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Murder in Pretoria? OJ detective says 'Blade Runner' evidence is overwhelming
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The former lead detective in the Pistorius case is facing an attempted murder charge stemming from an on-duty incident, prosecutors may have been too quick to say steroids were found in the Pretoria mansion of the suspect and detectives missed a bullet ...
Oscar Pistorius murder case: Embattled detective dropped after blunders ...CBS News
OJ Simpson attorney: Pistorius murder case dissimilarUSA TODAY
South African police chief removes Hilton Botha from Pistorius case after he ...The Guardian
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OJ Simpson attorney: Pistorius murder case dissimilar
USA TODAY
Robert Shapiro, who once represented O.J. Simpson in the notorious murder trial of the mid-1990s in Los Angeles, said the Oscar Pistorius murder case in South Africa is very different except that both "have superstar athletes that are accused of ...
Oscar Pistorius murder case: Embattled detective dropped after blunders ...CBS News
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Frankie Banali, Fiancée Discuss Upcoming Quiet Riot Documentary (VIDEO ...
Noisecreep
You see, Banali is Russell's fiancé and so when she decided to produce the definitive Quiet Riot documentary, she had the ability to go straight to the source. But just because you know somebody well doesn't mean they would be a cooperative subject.

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Oscar Pistorius murder case: Embattled detective dropped after blunders ...
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PRETORIA, South Africa South Africa's top detective was appointed lead investigator in the Oscar Pistorius case Thursday, replacing a veteran policeman who was charged with attempted murder in the latest shock development to hit a case being watched ...
Murder in Pretoria? OJ detective says 'Blade Runner' evidence is overwhelmingFox News
Pistorius detective on attempted murder chargesReuters
OJ Simpson attorney: Pistorius murder case dissimilarUSA TODAY
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Reward offered in South City slaying of raccoon
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
The Peninsula Humane Society is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who fatally shot a raccoon with a pellet gun over the weekend. A resident called animal control officers Sunday to report finding the dazed ...

Multiple Murderer Tommy WyattTommy Wyatt dies of natural causes in Raiford
by Robert A. Waters

On February 8, a stone-cold killer met his maker. Thomas Anthony Wyatt, who fled a work crew while serving a 15 year sentence for kidnapping and assault, spear-headed one of Florida's most notorious murder sprees.

Florida Supreme Court documents describe the Vero Beach Domino’s Pizza murders: "On May 13, 1988, Wyatt and his codefendant, Michael Lovette, escaped from a North Carolina prison road gang and fled to Florida, engaging in a spree of crimes along the way, including the murders of three Domino's Pizza employees in Vero Beach and the murder of Cathy Nydegger near Tampa…

"The evidence presented at Wyatt's trial on the Domino's murder counts revealed the following. On May 16, 1988, Wyatt and Lovette stole a 1983 Cadillac Seville with a red-burgundy body and white canvas top in Jacksonville, Florida, and then drove down the east coast of Florida to the Vero Beach/Yeehaw Junction area near State Road 60.

"At some time between 11:00 and 11:45 p.m. on May 17, both men entered a Vero Beach Domino's Pizza restaurant armed with handguns. While Lovette held William Edwards, the store manager, at gunpoint in the office until the time lock on the store's safe opened, Wyatt took Frances Edwards, who was William Edwards' wife, and Matthew Bornoosh, a deliveryman, to the restroom in the back of the restaurant. Wyatt forced Bornoosh to remove his Domino's shirt, and Lovette put it on.

"During the course of the robbery, Wyatt raped Frances Edwards. After the safe opened, the men retrieved money from inside the safe, and Wyatt shot all three victims to death: William Edwards was shot in the head and chest; Frances Edwards was shot in the head; and Matthew Bornoosh was shot in the left ear and head…"

The take in the robbery was $1,153.00, less than $400 for each life.

Wyatt and Lovette traveled across the state to Tampa where they met Nydegger in a bar.  They kidnapped her, and drove her to Indian County where Wyatt shot her in the head, killing her.

Overwhelming evidence, including semen inside Frances Edwards and bullets matching the gun used to murder Nydegger, linked Wyatt to the crimes.  He received a death sentence, while Lovette got ten life sentences.

Before the crime spree, Wyatt had 26 arrests and convictions.

He died at Union Correctional Institution, near Raiford.  Wyatt was 49, and a Florida Department of Corrections press release stated that his death was due to “natural causes.”

A predator in the true sense of the word, he brought misery to almost everyone he met.

On January 17, Florida Death Row inmate William Van Poyck wrote that “my old friend Tom—just 4 months ago had a hale and hardy soul, now a mere envelope of cancer-gnawed flesh and bones —was removed from his cell by wheelchair, too weak to offer anything but meager protest, and transferred to the one place he dreaded going to, our notoriously filthy, blood spattered clinic holding cell.”

Sounds a lot worse than merely going to sleep on a gurney.

What goes around comes around.

Toronto Star
'Mr. Sidewalk' tells corruption inquiry he's not a middleman for the Mafia
Toronto Star
'Mr. Sidewalk' tells corruption inquiry he's not a middleman for the Mafia. Nicolo Milioto says Nicolo Rizzuto was just a pal. Known to the rest of the world as the now-deceased patriarch of the Rizzuto crime family, Milioto remembered him as a guy to ...
Quebec corruption inquiry has trouble cracking Mr. SidewalkNational Post
'Mr. Sidewalk' denies role in Montreal corruptionOttawa Citizen
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Wasting no time to make it a crime, in Texas
Dallas Morning News (blog)
There was an interesting convergence of stimuli yesterday on the Legislature's proclivity to invent new crimes. Here's the picture: I was watching a recording of this week's meeting of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, specifically a ...

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Corruption Reigns In Spain; King's Son-In-Law Accused Of Embezzling
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There is no end, it seems, to revelations of corruption in Spain, exacerbated by the country's economic crisis. The latest scandal threatens to topple the pedestal on which Spain's royals have long stood. The newest suspect is the king's son-in-law ...

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Jodi Arias, accused of stabbing, shooting and slashing the throat of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, is expected to go toe-to-toe with the prosecution Thursday during... David Lohr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lohr/

A Dallas court has awarded $10.5 million to the family of a young woman who was fatally crushed by a monster truck in the parking... Steven Hoffer http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -- Police in Utah say two women duct-taped a teenage boy, forced him to use marijuana and poured hot sauce in... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

Malaysians continue to run riot
Deccan Herald
Malaysians continue to run riot. Bangalore, Feb 22, 2013, DHNS. Visiting Junior team posts 5-3 win over BEML; MEG 'A' thump PCTC. Malaysian juniors continued their winning streak defeating BEML, Bangalore, 5-3 in their opening Pool 'B' match of the ...

Four former officials of the Peanut Corporation of America were indicted on Thursday on charges related to salmonella-tainted peanuts and peanut products, the Justice Department said.

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BB murder site washed off after collecting evidences: witnesses
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RAWALPINDI: Two main prosecution witnesses in Benazir Bhutto's murder case on Thursday apprised an anti-terrorism court that the crime scene was washed off after collecting all necessary evidences as per practice followed in such incidents.
Benazir murder case: Prosecution witnesses backtrack from earlier statementsPakistanToday.com.pk

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Pussy Riot Member Has 'No Regrets'
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Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich marked the anniversary of the group's famous protest in a Moscow cathedral by telling The Associated Press that she has "no regrets of the performance." Though Samutsevich and two bandmates were arrested, ...
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