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By Pete Kotz in bizarre, serial killers
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 12:12PM
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​He was an heir to a New York real estate empire. He was also a rich and arrogant cross-dresser who killed his best friend and others. So when he bailed out of jail, he simply went on the run, criss-crossing until being nailed for shoplifting. TruTV has the story.

Tags: New York, TruTV
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...

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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 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 Stalking, bizarre
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 3:57PM
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​Ladies and gentlemen, this might be the weirdest story in the history of ever. Jacquelyn Kotarac, a 49-year-old physician from Bakersfield, California, seemed to badly want to see her unnamed boyfriend. But her beau, as it turns out, thought Kotarac was a weirdo...

Tags: California
By Pete Kotz in bizarre, fraud
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 2:35PM
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​Reliving gridiron glory is a common theme in Bruce Springsteen songs and anywhere men gather in Texas. But Julious Threatts, 21, took it to the extreme. Pretending to be a 14-year-old, he signed up to play for the Town N' Country Packers in Tampa...

Tags: Florida, Sports
By Pete Kotz in Stupid Criminals, bizarre
Monday, Aug. 30 2010 @ 10:00AM
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​Reader Trajan responds to Dan Duffy, Iowa Chiropractor, Accused of Masturbating on Female Patient. As an attorney, he believes in presumed innocent. But you don't look so innocent when you splash your sperm over the back of a patient...

By Pete Kotz in bizarre
Monday, Aug. 30 2010 @ 6:01AM
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​Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: He didn't want his ex-wife to discover that he had 400 Large he was keeping secret from her. So he tried to send it to his father in Florida via FedEx. He forgot about a little invention called packing tape. New Times Broward has the story.

By Pete Kotz in bizarre
Friday, Aug. 27 2010 @ 3:36PM
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​You know them as those lovable, unassuming guys who are strangely into comic books and action figures while simultaneously being way smarter than the rest of us. But when geeks turn to crime, it all becomes very, very weird. TruTV has the story.

Tags: TruTV
By Pete Kotz in Stalking, bizarre
Friday, Aug. 27 2010 @ 3:16PM
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​Dennis Hobbs is what you might call a controlling father. When his daughter was 18, he put deadbolts on their St. Petersburg home so she couldn't leave, and he wouldn't provide her with a key. The girl says her father is extremely religious, and thought her behavior violated his beliefs..