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 bizarre, robbery, unsolved
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 3:13PM
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The Geezer Bandit has taken down five banks since August, no doubt to fund his bingo habit
There seems to be a new trend afoot among robbers these days. Maybe it's the economy, but the most unlikely people are showing up in stores and banks with guns, moving in on what used to be the province of losers and dope addicts. Take the guy above, who looks so old he's practically skeletal...

Tags: California
By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Sex crimes, bizarre, homicide
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 2:17PM
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Jamar Jr. was forced to strip naked at gunpoint, then marched to a vacant lot and executed
When Lazette Cherry learned that her 15-year-old son may have improperly touched his 3-year-old sister, she called ex-husband Jamar Pinkney Sr. to let him know. But dad went ballistic.

He arrived at Lazette's Highland Park, Michigan home and forced 15-year-old Jamar Jr. to strip naked. Then he marched the boy to a vacant lot and forced him to kneel. Mom and Jr. pleaded for him not to shoot. "He got on his knees and begged, `No, Daddy, No,' and he pulled the trigger," Lazette says. Jamar Jr. was dead, shot in the head.

Lazette apparently didn't know her ex would react so violently when she called to let him know about the apparent molestation. Though there's no details on what Jamar Jr. was accused of doing, Lazette seems to imply that it was improper touching, not rape. But she felt a duty to let dad know.
"This isn't something you sweep under the rug," she says...

Tags: Michigan
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 1:32PM

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"Drop the bunny ears, girlie, or you'll be flopping on the ground like a mackerel."
UPDATE: Officer Dustin Bradshaw has been suspended for seven days, but not for the reason you'd think. See update after the jump...

Earlier this week, we told you about the 73-year-old grandma who was caught on tape being tasered twice during a traffic stop. Now it seems an Arkansas officer has tasered a 10-year-old girl. Our question: Where the hell are they getting these cops?

Police in Ozark, Arkansas say officer Dustin Bradshaw was called to a home by a mother who couldn't get her 10-year-old daughter to shower before going to bed. He found the girl on the floor screaming and crying. Why police were called to diffuse a little girl's fit, we don't know. But something tells us we're not dealing with All-American Mom here.

What we do know is that the girl refused to follow her mom's orders, which little girls tend to do when throwing fits. So mom told Bradshaw to taser her ass...

Tags: Arkansas
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 9:00AM
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Burrell Mohler Jr. is now accused of forcing his three daughters to help kill a man
Reader CMM responds to Burrell Mohler Sr. and His 4 Sons Accused of Serial Child Rape, Forcing Sex With Dog.

"The way the stories are building and becoming more outrageous (and beginning from 'recovered memories') reminds me of the McMartin Daycare cases from the late 1980s where kids started with accusations of molestation and ended up with stories of satanic cults, animal and dog sacrifice and other craziness...

Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 4:26PM
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Jessica Goode was shot in the chest after somehow being mistaken for a deer
Three students from Ferrum College in Virginia were in the woods collecting frogs for a biology class. The sheriff says they were standing on a road in an open field, unobstructed by trees or brush.

Unfortunately, 31-year-old Jason David Cloutier, The World's Dumbest Hunter, was pursuing deer nearby. How one mistakes three college students for deer is beyond imagination. But Cloutier proved capable. He opened fire with a high powered rifle, hitting 20-year-old Regis Boudinot in the arm and hand and before shooting 23-year-old Jessica Goode in the chest. She did not survive.

A third student with them apparently looked enough like a human to avoid being shot. Cloutier is charged with manslaughter, reckless handling of a firearm, trespassing, and being living proof that man evolved from ape.

Tags: Virginia
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...

Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 8:00AM
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Ryan Sheckler's CFO allegedly helped himself to $365,000
Wednesday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire:

Accountants Don't Do Well in Prison
CFO Matthew Mercuro accused of helping himself to skateboarding star Ryan Sheckler's money.

The Problems with Being a Ninja
When you try to leap a fence, sometimes you get impaled.

A Serial Killer's Refuse
One of the last of Dean Corll's 27 victims is buried anonymously 36 years after his murder.

By Pete Kotz in Video archives, bizarre
Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 5:25AM

Okay, so it's not really crime, but we just couldn't pass this one up.

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...

Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009 @ 4:34PM

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Georgia teacher Randolph Forde is accused of trying to pay another student to kill a boy
The beef reportedly began when substitute math teacher Randolph Forde pulled a 16-year-old boy out of his classroom one day to ask if he was gay. Why he needed that info is unknown, but Forde and the boy supposedly traded words about the question the next day.

The student reported both incidents with Forde, but nothing came of it. Forde, however, apparently still had a beef with the boy...