Meet America's cheapest discount hooker 1
Pastor killed one girl, maybe more 2
Wealthy wife hires cop to whack hubby 3
By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Mass Murder, homicide
Friday, Mar. 5 2010 @ 6:05AM
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Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: He told mistress Tara Lintz that he would reverse his vasectomy so they could have kids. But instead of getting a divorce, Christopher Coleman strangled his wife and two children while they slept. Riverfront Times has the story.

Thursday, Mar. 4 2010 @ 9:00AM

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​Today's edition of Top 5 Police Blunders Of The Week is surely not for the faint of heart. Aside from Aldo Lozano, the Mexican cop/hit man arrested for killing more than 40 people, our list also includes the sexual assault of a transgender woman as well as the rape of none other than a rape victim...

Wednesday, Feb. 24 2010 @ 8:30PM
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Bedtime Reading from the Village Voice Empire: Luis Posada Carriles was a CIA-sponsored terrorist who killed 73 innocents in our covert war against Cuba. But despite our crackdown on terrorism, one of our own terrorists is getting a soft ride. Miami New Times as the story.

Saturday, Jan. 23 2010 @ 3:07PM
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He's been likened to Elmore Leonard, but that might be undercutting Stella a tad. For pure crime fiction escapism, Stella likely has the upper hand in this story of a hooker with a past, a Russian mafioso with a moronic brother, and a snuff film no one wants seeing the light of day...

By Pete Kotz in Mass Murder, homicide, robbery
Friday, Jan. 22 2010 @ 1:22PM
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In today's episode of This Guy's Gotta Die, we bring you depraved 20-year-old Maron Thomas. Not only did he slaughter 5 family members in Bellville, Texas, but he chopped off his niece's head and tried to burglarize a home while naked...

By Pete Kotz in Mass Murder, homicide, unsolved
Friday, Jan. 22 2010 @ 12:18PM
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UPDATE: Christopher Speight apparently began having mental problems not long after his mother died of brain cancer two years ago. Relatives say there was no hint he'd turn violent before he killed eight people. See update after the jump...

Wednesday, Dec. 2 2009 @ 7:05AM
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At the same time she was hiring undercover cops to hit her husband, Dalia Dippolito was sending love texts to another man
Wednesday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire:

Former City Official Slaughters His Family
James Kraig Kahler, the former water department director in Columbia, Missouri, was supposed to go to trial this week for domestic assault. He decided to massacre his family instead.

The Bumbling Black Widow
Days before her arrest for trying to put a hit on her hubby, Dalia Dippolito was exchanging romantic text messages with another man. New Times has the transcripts.

Who Says Kids Lack Ambition?
Four Colorado juveniles busted for stealing five cars in one day.

Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 12:24PM
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Maurice Clemmons was shot and killed during a traffic stop, perhaps the best possible ending to this story
From our sister paper, Seattle Weekly:

A Seattle Police officer, checking on a stolen car in south Seattle, shot and killed suspected Lakewood cop killer Maurice Clemmons, police announced this morning. The shooting ended a two-day manhunt here and in the Tacoma area after ex-con Clemmons fled the Sunday morning Pierce County crime scene where four Lakewood police officers were ambushed in a coffee shop.

The unidentified lone arresting officer, a seven-year veteran, was not hurt in the Rainier Valley incident, although Clemmons was armed with a gun he took from one of the dead officers Sunday, police said, but was unable to get it out in time.

Click here to read the complete story.

Tags: Washington
By Pete Kotz in Mass Murder, homicide, unsolved
Monday, Nov. 30 2009 @ 11:18AM
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Police are looking for Maurice Clemmons in the execution slayings
Four Lakewood police officers have been executed in a Parkland, Washington coffee shop where they sat chatting and doing paperwork. The mass slaying came less than a month after one Seattle officer was murdered and another injured in a Halloween drive-by shooting.

Police are now looking for Maurice Clemmons, a person of interest in the case. He's a long-time felon who once had his sentence commuted by then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. He was arrested a week earlier for second degree child rape.

Our sister paper Seattle Weekly is following this story as it happens. You can go here to get the up-to-the-minute details.

Tags: Washington
Wednesday, Nov. 25 2009 @ 9:07AM
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An autopsy shows Cathouse star Brooke Phillips and three others were murdered execution style
Reader Nate responds to Brooke Phillips' Murder Suspect David Allen Tyner Arrested in Arson Slaying of Four:

"I dont understand why everyone has to jump to conclusions when the man hasnt even been tried. I remember David aka byrd from wrestling we didnt go to the same school but we hung out at wrestling tournaments all over the state. He was a good guy then and I still believe he is a good guy.

"A lot of people lose their paths but Byrd is not the type of person that would do this its sad to see a person that you know be charged with this type of crime. I pray for him and his family and that the truth does come out for those that died as well."