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What are infamous crimes that have happened in your area?
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There is this guy:
LINKWesson Mass Murder: 5 Years Later (http://www.kmph.com/global/story.asp?s=9999535&ClientType=Printable)
EXCERPT KMPH TV:
Posted: March 12, 2009 11:08 PM By Norma Yuriar and Winston Whitehurst
The vacant lot on the corner of Weber and Hammond Avenue in Central Fresno looks no different from any other.
"What that lot represents in Fresno County history is going to linger for a long, long time," said Fresno County Public Defender, Peter Jones.
Five years ago, there was a home on that lot, full of children. But on March 12, 2004, their young bodies were carried out in body bags, in what's being called the worst mass murder in Fresno County history.
"I responded to the scene, and I saw nine bodies pilled up. Out of nine, seven where all children," said Fresno County Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Venu Gopal.
Although five years have passed, the images are still fresh in the minds of the people first on scene.
"There are images I don't think I am ever going to forget. I think of Jeva and she was wearing tiny little jean pants with her red sweatshirt," said Fresno County Prosecutor, Lisa Gamoian.
The victims' own father, Marcus Wesson, was taken into custody after a stand off with Fresno Police over a child custody issue.
"He was the head of the family. He was the only one who came out alive," said Jones, who represented Wesson during the trial.
DNA evidence would later confirm Wesson was the father and grandfather of three of the children killed on March 12, 2004.
"You feel in a way ashamed that this would happen here," said Fresno County District Attorney, Elizabeth Egan.
But it did, sparking "community outrage", said Public Defender Ralph Torres, who also represented Wesson, and was denied his request for a change of venue.
"You could say he was the most hated man ever in Fresno County, ever," said Torres.
In 2005, a jury found Wesson guilty on nine counts of first-degree murder. Even though, it is widely believed that he brainwashed his older daughter, Sebhrenah, to pulll the trigger. This was part of a long-standing suicide pact within the family.
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About 2 miles from my aunt's house. He looks like a black Wolfman Jack
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Then there is This whack job. (http://www.ksee24.com/news/blog/10892091.html)
Her accomplice, fagone, should have used diminished capacity, after years of people calling him FAG ONE, he snapped
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The Charles Starkweather-Caril Ann Fugate murders, but that was a long time ago now.
The bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, in 2002, that I guess still ranks as the bloodiest bank robbery in American history (5 victims; perpetrators caught almost immediately).
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I'm not sure what your definition of 'infamous' is, but at the time this was a huge story. I would imagine many people have forgotten about it by now.
Paul Dennis Reid, Jr. (born November 12, 1957) is an American serial killer, convicted and sentenced to death for seven murders during three fast food restaurant robberies in Metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee and Clarksville, Tennessee between the months of February and April 1997. At the time of the murders, Reid was on parole from an 1983 conviction in Texas on charges relating to the aggravated armed robbery of a Houston steakhouse. He had served seven years of a 20-year sentence, and was paroled in 1990. Originally from Richland Hills, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, Reid came to Nashville to pursue a career as a country music singer. He is currently awaiting execution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dennis_Reid
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For such a small area we have big time crime. Shelia Labar,-- The 4 murders unsolved since 1985-1994? --The murder trial of the owner of Brooks Pharmacy's huge chain operation, ---the crazy politician who faked his disappearance for 2 days costing the state a few hundred bucks including search and trial costs, Not to mention Pamala Smart and the 2 movies made about her dirty deeds.
In a small town Murder hits us with a big blow to the gut. Often we will know someone or their family from friends, relatives or work. Since our police force is small our cops know the family history of some of the worse of the worse.
We had one case a few year ago when the female Mayor of a town of size had to face the problem of a son who kidnapped and took his ex-girlfriend out of state at gun point threatening to kill her. To no ones surprise nothing about the arrest was reported in our local paper, we got our information from the news papers from other towns.
Strange things go on in small towns, there was the homeowner who had just bought a home from the town sheriff, he needed to have septic tank dug up and found the sheriffs wife's first husband under the tank.----SURPRISE----!!!!!
Then the very small town that had a church social after services for about 30 people and someone had put ant killer in the coffee urn.
You know it makes one wonder if the police do in fact know who did the crime but just can't get a handle on how to prove it in court. Neighbors and family have a good idea of who the bad boys are but with no solid evidence the crime stays unsolved.
Things have been just too darn quiet in this area lately, Humane Nature is sure to pop up again with 'Somebody did somebody wrong", just a matter of time.
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Nothing infamous - but there was a suicide in a house over the road and a couple down , and the guys in the house at the end of the street got convicted of a fairly brutal drug related murder - both cases before I was a teenager.
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Recently, there was Ed and Elaine Brown, the tax-evaders holed up on their property for something like a year before they were arrested.
I read a story a while back about a woman who had possibly murdered and mummified five of her own children:
http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080406/GJNEWS_01/634715202
http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080601/GJNEWS_01/597011606
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Just recently there was a family of 5 murdered in Beason Illinois, not too far from here. They have arrested a suspect, and ex-husband of one of the daughters.
About 13 years ago, a woman that worked for the local paper was murdered and her dismembered body found in a lake. Her ex-husband and his parents were convicted.
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About 13 years ago, a woman that worked for the local paper was murdered and her dismembered body found in a lake. Her ex-husband and his parents were convicted.
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I think it had something to do with his parents not getting to see their grandchild as often as they wanted.
The case of Karen Hearn Slover. (http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/mbb204_karyn_slover/1_index.html)
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Wisconsin is the ONLY state in the union that ever produced not one, but TWO ritualistic canibal serial killers!
Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein.
Dahmer was in Milwaukee 50 odd miles east of us and Gein was in Plainfield a bit north.
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Harry T & Harriet Moore were both blown up near here. He was the founder of the NAACP chapter here in the county and was active in the goings on in the state. In 1951 he pissed someone off enough to plant a bomb under his bedroom that took the both of them out on their 25th anniversary.
No one has ever been caught.
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Living where I do, I could have gone with JFK. But, that one gets played too much, so here is another one.
Wedgewood Baptist Church shooting 1999.
http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/1610751.html
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No crimes in my area. Unless Bad Taste is a crime.
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No crimes in my area. Unless Bad Taste is a crime.
Nothing here either. Someone's cows get out once in a while. Neighbor's parrot escaped yesterday.
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Recently, there was Ed and Elaine Brown, the tax-evaders holed up on their property for something like a year before they were arrested.
I read a story a while back about a woman who had possibly murdered and mummified five of her own children:
http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080406/GJNEWS_01/634715202
http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080601/GJNEWS_01/597011606
I remember that one. A really long standoff I heard.
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Let see:
Dean Corll-Houston Mass Murderer, actually a serial killer
Wanda Holloway-Texas Cheerleading Mom
Angel Maturino Resendiz-Railroad Killer
Paul Orgeron-Poe Elementary School Bomber in 1959
Andrea Yates-Killed 5 of her children
Ronald O'Bryan-Poisoned Trick-or-Treat candies to kill his own son
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Roger Dale Stafford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Dale_Stafford) and the Sirloin Stockade murders. Plus, the Murrah Building bombing, of course.
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The Charles Starkweather-Caril Ann Fugate murders, but that was a long time ago now.
The bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, in 2002, that I guess still ranks as the bloodiest bank robbery in American history (5 victims; perpetrators caught almost immediately).
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. The inspiration for Natural Born Killers.
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For such a small area we have big time crime.
There are some notorious cases, only because ANY murder is actually pretty out-of-the-ordinary. IOW, the FBI's crime stats would greatly disagree with you.
Check it out for yourself:
http://www.city-data.com/
Pick your state, then city. Compare. Even crime in my town, which locals claim is bad (and is compared to surrounding towns), is barely one-half the national average. Now compare that to the "quiet" small town where I went to HS--nearly DOUBLE the national average. Both towns are roughly the same size. In 2007, they had 8 murders in a town of 35,000. Where I now live has had ONE in the last eight years.
Sorry, NH is far from a high-crime area.
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Let's see, where I live is just down the road from the JonBenet Ramsey debacle.
Where I grew up - or as some might say, transited through adolescence - was just across the pond from the Green River Killer's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway) hunting ground.
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My contribution: Jack the Ripper.
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A grizzly bear attacked a neighbor on his front lawn, a mountain lion attacked a neighbor out walking her dog and a sheriff deputy and the local bar owner both shot each other by accident. The sheriff was called to investigate a prowler that happened to be the bar owner. The bar owner not aware that someone had called the sheriff thought he had an armed robbery about to go down. Both shot at eachother, both were hit, the bar owner died. I live in a violent area. I am always armed.
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The murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsome....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom ·
The Butcher Banking Scandal after the World's Fair....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Butcher
Two crimes that have nothing in common....yet both have had major impacts on the community....that no one living here when they happened will ever forget.
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My contribution: Jack the Ripper.
They say Jack the Ripper is the most infamous figure besides Adolf Hitler and Ted Bundy. There are many books about Jack the Ripper. Some people think Jack the Ripper is a woman.
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Since I live in the Philly area, there's always "dese guys":
Philly Mafia (http://www.gangland.net/philimafia.htm)
Now the "other Joey Merlino" (Skinny Joey's cousin) is trying to get a service industry contract with the casinos in AC and, of course, is claiming his total innocence of any gang-related activity within his "construction" company (oh sure!)
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/54671652.html?cmpid=15585797 (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/54671652.html?cmpid=15585797)
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The murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsome....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom ·
The Butcher Banking Scandal after the World's Fair....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Butcher
Two crimes that have nothing in common....yet both have had major impacts on the community....that no one living here when they happened will ever forget.
The killers of Channon Christian and Chris Newsome deserve to rot in Hell along side with Adolf Hitler and 9/11 Terrorist. :bird: :redbird:
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The killers of Channon Christian and Chris Newsome deserve to rot in Hell along side with Adolf Hitler and 9/11 Terrorist. :bird: :redbird:
First one is getting life in prison without possibility of parole. There is hope that he will be murdered....soon...in jail.
Second one...who is the ringleader...the trial is getting ready. The jury has been seated. I think the trial is to start the week after next.
A lot of people are surprised they all haven't been killed prior to going to trial.
They truly animals....
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Not much happens around here. A few examples:
12:29 p.m. suspicious person. Valero. White male adult, mid 30s, is at location on foot. Has shaved head. Black cut off shirt. Red long pants. Is at Holiday and Valero every day. Contacted male. No problem found.
9:38 a.m. suspicious persons. Roe between Circlewood and Foster. Male wearing blue shorts sitting along road with suitcase in the roadway. Area checked. Unable to locate.
7:18 a.m. civil issue. 900 block of Deer Creek Lane. Reporting party states landlord tried to enter reporting party's residence through sliding glass door last night. Reporting party states she was too frightened to call 911 last night. Reporting party contacted. Determined reporting party rents room in residence shared with landlord. Options discussed.
:yawn:
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Let see:
Dean Corll-Houston Mass Murderer, actually a serial killer
Wanda Holloway-Texas Cheerleading Mom
Angel Maturino Resendiz-Railroad Killer
Paul Orgeron-Poe Elementary School Bomber in 1959
Andrea Yates-Killed 5 of her children
Ronald O'Bryan-Poisoned Trick-or-Treat candies to kill his own son
Yeah, we Texans have a bunch of whack jobs.
Don't forget........
Darlie Routier-on Texas death row for stabbing her 2 sons
Peter Cantu, Efrain Perez, Derrick Sean O'Brien, Joe Medellin, Vinnie Medellin, Raul Villarreal-the brutal beating, rape, and strangulation of 2 innocent teenagers Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in a Houston park
Charles Whitman-Univ of Texas Tower shooter; killed 14
Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer , John King-guilty of the dragging death of African-American James Byrd in Jasper, TX
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Yeah, we Texans have a bunch of whack jobs.
Don't forget........
Darlie Routier-on Texas death row for stabbing her 2 sons
Peter Cantu, Efrain Perez, Derrick Sean O'Brien, Joe Medellin, Vinnie Medellin, Raul Villarreal-the brutal beating, rape, and strangulation of 2 innocent teenagers Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in a Houston park
Charles Whitman-Univ of Texas Tower shooter; killed 14
Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer , John King-guilty of the dragging death of African-American James Byrd in Jasper, TX
Didn't the woman that hit a man and left him to die in her windshield live in Texas?
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Yeah, we Texans have a bunch of whack jobs.
Don't forget........
Darlie Routier-on Texas death row for stabbing her 2 sons
Peter Cantu, Efrain Perez, Derrick Sean O'Brien, Joe Medellin, Vinnie Medellin, Raul Villarreal-the brutal beating, rape, and strangulation of 2 innocent teenagers Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in a Houston park
Charles Whitman-Univ of Texas Tower shooter; killed 14
Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer , John King-guilty of the dragging death of African-American James Byrd in Jasper, TX
But in point of fact, sir, we don't worry about y'all in Texas, because y'all have a demonstrated competency in GETTING RID of these scumbags, in relatively short order as well. If only the remaining 49 states were so competent.
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Didn't the woman that hit a man and left him to die in her windshield live in Texas?
Yup. That was more up my way, but to the west. Chante Mallard, she got 50 years.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-275793.html
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But in point of fact, sir, we don't worry about y'all in Texas, because y'all have a demonstrated competency in GETTING RID of these scumbags, in relatively short order as well. If only the remaining 49 states were so competent.
Dang Skippy! :cheersmate:
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Didn't the woman that hit a man and left him to die in her windshield live in Texas?
Chante Jawan Mallard from Fort Worth: http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=31220
and we also had a scorned wife here in Houston that ran over her husband several times because she caught him cheating: Clara Harris:
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But in point of fact, sir, we don't worry about y'all in Texas, because y'all have a demonstrated competency in GETTING RID of these scumbags, in relatively short order as well. If only the remaining 49 states were so competent.
You're dang skippy!
We're the only state with an Express Lane on death row.
:-)
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Not much happens around here. A few examples:
:yawn:
Pretty much--here are a few examples of Vestanumbers "high crimes":
2:00 a.m. — After a Charles Street traffic stop, Virginia M. Bates, 48, of 15095 Sebastian Court, 48315, Shelby Township, Mich. is charged with two counts of DWI.
2:42 a.m. — A D'Amours Avenue man has just been hit in the face.
9:33 a.m. — There is a complaint about loud music and singing from a church on Hanson Street. It is a group practicing the praising of the Lord for the 10 a.m. service. Police point out that these Christians have a permit to do so. Who the devil made a fuss is not revealed.
12:13 p.m. — There is a fist fight involving two gentlemen and three ladies on Lafayette Street.
1:58 p.m. — James Vigeant, 24, of 72 Elm St., Farmington is charged with forgery and drug possession; Jessica L. Mitchell, 18, a transient of Rochester, is charged with forgery.
4:16 p.m. — Jodi Morse, 34, of 32 Adams Ave. is charged with theft.
9:07 p.m. — Noise thunders from a South Main Street house where neighbors have some gall. A 52" flatscreen's nearly bounced right off the wall.
10:16 p.m. — On Chestnut Street, a couple yells, screams, bangs and throws stuff.
10:47 p.m. — Edward P. Gifford, 46, of 64 Crystal Springs MHP, Somersworth is charged with being a habitual offender
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We had a dude drive a truck through the gate at the Augusta National with intention of, IIRC, killing President Reagan who was playing there. I could be wrong on the motive.
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Oh, and while not a crime, that piece of formerly living dog squeeze Couey was caught here.
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do insane taxes count as a crime?
They should.
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do insane taxes count as a crime?
They should.
Yes they do.
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Well, we have this horse dragging incident....
http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=11260
Good Old Fashioned Horse Dragging
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No arrests were made, tickets issued or sobriety tests given by Taylorville Police last night after a pickup truck dragging a dead horse tied on to the vehicle with a rope was stopped on the Taylorville Square at 11:45 p.m. Taylorville Chief of Police Greg Brotherton was not informed of the incident until 8:00 a.m. today, nor were local animal control officers.
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Someone around here keeps sneaking into Farmer Brown's carrot patch.
Local police are baffled.
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Someone around here keeps sneaking into Farmer Brown's carrot patch.
Local police are baffled.
Yeah.
All we ever had around here last summer was that guy who smeared his buttocks or his frontals with Vaseline, and left the imprints on store windows.
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In 1977, at 33 years of age, Jerry Springer was elected Mayor of Cincinnati.
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I don't know about Fresno, CA (where I am at now) but where I am from wasn't too far from Lorana Bobbit. I knew so many people connected to that case.
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Frank forgot to mention the infamous Von Maur Shootings in Omaha and not long after that two people were arrested for the murders of a man and his wife while they were asleep.They used a shotgun at point blank range and both killers were teens that had runaway from home. They had thought that it was nephews of the murdered couple at first till evidence proved otherwise.
Then there is the Villisca Iowa ax murders that have never been solved, They happened many years ago. The murder of the brother of a girl I went to school with by someone that was a class or two behind me and his brother is in jail as well for a separate killing . The murder took place in the local bowling alley in front of an entire bowling league with the killer using a Ruger .44 magnum semi auto rifle. That one to was done at point blank range as the killer stood over the top of the victim in the alley and pulled the trigger.
This was one done by a guy I was serving with in the National Guard. He flipped out after he broke up with his girlfriend and ended up taking an AR-15 and shot up the neighborhood until the cops and Sheriffs deputies arrived at which point he shot at them hitting one of the Deputies as he ducked behind the dashboard of his cruiser. One bullet hit the deputies hand and took the end of his finger off .Fortunately that was the only injury that happened because the kids father tackled him to keep his kid from firing off anymore rounds. He had already fired 20-30 round prior to that I think.