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 Child Abuse, Creeps, homicide
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 1:04PM

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Alyssa Bustamante reportedly killed the little girl just to see what it felt like
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...

Tags: Missouri
By Pete Kotz in Animal Cruelty, Creeps
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 7:00AM
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Worried that the puppy would jump on his newborn, Lashawn Whitehead severely beat the dog, then set it on fire
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...

By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Stupid Criminals, homicide
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 4:54PM
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The band Furious Styles thinks it's a good day whenever a cop is killed, hence the T-shirts
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...

Tags: Washington
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 11:01AM
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Tammy Sue Rothganger was last seen at her high school.

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 was across the street from her home.  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...


Tags: Kansas, Missouri
By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Sex crimes, assault
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 8:01AM
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April "Diamond" Guadalupe served as Gonzalez' cathouse enforcer
Thursday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire:

The Luxury Brothel
Cult-like leader Hugo Gonzalez ran Florida whore house complete with tennis courts and disco balls.

Just Bustin' Your Balls
78-year-old man arrested during traffic stop for kicking cop in the balls -- twice.

The Boeing Terrorist
Former machinist Gino Augustus Turrella convicted of sending emails, a bullet to former employer.

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...

By Pete Kotz in Animal Cruelty, Creeps, unsolved
Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 9:03AM
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The brutal video shows pigs being spiked, slammed and left to die
Reader "Meat Eater" responds to Undercover Video Makes Country View Family Farms Look Like Auschwitz. She says Mercy for Animals should have done something to stop this:

"Omg why does everything need to get taken out of praportion!? We are a society that generally treats all animals the best they can yes I see that there are some people that did wrong; but just because there are some bad people out there that seems to always outway the good ones...

Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009 @ 10:32AM
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12-year-old paperboy Johnny Gosch vanished in 1982 while delivering newspapers on his route.

Johnny Gosch, 12, had been working as a paperboy for a little more than a year when he vanished from his West Des Moines route in 1982 while delivering the Des Moines Register.  He left his parents' home at 5:45 a.m. on September 5, 1982, with his pet dachshund in tow. 

Suspicions of foul play, however, did not arise until about two hours later, when one of Johnny's customers called to say that his newspaper had not been delivered. Johnny's dad, Leonard, instructed his wife to call the police and went out looking for his son. He had gone barely two blocks from his house when he found Johnny's red wagon  full of newspapers, so Leonard delivered them to Johnny's customers...

Tags: Iowa
Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009 @ 8:00AM
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Rapist Michael Clemmons personifies the dumb jock
Tuesday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire:

Ever Heard of This Thing Called Evidence?
Three Santa Ana City College football players plead guilty to raping drunk woman... and taping the crime.

The Edinburg, Texas Pot for Inmates Program
Police send truckload of bananas to prison -- with 25 pounds of marijuana included.

Murder by Clock
Kira Roueche is accused of beating a man to death with a clock.

Monday, Nov. 16 2009 @ 4:17PM

This undercover video was shot by Mercy for Animals at Country View Family Farms in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. It's not for the squeamish. It shows pigs being chucked like footballs, smashed against walls, hit with sharp metal spikes, and killed in portable gassing carts. It's as if the owners, who supply Hatfield Quality Meats, decided to recreate Auschwitz at a pig farm in Pennsylvania. But it's entirely legal.