend's apartment yesterday, it was bound to turn out bad...


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