Police refused to take missing person reports in serial killer case 1
Orlando shooter blames firm for his bankruptcy 2
Woman killed for selling rock salt as dope 3
By Pete Kotz in Creeps, homicide, unsolved
Saturday, Nov. 7 2009 @ 10:43AM
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Jason Rodriguez was fired two years ago for poor performance
UPDATE: Jason Rodriguez blamed an architecture firm for his money troubles. See update after the jump...

Police say Jason Rodriguez, 40, a former employee at a business in a downtown Orlando office building, went on a shooting rampage there this morning. The details are still breaking, but at least eight people have been injured.

Some workers barricaded themselves in offices while others tried to flee after hearing shots. An unknown number of people are still in the Gateway Center office building, and rescue workers don't know how many could be injured. A SWAT team is currently trying to get them out...

Tags: Florida
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, Child Abuse, Creeps, bizarre
Saturday, Nov. 7 2009 @ 6:43AM
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She seems to have thought that life would be easier without her baby.
Reader "A Friend" responds to Christina McIntyre Watched and Did Nothing as Her Son Smothered Her Baby. She says Christina's friends did reach out, but the mom kept feeding her lies, according to her friend:

"I am a friend of Christina's. Yes her husband cheated on her and there were other circumstances in which they seperated. She was living in Texas at the time and moved to Florida to be with family. She lived with her aunt and did not have to pay bills. The father lives in Texas still. He did send money to her as she told me this herself but it was not enough...

Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 12:07PM
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Robert Bellamy Jr., an elite moron, punched, kicked and robbed a guy he thought was gay
You could say Robert Bellamy Jr. is a huge friggin' moron, but that would be an insult to morons the world over. In the small hours of Sunday morning, Bellamy and three other people spotted two men at a Long Island gas station. One was dressed as a woman for Halloween.

Being knuckle-draggers, Bellamy and his entourage  decided to hurl their best anti-gay insults, which we can assure did not contain any polysyllabic words. The men left the gas station and were followed by Bellamy and his friends, which included a woman and two other men...

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Creeps, assault
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 11:18AM
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Michael can't speak and opened his eyes for the first time last week
UPDATE: Someone placed burned dolls in Michael's backyard. See update after the jump...

Prosecutors in Fort Lauderdale are faced with a difficult predicament. Yesterday, they received a nine day extension in their case against five juveniles charged with setting 15-year-old Michael Brewer on fire after he failed to repay a kid for a $40 video game. But if they don't charge them as adults by November 12, the boys will have to be released...

By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Mass Murder, homicide, unsolved
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 12:03AM
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Early reports say Major Malik Nadal Hasan was among the shooters
UPDATE: Shooter Nidal Malik Hasan was reportedly against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. See update after the jump...

Three soldiers went on a shooting rampage this afternoon at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. Initial reports say that at least a dozen are dead, with more than 30 others wounded.

So far, there's been no motive released in the case, but at least two soldiers have been arrested. The principal shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, is believed to have been killed. He's said to be a psychiatrist who was promoted to major only a few months ago, but was pissed about an upcoming deployment to Iraq.

Witnesses say they saw more than one shooter in the attack that took place about 1:30 p.m. at the Soldier Readiness Center, where servicemen get medical screening before being sent overseas...

Tags: Army, Texas
Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 12:39PM
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Police believe her mom took part in the abduction
Shannon Lea Dedrick, the 7-month-old infant who went missing five days ago, has been found alive under the bed of her babysitter, Susan Elizabeth Baker. And it appears Shannon's own mom, Chrystina Lynn Mercer, will be charged with taking part in the abduction. According to Sheriff Bobby Haddock in Copley, Florida, here's how it all went down:

Shannon's parents reported her missing Saturday morning, saying she had vanished from their rural trailer home sometime between 3 a.m. and 11 a.m. that morning. Washington County sheriff's deputies conducted a massive search, with police and volunteers going arm-and-arm through the brush to find the girl...

Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 9:00AM
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What's Dr. David Goroway, a millionaire chiropractor, doing involved with all of this?
Tasty Breakfast Reading for your Thursday morning, served piping hot from our reporters around the Village Voice Empire.

Backbreaker
Machine-gun blasts, a half-kilo of blow, and a millionaire chiropractor. WTF?

The Creepy Teacher
Kansas coach poses as 19-year-old girl on Facebook to swap naked pics with young boys.

Raising Money for a Doctor Killer
eBay yanks auctions to raise money for Scott Roeder, accused of killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller in his church.



By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Mass Murder, homicide
Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 7:56AM
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Instead of just killing himself, Billy Maxwell Jr. slaughtered his entire family
Reader "Jadensmokes" responds to William Maxwell Jr. Home: Four People Found Shot to Death in Upscale Fayetteville.

"I think these men that kill their family and then themself are all mentally ill. how can anyone justify taking the lives of the people closest to them because they can't deal with life? cowards commit suicide, and ass hole cowards take their family with them when they do."




Wednesday, Nov. 4 2009 @ 2:19PM
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It was the second time Rodell Vereen was caught having sex with the same elderly horse
Barbara Kenley, owner of the Lazy B stables in Conway, South Carolina, noticed that her elderly horse Sugar was acting weird, and that things had been moved in her stall. So she set up a surveillance camera to uncloak this mystery.

When she reviewed the tape, she witnessed a man sneaking in to have sex with the horse. So she staked out the barn with a shotgun. That's when she nabbed 50-year-old Rodell Vereen, arriving for another bestial rendezvous.

This isn't the first time Kenley's caught the man. Two years ago, she checked up on her stable on Thanksgiving Day and found Vereen taking a post-coital nap in the hay beside his four-legged lover. At that time, he was charged with "buggery" -- yes, that's what it's called in South Carolina. He was sentenced to probation and forced to register as a sex offender...


Wednesday, Nov. 4 2009 @ 12:36PM

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Tony Green spent months planning his sex slave caper, which he unveiled as police listened in
The 38-year-old woman thought nothing of it when her friend Tony Green called to ask for a ride to a repair shop to pick up his car. But when she arrived at his home in Palm Bay, Florida, things got very weird.

Green grabbed her from behind and handcuffed her wrist. They struggled, and Green knocked her to the floor several times, but he couldn't get the handcuff on her other wrist. "I got to have it," he kept saying. He wanted sex.

But the woman outsmarted him and agreed to talk about sex in a conversation that lasted two hours as she tried to calm him down. Finally, she gave Green a hug and told him she loved him like a brother. That seemed to melt him sufficiently. He uncuffed her and let her go...

Tags: Florida