Teen strangled, slit 9-year-old's throat
Friday, Nov. 13 2009 @ 3:17PM
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...
Police found 11 decaying bodies in Anthony Sowell's indoor graveyard
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...
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Tuesday, Nov. 10 2009 @ 8:30AM
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| The stakes may have been incredibly low, but the good Republicans of Vernon, New Jersey tried to summon some major league intimidation against one of their own. |
Republican Richard Carson was elected to the Vernon Township council in 2007. But it seems his GOP colleagues felt he was a little too independent. So according to a racketeering suit he filed against the mayor, the local Republican chairwoman, and a cop, they decided to intimidate him into resigning.
This is a case as weird as it is bungling. According to the lawsuit, GOP chairwoman Andrea "Bunny" Cocula, Mayor Austin Carew, and officer David Hering repeatedly threatened Carson, telling him to "watch his back" and that his enemies were out to get him. They even warned him against going to the grocery store, telling him these mysterious "enemies" knew where he lived and worked...
Sunday, Nov. 8 2009 @ 8:48AM
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| Giuseppe "Clutch Hand" Morello, the ruthless boss of America's first Mafia family |
Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia
By Mike Dash
Random House
Subject: Giuseppe "Clutch Hand" Morello and what's believed to be America's first truly organized Mafia family.
The Upside: Most Mafia books tend to be first-person tell-alls by the Mafiosi themselves, usually ghost-written by writers whose pact with the subject forces them to not challenge the narrator or dig too deep. And since these tales are being cast by congenital liars, it's hard to know what's fact, what's fiction, and why the career criminal sewing the story tends to be painted in such an honorable light, especially when you know he's really a scumbag...
Wednesday, Nov. 4 2009 @ 9:02AM
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| Esdras Cardona was accused of raping a young chef |
The Chef & the Amigo
A brutal rape at an exclusive Palm Beach country club blows the lid off decades of racial tension.
MacGyver is Alive and Well in San Francisco
A breath of genius from a Bay City thief.
The Reluctant Informant
A Muslim leader refused to be a snitch, so the feds tried to destroy him.
Monday, Nov. 2 2009 @ 7:05AM
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| From beaten prisoners to harassed enemies, the Joe Arpaio way |
"Joe Arpaio is the most corrupt sheriff in the country -- and maybe in the history of the country. Just type his name into Google and read about the prisoners who have been beaten to death -- while they were locked down in restraints -- multiple times in his jails.
"Read about the racial profiling and downright harassment and cruelty. Read about his swat operation where they ended up burning down a guy's house and KILLING HIS DOG -- and ended up arresting the guy...for a misdemeanor!
Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 9:04AM
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| Ambrose provided information on Nicholas Calabrese (above), a confessed hit man in the witness protection program |
Calabrese was being held at a Chicago safe house where he waited to testify against fellow Mafiosi. And someone within the feds, the FBI learned, was helping the Mafia find the informer.
The trail led to former Chicago police officer William Guide, imprisoned on a corruption charge. And the trail from there led back to U.S.Marshal John T. Ambrose...
Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 8:07AM
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| Alma Chacón gave birth in restraints so Sheriff Joe Arpaio could show he's tough on immigration |
More Self-Promoting Cruelty from America's Most Corrupt Sheriff
Alma Chacon was forced to give birth in jail -- and have her baby taken away -- for merely getting pinched in a traffic stop.
Lethally Blonde
A former teen hooker becomes and influential anti-immigration crusader -- and accused murderer.
Better This Than His Balls
Catholic-school teacher/sex offender Balazs Toth has his car crushed as a public nuisance.
Tuesday, Oct. 27 2009 @ 7:54AM
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| 93-year-old Viva LeRoy Nash killed two people -- and tried to kill another |
Meet America's Oldest Death Row Inmate
Arizona's Viva Leroy Nash killed someone in Utah in 1977, killed again at a stamp coin and stamp store in 1982, and once tried to murder a Connecticut cop in 1947.
The Ballad of Bar Owner Dennis Hess
It started as a love song and ended in suicide.
The Yankee Stadium Fiasco
Rudy Giuliani, a corrupt former police chief, and how Mafia-related companies got work on the sequel to the House that Ruth Built.
Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 7:03AM
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| Edwards spiked the ice cream of little girls so he could shoot pictures of them nude. |
How the Feds Convicted Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill
Sam Merten of the Dallas Observer tells of the story of the biggest corruption trial in the city's history.
Phil Edwards Drugged, Then Photographed Young Girls
He doped up their ice cream to create his own child porn collection.
Fisherman Erin Rieman Accused of Killing Partner on Boat
Witness says he strangled John Adkins in a fight.
Thursday, Oct. 22 2009 @ 9:00AM
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| "Little Japanese" did time in an American prison for extortion |
It was a fitting end for the Mafioso whose career spanned four decades, two continents, and even endured communist rule. Police believe he was murdered for trying to settle a beef between two warring Moscow crime factions.
During his career, Ivankov specialized in gun-running, racketeering, drug trafficking and extortion, both in Russia and the U.S. He spent 11 years in a Russian prison on a robbery conviction in 1980. A year after he was released in 1991, he moved to America -- but didn't end his criminal ways...
