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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 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 in Bad Moms, Child Abuse
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 1:08PM
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​Dale R. Hickman and his wife Shannon are members of the Followers of Christ, an Oregon City, Oregon church that believes all illness and injury can be cured by simply having faith in God. Which means their children tend to die a lot...

By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, homicide
Monday, Aug. 30 2010 @ 2:35PM
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​Successful business woman Larissa Schuster was tired of her dependent, Mr. Mom husband, Tim, and resented his partial ownership of her company. Though she ranted about him openly, no one suspected just how far she would go to take back what was hers. TruTV has the story.

Tags: California, TruTV
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse
Monday, Aug. 30 2010 @ 1:17PM
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​To the outside world, Edelwina and Steven Leschinsky were a nice, church-going couple who opened their home by adopting three sisters from Russia. But if you asked the girls, they might prefer to be living in an orphanage during Stalinist times...

By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse
Friday, Aug. 20 2010 @ 12:02PM
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​Four-year-old Payton Wesley Ettinger's life was as tragic as it gets. At just two months old, he was severely beaten by his father, Martin Ettinger. Payton ended up with brain damage. His shitbag dad would plead guilty and end up getting a 5-year sentence in Michigan...

By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, bizarre
Friday, Aug. 20 2010 @ 8:01AM
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​Macarena Clyburn's mother was on the phone. She called Macarena at work to say that her 4-year-old daughter had been bitten by the neighbor's dog. So Macarena called the cops. But the cops, it seems, had a few more pressing matters that day...

Tags: California
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Sex crimes
Monday, Aug. 16 2010 @ 2:32PM
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​Grandma Elizabeth Buford, 55, and her daughter, Alicia Melchor, 33, have both worked as hookers, according to arrest records in Houston. But it seems neither had the energy to be anymore by greasy guys and businessmen cheating on their wives...

By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse
Thursday, Aug. 12 2010 @ 6:40AM
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​A social worker in Uintah County, Utah called police on New Year's Eve to report that Francis and Michelle Napolitano were denying medical care to their 5-year-old boy. The couple claimed they'd taken the boy to a doctor for his badly injured feet...

Tags: Utah
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, assault
Wednesday, Aug. 11 2010 @ 1:52PM
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​For those of you involved in our debate over rotten parents and wild kids, this story's gonna blow a gasket: Alice Hatcher, a 58-year-old grandma from Sherman, West Virginia, had been released from the hospital a week before after struggling with undisclosed health problems...