Police refused to take missing person reports in serial killer case 1
Orlando shooter blames firm for his bankruptcy 2
Woman killed for selling rock salt as dope 3
Saturday, Nov. 7 2009 @ 11:26AM

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Police found 11 decaying bodies in Anthony Sowell's indoor graveyard
UPDATE: A woman says she went to three police precincts to file a missing person's report. But she couldn't find a Cleveland cop willing to do it. 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...

Saturday, Nov. 7 2009 @ 5:59AM

A suspect stands calmly with his hands on the hood when a Minneapolis cop suddenly is seen on the video walking up behind the man and blasting him with a taser in the neck.

By Pete Kotz in assault, bizarre, homicide
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 4:27PM
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Noor Faleh Almaleki went into a coma and never recovered
UPDATE: A mysterious fire was started at the Almaleki home this morning. See update after the jump...

Noor Faleh Almaleki, who was ran over by her dad in an attempted honor killing in Arizona last month, is dead. The attack happened October 20 when Faleh Hassan Almaleki ran her and her boyfriend's mother over with his truck in a state government parking lot.

While the other woman survived, Noor underwent spinal surgery after the attack. She fell into a coma and never recovered, dying at age 20...

Tags: Arizona
By Pete Kotz in arson, assault, homicide, kidnapping, unsolved
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 3:04PM

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23-year-old Carol Thomas was found in a burned out car in a farmer's field
UPDATE: Carol Thomas was murdered because she sold rock salt as dope. See update after the jump...

A former boyfriend said 23-year-old Carol Thomas planned to get a ride to visit him in Kansas City Wednesday night. But according to police, witnesses saw her attacked by at least three people, then stuffed in the trunk of a red Pontiac Grand Am.

When police arrived, Carol was gone. But they did find a stun gun at the scene. Today, they found Carol.

A farmer saw a car leaving a field Wednesday night and called police. A search today turned up a burned out car and a body that apparently matches Carol's...

Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 12:07PM
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Robert Bellamy Jr., an elite moron, punched, kicked and robbed a guy he thought was gay
You could say Robert Bellamy Jr. is a huge friggin' moron, but that would be an insult to morons the world over. In the small hours of Sunday morning, Bellamy and three other people spotted two men at a Long Island gas station. One was dressed as a woman for Halloween.

Being knuckle-draggers, Bellamy and his entourage  decided to hurl their best anti-gay insults, which we can assure did not contain any polysyllabic words. The men left the gas station and were followed by Bellamy and his friends, which included a woman and two other men...

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Creeps, assault
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 11:18AM
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Michael can't speak and opened his eyes for the first time last week
UPDATE: Someone placed burned dolls in Michael's backyard. See update after the jump...

Prosecutors in Fort Lauderdale are faced with a difficult predicament. Yesterday, they received a nine day extension in their case against five juveniles charged with setting 15-year-old Michael Brewer on fire after he failed to repay a kid for a $40 video game. But if they don't charge them as adults by November 12, the boys will have to be released...

Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 5:52AM

As police as handcuffing a man in Kansas City, Kansas, he jumps back into his car, rams another squad, then leads police on a high-speed chase before finally crashing.

Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 11:20AM
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Sharon left for ballet lessons and was never seen again alive

It was 27 years ago that 16-year-old Sharon Thor was slain after preparing to leave her home in Franklin Township, New Jersey, for one of her twice-weekly ballet lessons.  When she left at 5:30 p.m. on October 26, 1982, she was never seen again alive.

Prior to leaving home that evening, Sharon received a telephone call and appeared to be pleased to hear from the caller. The conversation was brief, but it was obvious that she had wanted her privacy with the caller -- she took the corded phone as far as it would reach, to the stairway that led to the cellar, so that her parents could not hear...

Tags: New Jersey
Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 9:00AM
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What's Dr. David Goroway, a millionaire chiropractor, doing involved with all of this?
Tasty Breakfast Reading for your Thursday morning, served piping hot from our reporters around the Village Voice Empire.

Backbreaker
Machine-gun blasts, a half-kilo of blow, and a millionaire chiropractor. WTF?

The Creepy Teacher
Kansas coach poses as 19-year-old girl on Facebook to swap naked pics with young boys.

Raising Money for a Doctor Killer
eBay yanks auctions to raise money for Scott Roeder, accused of killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller in his church.



Wednesday, Nov. 4 2009 @ 1:52PM

This moron told police he'd been stabbed by three Hispanic men dressed in black. But he'd really just fallen off his skateboard, then stabbed himself to make it look like he'd been attacked. Why? Because he wanted to get off work, and he'd apparently never heard of that whole calling in sick thing.