'Serial killer' Darren Vann confesses to 7 murders

UPDATE!   HAMMOND --  Cops in Indiana say convicted sex offender Darren Deon Vann, 43, of Gary is expected to be charged with murdering seven women -- and detectives fear there could be more. The women's bodies were found around northwestern Indiana. Vann has allegedly confessed to the killings.
Cops believe that Vann is a "serial killer." LATEST ON SERIAL KILLER

ANDREW MAYNARD SLAUGHTERED 'POSSESSED' DOG

A twisted Illinois teen who thought his dad's Shetland sheepdog was possessed butchered the doomed canine and left it to die. Cops say Andrew J. Maynard, 18, now faces animal cruelty charges in the death of Frisky, who was ritually killed in Audubon park. Maynard had told his dad he was taking the poor pooch for a walk but when they arrived at the park, the dog was killed and left to die.
“He thought the dog was possessed,” Assistant State’s Attorney Oscar Garcia told the Chicago Sun-Times, adding that Maynard's dog noticed the dog was missing..
Maynard told cops he hammered a pot pourri of drugs that put him in "a bad state of mind." Gives one paws.

GERARDO PEREZ PINCHED FOR SEX WITH PIT BULL

Gerardo Perez may quite literally be a horndog. Chicago cops say the 50-year-old had sex with a pit bull while visiting  an animal care facility. It is enough to give paws.
The Chicago Tribune said Perez was taking a group tour of the care facility when he was discovered by employees with a white and grey pit bull -- not exactly the pooch of passion -- on his hands and knees alongside the dog and appeared to have just had sex with the animal. Police say canine copulator  made "inculpatory statements" regarding the sexual conduct with the dog to other employees on the scene. Bail was set at $80,000 -- a lot of milkbones.

COUPLE BEATS CHRIS VALDEZ TO DEATH ON 4th BDAY

MEET the worst people in the world: Nov. 28, 2011 edition. They are Cesar 'Big Man' Ruiz, 34, and his girlfriend Crystal Valdez, 28. Valdez and co. were getting ready to celebrate the fourth birthday of her son Christopher on Friday in Chicago. On Sunday, the twisted pair were charged with first-degree murder, concealment of a homicide and child endangerment. Christopher was beaten to death at the family home, his body discovered by his grandparents who had arrived with birthday cake and presents for his birthday bash. He died from multiple blunt force injuries

PEDO PIMP DATQUNN SAWYER PREYED ON CHILDREN

THERE ARE few people lower than a pimp. Particularly a pimp who preys on young girls, like say, Datqunn Sawyer of Chicago--one of the players in a massive sex trafficking ring. Yesterday, a courageous young woman nicknamed 'Pooh' told of her nightmare that started when she was 12. That's when Sawyer befriended her and took her to his crib where half a dozen girls also lived. Soon she was on the streets hooking with a daily quoto: sex with 5 to 15 men a day. On good days, the creep took her to McDonald's. The self-proclaimed rapper impregnated half the girls and nicknamed them all, starting with a P. But then the witness told of one day, she couldn't do it and took her high heels off and sobbed.

GRANDSON, 15, SLASHES COP GRANDMA TO DEATH

CHICAGO COP Hester Scott vowed to keep trying to save her troubled 15-year-old grandson until her dying breath, the Sun-Times reports. And in the end, she kept her promise. She told her sister Thursday: “I’ll fight till my dying breath to turn his life around."
 On Friday, the dedicated cop found her layabout grandson, Keshawn 'Special K' Perkins asleep in front of the TV in the basement. He exploded, smashed her in the head with a lamp then stabbing her multiple times with a knife, severing her jugular. He then dragged the 55-year-old cop's body in the backyard

KELLI O'LAUGHLIN KILLER'S HORRENDOUS CRIME RECORD

THE COLD-HEARTED killer accused of murdering 14-year-old Kelli O'Laughlin during what cops suspect was a botched robbery has a staggering criminal record. Almost breathtaking really. John L. Wilson has spent 17 of the last 20 years in prison. The headcase stabbed the pretty redhead in the neck and back and she bled to death. Next? The 170 lb. parolee, 38, sent taunting text messages to her mother, using the teen’s cell phone, said. Below is his record, for our coverage go here.

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COPS ARREST KELLI O'LAUGHLIN'S SUSPECTED KILLER

CHICAGO cops have made an arrest in the grisly murder of Kelli O'Laughlin, 14. Kelli was stabbed to death after coming home while a burglary was in progress. Thanks to DNA left at the scene police have arrested and charged a 38-year-old man with first degree murder. A source told the Chicago Sun-Times the man may have called or texted her mother on the teen’s cell phone either before or after she died. The source said it was unclear

STUPID PARTY GAME MURDER: 'GO AHEAD, HIT ME!'

THE VIDEO shows a man raising his arms, raising his hands and yelling: "Get this shit on YouTube!" The crowd forms and at its center is the yeller, aspiring rapper John Powell and Tiffany Startz. He leans forward, hand behind his back and she slugs him in the face, he staggers. A guest says: "Give him $5." He recovers, she smiles. Then Powell collapsed to the ground and died and Startz, 22, is on trial in Chicago for reckless conduct and battery. The owner of the house had offered $5 for anyone who would take a swat from Startz at a memorial party last September. Powell, 24, took the offer and the poor luck to die. Startz later told cops: "I punched him and he just kind of stepped back and said, ‘Wow, nice job.’"  MORE IN THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

MANGA FAN SIR WILFRED CAMALIGAN TORTURED GAL PAL

NOT AS SHOWN

A RETARDED geek huge fan of Japanese manga comics engaged in twisted antics with his girlfriend that shocked even the judge. Cops say Sir Wilfred "Lone Wilf" Camaligan (LOL!), 22, met his victim, 20, at an anime convention in June. They became Facebook buddies and then started dating. But after she moved into his Chicago apartment he turned crazy and held her captive for two months. The Lone Wilf wouldn't let her leave, beat her with a wooden stick and crowbar and forced her to cut herself. He even strangled her til she slipped into unconsciousness. Oh, and he made her kneel on rice as he carved an X into her breast. She escaped Friday and called her

JACOB NODARSE GUILTY IN KRAMER FAMILY MASSACRE

IT WAS a sinister crime. On March 2, 2010, Jacob Nodarse broke into a suburban Chicago home and in cold blood murdered Jeffrey Kramer, 50, his wife Lori, 48,  and son Michael, 20, as part of a murder for hire. Yesterday he pleaded guilty but mentally ill to killing the trio and will spend most of the next 45 years behind bars. According to cops, Johnny Borizov, 29--who still faces murder and solicitation of murder charges-- planned the massacre to end his bitter child custody battle with ex gal pal Angela

MOM FEARS SON WASN'T JOHN WAYNE GACY VICTIM

SHERRY MARINO has always had doubts that her son Michael was one of sick serial killer John Wayne Gacy's 33 victims. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times she reveals that she hopes a DNA test may at last reveal the truth and put her mind to ease. Michael vanished on Oct. 24, 1976 when he was 14. Almost four years later he was identified as one of Gacy's 33 victims, stuffed under the floors of his Chicago area home. On Thursday, her lawyer, Robert M. Stephenson, filed a petition in Cook County Circuit Court seeking to allow her to have the body exhumed from Queen of Heaven Cemetery. New evidence has raised questions about whether investigators had

ROBERT LYONS KILLED MOM IN RAGE OVER AVRIL

BAD INFLUENCE

MOM DIDN'T UNDERSTAND

WE'RE NOT kidding. Really. Little Robert Lyons, 39 physically, 11 mentally, wanted to see fading pop punk princess Avril Lavigne SOOOOOO badly that he exploded in fury when his mom refused to call a friend arrange skybox tickets for him. So Lyons brutally beat and stabbed his mother to death in the suburban Chicago condo they shared. His murder trial opened Wednesday.

Linda Bolek, 61, died on March 14, 2008, after her son twice slammed a bottle of cognac into her head, then stabbed her nine times in the back ­­-- an attack so violent the knife blade snapped off in her body. The pair had a troubled, turbulent relationship and Lyons is bi-polar.

SMASH CHICAGO SEX RING; PIMPED GIRLS YOUNG AS 12

PIMPIN'. Is there anything lower than a pimp (child molesters do come to mind)? OK, there is but they're near the bottom of criminal food chain, society's too. Chicago cops have smashed a sex trafficking ring that had victims as young as 12 who were recruited to work as hookers. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, some worked 24 hour shifts--then gave 100% of their cash to their pimps. If they didn't they were beaten, whipped, threatened with death, branded with tattoos then stuffed in car trunks for hours. Cops said they had uncovered the "major" human sex trafficking operation run by Vice Lords and other gangs on the South and West Sides. The

BETTY PELTIER STOLE AUTISTIC BOY'S THERAPY DOG

TODAY, Betty Peltier, 58, will go down as the Meanest Woman in America. Peltier of the Chicago suburbs is accused of stealing an autistic boy's therapy dog--then phoning about the $1,000 reward. Peanut apparently slipped out of the family home earlier this summer while the family ran errands. A neighbor told cops she saw a woman drive by and scoop the dog up. After offering a $1,000 reward for Peanut’s safe return, Monica Hildalgo said she received several calls from Betty Peltier inquiring about the money. Cops arrested the miserable old bitch when she tried to return the 3-year-old dog. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, she faces a misdemeanor theft charge.

HERO COP CATCHES BABY THROWN BY KIDNAPPER

IT was probably the most important catch he'll ever make, as one hero Chicago cop snagged a baby thrown at him by a kidnapping subject trying to get away. 

Arriving on the scene, witnesses pointed to a man in his 20s who they said had taken the tot, who was less than a year old. 

As they approached the man, he turned and tossed the baby high into the air and scrambling, the officer caught it, ensuring it wasn't hurt, reports The Chicago Sun Times. 

DMITRY SMIRNOV PLEADS GUILTY IN VESEL MURDER

THEY BARELY dated for a few weeks but Dmitry 'Crazy Dmitry' Smirnov was having none of it. And 2 1/2 years after the split he then stalked and murdered Jitka Vesel. On Friday, he pleaded guilty to murdering the 36-year-old beauty and now he has been sentenced to life in prison. Smirnov showed no emotion in court, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. He shot Vesel 12 times in a parking lot.
He told the court: “Because you can’t just expect to just dump someone like that and ignore them for two years and...to get away with it with no consequences and, you know, just waste someone’s life like that."
The pair met online and the Canadian man later travelled to Chicago in December 2008 to stay with her for several weeks. Smirnov returned to Canada and the relationship crashed. She cut off all contact.

NEW CLUE IN UNSOLVED KRISTY WESSELMAN MURDER

IT HAS been 26 long years since Kristy Wesselman, 15, was stabbed to death. A long wait for justice since there have been no arrests in the heartbreaking case. Yesterday marked the grim anniversary of the unsolved murder in DuPage, Illinois. But her mom has never given up hope.
Sandy Wesselman said: “I silently promised her I would never stop trying to find the person who killed her. My silent promise to Kristy has remained steadfast."
Now, detectives have revealed a new piece of evidence they feel could help solve the slaying. Kristy was wearing an antique pearl ring with a gold mounting when she was raped and murdered on July 21, 1985 while walking through a field on her way home from the supermarket, Sgt. Robert

CHARLES SIMS LOST COOL OVER AIR CONDITIONER DRIP

CHARLES 'Hot Head Charlie' Sims isn't much for air conditioning. Just ask poor Jimmy Parker. Cops in Chicago say that 'Hot Head Charlie' shot Parker eight times on June 2 after unraveling because of a dripping air conditioner. Apparently Sims' sister bitched that Parker dropped water on her from his apartment window above hers. Well, it wasn't Jimmy: it was the air conditioner dripping condensation. Poor Jimmy was only visiting a lady friend. Charlie confronted bewildered Jimmy about the slight outside the building. Parker denied it. Hot Head Charlie hit him. Parker hit Charlie. Sims pulled out Mr. 9mm and shot Parker. Then finished him off. Det. Jim Noradin said: “He administered a coup de grace of sorts."

Six witnesses have Hot Head Charlie as the shooter. Sims has denied involvement in the shooting.

'SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL' FOR GHOULISH CAROLYN TOWNS

GHOUL

A GHOULISH cemetery director who dug up hundred of graves and resold has admitted to dismembering human remains and stealing from a place of worship.
Carolyn Towns, 51, oversaw a team of grave diggers that would exhume bodies, crush vaults and dump human remains in the trash.
Cops said they would also "double stack" graves, burying existing remains deeper into the ground a putting newer one's in the same location at Chicago's Burr Oak Cemetery. 
At the time, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart called the scene "disturbing."
He said: "I found bones out there," he said. "I found individuals wandering aimlessly looking for their loved ones who can't find them."
The investigation also extended into "Babyland," a section of the cemetery intended for children, where Dart added that he talked to countless women who could not find their children.