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         <title>Alyssa Bustamante, 15, Charged With Slaying of 9-Year-Old Elizabeth Olten</title>
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          ​UPDATE: Alyssa Bustamante stabbed the little girl and then slit her throat. See update after the jump...

A Missouri judge ruled that 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante can be tried as an adult in the murder of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. According to police, she killed the little girl just because she "wanted to know what it felt like."Elizabeth was last seen October 21 as she was leaving a friend's home in St. Martins, Missouri around supper time, just down the street from her own home. She promptly vanished. A massive search was launched to look for her body in the rural, wooded area...

      
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         <title>Pastor Jose Figueroa Admits To 1998 Bathtub Execution of Alex Martinez</title>
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          ​It was 1998 when 17-year-old Alex Martinez got into the bathtub of his Buffalo, New York apartment. As he relaxed in the suds, his girlfriend and their 4-month old boy sat playing in the living room. Just another quiet Thursday evening, or so they thought.That's when two masked men broke down the front door. They didn't say a word as they marched into the bathroom. One of the men pulled out his gun and shot Martinez through the head, execution-style. Then they simply walked out the front door, leaving behind a new widow, a dead teenager, and yet another fatherless infant...&nbsp;
      
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reader: Don&apos;t Blame Mom for Son Strangled in Wal-Mart Parking Lot</title>
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          ​Reader Darwin responds to Charles Avey Strangles Stepson in Wal-Mart Parking Lot to Get Back at His Wife. "Until you are the abused woman don't judge her. You have no frame of
reference. I suspect several of the commentors are right, he probably
NEVER hit the child. That is one way abusers can control the victim and
make her think her beatings are "her fault" - no one else every gets
hurt. "I suspect the boy was at school when the mother went to the
police station and got home without knowing what was going on and this
A****** CAME HOME AND PICKED HIM UP (AS IT SAYS IN THE ARTICLE). The
son and the mother probably never imagined such a thing could happen." 
      
         
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:09:49 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Lashawn Demaro Whitehead Set His Dog on Fire for Jumping on Couch</title>
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          ​Twenty-year-old Lashawn Demaro Whitehead had a baby boy in July. This is not a good thing, since Whitehead should not be a father. That much is clear by what happened in August. Whitehead was at home when his 3-month-old puppy jumped on the couch where the baby was resting. As his mom Sally Laws tells it, her son promptly lost it. He severely the beat the dog, then set it on fire before leaving it to die in a Greensboro, North Carolina park.The dog was found by a passerby about two weeks later. It had burns over 60 percent of its body, and its ears were nearly burned off. It also had a broken jaw and teeth... 
      
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:54 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Caught on Tape: Clerk Wrestles Gun Away From Robber at Gold Shop</title>
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He's not a very good robber, and he's just run into a very brave -- or very stupid -- clerk. But when all's said and done, the robber is forced to flee the store with nothing. Not even his gun.

      
         
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:39:22 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Seattle Band Sells T-Shirt Celebrating Officer Timothy Brenton&apos;s Assassination</title>
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          ​Earlier this month, we told you about the assassination of Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton, who was shot in a drive-by Halloween night as he sat in his squad. Another officer was wounded.Police believe the senseless murder was the work of criminal justice student Christopher Monfort, who was shot when he pointed a gun at detectives who were trying to interview him at his apartment building. Obviously, it was a stupid and senseless murder. As Seattle Weekly notes, "The city saw the murder of a cop as a good time to remember that peace
officers have a very dangerous job and we should be thankful for the
work they do." But hardcore metal band Furious Styles saw it as a way to get publicity selling T-shirts that celebrate the officer's slaying... 
      
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:54:33 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>The Geezer Bandit Has Now Hit 5 San Diego County Banks</title>
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          ​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... 
      
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:13:25 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Jamar Pinkney Sr. Executes 15-Year-Old Son Accused of Molestation</title>
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          ​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...
      
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:17:14 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Cop Dustin Bradshaw Tasers 10-Year-Old Girl After She Kicks Him in the Balls</title>
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          ​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...

      
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         <title>Tammy Sue Rothganger, 15, Disappeared Without a Trace in 1984</title>
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​Tammy Sue Rothganger, 15, got up and dressed for school as usual on May 16, 1984. The Eldon, Missouri teenager did not have far to go -- Eldon High School&nbsp;was across the street from her home.&nbsp; Nonetheless, she was last seen at 7:45 that morning getting inside a blue Plymouth in front of the school building.
Frantic with worry when she didn't come home, Tammy's family notified police that afternoon. An inquiry determined that she never attended classes that day, and she has never been seen or heard from again...
      
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         <title>Reader: Mohler Charges Beginning to Sound Like Fictitious McMartin Daycare Case</title>
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          ​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... 
      
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:52 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Cult-like Leader Hugo Gonzalez Ran a Luxury Whore House</title>
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          ​Thursday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire:The Luxury BrothelCult-like leader Hugo Gonzalez ran Florida whore house complete with tennis courts and disco balls.Just Bustin' Your Balls78-year-old man arrested during traffic stop for kicking cop in the balls -- twice.The Boeing TerroristFormer machinist Gino Augustus Turrella convicted of sending emails, a bullet to former employer.
      
         
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:16 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Undercover Video Shows Animal Cruelty at University of Utah</title>
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         Undercover Investigation Reveals Kitten Deaths and Other Animal Suffering. Learn More.

Regardless of what you think about using animals for scientific animals for scientific research, this undercover PETA video shot at a University of Utah lab shows the kind of stuff Josef Mengele enjoyed. Chemicals and electrodes are injected into animals' heads, holes are drilled in their skulls, and sick ones are left to die.
 
      
         
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:09:23 -0500</pubDate>
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What's with cops turning dainty these days? Can't anyone subdue a prisoner anymore without tasering them? In this case, a Michigan cop was suspended after tasering a man already in handcuffs. 

      
         
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:55:42 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Charles A. Avey Strangles Stepson in Wal-Mart Parking Lot to Get Back at His Wife</title>
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          ​Sr. was pissed. His wife claimed he beat her with a hammer the previous week. Now her mother had picked her up and drove her to the police station to file a report. The Grafton, Wisconsin man kept trying to text her, but she wouldn't respond. So he drove around looking for her, only to find his mother-in-law's car at the police station. Avey went home, picked up his 14-year-old stepson, Cody A. Reetz, and drove to a nearby Wal-Mart.As they sat in the parking lot, Avey grew increasingly pissed that his wife wasn't calling him back. So he decided to take it out on Cody. He used one necktie to tie his arm to a seat in his minivan. Then he used another to strangle Cody to death...
      
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