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Richard Moreau Murder Charges: Vail Bar Killer May Have Had PTSD

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Richard Moreau, Bar, Murder, Sandbar Sports Grill, Vail Colorado, Homicide, Gary Kitching, Shooter, Vail Bar Shooter, Carbondale, Denver News

VAIL, Colo. — A 63-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding three others in a Vail bar has been arrested in what autho...

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Junior Gotti Trial: Closing Arguments Begin In Racketeering Case

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Gotti Trial, Murder, John Junior Gotti, Mob, Junior Gotti, Hung Juries, James Trezevant, Gotti, Mafia, Racketeering, New York News

NEW YORK — Don't believe a defense lawyer's argument that John "Junior" Gotti quit organized crime with a sudden epiphany more than a decade ago...

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Guns Around The World (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Murder, Gun Laws, Crime, Gun Law Around the World, Handgun-Murders, UK Gun Law, Slideshow, Gun Law, Guns, Illegal Guns, Global Gun Laws, World News

America leads the developed world for murders committed using firearms, with a rate of 0.0279271 per 1,000 people, according to UN reports from 2000. ...

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EBay Removes Drawings That Glorify Slaying of Abortion Doctor George Tiller

Politics Daily | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pro Choice, Shelley Shannon, Abortion Providers, Crime, Ebay, Anti Abortion, Abortion Doctors, Scott Roeder, Goerge Tiller, Murder, Kansas, Defense Fund, Online Auction, Auction, Pro Life, Prison Drawings, Prison Cookbook, Extremism, Politics News

EBay has removed an auction posted by supporters of Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May murder of abortionist George Tiller. The listing featur...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Shrieks from the '80s: Ti West on The House of the Devil

Dan Persons | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Mary Woronov, Murder, Horror, Drama, Suspense, Death, Ti West, Indie, The House of the Devil, Fantasy, Off Beat, The House of the Devil Movie Review, Art, Tom Noonan, Larry Fessenden, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The Saw franchise may be more efficient in logging a body count, but The House of the Devil is the kind of film that reminds you how cool it is to settle back and just let the dread soak in.

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Edward Ates Claims He's Too Fat To Have Killed His Son-In-Law

AP | BETH DeFALCO | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Murder, Shooting, Stacey Ates, New Jersey, Crime, Too Fat to Kill, Obesity, Paul Duncsak, Edward Ates, New York News

HACKENSACK, N.J. — A man accused of running up and down a flight of stairs to kill a former son-in-law is offering a novel defense: At 5 feet 8 ...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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Marwa al-Sherbini, Murdered Egyptian Woman, "Stabbed With Considerable Force"

AP | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Marwa Al-Sherbini, Islamophobia, Murder, Marwa-Al-Sherbini, Alexander Wiens, Germany, World News

DRESDEN, Germany — A medical expert testified Tuesday that a knife attack on a 31-year-old Egyptian woman in a German court room caused serious ...

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Jose Feliciano, Church Janitor, Charged In Rev. Ed Hinds' Murder

AP | VICTOR EPSTEIN | Posted 10.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Murder, Ed Hinds, New Jersey, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Ed Hinds' Murder, Reverend Ed Hinds, Chatham, Jose Feliciano, Church Janitor Charged, New York News

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Authorities investigating the slaying of a priest arrested the church janitor Saturday, alleging he stabbed the cleric 32 tim...

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They Walk Among Us

Geri Spieler | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Phillip Garrido, Sara Jane Moore, Criminal Justice System, Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Three-Strikes-Laws, Justice Department, Squeaky Fromme, Politics News
Geri Spieler

Timing is everything when you are convicted of murder. Sentencing is all about timing. Guidelines change, and so do prison sentences.

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Selebi Trial: SA Police Chief Jackie Selebi Accused Of Accepting Designer Clothes In Drug Smuggling Scheme

New York Times | BARRY BEARAK | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Jackie Selebi, Hugo Boss, Crime, Pravin Gordham, African National Congress, Drugs, Louis Vuitton, Johannesburg, South African Communist Party, Murder, South Africa, Interpol, Anc, Harrods, Glenn Agliotti, Etienne Aigner, Canali, Drug Smuggler, Haroon Bhorat, Blade Nzimande, Selebi Trial, Home News

JOHANNESBURG -- The drug trafficker and the police commissioner were once nattily attired pals, or so the allegations go. The two men would shop toget...

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It's Time To End (Deadly) "Religious Freedom"

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Freedom, Murder, Politics, New York Times, Religious Right, Fiath Healing, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Why aren't parents who kill their children for God not serving life sentences? Because of our crazy ideas about religious freedom that on so many fronts trump not just common sense but the rule of law.

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Boy, 12, Charged With Shooting 8-Year-Old Brother

Posted 10.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Murder, Deposit New York, Shooting, Upstate New York, New York News

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Susan Klebold: Columbine Killer's Mom Writes Essay For Oprah's O Magazine; "No Inkling" Son Was Suicidal

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media

Read More: School Shooting, Columbine Killer's Mom, Klebold Journals, Susan Klebold Essay, Murder, Crime, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Columbine Killings, Susan Klebold, Susan Kleebold, Dylan Klebold Journal, Oprah Magazine, Susan Klebold Story, Columbine Anniversary, Columbine, Columbine Killers, O Magazine, Suicide, Columbine Parents, Dylan Klebold's Mom, Dylan Klebold's Mother, Susan Klebold O Magazine, Susan Klebold's Essay, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, Columbine Mom Essay, Essay by Susan Klebold, Media News

DENVER — In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold's mother says she had no idea her son wa...

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Meleanie Hain: Gun-Carrying Soccer Mom Killed By Husband In Murder Suicide, Police Say (VIDEO)

The Associated Press | Mark Scolforo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Melanie Hain, Lebanon, Crime, Gun, Suicide, Gun Control, Guns, Scott Hain, Murder, Dad, Pennsylvania, Soccer Mom, Mom, Gun Safety, Second Amendment, Nra, Gun Rights, Melanie, Meleanie Hain, Home News

LEBANON, Pa. - A soccer mom who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate after taking a loaded pistol to youth sports events was killed by her h...

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Carlton Lewis: Cops Kill Ceremonial Dagger-Wielding Harlem Man After Fatal Stabbing Spree

Gothamist | John Del Signore | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Crime, Murder, Harlem, New York Crime, Harlem Police, Harlem Arrest, New York City, New York, New York News

A murderous Harlem man died in a hail of NYPD bullets last night, after apparently stabbing two men, one fatally. Police arrived at the West 144th Str...

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Cameron Brown: Another Mistrial For Dad Accused Of Throwing Daughter Off Cliff

AP | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Murder, Inspiration Point, Cameron Brown, Crime, Rancho Palos Verdes, Cliffs, Child Support, Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles, Laren Sarene Key, Mistrial, Home News

LOS ANGELES — A second mistrial has been declared in the case of a man accused of murdering his 4-year-old daughter by throwing her off a cliff....

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Will the U.S. Ignore the Murder of a Young American Abroad?

Julie Araskog | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Murder, Daniela Lopez, Ecuador, Murder Investigation, Living News
Julie Araskog

Are our citizens really more interested in seeing what celebrity gets their hair cut at a salon than finding the killer of an innocent 26-year-old girl? Makes you think, doesn't it?

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Drew Peterson's Stepdaughter Writing Book On Years Of Alleged Abuse

ABCNews | Sarah Netter and Santina Leuci | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Drew Peterson Books, Murder, Abuse, New Books, Drew Peterson, Books, Drew Peterson Stepdaughter, Books News

The stepdaughter of Drew Peterson said the years of alleged abuse at the hands of a man now accused of killing his third wife had made her realize tha...

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Census Worker Hanging... What Pelosi Warned?

Landon Ross | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Conservatives, Nancy Pelosi, George Tiller Murder, Fox News, Census Worker, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Democrats, Right-Wing Extremism, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Landon Ross

We don't have all the facts regarding Bill Sparkman's death. Yet the fact that, upon hearing of this incident, politically minded people wonder whether the death was a result of right wing invective is telling.

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The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whiskey Rebellion, Barter System, Stockholder, Marijuana, Prohibition, Feds, Newport, Civil War, Infrastructure, Moonbow, Grass, Occupational Safety, Nancy Pelosi, Environmental Movements, Coal Mine, Right to Vote, Mohawk, Lawless, Bill Tweed, Boss System, Indefeasible, Beverly Hillbillies, Hung, Ca, Louisville, George Washington, Appalachian, Civic, Tennessee, Census Worker, Mountaintop Removal, New York City Boss William Tweed, Civil Rights, Census Taker, Mystery, Kentucky Constitution, Second American Revolution, Food Safety, Pot, U.S. Constitution, Pittsburgh, Public School System, Declaration of Independence, Indiana Constitution, Cumberland Plateau, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inalienable, Daniel Boone National Forest, Bill Sparkman, Bluegrass, Ohio, Slavery, Lexington, Illinois, Coalmine, Federal Agents, Women’s, Appalachia, Hemp, Public Health, Daniel Boone U.S. Congress, Irish Immigrants, Democracy, Middle Class Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, Mountain, Capitalism, Bossism, Meth, Consumer, Murder, Labor, Southeastern Kentucky, Prison, Oxycontin, Big Coal, 1791, Fbi, Self-Organizing, Indiana, Hanged, Politics News
Gail McGowan Mellor

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

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"Mercy Killing": When Love & Law Conflict

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Medical Ethics, Jim Fish, Politics, Montana, Right to Die, Crime, Assisted Suicide, Jack Kevorkian, Washington, Oregon, Paul Weinstein, Euthanasia, Bioethics, Health Care, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

The blame in two murder cases rests squarely with a society that forces devoted husbands and wives to choose between the welfare of their spouses and the letter of the law.

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Jasmine Fiore Murder Provokes Debate: Are Reality TV Background Checks Too Superficial?

The Wrap | Amy Kaufman | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Ryan Jenkins, Murder, Jasmine Fiore, Reality TV, Jasmine-Fiore-Murder, Jasmine-Fiore-Dead, Megan Wants a Millionaire, Reality Tv Background Checks, Vhi, Background Checks, Media News

Last month, Ryan Jenkins -- a hunky multi-millionaire who appeared as a contestant on a VH1 dating reality show about a woman seeking out wealthy bach...

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The Curse of Domestic Violence: A Cycle of Abuse from Father to Son

Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Abuse, Spousal Abuse, Economy, Economic Crisis, Violence, Drugs, Parenting, Dysfunctional Family, Murder, Pediatricians, Child Abuse, Health, Alcohol, Domestic Violence, Family, Santa Fe, Living News
Ramon Resa, MD

How can boys raised in an abusive environment learn any differently? It is nice to say we have to show them or teach them by example, but what example can we use?

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A "Person of Interest" Can't Be Arrested

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yale Murder, Raymond Clark III, Constitutional Law, Constitution, Annie Le, New Haven, Yale, Yale Student Death, Missing Yale Student, Murder, Crime, Person of Interest, Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Politics News
Alan Dershowitz

If Raymond Clark III was in fact taken away in handcuffs and compelled to go to the police station in connection with the Yale murder case, he was arrested. But in order to be arrested, there must be probable cause.

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