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Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher (25) shot and killed his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins (22), during a domestic dispute on December 1st. He later turned the gun on himself after arriving at Arrowhead Stadium. Belcher’s mother, who witnessed the murder, called 9-1-1 shortly before 8 a.m. to have Perkins rushed to the hospital but the multiple gunshots ultimately proved to be fatal. The couple left behind a 3-month-old daughter.
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In light of the recent Powerball lottery, a murder trial with Dorice Moore seems all too relevant. Dorice Moore was the financial adviser to Abraham Shakespeare and is now on trial for first degree murder for the death of her client. Mr. Shakespeare was once a multi million dollar lottery winner in Tampa, Flordia, but is no longer reaping the benefits. Ms. Moore allegedly shot Abraham in the chest and spine, and then continued to bury his body under a concrete slab in her backyard. There are no eyewitnesses as of this moment but prosecutors have no doubt that she knew something up was when Mr. Shakespeare went missing.
Can’t trust anybody
As Halloween approaches children become frightened of urban legends and old murder stories. Kids could never imagine that an old murder story could have involved their teacher’s aide, but in a school in Conrad, Iowa, that is exactly the case. Paula Pace, formerly known as Paula Baniszewski, has been fired from her teacher’s aide position after the school discovered she was directly involved in the beating and killing of Sylvia Likens, 47 years ago. The death of Sylvia Likens is recognized as, “the most terrible crime committed in the state of Indiana,” and her story was also made a movie in 2007, “An American Crime.” Paula, her mother, her brother, and neighborhood children had beaten and tortured Sylvia, taking turns burning her and throwing her down the stairs. Even going so far as to stick Coke bottles in her privates. She was found dead in the basement of the Baniszewski home. Paula was arrested alongside her mother, brother, and neighbor. She was sentenced to only 7 years in prison and was released in 1972. She eventually moved to Iowa and changed her last name to Pace where she started a new life working in a school.
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Phencyclidine also known as PCP is a hallucinogenic drug that when smoked can cause violent outbursts and thrashing. Oswaldo Rivera, from Camden, New Jersey has learned this the hard way after smoking the drug “wet”; “Wet” is the street term used to describe the combination of PCP and marijuana. Rivera is being charged with murder and attempted murder after he broke in to an apartment and slit the throats of two young children. The 6 year old boy passed away and his 12 year old sister was sent to the hospital in critical condition. Cops linked the murder to Rivera after they had found footprints on the scene that had matched his bloody shoes. The hallucinogenic drug does not normally produce such violent effects, users are usually incoherent and spaced-out.
Land of the free
Four soldiers from the 4th Brigade combat team of the Army’s Third Infantry Division have been tried for the murders of Michael Roark and his girl friend Tiffany York. The two were murdered execution style by Anthony Peden, Christopher Salmon, and Michael Burnett right outside Fort Stewart in Georgia by the orders of Private Isaac Aguigui. The four soliders including Roark had formed an anarchist militia group, Forever Enduring Always Ready (F.E.A.R.), recruiting troubled and distressed soldiers. The militia group’s plans had been to overthrow the government and assassinate the president. Private Aguigui had invested $500,000 of his dead wife’s insurance money to start the militia group. They had used $87,000 of the insurance money to buy semiautomatic weapons and materials for bombs. Aguigui had even purchased land in Washington State so he could carry out his plan to blow up a dam and poison the state’s apple crop.