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Being a teenage mother is certainly not a walk in the park and deciding whether or not to have an abortion is a struggle that many teenager have to deal with. While I am not an advocate either way I can see where it might be a better alternative than babies raising babies. That’s one of the cool things about California. The law in California has a law that says parents can drop off their newborns no questions asked at fire stations and they still have two weeks to change their minds if they have to.19-year-old Jessica Betts chose neither option. She waited until the baby was born and dumped it, umbilical cord still attached, in a dumpster behind a grocery store in Modesto, California. A guy happened to be dumpster diving shortly after and found the baby, dead but still warm to the touch. It was pronounced dead at the hospital.An anonymous tip turned police on to Jessica Mae Betts, who has pleaded not guilty to murder and is being held on $1 Million bond. She is facing a maximum sentence of life in prison for the murder of her child.Links:
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Back in 1988 Jonathan J Good killed a man with a .22 rifle near detroit so he could steal his pickup truck. He was convicted of 2nd-degree murder and armed robbery. Since he’s 36 now that would make him about 16 when he did the crimes. So much for rehabilitation, huh?He is suspected of being the leader of a gang of teenage thieves and thugs that have been implicated in a string of robberies including a home invasion and shooting this past March. One of them that Good took an active part in was the home invasion of Mike and Teresa Korpal in Morley, Michigan. The two were tied up and robbed and a few days later some of the gang members returned and shot Teresa Korpal in an effort to keep her from identifying them.
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I don’t yet have a mug shot or photo of the unlucky Mr. Jorge Aguirre from Santa Ana but will, it just may take awhile.
Driving drunk is certainly no laughing matter but this is about as funny as it gets. Jorge was driving through Santa Ana when he hit a car. Police officers that were patrolling the neighborhood heard the collision and as the driver of one of the cars flagged them down and pointed to a van driving away.Officers pulled the van over in a parking lot and as officers were walking toward the van it rolled backward and almost hit the police car. Although the police ordered the man several times to put his hands up he started fumbling around with something in the front seat so they tased him.While Jorge was stunned officers approached his van and discovered that he was naked and that he had been fumbling around trying to get his clothes.What a dumb ass -
Less than 48 hours after we told you about accused killer-arsonist Roger McCray, your tips led cops right to him in Seattle, Wash. McCray was wanted for setting his roommate on fire and leaving him to burn to death.
Unknown Kenneth Harris, Sr. Killer:
After nearly two months, Baltimore City police caught up with 19-year-old Charles McGaney and 20-year-old Gary Collins — two men they say murdered beloved former Baltimore city councilman Kenneth Harris, Sr. But no one in the police department is celebrating yet, because a third suspect is still out there, and the manhunt is far from finished. Cops need help identifying the third man responsible for Ken’s senseless murder.
Former Chicago cop Sgt. Eddie C. Hicks swore to uphold the law throughout his 30 years on the force. But for nearly ten of those years, police say Hicks was part of a racketeering scheme in which he and his crew stole drugs from area dealers, only to sell the loot back to a local peddler. Now this disgraced ex-cop is on the run, and police need your help to bring him down.
For 10 years, investigators in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the FBI have been on the hunt for alleged child predator Lorrie Trites. For many years, AMW and investigators knew him only as Loren. The FBI says they’ve learned his actual name is Lorrie, and chances are he can’t stay away from pools, he loves to swim — and worse, the FBI says he loves to coach children.
Melesio Martinez was known simply as “Daddy” to his two small children. His wife describes him as a hard-working construction worker who worked ten-hour days, and still had time to play and entertain his kids. That all changed one night in September 2001, when cops say the Martinez family went into a Granada Hills, Calif. liquor store and ran into George Navarro.
On Friday, Oct. 17, 2008, the Brea Police Department arrested Robert Young, who had been arrested before after an AMW tipster recognized him. He has been charged with First Degree Murder, as well as Conspiracy to Commit Murder, in the 1996 car bombing death of Gary Triano in Tucson, Ariz. Police are also looking for Pamela Phillips, Triano’s widow, who they say may have been involved in the bombing.
Pamela Phillips, the ex-wife of the late Gary Triano, is wanted for Murder and Conspiracy to Commit Murder in the First Degree. Police say Phillips and her accomplice Ronald Young — who has been apprehended with the help of AMW viewers — worked together to orchestrate Gary’s murder.
In February 2008, Garrison Colby divulged to his wife a horrifying secret: he had been sexually abusing their son for six years. Colby was arrested and released with a ankle monitor, but he cut it off, and now he’s on the run.
A 13-year-old’s nightmarish ordeal began during the 2005 Thanksgiving holiday when cops say her mother’s ex-boyfriend, 39-year-old Richard “Craig” Torres, molested and raped her at a Southern California hotel. Now, Sacramento Sheriff’s detectives are determined to capture this accused sexual predator.
The notorious Mongols biker gang have been described as a “criminal syndicate on wheels.” But this month, the gang was dealt a serious blow when federal agents infiltrated the organization’s highest levels, and AMW was there as the bust went down.
Cops say 48-year-old Rachael Walsh was camping alone at her Falls Creek, Idaho campsite on the weekend of August 16, 2008. However, the U.S. Postal worker’s family became alarmed when they didn’t hear from Rachael after she was supposed to return and went to her campsite looking for her. What they discovered was a mystery — all of Rachael’s belongings were untouched, her car was gone, and there were no signs of the missing mother of four.
Since 1967, Ohio cops say Robert Bowman has literally gotten away with murder, but science — and now the police — finally caught up to the accused killer. Cops say DNA irrefutably ties him to the abduction, rape and murder of 14-year-old Eileen Adams in Toledo, Ohio some 40 years ago, and his time on the lam has come to an end, thousands of miles from the scene of the crime.
Jesus Roberto Munguia’s rap sheet shows that the 32-year-old gang member is no stranger to the law. Authorities say he started stealing cars in California when he was just 15 years old, but Munguia soon fled to Nevada with his girlfriend and their kids. When Munguia’s girlfriend had enough and left him, the FBI says he lured her back to his home and killed her, now adding murder to his long list of charges.
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I mentioned this morning prior to leaving for work that there had been an arrest in the Brianna Denison case and sure enough there has been and it looks like James Michael Biela is the guilty party, although that won’t come for sure until he gets his day in court. This isn’t a court of law however and thus far the evidence points solidly as Biela being the scumsucking bag of excretion that raped and killed Brianna and possibly sexually assaulted several other women as well.Currently Washoe County sheriff’s detectives are digging in the backyard of the house where James lived at one point. Although they won’t release the details of the search there are only a few things they could be searching for. More dead bodies or hidden evidence such as clothing or murder weapons.Biela has a bit of a violent history as well. Back in 2002 he was arrested for threatening his ex-girlfriend’s neighbor with a knife. His girlfriend at the time filed a restraining order against him but he was never served with it and the original charge of assault with a deadly weapon was downgraded to simple assault, which is a misdemeanor. -

Lance Cpl. Samuel Joyce, from Boston, accepts a bagfull of toys during the Toys For Tots 5k Run at Fleet Activities Yokosuka. Runners donated new toys to the local Marine’s Toys for Tots program.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We’re In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don’t Know Where To LookThis post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

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The Reno Police Department has a suspect in the murder of Brianna Denison in custody. He has not been charged yet and his name hasn’t been released. Normally they can hold a suspect up to 48 hours without charging him with anything.Law enforcement has taken a DNA sample after his arrest Tuesday night, which takes around 12 hours to complete. They are expecting the results later this morning and have a press conference scheduled for 10am this morning.Police believe that the suspect is linked to two other sexual assault cases near the University of Nevada as well.By the time they get the results back in I will be at work and won’t be able to update this post until this evening.
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Police in Syracuse, Utah arrested 40-year-old Kimberlee William Arigot last week on charges of unlawful sex with a minor, unlawful sexual conduct and dealing materials harmful to a minor.Law enforcement started their investigation after receiving a tip that a woman had been sending nude pictures of herself to a teenage boy. Once they started looking into it they discovered that the person in question was actually 18 but considering the rumors they were still pretty concerned.Turns out that Kimberlee was allegedly having sex over the last six months to a year with three boys ranging in age from 15-17. Kimberlee actually admitted it to police after she had been brought in for questioning.
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Teenagers tend to do stupid shit at times. I know, I was one of the stupidest of the lot that I ran with. Apparently some friends of Taylor Meyer are just as smart.Police in Wrentham noticed a large amount of teenagers congregating at a house this past Friday night and decided that they needed to check it out. All in all they busted 22 underage drinkers at the party and two of them were busted for drug possession.Quite a few of the kids at the party were sporting pink bracelets that Taylor’s mother had given out in order to send a message of remembrance as well as perhaps make them think twice before doing something stupid but apparently that message didn’t quite sink in. One of the cars also had a message written in chalk on it’s back window. “RIP Taylor Meyer – we will never forget you”.According to the report I read over at WHDH the parents of the teen that threw the party were asleep at the time and didn’t know anything was going on. Yeah, right. Too much partaking perhaps. The parents are bound to be facing charges before the week is out.Links:
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While I have always been interested in crime news and the freakish things that people will do it was the Natalee Holloway disappearance back in 2005 that really started getting me interested in crime blogging, although it would be three years before I started doing it to the exclusion of other stuff. Over the last three years our eyes and ears have been filled with images of Natalee, Joran van der Sloot and a myriad of characters, not unlike the Caylee Anthony disappearance/murder.Over the last three years we have also been treated to the musings of a pathological liar who enjoys being in the spotlight. I am referring of course to Joran van der Sloot.There are a few shows I try my best not to watch on television. Not difficult considering I watch very little TV anyway but I avoid Nancy Grace and Greta Van Susteren like the plague along with all the other talking heads. At least on the Internet I don’t have to ‘listen’ to the incessant shrieking.It appears that van der Sloot has decided to ‘come forward’ now that he’s in the news again and give an interview with Greta. This time he’s claiming to have sold Natalee as a sex slave. That’s actually one of the stories that was circulating back in 2005 which might lend it some credence but come on. Is there really anyone alive that seriously believes a thing that creepy boy Joran van der Sloot has to say?This is one unsolved mystery that I think is likely to stay unsolved forever.links:
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..and that’s putting it mildly.
CNN has the story up now (three weeks after my initial post). I updated this back on November 16th and finally have a mugshot to add. That’s about the only new stuff in this post.Once I get a mugshot that doesn’t have the rest of the family in it I’ll post it here.Back in December of 2007 Michelle Kehoe was driving her boys to the library, became distracted by her sons and veered off the road, plowed through a huge snow bank and landed in the Iowa River. Thanks to four good samaritans all three of them were pulled from the icy river.It was a horrible accident that could have ended up with the death of three people were it not for the bravery and quick thinking of the gentlemen that pulled them out.It was an accident, wasn’t it?Wasn’t it? -
Updated to include the link to Katrina’s MySpace page, thanks to the fine folks over at the Dreamin’ Demon. I was pretty out of it when I got up this morning and wrote this out, I don’t think I even bothered to check any of the social networking sites like I normally do.34-year-old Katrina Karen Doyle (http://www.myspace.com/britchick74) and her husband, 43-year-old David Pook Anthony from Land O’Lakes, Florida got into an argument that quickly turned into a violent mess. He hit her at least once and she in turn stabbed him in the back of the head with a pen. Ouch. Hopefully it was retractable.Once her husband had been treated for his wounds he was arrested for domestic aggravated battery on a pregnant woman and jailed on $7,500 bond. Karen herself was also arrested on aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.Just another ugly domestic dispute gone wrong, right? Oh no, it gets even better…
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I wear hats. Not all the time but when it’s cold or rainy I wear a hat. Mine looks amazingly like the hat on the cartoon picture on my sidebar as a matter of fact. I love that hat. It’s heavy black leather and was an anniversary gift from my wife in 2007. I don’t think I could kill anyone over it though. I don’t know, just call me a prude but it’s just a darned hat and while I might be pretty pissed off if someone ruined it or lost it, it’s still just a damned hat. I guess that’s what makes me different from Deadreart Holmes because he liked his hat too. Enough to kill over it. I guess if it hadn’t been the hat it would have been something else though.Sheriff’s deputies in Hillsborough County Florida arrested 18-year-old Deadreart Jamel Holmes on a charge of second-degree murder after he stabbed his brother to death in a fight over a lost hat. See, Deadreart let his brother Jason Phifer borrow his hat and the scoundrel lost it, leaving it in a friend’s car. Deadreart threatened to stab him and then made good on the threat by attacking him with a kitchen knife, stabbing him in the chest. Ahh, brotherly love at it’s finest.
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Update – Shammarh has been denied bond by a Henry County judge. The rest of the update is at the bottom of the post.Another one in my area of the country. I ran across this story earlier in the evening but have been waiting for more information to be released prior to posting anything about it.This past Friday around noon EMS responded to a 911 call at a house in McDonough. When they arrived they found a two-year-old girl with severe trauma to the head. She was life-flighted by helicopter to Children’s Health Care of Atlanta. Despite the valiant efforts of the health-care workers the little girl died from her injuries on Saturday afternoon.From what I have gathered so far the toddler is possibly related to Shamika Jones, whose family was featured on a local news station earlier this year after they fell upon hard times. The Joneses drove to Atlanta from California last summer in order to start a new life and ended up homeless and living in their broken-down van. -
On Sunday afternoon police in Warner Robins, Georgia responded to an emergency call of an unresponsive child at 1306 Hartley Avenue around a quarter past two along with fire and emergency medical technicians.By the time they arrived five week old Katie Tucker was already dead. Joanne Tucker was arrested on charges of battery and cruelty to children yesterday but those charges have been upgraded today to include felony murder.Police in Warner Robins waited until after an autopsy was performed today prior to charging Tucker with murder. According to Warner Robins police Major John Wagner, “She struck the child”Allegedly of course.She struck the child!That’s about the understatement of the year considering that the autopsy ruled the cause of death as cranial cerebral trauma.
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The picture sort of makes old dude look like one of those blue-haired trolls doesn’t it? Nothing whatsoever about James Spencer Adams and the incident which led to his arrest is anywhere close to sanity so why would his mugshot be any different?According to what James told police he and his grandson were horsing around and wrestling when he grabbed one of those plastic coat hangers and jammed it down the throat of the ten year old. Actually he ‘guided’ the coat hanger down the kids throat this past Wednesday evening. Once he pulled it out he explained how he wiped the blood off the hanger.WTF? In what way, shape or form does jamming a coat-hanger down a 10-year-old boy’s throat constitute loving horseplay between a grandparent and their grandchild? It’s just sick.
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Update – I originally posted this back on September 7th, 2008. Update at bottom of the post.
Shemeeka Davis of Antioch, California was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder and child abuse of a 15-year-old girl that was under her care. She was apparently not only abusing the girl but her 15-year-old twin brother as well as Davis’ 7-year-old daughter as well according to SFGate.Com.All three children were under her care and she has been arrested on suspicion of murder, three counts of felony corporal punishment and enhancements for causing great bodily harm. The girl, Jazzmin Davis, was continually whipped with belts and electrical cords, burned with irons and severely beaten. She was malnourished to the point of emaciation and suffered severe lacerations and blunt force trauma to the head according to Antioch Police.
One of their neighbors said that she hadn’t seen Jazzmin in over a year and when she asked Shemeeka about it she was told that Jazzmin had been sent to live with other family members.
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Prisons release offenders early all the time. Overcrowding is one of the biggest reasons and “Big Mike” Lapointe apparently is one of the biggest overcrowders. As a matter of fact the Quebec judge that let Lapointe out did so because the jail couldn’t find a table or chair big enough for the 450-pound drug gang member. -
There seems to be a recurring theme in quite a few abuse and murder cases where women are involved with their boyfriends and their children seem to take a back seat to their primal urges as victims.19-year-old Audry L. Graveline and 24-year-old Raymond R. Farradzs were arrested earlier this week after Audry’s toddler was injured this past Sunday.Police in Prescott, Arizona got a call last Sunday that told them a 1-year-old boy was injured in a trailer. By the time that police got to the place Aubry and Raymond had fled the scene with her son.It took a couple of days but investigators tracked the pair of child abusers to a possible location in Paulden and on November 19th police from Prescott as well as Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputies found them. Graveline and Farradzs were taken into custody at that time.
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People become foster parents for different reasons, some of them being very good. They want to help children that have been abused or been in drug using households and give the children a chance at a normal life. Sometimes it can be a hard but very rewarding experience.The you have others that become foster parents for their own sinister purposes. Base, ugly uses. At best some of these people just do it for the money and at worst you have people like Jan M. Fricke who allegedly do it for the sex.You heard me right. Jan M. Fricke allegedly had sex repeatedly with his 13-year-old foster daughter. 13!Jan is currently sitting in jail (or was yesterday) on $5,000 bond but since it’s so low he may be out soon. -
Birmingham, Alabama is a little less than two hours west of me so it came as a surprise that I’ve been oblivious to the disappearance of 23-year-old Nadia Kersh (www.myspace.com/nadikagirl) two weeks ago.Nadia works at a grocery store in the Birmingham area and left work on November 3rd on a lunch break (some of the stories I’ve read state that she left to pick up her one-year-old son from daycare) and never returned. Obviously when she hadn’t picked him up by closing time the day care was getting worried and called law enforcement.The next day her car was located in west Birmingham and her purse was found nearby on some railroad tracks. Birmingham police have questioned three men in the disappearance and they say that they do have a suspect but not enough evidence to actually know where Nadia is or what happened to her.The police in Homewood, Alabama are asking for any help that can be given in the search for Nadia. Earlier today several volunteer search teams were out looking for any sign of her starting at about 9 this morning. There was no sign of Nadia but several items of interest were found.
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39-year-old Cheryl L. Busch of Hollister, California has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of her 18-month-old daughter.Law enforcement arrived after a 911 call in the town of Hollister to find that a toddler had been shot. They found the little girls body in it’s crib with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. A .357 magnum was found outside the house and has been identified as the murder weapon.Initially both parents were taken in and after questioning John Busch, the husband, was released. Cheryl was also arrested on a previous domestic violence charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or inhabitant. I’ll try to post more information as I get it.
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Krystal Wayne Willard (www.myspace.com/littlegirlkkkw) and Aubrey Eugene Wiseman were doing some shopping a couple of weeks ago. The problem? They weren’t exactly shopping at the nearest Wal-Mart to buy groceries for Krystal Willard’s four children. Nope. They were shopping for supplies. For their meth lab that they kept in the very same home where the children lived. I say lived because the four kids were released to a relative who hopefully isn’t a meth head as well.
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Harrell Johnson was convicted back at the beginning of October of the heinous crime of murdering Erica Green, otherwise known to the media and law enforcement as ‘Precious Doe’.The prosecution didn’t seek the death penalty for a couple of different reasons, one being that Johnson agreed to withdraw his request to change the venue out of Kansas City.He received a sentence of life without parole for the murder, four years for the endangerment charge and another 25 on the abuse charge. Hopefully Harrell will enjoy some bubbas ministrations for quite some time to come. That’s of course if he lives long enough. People in prison take a dim view on child abusers.
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High profile attorney Mark NeJame has resigned from representing George and Cindy Anthony and released a statement to the Orlando Sentinel which you can read in full down below in the extended entry as well as at the Orlando Sentinel. This comes on the heels of the firing/retirement of their mouthpiece Larry Garrison over a bit of a financial mess.
I haven’t had a whole lot to say about Mark NeJame and his representation because although I firmly believe that attorneys represent a lot of people simply because of the exposure or the money or a future book deal, in this case most of the folks involved I think do so because they want to help. That also includes Leonard Padilla, Larry Garrison, Jose Baez, Tim Miller and Mark NeJame. Some of them have probably made mistakes but I think that overall they just wanted to help. Maybe I am more of an optimist than I like to consider myself.Anyhow, here is NeJames statement:
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