Tamale Chef Kills Friend, Cooks Him
Thu Apr 22, 9:55 AM ET
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican cook killed his drinking buddy, cut up his body and boiled him in herbs, according to police who fear he may have been turning him into tamales.
Prosecutors said on Wednesday they had arrested Carlos Machuca, a tamale-maker, at his home.
Officers found a man's mutilated corpse in the living room and body parts simmering in aluminum saucepans on the patio.
From cooling1018
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man convicted of molesting two boys figured there was only one way out of California's hospital for the criminally insane, where he was stuck indefinitely after being labeled a sexually violent predator.
After maintaining his innocence for nearly two decades, James Rodriguez realized he would have to say he committed the crimes that put him in prison and then in Atascadero State Hospital.
There was only one problem - Rodriguez says he never molested the boys in the first place. So he had to learn how to play the part of a sex offender - just what he would have to say about an attraction to young boys, how he knew it was wrong but couldn't stop. It was the only way to persuade the hospital staff that he had learned the error of his ways and should eventually be set free.
"I went and hung out with the pedophiles," said Rodriguez, now 43. "I got into their heads and figured out what to say and what not to say. (One pedophile) grilled me for hours and asked me all these questions. Then he'd say, 'No, don't say that, say this.'"
The doctors believed him.
Like most of the approximately 500 men languishing at Atascadero after being labeled sexually violent predators, Rodriguez had refused to discuss any sex offenses, a key step in the treatment they're supposed to receive. The men know that anything they say can be used against them, possibly to keep them behind bars forever.
But as Rodriguez was learning how to talk like a sex offender, the case against him was falling apart.
Rodriguez's latest recommitment hearing kept getting postponed.
Carlos Monagas, an assistant district attorney in Riverside County, was preparing the victims for the hearing when they suddenly recanted, telling him that the whole sex abuse story was fiction.
64 YEARS AGO TODAY
Apr 23 1940
198 are killed when the Rhythm Night Club burns down in Natchez, Mississippi.
The dance hall was located in a corrogated iron building that kept flames inside while the negroes tried vainly to escape through the front entrance - the only exit to the dance hall.
The dance hall was decorated with hanging moss. This caught fire at the front of the building and quickly enveloped the entire hall. The negroes made a mad dash for the front, those who were weak went down under the thundering feet of others.
As the front exit to the building was blocked the negroes turned and thundered to the back only to be met with the corrogated iron side of the building. They piled upon each other and there they died, some due to the flames and others due to suffocation.
The unearthly cry of those who were burning to death could be heard for blocks even before the fire alarm had been sounded.
http://www.natchezsites.com/history/rhythmclub.html
Alleged necrophiliac faces different charges
A man who allegedly had sex with the corpse of an elderly woman cannot be charged for that incident act.
Mahdi Allah, 48, was arraigned in court Wednesday morning and pleaded not guilty to one felony count of possession of stolen property and two misdemeanor counts of trespassing.
Allah was allegedly discovered by an employee Saturday morning in the basement of the Hogan, Sullivan and Bianco funeral home on Ninth Avenue, passed out drunk, with his pants down, on top of the cadaver.
But that apparently is not a crime in California.
By The Associated Press
(4/19/04 - RENO, NV) — Members of the Tahoe Lakefront Owners Association want scientists to study whether goose feces are contributing to pollution that's eroding the lake's clarity at an average rate of more than a foot per year.
"We're just surprised the agencies haven't taken this problem more seriously."
| Waitress served detergent instead of schnapps |
An Austrian waitress has been fined £500 for mistakenly serving guests industrial strength cleaning detergent instead of schnapps.
The court in Klagenfurt in southern Austria heard how five diners ended up in hospital after drinking what they thought was schnapps.
The waitress told the court that she had been "stressed."
Iraq Victim Was Top-Secret Apartheid Killer
Sunday Times(Johannesburg)
April 18, 2004
Julian Rademeyer
Johannesburg- A security contractor killed in Iraq last week was once one of South Africa's most secret covert agents, his identity guarded so closely that even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission did not discover the extent of his involvement in apartheid's silent wars.
Gray Branfield, 55, admitted to being part of a death squad which gunned down Joe Gqabi, the ANC's chief representative and Umkhonto weSizwe operational head in Zimbabwe on July 31 1981. Gqabi was shot 19 times when three assassins ambushed him as he reversed down the driveway of his Harare home.
Branfield was arrested and tortured while carrying out a reconnaissance operation in Zambia in 1986. For six weeks he and a colleague were subjected to beatings, water torture and electric shocks.
After eventually getting bail, Branfield skipped the country.
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DUDE, WHERE'S YOUR WEBSITE: MICHAEL MOORE OUT-SOURCING DESIGN, SERVER TO CANADA!
Advocate Michael Moore may have released a book titled DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY?, and may have vaulted to stardom documenting worker's rights and corporate malfeasance in Flint, Michigan, but that has not stopped Moore from outsourcing his website design and servers -- to companies based in Canada!
Cannes-bound Moore, the great protector of the U.S. working class, has outsourced the design of his Web site to a foreign company in Canada, records show.
PLANK -- based in Montréal, Québec -- is the development and design company behind MichaelMoore.com.
Meanwhile, Moore's site is hosted by a foreign owned company, Webcore Labs, of Calgary, Alberta Canada.
From el_viajero
Bird flu could develop into a threat big enough to overturn world order if it evolves to transfer directly from person to person, a UK scientist says.
Dr John McCauley, of the Institute for Animal Health, said the virus could be 20 times worse than the 1918 pandemic. That is estimated to have killed 40 million people, with later influenza outbreaks also killing millions more.
Dr McCauley said there was a realistic chance of the current avian flu virus evolving to threaten people directly. "If it does - if the virus becomes adapted to man and can transmit efficiently - there'll be no point in selling a vaccine. You might as well give it away at that stage, because money would be meaningless."
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FOOTBALL pundit Ron Atkinson quit ITV last night after calling a black player 'a lazy fucking nigger' live on air.
Atkinson has been ITV's top football analyst for years.
British viewers did not hear the slur but it went out on air in the Middle East to thousands of people watching an 'international feed' of the game.
Engineers had forgotten to turn down the microphones in the studio while UK viewers were on a commercial break.
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