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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Cannibal son murders his parents and has sex with their corpses before EATING remains
OK, I guess I have to admit that my family is fairly functional after all.
A TWISTED son murdered his own parents and had sex with their corpses before eating their remains.

After killing his mother Miryam Kowalczuk, 50 and stepfather Richard Klein, sick Leandro Acosta chopped up their bodies and ate some of their remains before feeding the rest to the family's six dog.

The 25-year-old claims his stepsister Karen Klein - who is also his lover - helped dispose of the bodies.

According to Acosta's lawyer, he carried out the sick crime because his stepfather had abused him and his 11-year-old siblings.

Acosta and Klein have defended their actions saying that although the abuse they experienced was in the past, they discovered to their horror that the dead couple had been abusing the two children they had together - 11-year-old twins.

They claim they reported the crime to the police and when nothing happened they decided to take the law into their own hands.

The pair waited until the twins were at school before they carried out the mindless killings in their family home in the city of Pilar, the Buenos Aires.

Klein says her stepbrother Acosta shot his stepfather while he was asleep and then shot his mother in the head as she walked in the door.

The victim's brother Roberto Klein said: "My brother was a difficult man, with little time for his children.

"There has always been resentment between him and his stepson and I believe this was a long time coming."

Monica Chirivin, defending, told the court it was "almost a pleasure" for Acosta.

She said: "He does not feel remorse and in fact describes a state of relief for a burden he has felt since childhood.

"He told me he ate a bit of the corpse. For him it was almost a pleasure."

The victim's bodies were only discovered when a relative alerted police after he couldn't gain entry to their home.

Police made the grim discovery of pieces of a female pelvis and vertebra column in an old paint bucket on the terrace.

Rubbish bags which were taken to a nearby waste ground by the twisted couple are being analysed by the crime squad.
Posted by: gorb || 10/05/2015 12:53 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  seems a tad excessive
Posted by: Frank G || 10/05/2015 16:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Rantburg as diet aid. Appetite suppressed.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/05/2015 16:43 Comments || Top||

#3  This is an allegory about the Left and institutions of 'higher learning'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/05/2015 18:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Hopefully, the courts will have mercy since the poor lad is now an orphan.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/05/2015 19:39 Comments || Top||

#5  "Gee, Sis, would it not be terrific
If life here were even more mythic?"
"Let's all meet for dinner,
And shoot Mom and skin 'er..."
"...then on to the slightly sadistic."

Ah, morality. So complex and relativistic.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/05/2015 20:29 Comments || Top||


Police Seek Five Suspects In Shooting Of 9-Year-Old Girl
[WBAL] Baltimore City Police are investigating after a 9-year-old girl was shot Sunday afternoon in North Baltimore.

City police said the girl was shot around 1 p.m. in the 3500 block of Old York Road. She is in stable, pH balanced condition with a broken femur, police said.

Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said Sherlocks are looking for a single gunman. Police said the gunman had intended to shoot four young men, who fled.

The shooting occurred not far from where three-year-old McKenzie Elliott was shot and killed in August of last year.

That killing has not been solved.

Today's shooting occurred during what has been a violent weekend, where at least three homicides have been reported.
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Popular Restaurant Owner Robbed, Suspect In Custody
[WBAL] Baltimore County Police are charging a Baltimore City man with the weekend armed robbery of the owner of a popular seafood restaurant.
File under "Greek Lives Matter," or "Old Lives Matter."
At around noon Saturday, police responded to Pappas Seafood in the 1700-block of Taylor Avenue in Parkville, where officers say the owner of the restaurant 83-year-old Markos Pappas was taking a bag outside of his car.

Police say the suspect struck Pappas on the head with a back of a handgun. Pappas fell to the ground, but was able to get up and run into the restaurant. The suspect picked up the bag of money Pappas was carrying and drove away.

Police later found the suspect driving west on Northern parkway, and followed the car until the suspect crashed into a parked car at the intersection of Greenmount and Venable Avenues.
... which is about where we'd expect him to head in Bawlmer.
The suspect then bravely ran away, but police found him a short distance away. Officers recovered the suspect's gun and tossed him in the slammer.
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
Twenty-five year-old Darrell Burns is charged with armed robbery, first degree assault, and several firearms offense. Burns is being held without bail in the Baltimore County Detention Center.

Pappas was later taken to Sinai Hospital for treatment of his injuries.
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


CNN Alters Photo of Umpqua Killer Chris Harper-Mercer?


Before and After:




I searched the CNN website for the photo of the killer--or any photo of the killer--and didn't find it (which is odd for a news site). Th original source seems to be Infowars, which isn't a reliable news source. I did a Google search on the name and all the images returned were similar, some lighter, some darker, within normal limits of imaging software. Googling the twinned image itself brings up mostly nutjob sites, so I'm thinkin' Gateway Pundit fell for a hoax.

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I remember hearing early on that sh*tstain was bi-racial. It was just one report and was never mentioned again. His dad was on TV but we have yet to see his mom. Jury still out on this for me.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 10/05/2015 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Parents of Harper-Mercer. The deceased, Harper--Mercer claims to be of "Mixed race."
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/05/2015 12:27 Comments || Top||

#3  On Drudge this morning also.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/05/2015 13:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Snopes calls shenanigans: Black or White or Fake?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/05/2015 15:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm throwing a red flag. Too stupid even for CNN.

Not the same picture as the one he is holding a rifle.

Everyone is talking about altered photos, or gun grabbing. I am interested in the validity of the witness' claims, and his motives/lack of motives.

The BLM (which I read he was at least associated with) was/is a jobs fair for recruiters of bad actors.

Also, was a package handed to the police by a designated witness?

I understand a package may be yielding clues for a continuing investigation, and photos of the crime scene, whether it shows random shooting or certain people designated into a spot and executed, would be unacceptable for a number of very good reasons.

But this, oh we don't want to glorify this, BS. If this black savage were given the same treatment of that white savage, every photo posted would be displayed all over the place and they would be talking about how hipster glasses cause violence - or whether they are actually Malcolm X glasses.

When Obama says we need to politicize this, and he is always politicizing things, when he says it, he is saying More Noise.

I'm not on this train, I keep my BS filters clean, but why people can conclude that this otherwise law abiding late 20s failed basic training no girlfriend loser looked at the BLM for some personal meaning and found a way to express himself using violence which specifically targeted Christians (Islam or Leftists), especially white ones, and was activated or came up with this on his own.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/05/2015 18:56 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian former oil minister 'arrested'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Nigeria's former oil minister has been incarcerated
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
in London, the BBC said on Friday quoting unnamed family members, after Britannia's National Crime Agency said it had detained five people over alleged international corruption.

The identities and nationalities of those held were not disclosed but the broadcaster said on its website that relatives of Diezani Alison-Madueke confirmed she had been arrested in the British capital.

Alison-Madueke was Nigeria's minister of petroleum resources from 2010 until earlier this year when Muhammadu Buhari defeated Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau.Other than that he's pretty useless as the Boko Haram debacle shows..
in presidential polls.

She was the first woman to hold the post in Nigeria, Africa's number one crude producer, and the first female president of the global oil cartel OPEC.

Britannia's NCA, which investigates serious and organized crime, said in a statement on its website that its international corruption unit arrested five people across London.

The arrests were "part of an investigation into suspected bribery and money-laundering offences", it added.

No further details were given but Nigerian media reported that Alison-Madueke was granted bail but had her passport seized and was ordered to stay at her London address.
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Cameron refuses to rule out Brexit
[Hurriyet Daily News]
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Hillary: I'm the Most Transparent Person in American History
Yeah, Hilla. So much so that we can see right through you.
Hillary Clinton believes she's the most transparent person in American history. The Democratic presidential candidate made the claim in a town hall this morning, hosted by NBC's Today Show.

"I have gone further than anybody that I'm aware of in American history," Clinton said of the release of her emails. "Now it's not a long history since we haven't had emails that long--as long as we've had them, I've gone longer and farther to be as transparent as possible. Nobody else has done that."

Clinton added that she's "a little embarrassed that the emails are so boring."
Posted by: gorb || 10/05/2015 12:30 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Right, at least since your "It depends on what your definition if 'is' is,' predecessor/husband/mentor/guiding light. And the current holder of the Oval Office, of course.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/05/2015 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  To neutrinos?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/05/2015 13:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Has there ever been a bigger sack of lying crap in politics ? The woman is shameless and clueless, peddling pure codswallop ......
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/05/2015 15:10 Comments || Top||

#4  her sycophants eat this up with a spoon
Posted by: Frank G || 10/05/2015 16:10 Comments || Top||

#5  I was thinking more like snorting it up with a straw.
Posted by: gorb || 10/05/2015 16:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Heh, gorb! Hil is also the only presidential candidate to fail the Turing test.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/05/2015 18:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Correct, but not in the way she means.
Posted by: charger || 10/05/2015 20:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Yup, I've always thought she was pretty transparent.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/05/2015 20:55 Comments || Top||

#9  mabey if she's learned to give a blow job we wouldnt have this problem
Posted by: 746 || 10/05/2015 23:05 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Go to Pakistan if you can't live without beef: BJP minister
[DAWN] Advocating a ban on cow slaughter, Indian Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Thursday that all those who wanted to eat beef could go to Pakistain, IANS news agency reported.

"It is not about loss or profit. It is an issue of faith and belief. It is a sensitive matter for the Hindus," said the minister, adding that even a number of Indian Muslims were against the slaughtering of cows.

"Those who are dying without eating beef can go to Pakistain or Arab countries or any other part of [the] world where it is available," he added.

Earlier in March, the Indian state of Maharashtra had banned the possession and sale of beef. Anyone found in the process of selling or consuming beef can be sentenced to jail for five years and fined Rs10,000.

Before he came to power, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had warned that the country's expanding meat industry would lead to its "ruin".

India's booming middle class with rising disposable incomes is driving the demand for meat in a country which traditionally has had a large vegetarian population.

With chicken a favourite, domestic poultry sales are worth an estimated $9 billion and growing at an annual rate of 20 per cent. India is also one of the world's largest meat exporters.

Cows are considered sacred by Hindus, who form the majority religion in India, but Modi has spoken out against all forms of animal slaughter.
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  all those who wanted to eat beef could go to Pakistain
Yes, please don't come to Texas.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/05/2015 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Try my home made bacon cheeseburger, and there will be peace.
Posted by: Chinegum Crinens1384 || 10/05/2015 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm seeing a Bollywood remake of Kentucky Fried Movie:

"Send him to...PAKISTAIN!"
"Nooo!"
Posted by: SteveS || 10/05/2015 18:13 Comments || Top||


Two more arrested in India after murder over beef rumours
[DAWN] Indian police on Saturday locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
two more suspects in a mob murder of a Muslim man over rumours he had eaten beef, as debate mounted over communal intolerance under the Hindu nationalist government.

Mohammad Akhlaq, 50, was dragged from his house on the outskirts of the capital and beaten to death by around 100 people on Monday night over suspicions he had eaten beef -- a taboo in the Hindu-majority nation.

Akhlaq's 22-year-old son was also seriously injured in the attack in Bisada village in Uttar Pradesh state and has been undergoing treatment at a nearby hospital.

"Total eight main accused (have been) arrested out of 10 named ones," A. Satish Ganesh, a senior police official for Uttar Pradesh told AFP in a text message, without giving any further details.

Police arrested six other suspects on Wednesday.

The case has fuelled concerns over perceptions religious intolerance is growing under the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party government.

Calls have grown for nationalist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak out on the case after colleagues in his party came under fire for appearing to trivialise the crime.

"If somebody says it was pre-planned, I don't agree. It was an accident and investigations should happen," junior culture minister Mahesh Sharma told news hounds during a visit to the victim's family on Friday.

Hostile villagers attacked a media crew on Saturday, pelting stones and shattering their car windows.

Rumours that the family had eaten beef began when a calf was reported missing in Dadri village, 35 kilometres from New Delhi.

Soon after a nearby temple made an announcement via loudspeaker that the family had consumed beef and within minutes the mob kicked down Akhlaq's door and tore through his home before killing him.

The victim's family has maintained they had mutton in the fridge and not beef.

Killing cows is banned in many states of India, where the majority of the population is Hindu but which is also home to sizeable Muslim, Christian and Buddhist minorities.

In March, the state of Maharashtra toughened its ban to make even possessing beef illegal, a move seen by religious minorities as a sign of the growing power of hardline Hindus since Modi came to power last year.
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A scrawny old bull of New Delhi
Possessed a particular belly:
"I always eat lawful
While scavenging offal.
Your infidel garbage is smelly."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/05/2015 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/05/2015 9:53 Comments || Top||

#3  In Frisco, a gay Chik Fil-A
Attracted protesters one day:
"Stop choking your chickens!
A brighter day beckons,
When marrying fowl is OK!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/05/2015 11:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Good thing these backwards village bumpkins don't visit New Delhi proper. You can get burgers and steaks in any TGI Friday's or Chili's.

Of course it is listed as "Buffalo" but actually is beef imported from Australia.
Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 || 10/05/2015 12:05 Comments || Top||

#5  ZF has a point (it why he wears a funny hat). Indians herd of cattle are to valuable as fertilizer producers, labor and Milk makers. Not profitable to eat.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/05/2015 16:56 Comments || Top||


The 'water mafias' that suck Karachi dry
[DAWN]
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Imran questions authenticity of by-polls under 'tainted' ECP officials
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
Chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
said that the officials of Election Commission under whom the elections were rigged in 2013 have again been assigned to conduct the polls, thus putting a question mark on the authenticity of upcoming by-polls.

He said this while addressing a rally in Lahore ahead of the by-polls in NA-122 constituency.

The PTI chief said that this time the army personnel will monitor the polling process in NA-122, and not just the polling process but they will also monitor the transfer of voting bags to ECP.

Imran further said that this time around Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has given training to PTI's polling staff on how to stop PML-N people from doing poll-day rigging.

"Our sources have informed us that PML-N is planning to do rigging at women's polling station, but let me make it clear upon them that PTI's tigresses will not let them succeed in their nefarious designs," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan



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