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

MANHUNT FOR DAVID PEDERSEN, HOLLY GRIGSBY

COPS on the West Coast are hunting a twisted Bonnie and Clyde suspected of murdering his stepmother. They are also suspects in the disappearances of his father in Washington state and a teen in Oregon. According to cops, David Joseph Pedersen, 31, and Holly Grigsby, 24, are armed and dangerous although they have no idea what's driven the crime spree.
A surveillance tape shows Grigsby and Pedersen at a Salem, Oregon, convenience store, and cops say the woman  tried to use a stolen credit card. A male was sitting in the car, but it wasn't Cody Myers, 19, the missing teen. Pederson's stepmother, Leslie Pedersen,

MUGSHOT MANIA! BRAVE REBEL SENDS A MESSAGE

CALL HER a political prisoner. This woman is not afraid of letting her strong views on the Constitution and her place in it be known. We think she's from Alaska.

COPS FEAR MISSING ALIAYAH LUNSFORD, 3, MURDERED

FBI AGENTS now believe the mysterious disappearance of Aliayah Lunsford is either a murder or an abduction. Initially, it was thought the 3-year-old West Virginia girl had wandered off from her Bendale, W. VA home on Sept. 24. Her mother Lena told cops that Aliayah was in bed that morning at 6:30 a.m. but there has been no sign of her since. Thousands of volunteers helped hunt for the girl last week, but as of Monday only professionals remained involved in the search. The target area is a 5-mile radius around the Lunsford home. Her family is now

HERO'S HOMECOMING FOR PARTY GIRL AMANDA KNOX

WELL, this is just the beginning. We imagine there will be book, movie and TV deals for the girl-next-door co-ed recently cleared of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy during a botched sex game. See Amanda's emotional journey home above.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS DRUGGIE SON IS 'A MANIPULATOR'

"MANIPULATOR"

HOLLYWOOD legend Michael Douglas' druggie son was called "a manipulator" and "a liar" by the lawyer defending an accused drug dealer. Cameron Douglas was sentenced to five years in prison last year for dealing methamphetamine from a high-end Manhattan hotel.
And if lawyer lawyer Louis Aidala is to be believed he is now testifying against his client David Escalera in return for a lesser prison sentence. In a blistering series of barbs against the Oscar winning actor's son, he painted a picture of a canary desperate to get out of his jail time.
According to the NY Daily News he said: "The evidence will prove

ODD LORI GARDNER FORCED SON TO SLEEP IN COFFIN

GARDNER

COFFIN

IT COULD have been the scene from a horror movie. 
In the pitch black, bug-infested basement of a condemned house, cops found a crying seven-year-old boy who had been forced to sleep in a coffin.   
The boy, when found, apparently had not eaten dinner and asked the police if they had come to help him before going on to describe to police nightmarish living conditions in his Scranton, PA, home.

BOXER SHORTS FALLING DOWN ID THIEF ANTONIO KLEIN

WEAR A BELT

NOT THE ACTUAL PAIR

WITH his jeans down low, he thought he was the height of fashion but this thief might think about wearing a belt in future after he was caught when a witness identified his boxer shorts. 
Antonio Kleiss, 14, was fleeing the scene after attempting to break into a pick-up truck when his pants fell down, revealing his underwear to an eyewitness. 
Donna Decker, 65, had spotted the youngster acting suspiciously inside an unlocked 1991 Dodge pick-up-truck in a Port Charlotte, FL. 

10-MONTH-OLD LISA IRWIN SNATCHED FROM CRIB

MISSING

SNATCHED?

A 10-MONTH-OLD baby has been snatched from her crib in her parents home as they lay sleeping and desperately worried cops have issued an Amber Alert. 
Little Lisa Irwin appears to have been snuck out of the window of her Kansas City, MO home sometime on Monday night.
Her distraught father called the cops around 4am.

COMIC BOOK MURDER COLD CASE: ANOTHER KILLER?

THE DEFENSE has thrown an atomic super-blaster [read bombshell] witness into the Detroit Comic Book Cold Case murder. Former comic book store owner Michael George, now 51, is on trial for murdering his wife in their suburban comic store in the summer of 1990. George killed his "overweight" wife because he was unhappy in their marriage and wanted the insurance money. More from OUR SISTER SITE COLD CASE USA

BEAUTY QUEEN AUNIKA BENNETTI IN HEROIN BUST

THE FALL of a pageant queen is alway tough and thus it is with the 2007 Miss Douglas County winner. Cops say an officer was driving by a church when he saw a vehicle that looked suspicious. Inside were the former Miss Douglas County, Aunika Bennetti, 26, and Joseph Blake Cramer, 28. Cramer had a warrant for a probation violation, and developed probable cause to search the vehicle. Police say they found a kit with a "personal use amount" of heroin. Cramer is in jail on $250,000 bail, but as of Monday afternoon, Bennetti had been released.
Bennetti won the Miss Douglas County Pageant in 2007, and went on to compete for the Miss Oregon title that same year.

REPORT: COUPLE WITNESSED ROBYN GARDNER MURDER

COPS IN Aruba now have two witnesses who saw a woman being violently attacked and now believe the victim was missing Maryland woman Robyn Gardner. A source told the National Enquirer: “The cops believe a local couple actually witnessed the beginning of what turned out to be Robyn’s murder." The pair were out for a drive when they saw a couple fighting inside a car--similar to the one driven by Robyn's suspected killer, Gary

LOVE RIVALS DEATH DANCE OVER 'YODELIN' BOY POLKA'

IT'S WAR! Two Wisconsin men are doing battle over polkas and a woman. If it sounds like it has all the ingredients of a daytime soap opera you'd be correct. Polka star Ray Rubenzer has now won the court battle involving his ex-wife and her new toy boy, 82. He filed a copyright infringememnt lawsuit in June over his beloved classic, "Yodelin' Boy Polka." For years he performed it with his wife Lois...she began performing it with her new husband David Melgaard under the title "C'mon and Sing." But they were fooling anyone as true aficionados

MUGSHOT MANIA! WRONG IN MANY, MANY WAYS

SOMETIMES, when we see certain mugshots (say, thanks Smoking Gun!) we become like the guys you see on fishing shows: giddy beyond belief. "Wow, look at that one!" we'll say.

AMANDA KNOX PROSECUTOR: 'WE WILL APPEAL'

TEARS

APPEAL

THE BUNGLING, Satan obsessed, prosecutor who's case against Amanda Knox was dramatically turfed out of an Italian court yesterday, has vowed to appeal the verdict.
Giuliano Mignini's theory that British student Meredith Kercher was killed during kinky sex games with Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was overturned by a Perugia jury.