Today In The News...

[Jadis]

This morning I read a story about a 19 year old mother in Washington who TAPED a pacifier to her 4 month old sons mouth .... she couldn't find a blanket to swaddle the baby in so she used a pair of pajama's to keep him from wiggling... she's facing 1st degree manslaughter charges .... 6 1/2 to 8 1/2 years ..... unreal...

[Jadis]

And some more stupid women in the news....

2 women ... both 25 years old in Pittsburg, PA left their 7 children (collectively) alone in a house so they could go to the bar. WHO DOES THAT!?!?!?!?!!! 5 of the 7 children were killed in the fire. Ages 7, 6, 5, 4, & 3. The 2 8 year old boys got out unharmed. The children were playing with matches according to the story on MSNBC.

Just unreal. I couldn't imagine leaving my kids alone in a house for ANYTHING. Especially not to go to the bar with a friend. That's just irresponsible and stupid.

[Homicidalheathen]

God. This is bad. I hear ya. From the time I was pregnant to the time they were 12, no substance that would alter my um mind touched me.....but I am a bit over cautious because my parents were horrible alcholic drug user types. My mom used to ignore us all day because of a frickin hang over, I stepped on 3 nails and was bleeding bad because she never watched us.....I mean, the list of shit we got into out in the country......is long. I know someone who burned down a barn. Its not just city people who need to watch their kids.

The first one though, did it say if this is how the kid died, was it the taping and tying?

[Jadis]

The first story the kids sufficated because the pacifier was taped and the kid couldn't move. Unreal.

I can see your point about being extra careful w/ your own kids because of what you went through. There need to be more parents who are responsible that way... it's so sick to read these news stories and wonder what the hell were they thinking????

[Homicidalheathen]

I dont understand the selfishness of acts like this. If your that selfish....put it up for adoption. You can't have it all ways. Then again, why get pregnant in the first place? But we hear more and more stories about this even though abortion is still legal. Seems nothing will fix it.

100's of years ago when disease and abuse was rampant.....I suppose people just said, oh she died last of this or that.....no one would check, or know the truth. If you lived miles from your neighbors and burried your own, no autopsies were done......who would know?

People say its a sign of the times but I wonder if things may actually better.....not worse.....

Don't know that it is becoming more common or just more commonly known.......

Maybe humans in general have always had a certain portion of society that was pretty messed up.

[Sybil]

i am speechless.

i saw a special today about "women who kill".

at the end of the special the reporter blaimed the women's decisions on cheating men.

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

yep. that is what they need. someone blaimed other than them. i mean, why should any of us take responsibility for our OWN actions??

why cant we just react to what happens around us without someone telling us that murder is wrong?

i should be able to kill whoever makes my life uncomfortable, right?

RIGHT!?

wrong!

i always feel like i have to tell on myself when i read stuff like this, and after i post something that looks like i am just pointing fingers...

i had an abortion when i was 21. it is my ONE major regret ... i am 29. i still am sad when i hear these "bad mom" stories because i am just like these girls. i am exactly like these girls.

i am sorry for what i did.. i was sorry while i was going thru it. i thought i was hopeless and had nothing to offer a baby. i listened to the "father"..he didnt want to be a father. he didnt want his parents to know he got me pregnant. (probably never told them. my whole family knows what i did. i went to them and apologised to them for killing their future grandchild.. neice/nephew.. my sister cried a little. she didnt believe me at first, that i aborted a baby.. my mom was like, "oh sybil!!??" i just stood there regretful and sorry.)

i didnt do the "right" thing.

i will never know how great my kid was. or how bad.

my selfishness.. my fear...

me me me.

its a damn shame the things we do sometimes.

"i have confessed my sin" to God and pastors and friends and family.

but i know what i am capable of, now.

and when i am angry or scared i know now that a little self control goes a long way.

its a shame when those CRAZY EVIL thoughts go thru our heads, we dont control ourselves and others pay for our selfishness.

those poor kids paid.

its a damn shame.

[Hellion]

Media Net News Today

A 13 yr old girl lost her feet in an amusement park ride accident,in Kentucky.

It was on a ride called the Power Tower(still under investgatio)

[Homicidalheathen]

I personally have never had one but thats why I think its ok for others......beats leaving it in a garbage can....or accidently killing yourself with a coathanger.....people WILL do it. Thats why we need doctors who know how.

But to kill something that is already here is much worse.

I think...dunno.

And about amusement parks.....I still go but hope I am not one of those unfortunate peeps.

Man kills 300-pound bear with a log

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HELEN, Ga. (AP) — A 300-pound black bear raided a family's campsite, and the father saved his sons from harm by throwing a log at the beast, killing it with a single blow.

Chris Everhart and his three sons were camping in the Chattahoochee National Forest in northern Georgia when the encounter happened Saturday. The bear took the family's cooler and was heading back to the woods when the youngest son, 6-year-old Logan, hurled a shovel at it.

VIDEO: Dad protects son, killing animal with a single blow

The bear then dropped the cooler and started coming at the boy, said his father. Fearing what might happen next, Everhart, an ex-Marine, grabbed the closest thing he could find — a log from their stash of firewood.

"(I) threw it at it and it happened to hit the bear in the head," Everhart said. "I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear."

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Everhart was given a ticket for failing to secure his camp site, said Ken Riddleberger, a region supervisor for game management with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

"We've not had an attack in Georgia," Riddleberger said. "The key thing to learn from this is if there's a bear around, do not have your garbage or food available. If we manage our food, we won't have bears around."

The attack happened the same weekend that an 11-year-old boy was killed by a black bear while camping in a forest in Utah. Sam Ives was found mauled to death after he was pulled screaming from his tent in the Uinta National Forest, about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.

Authorities said it was the first recorded fatal attack by a black bear in that state. His family said there was no food in the tent to attract a bear.

And this:

Frozen criminal found in Irish fish shop

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DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — Pathologists inspected the thawed remains Wednesday of a missing Dublin criminal whose body was found, frozen rock solid, in the Mermaid Fish Shop.

The owner of the shop in Galway, western Ireland, last week found the body of Patrick McCormack, 52, concealed inside a plastic container. He appeared to have been badly beaten and his hands were tied behind his back.

An examination of the body has been repeatedly delayed at Dublin City Morgue because it had not defrosted. But the work began Wednesday under the supervision of Ireland's assistant state pathologist, Dr. Michael Curtis.

The police officer leading the murder investigation, Superintendent Tom Curley, said detectives were exploring the possibility that McCormack's body had been in the freezer since 2002, when his car was found abandoned in the western county of Clare.

McCormack, a Dublin native, had criminal convictions for robbery and was on a police list of suspected drug dealers at the time of his disappearance.

From here:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/default.htm

And I don't care if it works.....not like I need it lol, I am not eating it.

Slime eel seen as aphrodisiac

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Harvested hagfish writhe in a bucket on a commercial vessel off the Southern Californian coast in March 2007. The 'slime eel' --as it's sometime called-- is believed to be an aphrodisiac in South Korea and growing demand for it has created a business opportunity for struggling West Coast fishermen.

By Noaki Schwartz, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The hagfish is a bottom feeder so repulsive it had a cameo on TV's "Fear Factor." It slimes its enemies, has rows of teeth on its tongue, and feeds on the innards of rotting fish by penetrating any orifice.

But cooked and served on a plate, it is considered an aphrodisiac in South Korea.

And the overseas appetite for the hagfish — also known as the slime eel — is creating a business opportunity for struggling West Coast fishermen confronted with tough restrictions on the catching of salmon and other fish.

California's annual catch jumped from practically nothing to 150,000 pounds over the past four years. Oregon and Washington state last year reported around 1 million pounds of hagfish caught.

The 14- to 18-inch hagfish looks like an eel. In fact, there is debate over whether it is really a fish. The 300 million-year-old creature has no jaws and one nostril. Essentially blind, it dwells in the dark more than 1,000 feet down.

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"The average person would be disgusted just by looking at them," said Mark Crossland, a state Fish and Game warden. "The product is difficult to deal with and handle — it's a little eel that once it gets stressed it excretes this slime."

On NBC's "Fear Factor," two contestants sat in a vat of the creatures and had to push handfuls of them through holes. They described the experience as sticky, stinky and disgusting.

Hagfish has a modest following among older Korean men who savor it as an appetizer broiled in sesame oil, sprinkled with salt and accompanied by a shot of liquor.

Peter Chu, a seafood exporter in Eureka, Calif., said the fish sells for as much as $20 a pound in South Korea, which he estimates consumes 9 million pounds a year.

"There's a myth there that it's an aphrodisiac. It gives you energy like Viagra," Chu said. "It's like oysters here."

Fisherman Mark Tognazzini, who used to catch hagfish in the early 1990s, said it is relatively inexpensive to get into hagfishing. They are caught in five-gallon barrels fitted with trap doors and baited with rotting fish.

In April, California officials encountered a fishing boat near Morro Bay carrying more than 15,000 pounds — approximately 45,000 writhing hagfish — that were to be loaded on jumbo jets live and flown to South Korea. The Washington-based crew was cited for violations that included fishing without permits and having oversized traps as big as wine barrels.

The hagfish's predators include whales, seabirds and seals. There are no catch limits for hagfish, and the species is in no immediate danger. But some experts worry it could be threatened if the boom continues, because hagfish do not reproduce quickly.

Tognazzini said they are an important part of the marine ecosystem whose job is to clean up the ocean floor. "The thing is, they're not cute — they don't hit people's hearts," he said.

As if its looks weren't enough of a turnoff, hagfish, when agitated, vomit and secrete a protein that reacts with seawater to create a thick mucus.

A single animal can turn a five-gallon bucket of seawater into a pool of goo in a matter of moments, said Eddie Kisfaludy of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. While the slime distracts predators, it also occasionally suffocates the hagfish.

"They're definitely more interesting than maggots, but then all these researchers who work on fruit flies will probably argue with me," Kisfaludy said.

If I had an aphrodesiac I might actually get committed for something. Don't need that.....NO WAY!!!

[Homicidalheathen]

OH now this is important. Goths. If I hear anything about cloves I will let ya know.

EU votes to clear up vodka labeling

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Participants at Berlin's international agriculture fair check out a variety of vodkas. The European Parliament voted against traditional vodka producers, including Finland and Sweden, who wanted molasses to be approved as an official ingredient.

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Traditional vodka can only be made from grain or potatoes, the European Parliamant decided Tuesday.

Vodkas made from other ingredients can only use the name if their composition and origin is clearly indicated on the label, according to new spirit labeling rules approved by the parliament.

Parliamentarians from traditional vodka producing countries, such as Finland, Poland or Sweden, had pushed for rules that would have included molasses among the ingredients allowed. Other deputies wanted the notice indicating composition of non-traditional vodkas to cover two thirds of the label.

But the new compromise rules, approved by a show of hands, were backed by all EU governments except Poland and are likely to be endorsed by EU ministers later this month, officials said. Approval by a qualified majority of the EU's 27 member states is needed for the new rules to take effect.

The regulations — replacing guidelines from 1989 — were needed to ensure the quality of spirit drinks and protect their "geographic origin" indicator that helps sell them and guarantees their exclusivity, the EU said. They also define the labeling of products such as the Czech Republic's Slivovice, Greece's Ouzo, and Germany's Rum-Verschnitt, among others.

[Homicidalheathen]

Snake head found in beans, Phila. man says

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Earl Hartman was a little rattled by something he says he found in a can of green beans: a snake head.

The Philadelphia man said he found the inch-long head on his plate Wednesday night, right between a chicken breast and buttered noodles. He said it came out of the green bean can.

"When I sat down, I noticed something didn't look right," Hartman told WCAU-TV. "It didn't look like a green bean."

Hartman said he called the Pathmark store where he bought the beans, and got a call back from Seneca Foods in upstate New York, where the vegetables were canned.

Rich Savner, a spokesman for Carteret, N.J.-based Pathmark Stores Inc., confirmed that a customer reported finding a "foreign substance" in a can of green beans, but said officials had not determined what it was.

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The store conducted spot checks of other cans, but nothing out of the ordinary turned up, Savner said. Similar cans were removed from the shelves as a precaution.

A woman who answered the telephone at Marion, N.Y.-based Seneca Foods Corp. on Friday said the company had no comment.

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[Destroit]

Some people are really just stupid animals. Day by day kind of animals. See some food? Eat it. Have a dollar? Spend it. Get a paycheck? Blow it. Baby won't stop crying due to pacifier falling out of mouth? Well, she sure thought of a way to keep it there, but didn't think ahead, that's for sure. Probably didn't even mean to do it either, maybe even thought she was being "innovative". Literally, some people are just stupid ignorant animals.

[Jadis]

CANTON, Ohio - A day after authorities arrested a pregnant woman’s boyfriend on murder charges, one of the man’s former classmates was jailed for allegedly hindering the investigation.

Bobby Cutts Jr. and Myisha Ferrell were scheduled to be arraigned Monday. Cutts, a police officer, faces charges of murdering 26-year-old Jessie Davis and her fetus. His friend, Myisha Ferrell, faces one count of obstruction of justice.

The Stark County sheriff’s office said Ferrell, 29, was arrested and jailed Sunday, but declined to release other information, including whether she had a lawyer.

Sheriff’s deputies and FBI agents with a search warrant broke down the door of Ferrell’s apartment Saturday night, agent Scott Wilson said. She was not home during the search.

Davis’ body was found Saturday in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, still carrying her dead, nearly full-term fetus. The Summit County medical examiner confirmed the identity Sunday.

'Mommy was crying'

Davis, of Lake Township near Canton, was reported missing June 15 after her mother found her 2-year-old grandson, Blake, home alone, with bedroom furniture toppled and bleach spilled on the floor. Blake gave investigators some of their first clues, saying: “Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy’s in rug.”

Thousands of volunteers searched for Davis for several days, while investigators questioned Cutts, a Canton police officer who has an estranged wife.

Cutts, 30, is the father of Davis’ son. Her relatives have said they believed Cutts also was the father of the fetus Davis was carrying. Davis’ mother had said Davis planned to name the baby Chloe.

Davis’ family members and Cutts’ lawyer did not return calls for comment Sunday. Cutts’ pastor, the Rev. C.A. Richmond, declined to comment as he entered services in Canton.

Justin Lindstrom, 27, an upstairs neighbor of Ferrell’s, said officers spent two hours searching the woman’s apartment Saturday night before leaving with several full, brown paper bags and bottles of bleach from the basement.

Authorities did not describe

Authorities would not describe what the deputies seized.

Ferrell worked at a Denny’s restaurant until quitting her job Friday, Lindstrom said. A manager at Denny’s confirmed that Ferrell had worked there as a dishwasher.

Lindstrom said he never really hit it off with Ferrell, who lives in the apartment downstairs with her 11-year-old daughter. He said she had parties every night.

Davis’ body was found in an area with a dirt road, a small dirt parking area and a couple of benches overlooking a grassy field.

Over the weekend, people placed flowers and red and yellow ribbons just below a sign identifying the park. Just down the road from where the expectant mother’s body was found, someone posted a sign saying, “God bless you Jessie and Chloe, forever in our hearts.”

[Jadis]

JOLIET, Ill. - Just hours before a man was to attend a memorial service for his wife and three young children, authorities arrested him at a Missouri funeral home on charges of gunning down his family in their sport utility vehicle.

Police initially said Christopher Vaughn, 32, was not a suspect in the killings that were discovered June 14 after Vaughn flagged down a motorist on a service road in Channahon, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago.

Vaughn, who works as a computer forensic adviser, had been shot in the thigh. His wife, Kimberly, 34, was shot once, while each their children — Abigayle, 12; Cassandra, 11; and Blake, 8 — were shot twice. His handgun was found at the scene, authorities said.

Prosecutor James Glasgow, who declined to discuss possible motives, said Vaughn with charged with two murder counts per victim. One set of counts alleges he shot with intent to kill and the other alleges he shot knowing that it was likely to cause death or great bodily harm.

Before he was arrested, Vaughn had voluntarily met with investigators three times to answer questions.

Authorities would not say what evidence tipped the balance enough to allow them to seek an arrest warrant from a judge late Friday. The charges were built from numerous interviews, forensic evidence, computer files and phone records, authorities said.

Glasgow said he has 120 days to decide whether to seek the death penalty.

“We are hopeful that with the issuance of these charges that Kimberly Vaughn and her three beautiful children can truly rest in peace,” said Glasgow. “Everyone who came in contact with this case was moved by what they saw.”

Word of Vaughn’s arrest circulated among the mourners as the service, hundreds of miles away at New Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Charles, Mo., drew to a close.

“We should not be here today, but the events of this past week have been thrust upon us, events which are indescribable and unspeakable,” said the Rev. Christopher James.

The church was a special place for Kimberly Vaughn and the children; she attended since its 1994 inception and it was the place the kids were later baptized. Kimberly Vaughn’s parents still attend the church.

The service included no caskets. Kimberly Vaughn and her children had been quietly buried in a nearby cemetery to avoid media attention.

Photographs showing the kids at play or their mother’s days playing volleyball filled four poster boards at the church. Only one of the roughly 100 pictures — a small snapshot of the family — showed Christopher Vaughn.

The Vaughns, who once lived in Missouri, moved from Washington state to the Chicago area about a year ago. They lived briefly in Aurora before relocating to a spacious home in Oswego.

Glasgow said he hoped Vaughn would be extradited from Missouri to Illinois soon. He said Vaughn indicated he intended to fight extradition.

Phone messages seeking comment were left Saturday at the offices of Christopher Vaughn’s attorney in Missouri. Vaughn was being held without bond at St. Charles County Detention Center, authorities said.

[Homicidalheathen]

A short temper and lengthy record

The past of the man accused of killing Marilou Johnson emerges as police search for her body

June 26, 2007

BY STEVE NEAVLING and BEN SCHMITT

FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS

As dive teams concluded the first day of searching for Marilou Johnson's body in Cass Lake, a picture emerged of the murder suspect as having violent tendencies and a hair-trigger temper.

David J. Wright's ex-wife, Susan Ann Wright, described him as dangerous in a petition for a personal protection order filed in Macomb County Circuit Court last July after the couple separated. She cited his lengthy criminal record, and noted that at one time he was ordered to undergo anger management counseling.

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"I am very scared of him," she wrote at the time. "He has hinted to me that he has a gun."

Police say David Wright, 37, of Richmond, a self-employed plumber, slit Johnson's throat about 10 a.m. June 14 in the driveway of the sprawling Washington Township estate she shared with her 71-year-old boyfriend, Roger Blanchard, and took multiple pieces of her jewelry.

Wright was arraigned Monday in 42-1 District Court in Romeo, where he was formally charged with felony murder, kidnapping and larceny from a building. A preliminary hearing is set for July 3. He faces life in prison without parole if convicted of the most serious of the crimes.

On Monday, 20 divers from Macomb and Oakland counties searched Cass Lake, which borders West Bloomfield, Keego Harbor and Orchard Lake in Oakland County. The search was called off for the day at 6:30 p.m., but divers expect to resume searching this morning.

One hour before the search ended, they found a white leather Cole Haan purse near the lake's sandy bottom, about 70 feet down. Inside were bricks and Johnson's passport, driver's license and credit cards, a cell phone, glasses and a checkbook, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said.

Also inside was a necklace with 22 empty indentations for white diamonds and five larger indentations.

Wright told authorities he dropped the purse in a separate part of the lake from where he dumped Johnson's body, which was weighted down with cinder blocks, Hackel said.

"We're very certain she is out here," Hackel said. "It's just a matter of time."

Wright has done other work at the Washington Township home, Hackel said. And a source told WDIV-TV Local 4 that Johnson asked Blanchard to help Wright set up a plumbing business and that Blanchard gave Wright a check for more than $25,000.

Hackel said Wright said he did not mean to kill her. According to statements he has given police, he held a fishing knife to her throat as he demanded money and tripped while trying to force her into the trailer connected to his 1998 Dodge Ram. Hackel said Wright then put the body inside the truck, cleaned up the blood and went back into the home for more jewels.

"There are some people who are desperate for cash and they do desperate things at desperate times," Hackel said.

Police say they think Blanchard was inside the sprawling home at the time but unaware of what was going on.

Johnson's body originally was buried in a shallow grave on property near the lake owned by Wright's family, Hackel said. But Wright dug it up, took someone else's rowboat about 75 to 100 yards out from a private marina on the lake's western shore and dumped the body.

A witness has come forward claiming to have seen Wright on the lake, but Hackel declined to elaborate.

A violent outburst would be in line with what Susan Wright, then 43, wrote in the petition for a protection order. She claimed that her husband once punched her in the face, breaking her nose.

"He has a very bad temper," she wrote. "One time five years or so ago, he was mad at me so he punched in the windshield of his own truck."

She also described an incident in which an enraged David Wright: "picked up the full-size recliner and threw it across the room yelling."

According to State Police records, Wright has a lengthy criminal history and has served several stints in jail.

In 2005, Wright pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in exchange for dismissal of a felony assault with a dangerous weapon charge, stemming from an attack on a man with a metal pipe in Chesterfield Township. He received a probation sentence of a year and had to undergo anger management.

Chesterfield Township Detective Jason Dawidowicz recalled Monday that the Oct. 13, 2004, altercation, which he investigated, was over a parking spot at a Home Depot.

"A verbal altercation led to Wright chasing the man around with a pipe, swinging it at him," Dawidowicz said. "He never made contact."

Wright also was charged in Fraser with felony assault with a dangerous weapon in 1990. After pleading guilty to destruction of property, he served 75 days in jail. In 1992, he served a 150-day jail sentence for larceny.

In 1995, he was sentenced to a year in jail after authorities charged him with auto theft.

In 1998, Eastpointe police charged Wright with arson. He pleaded no contest to making a false report and spent three months in jail.

A woman answering the phone at Blanchard's Washington Township home Monday said she didn't speak English before hanging up.

Wright's ex-wife could not be reached for comment and her divorce attorney did not return a call Monday. But in her personal protection order, she described her terror:

"He is so out of control, I fear he will come back to the home and harm me -- because he is so angry with me."

[Homicidalheathen]

its officially her body

[Hellion]

Only in Detroit.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...NEWS02/70701019

[Steven]

a few weeks back I read in the paper an d online about a disturbing unkown trend that was killing of thousands of honey bees here in the states. Scientists could not tell if it was the bi product of an invader (like mites) or a chemical bi product or????

anyway the story came, then was gone in a flash. I've since found some extra reading on it but it seems to be under the radar.

we depend on honybees in this country to pollinate our crops. no pollination, no food. that includes grain. which in turn also becomes a food source for our livestock.

no food for them either.

you read about famine, but it doesent touch us here in the US. Thats something you see on "feed the children". And Ive read about the effects of famine in biblical writings but again, I dont relate personally.

interesting how one little thing, one tiny little thing like the killing of honey bees could very well bring us to a place of danger.

[Homicidalheathen]

Sick f*cking bitch.

The voices told her to kill her children

Kukla moves to Circuit Court after preliminary examination

By Erin McClary

C & G Staff Writer

SHELBY TOWNSHIP – Although the voices told her not to let the girls out of her sight the Saturday night prior to their deaths, Jennifer Kukla said they instructed her to kill her daughters before someone else broke into their Macomb Township trailer and hurt them, according to an interview she had with Detective Mark Grammatico of the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office.

But after sleeping on it, resisting the initial instructions, the voices prevailed.

Now, the Macomb Township mother who admitted to stabbing her two young daughters back in February will face a jury on two counts of first-degree murder after Judge Douglas Shepherd bound her over to Macomb County Circuit Court during a preliminary examination June 21 at 41-A District Court in Shelby Township.

On Feb. 4, Sgt. Lori Misch was dispatched to the home on Chevalier Drive after police received a call from Kukla’s sister, Lauren Russell, stating that her sister had just killed her children, reports said. When Misch arrived, she told prosecutors, Kukla’s dark figure was standing in the doorway of her illuminated home, awaiting arrest.

Misch, assisted by Deputy Aaron Hurley, commanded Kukla to come down from the porch with her hands up. She complied, and when Misch asked her “what was going on,” Kukla said, “she had just killed her kids.”

After revealing abrasions on her left wrist, Kukla told the officers that she was “going to the deepest pits of hell” and that “there was a special place in hell for people like her.”

Inside the home, Misch found Kukla’s dogs disemboweled in the living room and blood-smeared knives on the kitchen table. She did not go into the bedroom where Kukla said her daughters laid slain.

Hurley, however, did go into the bedroom but left immediately. “There was blood all over the room,” including on the ceiling, blinds and bed, he told prosecutors. “There was obviously no signs of life.”

During the interview with Grammatico the Monday morning after she was arrested for stabbing her daughters in the neck, Kukla said she had been hearing a “variety of voices she never heard before.” She told him the voices “started off nice and then got evil.”

Alexandria “Alexa,” 8; and Ashley, 5; followed their mother’s instructions, she told Grammatico, while she dressed them for a walk the night of Feb. 3. Kukla said she didn’t know where they would walk to, but knew she had to get them out of the house because the voices in her head were warning her that someone was coming to kill her children.

That night, Kukla slept in between her daughters. In the morning, flogged by voices, she dressed her children for school, even though it was Sunday.

She told Grammatico she attempted calling her father to come get the girls, but instead followed instructions from the voices to get a butcher knife from the kitchen.

Around 7:30 a.m. Feb. 4, Kukla told Grammatico when she first stabbed Ashley in the neck near the doorway of the bedroom, Alexa pushed her little sister into the hallway and then met the same knife at her own neck. After stabbing Alexa, Kukla ran after the younger girl who was hiding under the kitchen table, and killed her.

An hour later, she said during the interview, she killed her dogs because she didn’t wanting them “haunting her in hell.” Shortly after maiming the dogs, she killed the family’s pet mouse.

The voices were speaking to her throughout the slaughtering, she told Grammatico.

Before finally calling Russell hours later around 6 p.m., Kukla said she was “in and out of sleep” all day and occasionally went out to her car to smoke cigarette butts.

Neighbors said her front door remained open most of the day.

Before interviewing Kukla, Grammatico read her her Miranda Rights, which he said she understood, re-read and signed.

Macomb County Prosecutor William Cataldo said, “We have issues to be litigated,” but told the judge that the homicide of Kukla’s daughters was premeditated, meaning “she had time to think about it beforehand.

“She had the opportunity to choose to do it, or choose not to do it,” he said.

Defense attorney Steven Freers will submit a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity at her pre-trial July 2 and hopes to bring the charges down to second-degree murder.

“Yes, she thought about it the night before, but didn’t do it,” he said. “There was no pre-planning, no weapon bought, no attempt to cover it up, no attempt to clean it up.”

Kukla was found first legally insane by the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ypsilanti, which also found her capable to stand trail. In a second evaluation by Dr. Lyle Danuloff in Farmington Hills, she was determined to be insane and not legally responsible, said Freers.

Cataldo said they have probable cause to conduct a third exam in hopes of challenging the results of the first two.

Freers said the trail will result in Kukla being found either guilty of first-degree murder, guilty with mental illness or guilty of second-degree murder by reason of insanity. The preliminary exam went as he expected but he hopes the results will lead the latter conviction.

Pre-trial is set to begin July 2 at Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens.

[Homicidalheathen]

Hee hee and people say its not so bad around here.

Mount Clemens-Clinton-Harrison Journal (MI)

CRIME WATCH Cross-dresser caught stealing baby items from dollar store

Published: June 7, 2007

MOUNT CLEMENS - A cross-dressing teen was arrested at about 1:30 a.m. on May 29 for allegedly stealing baby items from the Dollar General located in the 70 block of North Groesbeck. According to the police report, a suspect described as a black female had stashed $32 worth of baby items in her purse. The female did not have any identification, but told police her name and birthday. The officer suspected that she was a male and when her name was put in a database, it came up that the suspect, who was in fact male, had several different aliases.

Suspect in lizard stabbing identified

CLINTON TOWNSHIP - Police have identified and are looking for the suspect who fatally stabbed a township resident's pet lizard after he took the homeless suspect in for a meal.

The suspect is identified as Orlando Rhae Coleman, a 47-yearold man with salt-and-pepper hair and a well-groomed mustache.

A warrant was issued for Coleman for killing or torturing an animal without cause, a four-year felony. Under the charge, he could be prevented from owning any animals.

Coleman allegedly stabbed and killed a large monitor lizard, Swamp Billy, owned by a township resident. The victim saw the suspect at a bus stop and offered to bring him to his house for a meal. While there, the suspect allegedly became afraid of the pet and killed it. Anyone with information can call police at (586) 493-7840.

[Homicidalheathen]

CRIME WATCH Intruder urinates on documents

Published: March 22, 2007

CLINTON TOWNSHIP - Someone who broke into a home and stole numerous items last week also urinated on the resident's financial papers, a police report said. The victims were in the backyard of their house on Hayes, between Utica Road and Clinton River Road, in the afternoon March 14 when the intruder used a 4-inch by 4-inch wooden pole to pound their door open, the report said.

Officers arrived and saw that the door and its frame were damaged and the glass pane was shattered. Prescription drugs, three daily planners, a wallet with seven or eight credit cards, two checkbooks, cash and a cell phone were taken, the homeowners said. They also discovered financial documents scattered across the floor and urinated on, which led the victim to believe his 24-year-old daughter may have been responsible, because she has been angry with him for several years. He told police his daughter believes he owes her money, and also is bipolar and has had drug convictions in the past.

Hee pee'd on there bills lol wish I could do that.

[Jadis]

I just don't know what the hell to think about this... It makes me completely SICK to think that anyone could do this....

Police continue searching for more tiny bodies

This woman needs some serious help ...

[freydis]

I just don't know what the hell to think about this... It makes me completely SICK to think that anyone could do this....

Police continue searching for more tiny bodies

This woman needs some serious help ...

OMG.....

[Hellion]

This just happened a half hour ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070731/ap_on_...2o9nDT_ZRys0NUE

[jadnifer]

I dont have any stories right now, but I just have to say that those stories are just utterly heartbreaking and just reading them....oh man...I dont know if I could read anymore

[Amerist]

Exorcism Attempt Sparks Questions

http://www.kpho.com/news/13786174/detail.html

PHOENIX -- The questions about Ronald Marquez haven't stopped since police said officers burst into his sweltering cinderblock home and tried to stop a bloody exorcism of his granddaughter.

Police said Marquez had the 3-year-old in a headlock when they arrived Saturday morning.

A family member told them he was trying to "squeeze the demons out of the child." Police also found Marquez's 19-year-old daughter in the room, naked, covered with blood, holding a religious picture and chanting.

Officers shocked Marquez, 49, twice with Taser stun guns as they tried to pull the little girl away. He later died.

"This is so bizarre," said Jan Dahl, who lives down the street. Marquez recently gave her an estimate on laying carpet. "Ron was just a real gentle soul."

On Monday, neighbors cruised past Marquez's small grey house and stopped to look at a makeshift memorial on the family's driveway. Someone placed white carnations next to a picture of what one neighbor said was Marquez smiling with his granddaughter. A cardboard sign told Marquez that his children love him, and that he'll be missed.

"#1 Dad, Love you dad," the sign said.

But numerous questions remain from a very odd and tragic morning in Phoenix. Why would Marquez barricade himself inside a room with his daughter and granddaughter? Why was he choking his granddaughter? Were they really trying to release demons from the little girl?

Veronica Perez, who lives around the corner, questioned whether it really was an exorcism: "I think he was holding his girl, to protect her, because they (police) had guns."

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