Thursday

True Crime Update 2/1/08

A second True Crime post for this week.

Cesar Laurean murders one of our marines, buries her in his backyard, and is now gallivanting around Mexico unmolested. Thank Greta Van Sustern for tracking this fellow down as obviously our military is too busy.

The fine lady who microwaved her baby goes to trial, Drew Peterson on Ebay and a new TV show proving it pays to murder your wives, the latest on missing Brianna Denison, Cyril Wecht accused of malfeasance, and that illegal alien busy engaging in civil disobedience when her smarmy butt needs to be booted back to Cuba.

Plus a fellow arrested for two homicides and you have got to see the pic of this perp. You will not believe your lying eyeballs.


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”Provisional” Mexican Arrest Warrant Finally Authorized for Lauterbach Killer

What the CNN.com article linked to below fails to note is that the obtaining of a provisional arrest warrant, whatever “provisional” means, was caused no doubt by the meddling of Mark Fuhrman on behalf of Fox’s Greta Van Sustern show.

In fact, just last night, 1/30/08, I chanced to watch Greta and the story detailed by Fuhrman, who was IN Mexico at the time, was shocking.

from CNN.com:
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Six days after Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean was tracked to a town in Mexico, a Mexican court issued an arrest warrant Monday for the alleged killer, the U.S. Embassy said.

Marie Lauterbach, missing pregnant marine


The provisional warrant authorizes Mexican police to follow leads and to arrest the 21-year-old Laurean -- who's accused of killing pregnant Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach and burying her in the back yard of his North Carolina home.

It would seem that absolutely NOTHING had been done to capture Laurean although the man murdered a United States Marine, burned her pregnant body and buried her in his backyard, then took off for his home country of Mexico. Not to mention that Laurean himself is a Marine.

Silly me, I’d think the military would be all over this.

Well sure the fine country of Mexico, run by the most corrupt police force on the planet, doesn’t like to send Americans who’ve made it south of the border back home because, heh, Mexico has such fine morals that they can’t bear the thought of a human being getting the death penalty or even more than fifty years in jail, for any reason. No doubt the corrupt Mexican police are protecting themselves and think how much bribe money an American criminal on the lam can bring in? Think serial rapist Andrew Luster.

In fact, that Dog bounty hunter was also on Greta last night and he provided a background of getting criminals back from Mexico that boggled this American’s law abiding sensibilities all to hell.

Mark Fuhrman interviewed all of Laurean’s relatives and hell yeah they saw the guy. He had been here and he had been there and as Fuhrman elucidated, it appears that Laurean is making quite a show of himself and, as Fuhrman figures, WANTS law authorities to know he’s there in Guadalajara. The concept is that if everyone goes looking for Laurean in Guadalajara then he can run off to more remote parts of Mexico for a life of freedom from American jails.

It would seem that this so-called “provisional” arrest warrant was NOT issued until the Fox people and Mark Fuhrman actually went to Mexico and began asking around. You read this right, not one single American of any stature had even bothered to ask Cesar Laurean’s relatives a few questions although they all happily answered questions for Fox news. It was only AFTER Fuhrman’s questioning that an arrest warrant was issued!

I’m still trying to digest American having a marine killed, burned and buried whilst the perp runs off to Mexico and the USA DOESN’T DO A THING TO CATCH THE GUY! God help us if we ever get in a war with Mexico. They’d wipe out our marines in a few minutes with no questions asked.

Also, while there is a reward offered for information leading to the arrest of Cesar Laurean, according to Mark Fuhrman this money is of little temptation to Laurean’s relatives. First, the police in Mexico are so corrupt that none of Laurean’s relatives believe that they would ever see a cent. Second, it would seem that while those tiny hovels in Guadalajara look like a ghetto to the average American, Laurean’s Mexican family is quite affluent by Mexican standards. A reward of ten thousand dollars, the last amount I heard, is like about twenty bucks to us.

Gotta love Mexico, huh? Better, why is the United States allowing this travesty of justice to continue on with the death of a marine in the balance?

Drew Peterson’s Novel Ways to Raise Money

Speaking of a travesty of justice, why hone in on Mexico? For in our fine state of Illinois it would seem that the police can murder their wives with impunity and no problem, she’s dead in a dry bathtub, covered with cuts, bruises and blood, hell it had to be an accident, right?

Now Drew Peterson’s current wife, Stacey Peterson, is missing and we get to watch this clown flip us all the finger as he volunteers for dating contests and now we understand that Drew Peterson wants to go on the new Fox reality show, “Moment of Truth”. This show hooks up contestants to a lie detector and…well Drew Peterson hooked up to a lie detector would be quite interesting. I doubt the man will pass any kind of legit lie detector test but by now I think he’s just looking for money. My sense of truth, justice and the American way tells me that at some point Peterson’s time will be up. Even the Illinois police are smarting by how this fellow made them look so foolish.

And let’s not forget that fine alleged attorney of Peterson who, it’s been said, is behind his client’s eager but legally dangerous attempts to keep his name in the news and get money while doing so.

Pic from TMZ.com.

And now, if hasn’t gotten strange enough, we’ve got Drew Peterson selling stuff on EBAY!

From Chicago Tribune.com:
Thought the hoopla surrounding Drew Peterson was bound to die down? You probably haven't looked on eBay, where online auctions to purchase Peterson-related paraphernalia have begun.

Would-be buyers have their choice of Peterson's old window frames, the Dec. 3 issue of People magazine with Peterson on the cover, and several of the weekly tabloids that include Peterson in their coverage. Starting price: 99 cents. Shipping and handling not included.

Check Out This Double Murderer

Yon readers will know, from the pic below and also at the link provided, that I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP! Those slippers are to die for.

From McCall.com:
Allentown police had suspected William Torres of dealing drugs in the city. But an undercover narcotics investigation yielded much more, and resulted in Torres, 21, being charged early Saturday with two counts of homicide.

charged with murder check out pic


Police said Torres, whose last known address was 436 Turner St., Allentown, gunned down two men at Fourth and Allen streets last month. According to court documents, Torres admitted killing the men.

Heh.
Woman Uses Craigslist to Hire Killer of Lover’s Wife

From Chicoer.com:
The Butte County Sheriff's Office has announced the arrest of a Michigan woman who allegedly used the Internet to arrange a hit on a female Butte County employee.
According to a press release from the Sacramento office of the FBI, 48-year-old Ann Marie, of Rockford, Mich., had an online relationship with the husband of her intended victim, then met the Oroville man in Reno in 2005 for a romantic encounter. She also reportedly came to Butte County last May to spend time with him.

So she met this fine fellow online, then she met him in person and damn, this is a woman with serious romantic intentions. Because via Craigslist, this woman wanted to hire someone to hire her lover, a fine man who cheats on his wife and a catch any woman would desire.

So far the husband is in the clear but you gotta wonder.

”Civil Disobedience” From Illegal Aliens?

Okay, so I pack up everything and I move to France. Then I get all noble, even though I am not a French citizen and let’s not forget that I chose to live in France without bother of their laws as regards non-citizens.

Then I engage in and encourage a form of “civil disobedience” much like the civil rights activists and Martin Luther King of my youth.

Somebody tell that creep Marta Roque that she needs to go back to her home country and come into this country LEGALLY! Then she should pursue an American citizenship and only then does she have the right to get out and protest our laws, this illegal skank.

From Radio Netherlands:
Santa Clara#Santa Clara, Cuba] Cuban dissident Marta Beatriz Roque has told the AFP news agency that prominent Cuban dissident Jorge Luis García Pérez has been arrested for civil disobedience. Mr Garcia, better known as Antunez, was arrested outside his house in the town of Placetas after attending an opposition meeting. He has been transferred to the provincial capital Santa Clara. Antunez was released from jail last year after serving 17 years for distributing what the authorities call hostile propaganda. Cuban dissident groups say that nearly 300 political prisoners are being held by the authorities.

Microwave Baby Trial Begins in Ohio

She admits she was drunk as a skunk but she says she had nothing to do with her baby’s death. The one month old baby was, however, very dead and until this fine mother allegedly got up to give the child a bottle, the baby had been healthy.

From WRAL.com:
Arnold killed baby in microwave


DAYTON, Ohio — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a woman accused of killing her 1-month-old daughter by burning the child in a microwave oven.

If convicted of aggravated murder, China Arnold, 27, could face the death penalty.

Police investigators believe Arnold killed 1-month-old Paris Talley by putting her in a microwave at her Dayton home in 2005. Coroner's officials said the baby suffered high-heat internal injuries and had no external burns. They have ruled out scalding water, open flame or other possible causes of death that could have damaged the skin.

The baby had severe internal organ burn damage but no external burn damage. Prosecutors believe she microwaved the baby.

Don’t believe that bit about the death penalty. This poor baby, may Jesus hold her in His loving arms, was only one month away from a completely legal murder. For our law allows a mother to pierce an unborn baby’s skull up until a live birth so what’s one month difference matter?

Criminal Case on San Fran Tiger Case Closed

Well sure those fine boys, whose parents must be so proud of them, were drunk as skunks on Christmas day and they likely did taunt Titiana the San Francisco Zoo’s Siberian tiger. But did they break any laws? And if they did, can it be proved>

From Mercury News.com:
Thirty-five days after declaring the San Francisco Zoo a crime scene, police on Tuesday suspended their investigation of the Christmas Day tiger mauling that left a 17-year-old San Jose resident dead and two friends injured.

Don’t go thinking we’ve heard the last of this case. It’s now on the very honest and decent attorney Mark Geragos to sue the pants off the San Francisco Zoo that he and his clients can make millions off of their bad behavior.

We’ll be hearing more about this about a year from now.

DNA Match Made on Missing Brianna Denison

It seems another student in the area where Brianna Denison went missing was assaulted recently. Now we understand that DNA collected from that earlier assault and DNA collected from somewhere in the vicinity of where Brianna was sleeping the night she went missing is a match. Thus, if they find this guy, he will have two crimes against him.

From KESQ.com:
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Police say a positive DNA link has been established between the abduction of a college student from a Reno home last week and a December sexual assault of another student who lived a few blocks away.

Brianna Dennison missing


Reno police commander Ron Holladay says investigators think the same unidentified white male in his 30s is responsible for the earlier assault and for the Jan. 20 kidnapping of 19-year-old Brianna Denison.

The first student who was kidnapped was released by this abductor. We have to believe, based on blood found on Brianna’s pillow and the fact that there’s been no contact from her, that Brianna might not have been so lucky.

Here’s a fellow roaming those streets, abducting females from their own homes apparently. Now we have a dead female and they’ve got to catch this guy. Goodness knows how that blood got on the pillow but it does not bode well.

Cyril Wecht Indicted for Using His Public Paid Position for Profit

I dislike Cyril Wecht intensely.

I think for the right money, Wecht will conduct an autopsy with any conclusion that people with the money want.

One of the things Wecht is accused of is “donating” unclaimed cadavers to a local university so he can use their space for his own private autopsy business.

This is the second time this fellow’s been charged. I don’t believe he’s as innocent as the pure-driven snow, no I don’t. They’ve got the goods on this opportunist living high on the taxpayer dime.

From the NY Times.com:
PITTSBURGH — By his own count, Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, one of the nation’s foremost forensic pathologists, has testified in more than 1,000 civil and criminal trials in his 46-year career, and opined on thousands more on television, on radio and in print.

But now, for the second time in his life, Dr. Wecht is the accused.


Fine Men Rape Young Girl on Way to School

Actually I only honed in on this True Crime after a visit to a true crime forum that I occasionally visit. For this crime was listed with the appropriate link. Some male commenter, probably a pervert or some such, launched into an invective about this teenaged girl, that she probably had consensual sex with these good looking fellows right before the start of the school day, that we all should remember Crystal Magnum of Mike Nifong fame.

From news4jax.com:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 16-year-old girl was abducted as she walked to school on Thursday and raped by four men, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

rape trio Jacksonville


Three of the four men accused were arrested and charged with kidnapping and armed sexual battery.

Which brings me to my point that this kind of attitude is another result of runaway prosecutors like Mike Nifong. For women are regularly raped in this country and believe it or not, it’s very rare for a woman to make a false rape accusation. Yes, of course it happens. But in this day of DNA and specialized rape tests, it’s not that easy for a girl to point a finger at a consensual sex partner and scream rape.

Not that common sense shouldn’t dictate that dear Lord does anybody with one brain cell really think that this 16 year old girl decided, la-di-da, to engage in multiple intercourse with these handsome, evidently very rich and intelligent fellows, FOUR OF THEM?

Thank God the investigators don’t think the kid’s lying. They’ve got three of them and are looking for the fourth.
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Lisa Montgomery-Killed a Mother-to-Be and Stole Her Baby from Her Womb
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She met her prey at a meeting for dog breed aficionados. Bobbie Jo Stinnet was 8 months pregnant. She was strangled and her baby was taken from her womb.

Because for sure this most unusual crime, replete with twists, turns, curves and bends involving dog shows, internet chat boards, strange cousins, dead dogs, and fake pregnancies, will be the true crime trial of the decade.

Because if Lisa Montgomery is not crazy then she certainly behaved as if she were.

This post begins the story of Bobbie Jo Stinnet and Lisa Montgomery.

Right after this crime which shook the nation, this Blog became a focal point of discussion about this amazing case. At some point Bobbie Jo's AND Lisa Montgomery's husband actually posted to this blog. This link to a post with many intriguing comments about this crime.

We continue on HERE following this case.

In Late September 2007 the Montgomery case goes to trial. Intriguing updates here.

More Montgomery trial updates HERE.

Defense Claims Lisa's Childhood Sexual Abuse Made Her Insane.

Jury recommends death penalty for Lisa Montgomery

Wednesday

TV-"American Idol" 08 Update, Ann Rule Book Review; "Celebrity Apprentice" Females Lose Again

An Ann Rule book review because one cannot get enough Ann Rule.

This one is "Last Chance, Last Dance" and Ann revisits some old crimes being solved with new technology.

Plus a "Celebrity Apprentice" update as the female team keeps losing every challenge.

Finally, an American Idol update.

All with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.



TIDBITS

Crazy Quiz Show Answers...

  • BIG QUIZ (LBC)
    Gary King: Name the funny men who once entertained kings and queens at court.
    Contestant: Lepers.

  • QUIZMANIA (ITV)
    Greg Scott: We're looking for an occupation beginning with 'T'.
    Contestant: Doctor.
    Scott: No, it's 'T'. 'T' for Tommy. 'T' for Tango. 'T' for Tintinnabulation.
    Contestant: Oh, right . . . (pause) . . . Doctor.

  • DANNY KELLY SHOW (RADIO WM)
    Kelly: Which French Mediterranean town hosts a famous film festival every year?
    Contestant: I don't know, I need a clue.
    Kelly: OK. What do beans come in?
    Contestant: Cartons?

  • BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2)
    Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is?
    Contestant: Geography isn't my strong point.
    Theakston: There's a clue in the title.
    Contestant: Leicester.

    Graphic for tidbits crazy quiz show answers


  • BBC NORFOLK
    Stewart White: Who had a worldwide hit with What A Wonderful World?
    Contestant: I don't know.
    White: I'll give you some clues: what do you call the part between your hand and your elbow?
    Contestant: Arm.
    White: Correct. And if you're not weak, you're . . .?
    Contestant: Strong.
    White: Correct - and what was Lord Mountbatten's first name?
    Contestant: Louis.
    White: Well, there we are then. So who had a worldwide hit with the song What A Wonderful World?
    Contestant: Frank Sinatra?

  • LATE SHOW (BBC MIDLANDS)
    Alex Trelinski: What is the capital of Italy?
    Contestant: France.
    Trelinski: France is another country. Try again.
    Contestant: Oh, um, Benidorm.
    Trelinski: Wrong, sorry, let's try another question. In which country is the Parthenon?
    Contestant: Sorry, I don't know.
    Trelinski: Just guess a country then.
    Contestant: Paris.

  • THE WEAKEST LINK (BBC2)
    Anne Robinson: Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: prison, or the Conservative Party?

    Contestant: The Conservative Party.

  • STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON (BBC RADIO 2)
    Wright: Johnny Weissmuller died on this day. Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loincloth did he play?
    Contestant: Jesus.
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    ”Celebrity Apprentice 08”-Finch Fired When We Hardly Knew Her

    So The Donald steals the idea of having a celebrity apprentice series from “Dancing With the Stars” and on some level it works. I’m not convinced that anyone but die-hard Apprentice aficionados are tuning in but a die-hard Apprentice fan, that would be me.

    So in the most recent CA episode as of this writing, which would be Thursday 1/24/08, the celebrities had just the oddest task that made no sense and the outcome was equally odd.

    episode 1.24.08 winning pm's Finch fired


    The task, as charged, was to sell tickets to Broadway shows. This was obviously a task pandering to two of the celebrity apprentices, specifically Marilu Henner and Vincent Pastore. Allegedly both of these contenders are familiar with or have worked on Broadway although you could tell me that they were astronauts for as much as I know. Marilu Henner was once the star of the TV series “Taxi”, this I know.

    Anyway, the challenge and the preparation went on as always. For the Empresario team, Henner took the lead while Pastore took the lead for Hydra.

    It wasn’t a particularly exciting show which might be why The Donald is hyping a two hour show coming up this week, Thursday, 1/31/08.

    The major drama this past week was whether Empresario would take another loss (they haven’t won a task yet) and for the better part of the hour it looked like this would finally be their week.

    We had Hydra team’s Piers Morgan dressed up like King Author to sell tickets and I’ve got a fond place in my heart for Morgan. He had been a judge for the reality series “America’s Got Talent” and one team of contenders were a trio of chubby female singers. Morgan expressed his fond appreciation for the well-padded female figure and hey, a fellow who likes chubby broads is okay in my book. He made a fine King Author as well.

    David Hyde Pierce, star of Frazier and now star of Broadway’s “Curtains”, showed up and he looked very, very skinny. He’s always been on the thin side but folks this fellow looks like he has real eating issues.

    Beautiful model Carol Alt and Jenny Finch assumed the behind the scenes work and they complained that always seems to be their assignment. Well hey, it would make a little sense to put Carol out there if for nothing else but to attract the men.

    In fact this is why Jenny Finch was finally fired by The Donald as he decided that she wasn’t made for the cut-throat world of corporate culture although she had nothing to do with the failure of the Empresario team.

    Half the people who got fired have had nothing to do with failure to win, at least so far this year, so why should The Donald change things?

    This week it’s a two hour “Celebrity Apprentice” and I admit to a curiosity as to why such a thing is necessary.

    Montage of this and that from Celebrity App 08 episode 1.24.08


    "Celebrity Apprentice" 2008 Contenders
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    Carol Alt-model/actress
    Jennie Finch-olympic medalist softballsent home 1/24/08
    Gene Simmons from Kiss-sent home 1/17/08
    Lennox Lewis-boxer
    Marilu Henner-actress
    Nadia Comaneci-olympic star gymnast-sent home 1/10/08
    Nely Galen-Latina TV producer
    Omaroasa-former apprentice
    Piers Morgan-Americas Got Talent
    Stephen Baldwin-actor of Baldwin family
    Tiffany Fallon-playmate of year-SENT HOME PREMIERE NIGHT 1/3/08
    Tito Ortez
    Trace Adkins-country star
    Vincent Pastore-star of sopranos

    Prior Links to Posts for "Celebrity Apprentice" 2008
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    Premiere Show
    The Dog Challenge; Nadia Gets Fired
    The Kodak Challenge...KISS Him Goodbye
    Hydra Loses the Broadway Challenge; Finch Sent Home

    American Idol 08 Goes to Charleston and San Diego

    It’s an election year and every week some state or another is having a primary. There’s also a slew of reality shows that have seen creation since “American Idol” made its debut almost seven years ago.

    It’s become tradition for AI to premiere early in the year, stringing out the series into May and there’s no reason not to do the same.

    Except “American Idol” 2008 hasn’t had the blockbuster audiences it’s seen in prior years. Which doesn’t mean the audiences in early 2008 haven’t been significant and in any other year this would be an amazing audience capture. Unfortunately AI has a history and it is to this history that this ultimate reality show is compared.

    Which makes me wonder if AI’s visit to the cities of Charleston, South Carolina and San Diego, California wasn’t completely overlooked in the shuffle save this one lone Blogger.

    AI 08 Charleston montage


    AI 08 San Diego montage


    I’ve heard and read griping that this preliminary AI series is old hat, that the notion of crazies who can’t sing auditioning for possibly the most difficult singing competition on the planet is old hat.

    I like to tune in this early in the competition because a)well I’m a Blogger and I blog about it and b)I like to see if I can pinpoint the next possible American Idol. Last year I picked Jordin Sparks and the year before I honed in on Carrie Underwood.

    This year I think I’ve spotted a real contender from the San Diego competition. Not to mention my own personal favorite.

    Keep an eyeball peeled for Carly Smithson. She and her husband own a tattoo parlor and, indeed, she herself is covered with lovely tattoos. Carly had tried out and was enthusiastically accepted for the fifth season but some kind of Visa problem forced her to drop out. On the night of the San Diego tryouts all the judges greeted Smithson as if she were an old friend and they enthusiastically voted her on to Hollywood.

    Out of all the contenders in four cities, including the two covered this week and the prior shows in Philadelphia and Dallas, Smithson is the first to catch my eye so forcefully.

    I, of course, have my own personal favorite, my guy from Delaware, Chris Watson.

    Below is a video remix of the San Diego and Charleston contenders. Check out Smithson.



    Prior Links to Posts for “American Idol” 2008
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    Premiere Show 2008-Philly and Dallas
    San Diego and Charleston
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    Focus on TV Posts of Fame

    Those Wacky TV Chefs. Includes Rachel Ray and the sexiest chef of them all.

    TV News Pundits including Russert, spitting Matthews and the one I adore.

    "Dancing with the Stars" of 2007, reviews, pics and videos.

    American Idol 2007 and The Bachelor. One night's review with links to all the others.
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    ”Last Chance, Last Dance” by Ann Rule”

    Cover of Rule's


    And still nobody writes a true crime book like Ann Rule. This book by Ann Rule is unique out of all her novels in that Rule actually got to interview the victim who almost died at the hands of the idiot around who the story is based.

    First, let’s talk about Debbie Pignaturo. She married a “doctor” fellow, one Anthony Pignaturo, and I’m sure she loved the guy at the time of their marriage. Ann Rule is entirely too polite to point out the stupidity of the characters in her book so I’ll do it for her.

    For Debbie Pegnaturo was a fool and so stupid at times it was breathtaking.

    Her fine husband, Anthony, was possibly the worst doctor on the planet and I’m sure Debbie, who served some time working with this narcissistic asshole had to know it. In fact, Anthony’s first run-in with the law came when he killed a woman during a routine breast lift.

    Indeed Anthony had set himself up a little clinic as no hospital would let him inside their walls. He kept to fairly simple procedures such as breast lifts and tummy tucks and most times his payment was in cash from the females who wanted so bad to be more beautiful that they put themselves in harm’s way at the hands of a butcher with a doctor’s degree from some third world country.

    Dr. Pignaturo botched up the breast lift so horrifically that prosecutors actually went to the time and expense to charge the man with a form of murder. How often does this happen?

    But Debbie went on with her husband who she had to know was a murdering, bombastic fool. Eventually this fine man tried to murder Debbie herself.

    As further proof that Debbie Pignaturo was a bit of a dumbbell, even while she gradually became so sick that she couldn’t lift her arm from the arsenic her husband snuck in her food, she still didn’t leave the guy or even recognize that it was HE trying to kill her.

    Eventually Debbie Pignaturo got so sick that she had to be hospitalized and again prosecutors filed murder charges against Dr. Pignaturo with little help from the hapless Debbie, would-be victim.

    Still and all it was a good story and as always, Rule does a great job of telling the story, presenting the players and managing to keep editorial intrusion at a minimum.

    Rule needed Debbie Pignaturo to write the book for the detail this pathetic woman would provide. I, as the reader and under no such obligation, will say what I’m sure Ann Rule could not say as she penned the tale of the evil Anthony Pignaturo and his pathetic wife…DEBBIE PIGNATURO gives abused women a bad name.

    For if ever a female of this planet needed a reality check it was this lady.

    Anthony Pignaturo is now in jail and maybe Debbie Pignaturo has gone on to a new and happier life with the scales removed from her eyes.

    I suggest giving this book a read if for nothing else to learn about Dr. Pignaturo’s newfangled toupee, which involves Frankenstein-like spikes in the skull, I’m not making this up.
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    MORE ANN RULE BOOK REVIEWS
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    Review Ann Rule's "Every Breath You Take"

    Shiela Bellush had quadruplets and, unfortunately, two daughters with Allen Blackthorne.

    Blackthorne had everything a man could want. But he didn't have Shiela.

    So he murdered her and left her babies toddling all about their mother's body.
    Review Ann Rule's "Every Breath You Take"
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    Ann Rule's "Heart Full of Lies" and "Bitter Harvest"

    Liysa Northon was featured in Rule's "Heart Full of Lies". Liysa was pretty, intelligent and fortunate enough to live in two homes, one in Hawaii and one in Bend, Oregon. She was married to a Hawaiian Airlines pilot, Chris Northon, and was a talented photographer and writer in her own right.

    Dr. Debora Green was a physician married to another physician, a Cardiologist, Dr. Mike Farrar. The couple owned a luxury home in Prairie Village, Kansas.

    Both women had beautiful children; Liysa had two precocious boys while Debora had a son and two daughters. Both women wanted their husbands dead. One succeeded, the other gave it a try. Debora Green's house burned down and two of her precious children perished in the flames.

    Both of these women are crazy as loons.

    Ann Rule's "Heart Full of Lies" and "Bitter Harvest"
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    Ann Rule's "No Regrets"

    A book review as Ann Rule does it again with "No, Regrets".
    He piloted mighty boats and lived past 80 years but his own wife ended it all for him.

    Ann Rule's "No Regrets"
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    Ann Rule-"And Never Let Her Go"

    And Never Let Her Go" is the true crime story of Thomas Capano, scion of a wealthy Delaware family, lawyer and political insider. It wasn't that long ago that this case was splashed in all the newspapers in this area and I vowed that when someone wrote the book I would look into it immediately. I was delighted that Ann Rule wrote the book.

    Ann Rule-"And Never Let Her Go"


    Tuesday

    True Crime-Circumcision Goes to Court; He Vowed to Die Like a Man Defending His Family

    Here's a True Crime post and we've some old ones and some new ones.

    Seems the Marines finally remembered that Maria Lauterbach was one of their own.

    A dog mercilessly thrown from an overpass recovers, an Aunt kills her niece and nephew heartlessly, a fine fellow killed his parents now wants a plea deal, a hypocrite caught having sex with 14-year-old for money, Drew Peterson's "date" contest, a circumcision case goes to court, a baby's body sent to the cleaners and this man vowed to die like a man defending his family. We compare him to that great Connecticut hero, Doctor Petit.



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    THE EXCUSE-O-MAT

    What could be better than coming up with an excuse you don't have to fret over? This handy gadget can write more than three million of those lifesavers for you!

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    Fine, Brave Fellow Throws Dog Off Overpass Than Kicks Him Repeatedly

    Ryan's mother must be so proud of him.

    From KPTV.com:
    KALAMA, Wash. -- Kalama police arrested a man Thursday who is accused of throwing his family's dog off an overpass.

    Police said Ryan Fraser, 18, took an 11-month-old Labrador to a train pedestrian overpass near Elm Street and Interstate 5 earlier this month.

    Dog thrown off of overpass


    They said he threw the dog from the overpass -- about 37 feet high -- onto the asphalt road below.

    Police said Fraser then walked down to the road and kicked the dog repeatedly in the ribs and chest.

    The dog suffered a severely ruptured bladder. Intriguingly, this family had pet care insurance which paid for the veterinarian costs. The dog did survive.

    Let's hope this fellow doesn't get the dog back. The article doesn't mention where the dog went after all the surgery.

    Baby's Body Sent Out With Dirty Laundry

    It's not clear from the article linked how the baby's body got banged and misshapen but let us assume that sending the body of a dead baby out with the laundry isn't proper protocol at most hospitals.

    From Foxnews.com:
    FORT WORTH, Texas - A couple are suing a hospital after their stillborn baby's body was sent with dirty laundry to the cleaners.

    The Huguley Memorial Medical Center of Fort Worth staff took 19 hours to find the missing body, which was unpreserved and by then had been crushed and disfigured, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday.

    Well of course the aggrieved couple is suing. What's also not clear from the article linked is just on what basis the hospital states that it did nothing wrong or improper. Go with me on this, dead bodies going out with the hospital laundry, well IT AIN'T RIGHT!

    Such a Tragedy With a Little Too Much "Understanding"

    It doesn't much matter what horrors a dead individual might have done, almost always there's a neighbor, friend or relative who will tell the world that the "victim" was a fine individual who loved the world, their family, truth, justice and the American way.

    Below is just a weird story but so horribly tragic in that two children who thought they were going to a sleepover party were picked up by their Aunt for transport to the party. Sometime later she pulled over on the side of the Interstate, removed both her and the children's clothes then, holding the children in her arms, walked directly onto the Interstate.

    This woman, her niece and nephew were killed instantly.

    Marcelle Thibault had been ticketed earlier for failing to stay between the lines on the same Interstate. The police officer who ticketed her said she seemed a bit confused and dazed but then the woman had just ran into a guardrail. She told the officer that she must have fallen asleep at the wheel. She was given the ticket then went on her way to pick up the children.

    According to Thibault's family, she was a fine, fine individual who was devoted to her own adolescent children and who loved to give parties just like the one she was taking her niece and nephew to.

    Marcelle did have an earlier episode of mental illness but her family assures the world that it was a brief period of time in her life and had nothing to do with the bizarre murder of her niece and nephew.

    Hey, somebody tell this family that undressing helpless children and marching them onto an Interstate to die is FREAKING ABNORMAL!

    Also tell them that, hey I'll allow as this is the action of a seriously crazy person but if you're going to pooh-pooh her mental illness than your fine family member must BE AN EVIL BITCH!

    Just clarifying here.

    From Yahoo.com:
    BOSTON - A woman who killed herself and her sister's two small children by walking into oncoming interstate traffic had a minor car accident and State Police cited her just hours before the double murder-suicide.

    children killed by crazy aunt


    Marcelle "Marci" Thibault, 39, showed no signs of impairment when three State Police troopers arrived to the scene of the accident - the same highway where she would later die - around 6:50 p.m. on Jan. 11, State Police Capt. Barry O'Brien told The Associated Press on Friday.

    Court Blocks Circumcision on Divorced Man's Son

    The young man involved in this saga is twelve. His parents are divorced. The father recently converted to Judaism. The father wanted to have his son circumcised as is the custom of his adopted faith. The kid's mother fought to block the action.

    The lower court ruled in favor of the circumcision. A higher court agreed with the mother's argument that the boy had not adequately expressed HIS opinion on the matter. The mother said the boy was too scared of his father's wrath to express his fear of the procedure in court.

    From Oregonlive.com:
    The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday blocked a divorced former Southern Oregon man from circumcising his 12-year-old son against the wishes of the boy's mother.

    The court ruled that the trial judge failed to determine whether the boy wanted to have the procedure. The child's mother, Lia Boldt, claims that circumcision is dangerous and that her son is afraid to say he doesn't want the procedure. Go here for the court's decision.

    Well hey, I tend to think that young boy babies would probably not agree to the procedure either if they had a voice. Who in their right mind would say, with a smile, yeah, please, cut off the end of my most private part?

    So I'm thinking this 12-year-old boy, who maybe did NOT convert to Judaism like his father, would probably not welcome the procedure.

    Whatever the nuances of this case, a 12-year-old boy is capable of expressing such a preference and before undertaking the irreversible procedure it should be made explicitly clear that the boy WANTS the circumcision. Nevermind the wishes of the father, it's not HIS penis.

    Which brings me to the still ongoing debate over the merits of circumcision and as a lifelong female...

    ...well hey, I've been married a time or two, to both circumcised and uncircumcised males. Myself has no preference as the private parts work much the same one way or the other.

    But if it were ME, and I had a choice, heh, I wouldn't have them cutting me up down there for any reason at all. Which, by the way, my uncircumcised mates were (and ARE) plenty clean down there and it's but small matter to wash one's self, you think?

    Killed His Parents, Accepts Plea Deal

    I'd insert my sarcastic caveat about how Adam Sapikowski's parents must be so proud of him but I can't. Because Adam's parents are dead, shot dead by Adam himself at close range with their bodies wrapped in blankets and hidden in an unused room in the Sapikowski house.

    This fine young man then attended his senior prom and even held an after-prom party at his house with his dead parents up in that room!

    From WRAL.com:
    Hillsborough - A Chapel Hill teenager on Friday agreed to a plea deal in the May 2005 shotgun slayings of his parents, whose bodies were hidden for weeks inside the family's upscale home.

    Sapikowski killed his parents


    Adam Sapikowski, 19, pleaded guilty to felony obstruction of justice and agreed to plead guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of James Sapikowski, 52, and Allison Sapikowski, 49.

    Adam is accepting a plea deal by the state and with a charge of second-degree murder it is expected he will spend at least fifty years behind bars.

    Maybe he'll plea for mercy from the court because he's now an orphan.

    This family wants to avoid the spectacle of a trial. Reading between the lines, it's evident there was oddness in that family. James Sapikowski is said to have been a bit of a tyrant. Of course one does not get to murder one's parents even if they are tyrants. Still and so, the Sapikowski family has agreed to the plea bargain thus it is perhaps the best course all around.

    Maria Lauterbach to Receive Honor Escort

    Well whatdoyaknow? The United States Marine Corp finally recognizes that Maria Lauterbach is, in fact, a marine.

    Which is about time because this woman went missing in mid-December 2007 and it wasn't until January 7th or so that somebody finally went looking for her.

    Her body, along with her almost full-term foetus, was found, charred and buried, in another marine's backyard!

    From WRAL.com:
    DAYTON, Ohio - An honor escort from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base accompanied the remains of a slain 20-year-old pregnant Marine to a funeral home Friday.

    First, when Maria went missing late last year, isn't that like AWOL or something? When marines don't show up for duty, whether it's because they're burned and dead in a fellow marine's back yard or they've been kidnapped by the enemy, isn't that an AWOL status and shouldn't the marines go looking for their missing member?

    At least it's nice to know that Lauterbach will finally be given a decent burial with the marine honor escort she deserves.

    I'll never quite get over how everyone was so busy Christmas shopping and tending to business that this young woman's disappearance was so steadfastly ignored. It didn't help that her own mother was bad-mouthing Maria as a total liar, may this fine woman live with her improper comments forever and ever.

    Fine Fellow Helps 14-Year-Old Girls Begin Prostitution Career

    A couple of young ladies decided that they needed some extra cash. So they figured, hey, a couple of blow jobs...how difficult is this?

    Given some help from a couple of fine fellows in their mid-20's (it's not like these males were horny adolescents is what I'm saying here), the girls made twenty bucks each by servicing these guys, whose mothers and family must be so proud of them.

    From Deseretnews.com:
    OREM - Police say they found pornography in an Orem store that rented edited movies after arresting the owner for allegedly engaging in sexual activity with two 14-year-old girls.

    hypocrite thompson has sex with 14 year old


    Daniel Thompson, owner of the former Flix Club that recently closed from legal pressures, was arrested at his store after police received information that he and a Flix Club co-owner had traded sexual favors with two 14-year-old girls for $20 each, said Orem Police Lt. Doug Edwards.

    It's not clear from the linked article but other items I've read about the owner of this movie rental club indicated that he presented himself as some sort of keeper of the morals, his movie store even editing certain movies for family consumption. Which makes him a lying hypocrite as well.

    Chance to Win Date With Drew Peterson Nixed

    What's really weird is that Drew Peterson's lawyer, a fellow named Brodsky, was on the line with Drew when he called Chicago radio host Steve Dahl and offered to go out on a date with a listener who would win the honor.

    Later, as is reported, the radio station pulled its endorsement of the contest, which would have been called "win a date with Drew".

    What the hell was that alleged attorney Brodsky thinking? I can understand Drew Peterson. This guy's a narcissist in a world centered by Drew Peterson and only Drew Peterson.

    First, Stacey Peterson went missing late in 2007. Yes, the fine Drew Peterson alleges he had nothing to do with her disappearance and Drew asserts that, in fact, Stacey ran off with another man.

    Which means she left her two young children behind, she missed the Christmas holidays and, if we are to believe Drew, Stacey currently is holed up in a motel room with her lover, munching popcorn, making love and laughing at the televised accounts of the desperate search for her.

    But even if you buy into Drew's right to date again as he's not suspected in her disappearance, NOT true, and forget that bit about the murder of his third wife, what man would go seeking ANOTHER female perhaps to kill within two months of his current wife's disappearance who we are not sure is even dead?

    And this so-called attorney went along with the joke. According to the linked article, it was the RADIO STATION that called off this joke, not the suspect in possibly two murders or the attorney supposedly representing him!

    From the ChicagoTribune.com:
    Valentine's Day is three weeks away, and Drew Peterson is looking for love.

    More time in the media spotlight, too, but also love.

    Peterson got the attention he wanted, but the date will have to wait. His lawyer's on-air suggestion during a surprise phone call he and his client made Wednesday to Steve Dahl's Chicago radio show that they stage a "Win a Date With Drew" contest on Dahl's WJMK-FM 104.3 program Thursday morning has been nixed.

    Thank God the radio station got some sense. We know Drew Peterson had not an ounce and we must wonder about that alleged attorney of his.

    He Decided to Die Like a Man Defending His Family

    We end with this upbeat story although we must emphasize that Bernard Dwyer suffered stab wounds to his head and was beaten unconscious with knuckle beaters.

    This story struck a cord with me as I remember the very tragic murder of two young Connecticut teenagers who were burned alive while tied to their beds. These young women has been deserted by their parents, BOTH of them.

    Covered HERE on this Blog, the Petit family of Connecticut had been invaded in mid of night by a couple of Keystone Kops burglars. Dr. Petit had been up and about. When this dynamic duo encountered the doctor in what they'd only intended to be a late night burglary, they beat him on the head with a baseball bat, covered his upper torso with a plastic bag then tied him to a pole in the basement.

    Those couple of n'er-do-wells then encountered the 11 year old girl and her older sister in their bedrooms and all hell broke loose.

    As would be revealed later, this pair had NO weapons. But they repeatedly raped those women, they took Mrs. Petit to her bank and forced her to withdraw cash. This pair of hapless criminals had a field day ending with burning those two young girls alive to get rid of their DNA evidence.

    Doctor Petit? Well he had been tied to a pole in the basement but, oddly, once that fire went off that would kill his daughters in the most horrific way imaginable, this after they'd been raped and abused all damn night, it seemed that the good doctor was THEN, when HIS life was in danger, managed to get free and seek help.

    But it was too late. His daughters had been burned alive and his trusting wife, who had so many opportunities to get some kind of help, had been strangled by those creeps who she naively trusted would go away once she got them the money.

    From Clipmarks.com:
    A millionaire yesterday told how he fought off three armed burglars who were holding a knife to his daughter's throat, saying he "would rather die like a man than a dog".

    hero Dwyer defended family


    Bernard Dwyer, 51, was convinced he and his family were about to be killed so he chose to take on the men - hours after they had allegedly killed a restaurant owner, a court heard.

    Bernard Dwyer had the right idea. He could have taught Doctor Petit a thing or two.

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    FOCUS ON Stacy Peterson
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    His third wife died in the bathtub, a healthy woman in a dried tub, her hair covered in blood and bruises covering her body. The Illinois state cops called it an accident! Now Savio's body is due to be exhumed because, as it would turn out, the fine Drew Peterson had yet ANOTHER missing wife! He tells us she phoned him to tell him she's leaving for another man. Yet she left her two young children behind?

    And no one's yet been able to find Drew Peterson's first two wives as of this writing.

    Who's been letting Drew Patterson get away with murder?

    Introduction to the strange case of Drew Peterson's wives.
    Drew Peterson's third wife's body to be exhumed
    Drew Peterson's Third Wife's Death Determined to be Homicide
    Drew Peterson and the Blue Barrel
    Drew Peterson's airplane
    New search warrant for Drew Peterson
    Drew Peterson Can't Get a Date