Manuel Longoria led police on a lengthy chase in a stolen vehicle before they managed to box him in. After being blasted with several less-than-lethal beanbag rounds, Longoria appears to try reach…
Murder
A mixture of exorcism and insanity leads to a bone-chilling crime, the Washington Post reports: The Montgomery County mother accused of stabbing her four young children during a bloody exorcism — killing…
You might want to avoid meetings strangers you find on Craigslist, per this story of murder from Reuters: A newlywed couple in Pennsylvania killed a man whom the wife had lured to…
An officer whose goal is to serve you. ABC News reports: A German police officer may have seduced and murdered a man he met on a cannibalism fetish website. The suspect has…
The white-washed version of the Thanksgiving holiday you were told in school isn’t anywhere close to the true, blood-spattered story of disease, slavery and genocide.
GQ’s profile of an undercover ATF agent who poses as a hitman to foil murder for hire schemes is an interesting read. Via GQ: “Tell me what you want done,” the hit…
iTunes | Download (mp3) | RSS | iPhone App Legendary editor Russ Kick returns to the DisinfoCast to discuss his new collection Death Poems, an anthology of verse both modern and classic…
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Via Newser The MI6 spy whose naked body was found inside a zipped, padlocked gym bag probably died … by accident, UK police have…
Cannibalism as a means to expand the doors of perception, with sake. Via ABC News: A Florida man who killed a vagrant with an ax and ate his brain and eyes has…
Give this man the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Via Gawker: A Florida man who shot three of his neighbors killing two of them has cited the state’s infamous Stand Your Ground law…
Before dying in what many people consider an incredibly suspicious car “accident”, Michael Hastings had CIA Director John Brennan in his sights. Via San Diego 6: This week Elise Jordan, wife of…
This incredibly disturbing saga harkens back to the heyday of heavy metal moral panic. Via the Los Angeles Times: Prosecutors say that Moises Meraz-Espinoza strangled his mother and then skinned, filleted and…
Tim Stanley writes at the Telegraph: WikiLeaks just threw some gasoline onto the conspiracy fire. On Wednesday night, they Tweeted: “Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before…
David Fergusen writes at Raw Story: On Thursday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the swirl of questions around the shooting of Ibragim Todashev, an associate of…
Via orwellwasright: The brutal murder of a man in Woolwich, set upon by two men wielding knives and machetes, inevitably led to a lot of heated responses, not least from the hundreds…
Brainwashing by enlightenment drug? Authorities claim that ayahuasca was imbibed as a means of “controlling” the sect’s white-collar ranks. Via NBC News: Chilean police on Thursday arrested four people accused of burning…
Your teachers’ lives may be more exciting than they seem. Via the Kansas City Star: Tyler Deaton landed a job in February to teach pre-calculus at Lancaster High School near Dallas. But…
The dark side of zodiac compatibility tests, via the South Florida Sun Sentinel: A Lauderhill man told a bizarre tale of needing to find a victim who had a Taurus zodiac sign…
Fred Pearce writes at the Guardian: Where is Sombath Somphone? With every day that passes, the fate of one of south-east Asia’s most high-profile environmental activists, who was snatched from the streets…
This story seems to have everything: Software billionaire, tropical paradise, a retinue of prostitutes, a pack of attack dogs, and most of all a murder mystery. It’s all over the news as John McAfee hides from the Belizean police while conducting an aggressive defense via all forms of media. Story from the New York Times and video from CNN (and at the bottom, McAfee’s interview with Joe Rogan):
Daniel Guerrero promised during his campaign for mayor here to clean up San Pedro, the only town on this island, a 20-minute puddle jump from the mainland. But if he ever runs for re-election, don’t expect him to mention that vow.
“I meant clean up the trash, the traffic, that sort of thing,” he says. “I didn’t mean this.”
“This” is a full-blown international media frenzy and the kind of mess that no politician could have seen coming. It started on Nov. 11, the morning that Gregory Faull, a 52-year-old American, was found dead, lying face up in a pool of blood in his home. He had been shot in the head. His laptop and iPhone were missing. A 9-millimeter shell was found nearby.
What happened next turned this from a local crime story to worldwide news: The police announced that a “person of interest” in the investigation was a neighbor, John McAfee, a Silicon Valley legend who years ago earned millions from the computer virus-fighting software company that still bears his name…
Death metal?
Charles Manson’s Family may have committed more than twice as many killings as previously believed, the Los Angeles Times reports: Los Angeles police officials said they hope to bring closure to the…
It seems anyone who crossed the Japanese faith healer with a small cult following would be beaten to death with sticks in an deadly “exorcism” rite. Via Japan Subculture: Sachiko Eto, 65,…
Via the LA Times: Los Angeles chef David Veins is currently on trial for the particularly gruesome murder of his wife, Dawn. In a confession to police, Veins said that after asphyxiating…
Abby Martin speaks to Jesse Ventura and examines US War Crimes.
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EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin interviews former governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, about the two party “dictatorship” and corporate censorship. She highlights the live-streamers of Occupy Wall Street as the heroes and calls out Marianne Ny as the villain for her flimsy attempt to extradite Julian Assange with no evidence against him. Abby wraps up the show by discussing the Bush Administration’s crimes against humanity, and the fact that President Obama’s refusal to prosecute the officials has led to a cultural decay.