CRIME SCENE USA: May 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

CASEY ANTHONY'S SOBBING MOM: 'I SMELLED DEATH'

CASEY ANTHONY MURDER TRIAL WEEK 2: Part Mom Casey Anthony's own mother Cindy Anthony sobbed when she told a Florida court how horrified she was when she saw Caylee's favorite doll in the child's car seat. Thus began the dramatic second week of the Casey Anthony murder trial. The 25-year-old is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 2-year-old Caylee in June 2008 and other offences. Her remains were found in December of that year. If Casey is convicted she will likely face the death penalty.
Tuesday Cindy Anthony told the court how her daughter stopped bringing the child around and alluded to a nanny, a rich suitor and a tractor trailer load of other half

GOOD Christ! Stop the madness! A Massachusetts appellate court has ruled that correction staff have acted with "deliberate indifference" by denying female hormone therapy to a twisted child rapist. Huh? Yes, that's what we said. The transgendered monster is now giving hope to a convicted killer now suing for a state-funded sex change. That's us.
Michelle Lynne Kosilek's mouthpiece filed a plea last week in before U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf, charging that a May 20 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston for inmate Sandy Jo Battista supports Kosilek’s similar claims of cruel and unusual punishment by the Department of Correction, The Boston Herald

IT HAS been five months of heartache for the family of Texas cheerleader Hailey Dunn. The 13-year-old was reported missing December 28, 2010 amid mysterious circumstances and while cops say they haven't thrown in the towel, things don't look great for finding Hailey alive.
Her grandmother Connie Jones said: "It seems like 5 years, it's just dragging on."
Police admit that leads are starting to dry up. Sheriff Patrick Toombs said: "A lot of people say it's a cold case and it's no longer investigated. But that's not

IN OTHER Italian-American news... forget the haircuts, fine-tailored suits and top-notch meals. For Bonanno crime boss Vincent "Vinnie Gorgeous" Basciano the options aren't great. The New York mobster was convicted of a litany of murder and racketeering charges. So, because they were federal crimes the metrosexual mafioso faces either the death penalty or a loving death: Super Max. Located in Colorado, it is America's most secure--and brutal--prison
Deep within its concrete walls, there is a place reserved for the most notorious inmates in the federal penal system - Cell Block H.
Former U.S. Bureau of Prisons warden Joe Gunja told the New York Daily News: "It's the most secure, most controlled, most confined unit in the prison.

THAT'S AMORE! Or some such thing. Uber-tanned reality star, boozehound and all round role model Snooki is up to her old antics in the old country. Snooki AKA Nicole Polizzi, who jumped to the head of the class in the fame game thanks to the crass Jersey Shore, reportedly rear-ended a cop car while filming the series in Florence, Italy. Co-star Deena Cortese and another crew member were also in the car and were not iunjured, however, the cops suffered whiplash and minor injuries. A Shore source told our pals at TMZ that --shockingly--no booze was involved. Snooki was not arrested. This is not the first controversy the kids from Jersey Shore have suffered

EVIL

A TWISTED teen filmed himself hanging his dog and posted pictures of it on Facebook saying: "I've killed my dog - ha ha."
Sick Kamil Hric, 17, looks on laughing in the picture which appears to show the helpless pooch still struggling as it swings from the clothesline.
Hric, from Poprad, Slovakia - who was arrested after other horrified Facebook users alerted police - told prosecutors: 'So what? It's only a dog. I did it for fun.'

A police spokesman said: "We don’t know what made him do this but we will be carrying out psychiatric reports."

NUN'S ON THE RUN: HEIST MIMICS BEN AFFLECK FILM

REAL LIFE

THE MOVIE

DRESSED as nuns, the masked raiders walked into the Chicago bank in a heist that looked like a carbon copy of Ben Affleck film "The Town."
FBI officers were stunned by the CCTV footage from the Palos Heights, CA banks which showed a man and a woman wearing eerie plastic faced disguises with slits for eyes, similar to those worn by robbers in the 2010 film.
Cops said the suspects pulled out handguns and forced bank workers to hand over cash before they drove off just before closing time at 1:58pm on Sunday afternoon.

A "LOVELY" old man kept his wife's body in a freezer for a decade so he could continue to collect her social security checks, cops say.
Neighbors were stunned to learn that Allan Dunn, who committed last August at the age of 86, had been keeping his grisly secret for over a decade.
He had told puzzled neighbors in Sun City Centre, FLA that Margaret had moved to a nursing home miles away from their home.
But authorities believe his stuffed her into the freezer so he could pocket the cash from her social security checks.
He body was in an advanced state of decomposition, because the electricity had been cut off for some time before it was discovered.

Longtime friend Carol Kingsbury, who discovered the remains said: "He never gave any indication that something like that was going on. We had no hint or anything that he was capable of doing that."

WHAT A BANKER

ANOTHER day, another banker and another attack on a maid at an exclusive New York Hotel. What is it with these guys?
Just weeks after former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was busted on similar charges, a former chairman of one of Egypt's major banks stands accuses of sexually abusing a maid at The Pierre, a luxury hotel on The Big Apple's, Upper East Side.
Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar allegedly called the maid to his room on Sunday night to "drop off tissues" cops said.
But once inside the 74-year-old's room Omar would not let her leave and touched her inappropriately. The encounter was not reported until Monday, police said.

TRAGIC

PRIME SUSPECT

DOUBLE murder suspect Joran Van der Sloot was broke and desperate and staying in a hotel room that he couldn't pay for before he murdered Stephany Flores a new tape has revealed.
The prime suspect in the murder of American teen Natalee Holloway called pal Stan Pluijmen to beg for cash, telling him his own mother and brother had turned him down.
They thought he would gamble it away on cards, rather than pay the bill at Lima’s TAC hotel where he had been for five days playing in a poker tournament.
During the forty four minutes the two talked about business plans that apparently involved $25,000 van der Sloot got from the Holloway family in exchange for information about Natalee’s fate reports WITA.

MEMORIAL DAY: HONOR FREEDOM'S ULTIMATE SACRIFICE

“They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

ROBERT PATTINSON, TWILIGHT BLAMED IN 'MURDER'

A WASHINGTON woman is blaming the Twilight series and Robert Pattinson for local cops stonewalling on her daughter's mysterious death. America Gonzalez is claiming that cops in Forks, Washington where the teen vampire series is set, won't look into her daughter's death because it could scare away fans of the series--the Twihards--who arrive in droves to the town and potentially film production. The distraught mom says her daughter, Debra Dawn Grajale, 45, died in February but the death was ruled a suicide. Grajale had earlier threatened to kill herself after splitting with her boyfriend. Her lifeless body

IT REALLY wasn't the send off they were expecting.
They thought they were going to watch a touching video tribute to their elderly deceased friend but instead they were greeted with horrific child pornography images. Josue Rivera, 38, who illustrates for DC Comics and has done covers for comics, including "The Creeper: Welcome to Creepsville," several "Dr. Fate" issues, and more was immediately picked up.
The arrest came almost 10 months after an employee of Luz de Paz Funeral Home reviewed the drive, saw it was no memorial tribute and called Bridgeport police, the Connecticut Post reports.
Police seized Rivera’s home computer and found as many as 153 files

OK, WE admit it. We find rural drug busts irresistible, particularly when they are accompanied by mug shots. It was a dope bust in Grainger County, Tennessee. We don't really know anything about it and couldn't be bothered to look but the mugshots are great.
MUGSHOTS FROM KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL

TEXAS COP KENNETH VANN DIED IN HAIL OF BULLETS

A TEXAS cop was shot and killed in a cold-blooded ambush at a traffic light, according to published reports. Sgt. Kenneth Vann of the Bexar County Sheriff's Dept. was waiting at an intersection early Saturday when a white compact pulled up next to him and started shooting through the front passenger window. He was found dead in the driver's seat. Chief Deputy Sheriff Manuel Longoria told the Express-News that Vann was responding to a call for an accidental shooting.
Deputy Chief Dale Bennett said: "He did not have a chance to do anything, hit the emergency button on his radio, or even to defend himself. That car pulled up and started blasting, just like that. So where we are right now is that it looks like an ambush."

A CRAZY internet entrepreneur threatened complaining customers with rape and murder so his name would appear more often on search engines, he told the court.Vitaly Borker, 34, ran DecorMyEyes.com, selling glasses and sunglasses, from his home in Brooklyn, NY.
But if anyone complained, he sent vicious threats, e-mailing one client a picture of their home and telling another's workplace their staff member was a gay drug dealer.
He also sent warnings such as ‘I know where you live," to others.

Borker, 34, came up with novel excuse that dozens of complaints by frightened customers helped elevate his website’s position on Google searches. It actually prompted the huge search engine to look at the issue

SICKO

INNOCENT

A SICKO housekeeping manager at one of New York's most exclusive hotels has pleaded guilty to strangling a resident to death during a drunken sex attack. Derrick Praileau admitted to cops that he was boozed up when he started skulking around the Big Apple's Essex House hotel and condo building, hunting a woman to attack.
Eventually he settled on a victim Andree "Sara" Bejjani, a VP of a property investment firm who had just moved to the city from Dubai.

VOODOO MOMMA

BLACK magic mom Tenitza Colichon forced her seven-year-old daughter to watch as a goat was decapitated and made her eat chicken heart in a bloody ceremony which she thought would protect her.

The twisted mom admitted in court to making her daughter watch as the animal and a chicken were killed in the voodoo ritual in a Paterson, NJ home.

The 33-year-old said she thought the rituals, which also included scratching a religious symbol on the girl's skin, would protect her daughter while she was away doing basic training after enlisting in the army.

The girl later told a teacher what had happened and said it was giving her nightmares and the school contacted police.

When cops searched the home where the ritual was performed turned up dolls, a shrine, religious statues, bones, machetes and bundles of sticks bearing numbers and names.

HOW'S THIS for piss-poor luck? Meathead John Powell, 25, is at a party. Playing games. Sez to blonde party girl Tiffany K. Startz, "for $5 you can punch in the face." Good clean fun, right? Well, our 22-year-old heroine popped him all right. Poor John collapsed and died. In an Illinois courtroom, a judge ruled Tiff must stand trial after a judge refused to drop charges against her and the party host. His mom Theresa Guy says: " She can't walk away." Her lawyer says (and we agree) that Startz didn't commit a crime.
According to cops, Jimmy E. Mounts, 27, offered guests at the Sept. 25 party $5 to take a punch from Startz, 5-foot-5 and 142 lbs. Powell, 5-foot-8 and 140 lbs., accepted the offer. He took the punch, collected his money and continued talking with friends. He collapsed a few minutes later and the coroner said he died of a

LATISHA LAWSON GUILTY IN SON'S EXORCISM MURDER

TRAGIC

BLAME GOD. Latisha Lawson is still convinced it was the almighty instructed her to kill her son during a bizarre exorcism in November 2009. A Fort Wayne, Indiana jury thought otherwise and convicted the twisted mom of murder in her son Jezaih King's slaying. Prosecutor's said the nutter concocted a sinister concoction of olive oil and vinegar to curtail the toddler's "demons" that triggered tantrums and sleepless nights. Her lawyer said she was delusional. No shit. Now she faces at least 45 years in

* WIFE OF CLEARED NYPD RAPE COP LASHES OUT: The wife of one of the two New York cops accused of raping a California fashion executive says the accuser should be thrown in jail. Cops Kenneth Moreno, 43, and Franklin Mata, 29, were cleared of rape after an explosive two month trial. And, bitter Julia Moreno is charging that the accuser did it for money. She said: "She had two days to make up this story with her lawyer friends before she went to the hospital."
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* STILL HOPEFUL FOR HOLLY BOBO: Citizens, friends and family are still hopeful that Holly Bobo, above, will be found safe and sound. The pretty Tennessee nursing student was snatched by a mystery

THE FAMILY of psycho child killer Juli McCrery insists the troubled mom isn't evil but that "something snapped". More information about McCrery, 42, who allegedly murdered her little boy, Camden Pierce Hughes, 6, and then dumped his body on an abandoned road in rural Maine.
On Saturday, a funeral service was held for the little boy in Texas. More than 100 people gathered to pay tribute to the child who was described as loving reading and playing the guitar.

CASEY ANTHONY'S mother was desperate to connect with her granddaughter Caylee in the horrible weeks after she disappeared. She outlined a staggering list of excuses the now notorious Party Mom gave for keeping the 2-year-old away from home for a staggering month. Anthony, 25, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 homicide. If guilty she could face the death penalty.
Casey Anthony told her mom she was delayed for: work meetings, a car accident, hanging out with a wealthy suitor and a litany of other fibs. Anthony's trial has taken a break for the Memorial Day weekend but will resume on Tuesday.

MEGACHURCH BISHOP EDDIE LONG DEFINITELY NOT GAY

DEFINITELY NOT GAY

EXPENSIVE suits, flashy jewelry, well groomed appearance - nope nothing to suggest a gay man at all.
And despite having vowed to fight the sex allegations between him and four teenage boys, their is apparently no reason to think megachurch preacher, Bishop Eddie Long is gay - especially now he's paid them off instead of fighting their claims.
We have no problem with gay men but it does seem strange to us that he chose not attempt to disprove their allegations that he used to his power to influence them into sexual relationships, but instead settled the lawsuit with money - possibly millions.

EVIL

THE emaciated baby found dead in a suitcase died of starvation cops said before they charged the 14-month-old's mother with murder.
Tania R. Coleman, 20 of Erie, is pregnant and has two other girls aged two and three stands accused of killing her baby by "nutritional neglect" stuffing her body into the case and then dumping her in her neighbor's trash.
The tot's body was found by the neighbor after heavy rains washed the trash down the street and she found the case.
It was not clear how long the baby had been dead But Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook told The Erie Times News the remains were "in very poor shape."

"BORED" AW

FORMER actress Linday Lohan has only been under house arrest for two days but the poor little star is already "bored and restless" friends have revealed. The troubled, one time star began her 120 day sentence for violating her probation yesterday, after miraculously avoiding jail time for stealing a a $2500 necklace from an exclusive LA jewelry store.But it seems she's already moaning about how her situation, sunbathing next to her exclusive Venice Beach pad with a tag on her leg.
A source close to the star revealed: "Lindsay is already upset at having to stay at home all day, unable to go anywhere do anything.

PERVERT

A PERVERT who was banned from using the internet was caught red handed logging onto his Facebook page in an Apple store.
Convicted sex offender Robert Nicholas McGuire, who has a child pornography conviction was spotted by officers in downtown San Luis Obispo, CA.
The quick thinking sheriff's detectives split up and as one followed him, the other checked his probation terms.
According to cops, McGuire went into the store and logged on the internet from a display computer and began checking his Facebook page.
Bold as brass, the detective went to the computer right next to him and logged on to the Megan's Law website.

A FORMER Atlanta Falcons cheerleader has been been busted as part of a "massive" and "well organized" chop shop ring which covered the state of Georgia.
Gorgeous Kori Lanard played an active role in the syndicate which stole bulldozers, bobcats and all sorts of other vehicles and then sold them on for a massive profit.
Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry said: “She was an active participant, helping drive getaway vehicles that were actually chased by law enforcement in

CASEY ANTHONY'S DAD: 'STENCH OF HUMAN FLESH'

OH DEAR. It's not looking very good for Party Mom Casey Anthony on trial for her life in Florida for the heinous first-degree murder of her toddler daughter Caylee Anthony. Seems everyone could smell decomposing flesh in her car. Today's highlights are above. Or... CNN ON CASEY ANTHONY

SHOT WITH CROSSBOW AFTER AR-ROW OVER PHONE

TALK about an overreaction.
A crazy daughter shot her father in the stomach with a crossbow after he took away her cellphone.
Tony Iovinelli was trying to discipline his tempestuous 15-year-old when she blasted him with the bolt, which could quite easily have killed him.
Then she took the phone back and refused refused to let her wounded father use the phone, forcing him to crawl to a neighbor's home in Tahuya, WA, Mason County sheriff's spokesman William Adam said.
Neighbor Dave Blackwood said: "It went straight sideways. It was parallel to his arm, right into his body."

MAD GARY SCHUNING

A SELF described "momma's boy" butchered his own mother, stabbing her more than 40 times in the chest, then turned the blade on a hooker he paid for with her credit card. Mad Gary Schuning "viciously and senselessly" slashed and stabbed 40-year-old Doris Pagliaro after night of heavy drinking and drug taking. Her body was found in a first-floor bedroom of their Chicago home with a knife still embedded in her chest.
Then he took her credit card and called 18-escort services, eventually bringing three different women to his house, before calling in 21-year-old Kristi Hoenig in for three-way sex and promising her $1220.
But after she arrived she became alarmed at the spattered blood around the house and called her pimp - who called the cops when her call ended abruptly, prosecutors said.

CHRISTIAN CHOATE'S mother has finally arrived. A little too late, mind you, but she's now in the picture. Court documents filed by Aimee Estrada reveal she is asking for custody of Christian's sister Christina. Her ex-husband and Christina's father, Riley 'Redneck' Choate and his wife Kimberly Kubina-Choate have been charged with first-degree murder in the horrific torture death of Christian, 13, in Gary, Indiana. It was Christina who blew the whistle on the evil couple and she now fears that her wicked stepmother "has put out a contract on her."

MORE TEARS

OLYMPIC figure skater Nancy Kerrigan's brother was sentenced to the maximum two-and-a-half year jail term for the assault that led to the death of their 70-year-old father.
Mark Kerrigan put his hands around Daniel Kerrigan's neck with such force that he broke cartilage in his father's larynx and triggered his heart failure after the pair fought in their Woburn, MA home.
He was acquitted of manslaughter but convicted of assault in his father's 2010 death. Tearfully, Nancy Kerrigan pleaded with the judge not to send him to jail, telling the him that her large family supported

FATHER OF THE YEAR

HE really needs some lessons in childcare.
Jonathan Weaver really wanted to watch the basketball game, but he was also supposed to be looking after his girlfriend's children, while she went to night school. So what did he do?
Well he got out some tape, bound, gagged and hooded the toddlers aged one and two and left them in the car seat in the garage of their Las Vegas apartment.Cops were called after a passerby heard the terrified children crying and after firefighters cut open the garage door they found the two toddlers in car seats, their hands bound with a white rope or twine that also wrapped around their necks.
A piece of clothing was stuffed in both boys' mouths and a shirt was pulled over the younger child’s face, police told the Las Vegas Sun.

HER employer claims she is there with the breast of intentions, while her opponent claims she's making a boob of the proceedings.
Chicago attorney Thomas Gooch claims the woman's sole purpose "is to draw the attention of the jury away from the relevant proceedings" - a big time case over a used car. So he asked Cook County Circuit Judge Anita Rivkin-Carothers to order the woman to sit in the gallery with other spectators. "Personally, I like large breasts," he said.
"However, I object to somebody I don't think is a qualified paralegal sitting at the counsel table - when there's already two lawyers there - dressed in such a fashion as to call attention to herself."

"NO CHECKS"

FBI agents have swooped on on a 91-year-old grandma who they say has been selling mail order DIY suicide kits from her home. Sharlotte Hydorn dubbed "Granny Suicide" is the founder and owner of The GLADD Group, or Good Life And Dignified Death which sells a product that consists of a plastic hood that closes around the neck. It also includes tubing that connects the hood to a tank of helium or other inert gas that users must supply for themselves and clear instructions on how to take your own life.
The grisly granny claims she isn't responsible for who uses the kit and is only trying to help people in pain. She has been in business for three years and said she now sells up to 60 kits a month.

FORMER actress Lindsay Lohan surrendered to authorities yesterday to begin serving time for jewelry theft yesterday.
But thanks to her expensive lawyer and a cushy deal she'll serve her 120 days detained at home rather than going to jail, after pleading no contest to stealing a $2500 necklace from an LA jewelry store.
She was found to be in violation of her probation stemming from a 2007 drunken driving case.
The 24-year-old was booked and fitted for with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet around 5 a.m, according to a Los Angeles Sheriff's Department news release.
She was later released to begin serving more than a month under house arrest, ending on June 29.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

CASEY ANTHONY TO GAL PAL: 'I'M SUCH A GOOD LIAR'

PARTY MOM Casey Anthony brazenly told a gal pal: "Oh my God, I'm such a good liar." It was the latest shocking revelation at the hard-partying hosebag's Florida capital murder trial. Anthony, 25, is accused of murdering her toddler Caylee so she could live the life of riley. The prosecution spent the day painting a picture of a callous woman who didn't seem fussed her little girl was gone.
It was the third day of testimony in the explosive trial that has garnered worldwide attention.
Ricardo Morales dated Casey Anthony between
February and April of 2008. He claimed Casey and Caylee spent the night at his apartment in June 2008, just days

A CHICAGO-area mother and son gruesome twosome restrained his elderly father after becoming infuriated with him while changing his diaper. Cops say Anthony Kelley, 40, who claimed to be a trained Russian monk and his monster mom Dianne, 63, were busted Monday for restraining the father on a bed with duct tape, blasting him with pepper spray and beating him. They are each being held on $50,000 bail. The 74-year-old navy veteran has dementia and is

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