LAUREN SPIERER'S MOM: 'JAY ROSENBAUM IS LYING'

THE MOM of missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer has scoffed at claims by fellow student Jay Rosenbaum that he had been in contact with the family.
Rosenbaum made the comments--his first publicly--to a local TV station. He is considered a person of interest and his story is at odds with what other witnesses and cctv are telling worried detectives.
Charlene Spierer said: "I have not spoken to Jay Rosenbaum. I was surprised to hear what he said on Fox." Lauren, 20, a pretty blonde vanished from Indiana University in Bloomington on June 3 after

DEATH PENALTY IN MURDER OF BREEANN RODGRIGUEZ, 3?

MISSOURI PROSECUTORS have filed an extra charge and may now seek the death penalty against Shawn Morgan who they believe viciously murdered Breeann Rodriguez, 3. Morgan, 43, has been charged with: first-degree murder, armed criminal action, tampering with evidence and now child kidnapping, a Class "A" felony,
Breeann was last seen on August 6, riding her pink bicycle with her brother outside their home in Senath, Missouri. Her lifeless body was found a week later 8 to 10 miles from her home. Prosecutors have filed a

SUMMER MUGSHOT MADNESS! AN OFFER TO REFUSE

MOM DIDN'T have a tattoo that said 'Taste the Rainbow' connecting her two breasts but we've moved beyond her 1950s mindset, haven't we. This liberated lady appears to have taken control of her own sexuality on Cute Tattoo Week.

DARYL HANNAH BUSTED DURING OIL PROTEST

BUSTED

DARYL HANNAH has been busted in front of the White House during a protest against an oil pipeline.
The Kill Bill star joined a sit in involving dozens of protesters urging President Obama to reject the planned Keystone XL tar sands line, which will go through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas Oklahoma.
If completed, 900,000 barrels of "the world's dirtiest oil" will end up in refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, TX each day.
Before her arrest Hannah, who screen career has spanned decades said that the group Tar Sands Action  want to be free from dependence on fossil fuels and hope the president will not bow to oil lobbyists. 

STEVEN LYNN SPOTS THIEVES FROM SKY: GUIDES COPS IN

LYNN

HE WANTED to take aerial photos of his home, instead he spotted two men taking stuff from it.  Steven Lynn was soaring above his home snapping shots, when he saw two men pull up with a trailer and help themselves to his stuff. 
He told KLTV: "I looked down, and sure enough, there was a truck hooked onto a trailer, and guys were loading stuff up."
A stunned Lynn quickly got on the phone to the cops and the to his uncle, who raced round to the home.   
Then they flew down low over his home in a bid to put them off.
He recalled: "It didn't seem to faze them that we were buzzing over in an airplane; we got down pretty low."

HOT SAUCE MOM JESSICA BEAGLEY IS A CHILD ABUSER

REMEMBER this story we brought you about Jessica Beagley,  the mom who thought it was acceptable to punish her son by putting hot sauce in his mouth.

Well it's landed the 36-year-old in hot water as her increasingly desperate attempts to get on the Dr Phil show have seen her slapped with 180-day suspended sentence and a $2,500 fine for misdemeanor child abuse.

EILEEN ADAMS 1967 SEX SLAYING TRIAL ON FOR OCT. 11

ON OCT. 11, Eileen Adams could at last get justice after nearly 44 years. That's when suspected sex killer Robert Bowman will be retried for the 1967 torture murder of Eileen, 14 at the time of the slaying. The creepy 75-year-old's first trial ended in a hung jury, although one juror said it was 10-2 to convict. There is a gag order on the defense and prosecution. See our sister site COLD CASE USA for the story.

TONCH WELDON: LIFE FOR KILLING WIFE'S LESBIAN LOVER

TO TONCH WELDON, it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. An open relationship with another woman and his wife joining in. Great, right? Well, no. Weldon was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murder his wife's lesbian lover, Amy Gephart on June 7, 2009. The 39-year-old Marengo, Iowa man's lawyer may appeal based on his intoxication. His mom cried when Weldon was sent away. His wife Amanda also shed tears. Amy's parents came too, but said

COACH JARED GALLAGHER ATTACKED PLAYER, 12, DAD

OHHHHH, BOY! Jared John Gallagher is a classic. Right out of central casting. Just look at that head. The 40-year-old teaching assistant and assistant football coach is on $100,000 bond after he: choked a player, assaulted a parent and brought a handgun to school. The Landis, North Carolina coach was arrested Thursday when he choked the kid and a parent intervened.
Gallagher was initially charged with misdemeanor child abuse, misdemeanor possession of a weapon on school grounds and misdemeanor resisting, delaying or obstructing a public officer. He was released on bond but things got tougher for him Sunday when he was charged with: felony kidnapping, felony strangulation and misdemeanor interfering with emergency communication and

COL. KHADAFY'S SEXY EXECUTIONER HAS 11 KILLS

SHE HAS A model's looks and a hitman's heart. Meet the face of the Khadafy regime: Nisreen Mansour al Forgan, 19, (center left, and in hospital) who was part of the Libyan strongman's all-girl gun militia. She has admitted to executing at least 10 rebels and said if she didn't, she'd be dead.

MY NAME IS EARL'S JAIME PRESSLY GETS PROBATION

"HAMMERED"

MY NAME Is Earl star Jamie Pressly's art imitated life as she was sentence to three years of informal for drunk driving. The Emmy Award winning actress, who played mouthy adulteress Joy Turner on the hit show was busted with a blood alcohol content of more than .20, well over the legal limit of .08. A police insider said: "She was pretty hammered at the time, way too drunk to be driving at the time and the officers had no choice but to bust her. "Let's just say she was one of the more attractive busts we've had down at the station."
Santa Monica Deputy City Attorney Melanie Skehar said her attorney entered the plea, which will require the star, who has often appeared in FHM's top 10 sexiest women, to attend a six-month alcohol education class as well as probation. She added that the Department of Motor Vehicles is also requiring an ignition locking device be installed on her car.

HOW WE CAUGHT LAUREN GIDDINGS' KILLER: COPS

DECAPITATED

"DISTRAUGHT"

LAUREN Giddings' accused killer first became a person of interest, when he appeared distraught in various media appearances, cop told a court Monday.
And when they took a closer look, they claim that found the evidence they think will convict 25-year-old law graduate Stephen Mark McDaniel.
Among his possessions was a master key to an apartment where 27-year-old Lauren Giddings lived next door and packaging for a hacksaw.
A hacksaw was later found splattered with Giddings blood in a nearby laundry room.
Investigators said McDaniel's former roommate told them McDaniel had talked openly about how to

SLOANE BRILES THREW SON FROM SHIP FOR CRYING

BAD DAD

AN IDIOT dad threw his seven-year-old son off a sightseeing cruise boat because he wouldn't stop crying, Cops say. 
Sloane Briles allegedly argued with his girlfriend in front of his two boys, aged six and seven, from a previous marriage, which caused the eldest child to start crying. Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino told KTLA: "The father hit him several times and then threatened to throw him overboard if he didn't stop crying."  When the boy didn't stop, he carried out his threat, tossing the boy off the boat which was cruising around Newport Harbour, CA. Amormino added that the child was not an expert swimmer.   
He said: "The crowd on the boat became very angry at the father for

OBAMA'S UNCLE ON DUI: 'I'LL CALL THE WHITE HOUSE'

UNCLE

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT Obama's uncle stunned officers busting him for drunk driving by asking to call the White House after they hauled him in.
Onyango Obama was picked up in Framingham, MA, after cops say he made a rolling stop nearly causing a cruiser to strike his SUV.
But when the officers asked him if he wanted to make a phone call he told them: "I think I will call the White House."

SUMMER MUGSHOT MADNESS! CAMERA CLUB PREZ

CUTE TATTOO WEEK. Day 2. Lance had such promise. Involved in the whole school community but best known for his nutty hijinks in the Camera Club, everyone was stunned when he got his 'Ruled By Hatred' tattoo but Mr. Harrison in guidance just laughed.

MURDERS OF VIRGINIA TECH STUDENTS STILL UNSOLVED

IN THE two years since Virginia Tech students Heidi Childs and David Metzler were mysteriously murdered, there have been no arrests. Heidi, 18, and David, 19, of Lynchburg were shot to death on the evening of Aug. 26, 2009 in the parking lot of a campground in the Jefferson National Forest. But cops in Virginia are refusing to characterize the probe as a "cold case." MORE AT COLD CASE USA

SHOCKING ROBYN GARDNER MODELING PHOTOS!

MORE SHOCKING details are emerging about the secret life of Robyn Gardner. The pretty 35-year-old Maryland dental assistant also had modeling aspirations and we've (thanks to Chelsea Hoffman at Gather.com, story here) have got our hands on some fairly provocative pictures. Gardner vanished in Aruba on Aug. 2 after going on a saucy holiday with secret beau Gary Giordano (behind the back of her other boyfriend.) It seems there were some photos

CANNIBAL LURED VICTIM WITH PROMISE OF SEX

BETWEEN HURRICANE IRENE and the MTV Awards it was a very quiet weekend. But that doesn't mean that's the case in Russia. It seems there has been a rash of, gulp, cannibal murders in the Old FSU. Most recently, a 21-year-old man in Murmansk asked a stranger to come home with him, then stabbed the unfortunate comrade to death then ate him. It brings up the sickening memories of cannibal serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, pictured.
Murmansk Investigation Committee chief Fyodor Bludenov said: "The main desire was for him tom eat human flesh. The defendent wanted to try eating at least 10 people in the future. He lured this man in sexually. According to preliminary information, one of them was seeking a sexual

FLINTSTONE WANNABE TRIES TO STOP CAR WITH FEET

A FRED Flintstone wannabe has been busted for trying to use his feet to brake his pickup on a busy highway. As you can see, he wasn't very successful.

We'd agree with Roseville Police Deputy Chief James Berlin  called it a case of "moronic decision-making,"
He told The Detroit News the man rolled about two miles on Groesbeck Highway while sticking his feet outside his truck in attempts to stop it, hitting four vehicles along the way.

PEDO PEDIATRICIAN EARL BRADLEY JAILED FOR LIFE

"UNSPEAKABLE"

A PEDOPHILE pediatrician who ruthlessly sexually abused scores of young children after promising them candy and toys will spend the rest of his life in prison. Sick Earl Bradley gave the impression that he cared deeply for his young charges. most of whom were toddlers, decorating his office with Disney characters and filling it with toys and miniature amusement park rides. 
But the colorful facade belied the dark truth that he was abusing his patients, sometimes videotaping his sick crimes in his Lewes DE. 
Prosecutor's presented the judge with more than 13 hours of videos showing sex crimes against more than 80 victims, most of whom were toddlers, Delaware Online reports.

AL QAEDA'S NO 2 ATIYAH ABD AL-RAHMAN KILLED

GOTCHA

HATE mongering terror group Al Qaeda is on its knees after its number two Atiyah Abd al-Rahman was gunned down in Pakistan. Like the piano player once was in the Grateful Dead, being Number 2 in Al Qaeda is a dangerous spot. While not as famous as their leader Osama Bin Laden, who was also killed earlier this year will strike right at the heart of the group because was an instrumental in running their day to day operations. 

The Libyan-born national joined bin Laden as a teenager in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union  and later went on to serve as his personal emissary to Iran. Computer's snatched from Bin Laden's

GEORGE & CINDY ANTHONY ON DR PHIL: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

THIS is the exclusive first preview of George and Cindy Anthony's appearance on the Dr Phil show.

In this promotional clip for the interview that has been released the talk show host can be seen grilling the pair, almost shouting at point. 

SUMMER MUGSHOT MADNESS! IT'S CUTE TATTOO WEEK

NO UNICORNS, dolphins or roses for this fella. No, besides screwing up his face the former class president of Horace Mann High School in Peoria, Illinois is a man of convictions. He has a tat that says 'DREAM' on his neck and another that says 'Thank God I'm White.' OK, buddy.

ARMY CAPT. LEONARD EGLAND MURDERS 4; KILLS SELF

IT WAS nothing short of a massacre and it ended in an abandoned lot. Cops in Bucks County, Pennsylvania said Sunday they found the body of a U.S. Army Captain they believe murdered four people, then wounded two cops.
The body of twisted Leonard John Egland, 37, of Fort Lee, Virginia was found in a Philly suburb. It's believed he blew his own brains out. The suicide ends a massive multi-state manhunt. Detectives believe Egland murdered his estranged wife, Carrie Egland, 36, Saturday in Chesterfield County, Va. Also killed were her new boyfriend and the boyfriend's young son, whom police have not identified.

NBA STAR JAVARIS CRITTENTON WANTED FOR DRIVE BY

WANTED

NBA bad boy Javaris Crittenton is wanted for the drive by shooting of a 22-year-old mom of four, who was not the intended target of the murder, cops say.
The one time Laker, who was most recently drafted by the Washington Wizards was apparently aiming at someone who had robbed him.
But after driving up slowly in an SUV he mistakenly took out Jullian Jones, who later died from her injuries.  
Atlanta Police Major Keith Meadow said: "It's my understanding there was some jewelry and other valuables that were stolen. It appears that he may have had an NBA ring that was stolen during the robbery."
He added that witnesses identified Crittenton.
He told Fox Atlanta: "We had a great deal of outrage in that community shortly after Ms. Jones was shot and we had a great deal of cooperation from people in the community.

JONATHAN JAMES, 10, DIES: PARENTS DENIED WATER

DEHYDRATED

KILLERS

A TWIN watched horrified as his 10-year-old brother collapsed and died in front of him because his idiot parents refused to let him drink water for five days, cops say.  
Jonathan James died from dehydration after his mom Michael Ray James and Tina Maria Alberson denied him water as punishment after he took some guitar strings from on of his siblings. 

AUSTIN POWERS' JOE SON GUILTY OF RAPE & TORTURE

RANDOM RAPIST

AUSTIN Powers star Joe Son has been convicted of torture in connection with the 1990 Christmas Eve gang rape of women.
Son who played shoe throwing bad guy "Random Task" a rip off of Bond villain "Odd Job" in the first of the trilogy Austin Powers, International Man Of Mystery was busted in 2008 after DNA lined him to the brutal crime.
Prosecutor's said Son and an accomplice grabbed the woman and pulled her into a car, beating her with gun as they drove her to a home in Huntingdon Beach, CA.
There, they repeatedly raped her and penetrated her with his gun, counting out the bullets of his gun and threatening to kill her if she didn't agree to their sick demands.

'YOU STILL LOVE ME' NEW LAUREN ASTLEY TEXTS

THROTTLED

"YOU STILL LOVE ME"

A JILTED Massachusetts football jock accused of hacking his ex-girlfriend's throat and then dumping her body, tried to get back together with her newly revealed text messages have revealed.
Gorgeous Lauren Astley was choked so forcefully that that her eyes, neck, face and gums hemorrhaged and medical examiners also found no fewer than three deep neck wounds.
Nathaniel Fujita then allegedly dumped her tiny body into a marsh where cyclist found Astley’s knees and one arm sticking out of the water the next morning.

NEW FRITZL: DAD RAPED MENTALLY ILL DAUGHTERS

WHAT IS IT with Austria in general and Austrian dads in particular? Under the international files we note that a debauched Austrian dad is under investigation for repeatedly raping his two mentally-disabled daughters in a tiny kitchen where they were kept captive for 41 years. The unnamed 80-year-old monster is bringing up chilling reminders of sicko Josef Fritzl, left. Cops in Sound of Music land say the women had only a wooden bench for a bed. The sex abuse continued from 1970 to this past May.

GIORDANO'S FURY BOTCHED ROBYN GARDNER SLAY PLOT

ACCORDING to the National Enquirer the suspected killer of Robin Gardner came unglued and made the Maryland dental hygenist's final hours a nightmare. The "twisted sex fiend" Gary Giordano apparently snapped and became violent when he spotted an "I love you" text that she sent to her boyfriend back home, a police source told the paper.
But the financially troubled Giordano's plan to kill the pretty blonde for $1.5 million in insurance money also unraveled. Sources said he had planned to kill Robyn, dump her body into the Caribbean Sea and make it look like she drowned. But his blowing a gasket forced him to improvise and he made mistakes that enabled cops to catch him.

LIGHT POSTING BECAUSE OF HURRICANE IRENE

BECAUSE OF the blistering weather--AKA Hurricane Irene--just smashing into the east coast now and expected to hammer New York City tonight, we will be posting in a light-like manner. In addition, our sister site, Cold Case USA will not be posting today but l-i-g-h-t-l-y for the next couple days. BE SAFE.

SUMMER MUGSHOT MADNESS: OLD FOGEY WEEK #6

WELL, summer is fast fading and I'm sure we could find about wistful 100 songs from the great American musical canon to mark it's end. But we'll leave you with happy thoughts at the end of Old Fogey Week. Just party.

CONDO NEIGHBOR: I DISMEMBERED PAMELA PRPICH

A DETROIT-area man has confessed to dismembering pretty Pamela Prpich, 32, and then dumping her body but says he didn't kill her. OK. The unnamed suspect who lived in the autoworker's building confessed to cops. Prpich's torso was found in a suitcase floating in a river near her apartment. Her own brother made the sickening discovery. Cops say they found more of her body in Prince's apartment stuffed in a container in a closet. 
Police Chief Ray Canterbury said: "When we opened it — the smell.    We said, 'This is the crime scene.' We went in there and the place was

TEEN HELPED JIHAD JANE PLOT VIOLENT TERROR: FBI

SHE WAS the notorious Big Mama of the terror set. He was a Maryland teen, new to America and on his way to university--now that appears to be jail. The Philadelphia Inquirer says a 17-year-old teen conspired with Colleen LaRose--AKA Jihad Jane, pictured right--to solicit money and recruits for violent jihad in America. The boy--known only as Mohammed K.-- came from Pakistan four years ago.
Mohammed's arrest came six months after LaRose, who called herself "Jihad Jane" on websites, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to

A MONTH LATER: NO ANSWERS IN CELINA CASS DEATH

IT HAS been one month since Celina Cass, 11, vanished from her New Hampshire home in the dead of night. Less than a week later she found dead floating in the Connecticut River. Cops appear no closer to answering the riddle of how she died and who may have killed. While they're stopping short of labelling it a homicide, it is classified as a suspicious death. We're in the looks like a duck category here.
A quiet tribute was held among her peers in Stewartstown--about a mile from the Canadian border--on the dawn of their return to class. There is fear and there is anger in the air.
Local mom Debbie Baglio said: “I can’t let the story go without answers. I can’t let this little girl go.”

SUSAN POWELL'S FATHER-IN-LAW CLAIMS: WE HAD SEX

CREEPY, huh? Missing Utah mother Susan Powell's oily father-in-law Steven Powell has now come forward and claimed that he had a sexual relationship with her. Yuck. See the clip above or SEE MORE IN THE NY DAILY NEWS

SUMMER MUGSHOT MADNESS: OLD FOGEY WEEK #5

ARRGH! YA' caught me, damn your eyes! Basil St. John from Brenda Starr Reporter went to the dark side and is now a pirate. Still, we wouldn't screw around with this old crook.

ROBYN GARDNER'S BOYFRIEND 'HAD FINANCIAL WOES'

KILLER?

MURDERED?

MISSING beauty Robyn Gardner's boyfriend was in serious "financial distress" and tried to scam a company out of $5 million, just before he want on holiday to Aruba, a lawyer has revealed.
Attorney, Thomas Murphy says that Giordano made up a contract and then tried to sue the staffing company for not upholding it.  

JAMES KRAIG KAHLER GUILTY BUT WILL HE FACE DEATH?

DEATH?

SLAUGHTERED

A JILTED husband who slaughtered his family after his wife began a lesbian affair with a woman he'd introduced her to in the hope of a threesome will face the death penalty for the evil slay. 
Crazed James Kraig Kahler was furious that his wife, Karen had left him to begin an affair with Sunny Reese who he had introduced to her in the hope of kinky sex games. 
So as she celebrated Thanksgiving 2009 at her grandmother Dorothy Wight's Topeka, KA home, he walked in, blasting the pensioner, Karen and their teenage daughters Emily, 18, and Lauren, 16.