Category Archives: Murder

May 17, 2012

Muslim converts in plot to murder British tourists in Kenya

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A widow of a 7/7 bomber is suspected of being the principal financier of a terror plot to murder hundreds of British tourists in Kenya. Samantha Lewthwaite, 28, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire intended to use a lethal cocktail of bombs to kill tourists in Mombasa, the second-largest city in Kenya, a court was told.

Detectives think Lewthwaite and British co-conspirator Jermaine Grant were primed to carry out their assault before he was arrested.

Muslim convert, Grant, went on trial for his part in the supposed Al Qaeda linked conspiracy on Thursday.

Lewthwaite was travelling in the East African region on a false passport when she was apprehended with Grant five months ago, she first gained notoriety when it was discovered she was seven months’ pregnant when her husband Jermaine Lindsay, also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, discharged a bomb that killed himself and 26 others on a train travelling on the Piccadilly line between the King’s Cross, St.Pancras and Russell Square tube stations on July 7, 2005.

She absconded and is now being hunted by the CIA, Scotland Yard and Kenyan police and is understood to be in hiding in lawless Somalia.

Islamic fundamentalist Grant, 29, from Newham, East London, refutes bomb-making allegations with intent to ‘cause loss of lives to innocent civilians’.

Their targets were thought to be the Serena Beach Hotel, usually packed with British tourists, and a shopping centre in close proximity.

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May 14, 2012

Mexico violence: Monterrey police find 49 bodies

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The grim discovery comes just days after police found the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 18 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico.


The killings appear to be the latest in a string of brutal murders linked to a continuing conflict between rival drug gangs.

Forty-nine mutilated bodies have been found dumped by a roadside near the city of Monterrey in northern Mexico.

Security officials said the 43 men and six women had been decapitated and had their hands cut off, making identification difficult.

They blamed the killings on a conflict between rival drugs gangs – a note left with the bodies said they had been killed by the Zetas cartel.

It is the latest in a series of recent massacres in northern Mexico.

The Zetas have been fighting the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels for control of smuggling routes into the US.

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The bodies were found at 04:00 local time (09:00 GMT) in Cadereyta municipality on the road from Monterrey to Reynosa on the US border.

Security officials said the bodies appeared to have been killed at another location up to two days ago and dumped from a truck.

“We know from the characteristics that this is the result of violence between criminal gangs, it is not an attack on the civilian population,” Nuevo Leon State security spokesman Jorge Domene said.

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May 13, 2012

Rodney Alcala: ‘The Dating Game Killer’ To Face New York Murder Charges

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On the show, Alcala beat out two other bachelors to win a date with “bachelorette” Cheryl Bradshaw. The couple appeared to get along well on the program, but police said Bradshaw later decided against going on the date.

Rodney Alcala can be extradited to New York to face charges in two killings, California’s highest court has ruled.

The decision was handed down on Wednesday by the California Supreme Court. In making the decision, the justices rejected claims by the convicted serial killer that such a move would undermine his efforts to appeal his California conviction.

In August, California Gov. Jerry Brown and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed off on Alcala’s transfer to New York to face charges of intentional murder, felony murder and murder in the second degree in connection with the killing of two New York women in 1970s. The women have been identified as Cornelia “Michel” Crilley and Ellen Hover.

Crilley, a TWA flight attendant, was raped and strangled in 1971. At the time, authorities initially suspected that the boyfriend of Crilley, then 23, was responsible. Authorities now claim to have forensic evidence that links Alcala to the scene.

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May 11, 2012

Missing Fox Film Executive’s Case Now Criminal Homicide Investigation (Exclusive)

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Smith, 57, was last seen driving his car, a black 2000 Mercedes 420E sedan with tinted windows and a roof rack, near his home in West Hills in the San Fernando Valley. He’d just returned on the day he disappeared from CinemaCon, the National Association of Theatre Owners convention in Las Vegas.

There’s a new development in the case of Twentieth Century Fox veteran film distribution executive Gavin Smith who is Gavin Smith Missingstill missing. I’ve now learned that the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has officially changed the status of the case from a missing person’s probe to a criminal homicide investigation. My news follows by a day media reports that the search for Smith had intensified and the sheriff’s department has added new resources including more detectives to the probe. But it also contradicts statements by sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore on Tuesday that detectives have not found any evidence of foul play in Smith’s disappearance. There’s been no public announcement about the change in the case’s status, and my insiders don’t know what prompted it. Smith has been missing since May 1st and was last heard from around 9 PM that evening.

The Fox veteran of 18 years works in the Calabasas office and had been a 6-foot-6 member of UCLA’s 1975 national championship men’s basketball team, the last title won by legendary Bruin coach John Wooden. His family has made public pleas for information. Smith, 57, was last seen driving his car, a black 2000 Mercedes 420E sedan with tinted windows and a roof rack, near his home in West Hills in the San Fernando Valley. He’d just returned on the day he disappeared from CinemaCon, the National Association of Theatre Owners convention in Las Vegas. Lisa Smith has set up a Find Gavin Smith website for people to email tips and comments: http://findgavinsmith.com.

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May 6, 2012

Hey, Another Non-Trayvon Story That Doesn’t Meet the Race Narrative: 4 Black Men Beat White Marine to Death

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How sad that this man served his country and twice survived the infestation of Islamic terrorists, only to return home and get beaten to death by the people he served and whose freedom he protected. Disgusting.


U.S. Marine Zachary Gamble (w/ Son Luke) Beaten to Death by Four Black Thugs

Yet another murder you won’t see Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton protesting . . . or all of the major news networks and media outlets covering like it’s the story of the year. Now, if it was the reverse and four White thugs beat to death a Black U.S. Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, this would be top o’ the news all over the place. Oh, and “conservative” race-baiter and National Review editor Rich Lowry would be outraged, the way he was for Trayvon Martin (and praised the Black Panthers and Sharpton). But when it’s four Black men beating the White U.S. Marine to death, it’s the sound of crickets chirping.

Police have arrested four suspects in connection with the beating death of a former U.S. Marine who was found unconscious outside of a party at a Cobb County, Georgia, apartment complex in March.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arthur Batchelor, 37, Tarell Secrest, 36, and Jason Hill, 35, were taken into custody on Tuesday for allegedly killing 34-year-old Zachary ‘Zach’ Gamble. Another suspect, 38-year-old Sean Hall, of Atlanta, was arrested on Monday. . . .

All four suspects have been charged with felony murder, aggravated assault and aggravated battery. They are being held without bail in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, police say. . . .

When officers arrived on the scene, the 34-year-old man was discovered unconscious on the ground. Police, however, believe Gamble’s fatal injuries did not stem from being hit by a vehicle.

Gamble was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, where he was removed off life support on April 8 without ever regaining consciousness.

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May 5, 2012

Drug War Slayings Snuffing Out News In Mexico

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Late Friday, state prosecutors said in a statement police had found three oil drums containing human remains along a highway connecting the port city of Veracruz with Xalapa after receiving an anonymous tip. They offered no other details.


In this undated picture killed photojournalists Guillermo Luna Varela, left, and Gabriel Huge pose for pictures in Veracruz, Mexico.

Grieving, frightened journalists remembered three slain colleagues on Friday as young and energetic members of a press corps working under terrifying conditions in a state torn by a war between Mexico’s two most powerful drug cartels.

Traffic dwindled from the streets and shopping areas emptied hours after the discovery Thursday afternoon of Guillermo Luna Varela, Gabriel Huge, Esteban Rodriguez and Irasema Becerra, who had been slain, dismembered and stuffed into black plastic bags dumped into a waste canal.

It was a sense of dread familiar to Veracruz, where a cartel battle for control of one of Mexico’s largest ports has spawned horrors such as the slaughter of 35 people dumped on a main highway in rush-hour traffic in September.

The state is a common route for drugs and migrants coming from the south on the way up to the United States. Much of the area around its main port city on the Gulf of Mexico was controlled until last year by the Zetas, a brutal paramilitary-style cartel founded by defectors from the Mexican army special forces and known for its gruesome butchery of opponents.

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April 30, 2012

For 22 murder victims, LA Riots leave legacy of justice eluded

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But the human toll is the most disturbing legacy of the riots. Some 53 people were killed in what police have classified as riot-related homicides and accidents. Of those, some 22 homicides remain classified as open and unsolved.


For five days in 1992, the nation watched as entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles descended into violent chaos.

Twenty years ago, Los Angeles erupted in riots after four cops were acquitted in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, but during an uprising supposedly in the name of justice, some people got away with murder.

During the five “Days of Outrage,” a disbelieving nation watched on television as looters broke store windows and emptied shelves, Korean grocers sat atop their stores with assault rifles and fires were set throughout South Central and other parts of the city. Beatings, including the brutal one administered to truck driver Reginald Denny, were captured on video by news crews.

“Can’t we all just get along?” pleaded King as the city was plunged into violent chaos. The phrase became a rallying cry for a city determined to heal after being torn apart by racial divisions.

The police were overwhelmed, and the National Guard was called in to help quell the violence. When the mayhem subsided five days later, nearly 1,600 buildings were destroyed or damaged and more than 2,300 people were hurt. The final cost of the riot was estimated at more than a billion dollars, including $735 million in property damage.

But the human toll is the most disturbing legacy of the riots. Some 53 people were killed in what police have classified as riot-related homicides and accidents. Of those, some 22 homicides remain classified as open and unsolved.

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April 22, 2012

Meenakshi Thapar Dead: Bollywood Actress Killed After Being Kidnapped By Co-Stars

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Jaiswal and Surin had demanded a 1,500,000-rupee (approximately $28,000) ransom from Thapar’s family. The International Business Times reports that Thapar’s mother gave the kidnappers 60,000 rupees (just over $1,000). The pair evidently decided the amount was insufficient, and reportedly killed Thapar by strangling her to death and then beheading her.


Meenakshi Thapar

Bollywood actress Meenakshi Thapar reportedly has been gruesomely killed by two of her co-stars in a failed attempt to extort money from her family.

26-year-old Thapar was strangled and then beheaded after allegedly being kidnapped by two aspiring actors that she worked with on her latest film “Heroine”.

Amit Jaiswal, 36, and his lover Preeti Surin, reportedly decided to kidnap Ms. Thapar after listening to her boast about her family’s wealth and status in Dehra Dun, in the Himalayan foothills of northern India, according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph.

The New York Daily News quotes Indian police as saying Amit Jaiswal and his girlfriend Preeti Surin allegedly lured Thapar on a trip with them to the town of Gorakhpur. According to the report, the pair then took Thapar captive and sent threatening communications to her mother, saying they would force her to make pornographic films if their demands were not met.

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April 21, 2012

Denver police tackle rising fears, crime along East Colfax

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The highest number of citizen-initiated calls to police during March came from Colfax between Pennsylvania and Pearl streets, according to police. On March 18, Billy Newson, 29, was shot to death at the corner of Pearl and Colfax. Police have arrested Anthony Escobedo, 31, for the murder.


X Bar manager Roy England listens during a community meeting Thursday to discuss criminal activity East Colfax Avenue. Drug dealing in the area has been a problem, and neighbors fear that cuts to the police budget could make it worse.

From behind the bar at Prohibition, owner Jimmy Callahan can watch the drug dealers and prostitutes trolling for business along a strip of East Colfax Avenue where a man was killed last month.

If he spots someone loitering by the streetlight outside his property, he tells them to move along.

“I give them one (changing of the) light,” he said.

On Thursday, Callahan was one of about 25 people who attended a community meeting with Denver police brass, District Attorney Mitch Morrissey and representatives of the city attorney’s office and other officials to address the problem.

Since robberies and assaults began spiking along the corridor between Broadway and Downing Street and the surrounding area in January and February, District 6 police Cmdr. Tony Lopez has added a foot patrol to the units who already patrol the area in cars, and officers have substantially increased their contacts with suspicious characters, he said.

Arrests are up, but as police have increased the pressure on Colfax, Lopez said, some of the illegal trade has moved to nearby East 16th and 17th avenues. “We are still directing resources into those blocks,” Lopez said.

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April 18, 2012

Arrest made after body found in Riverside during search for missing Marine wife

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Marine Louis Ray Perez, 45 was arrested Sunday on an unrelated charge of possessing a stolen AR-15 rifle from Camp Pendleton. He remained jailed on $500,000 bail and has refused to cooperate with investigators.


Brittany Dawn Killgor,e who was reported missing Saturday, April 14, 2012.

Authorities arrested a woman Tuesday for investigation of murder after finding a body in their search for the missing wife of a U.S. Marine.

The body has not yet been identified as 22-year-old Brittany Killgore, who has been missing since Friday night, San Diego County sheriff’s Capt. Duncan Frasier said.

Police provided no details on a possible motive or any evidence that led to the arrest.

Police arrested 27-year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez at a motel in San Diego. She was under guard at University of California, San Diego Medical Center with unspecified injuries.

Frasier said she would be taken to jail and booked on suspicion of murder after treatment.

Police say they were also investigating another Marine, Louis Ray Perez, 45, the last person seen with Killgore. Authorities have not disclosed the nature of their relationship.

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