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Jaycee Lee Dugard: Her Kidnapper Calls A Reporter And Her Stepdad Appears On “Today”

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comAugust 28, 2009 //


Holy creepy. Last night, Philip Garrido, the man who allegedly kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard, kept her in a compound in his backyard, raped her, and fathered her two children, called a reporter from jail. Listen to the recording above. He says, “In the end you’re going to find the most powerful heart-warming story.” Yeah, somehow I just don’t think that’s gonna be the case. Happy Friday! More info on this horrific case, after the jump… Keep reading »

Man Steals A Virgin Mary Painting. To Pay For An Abortion. For The Girl He Raped.

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comAugust 24, 2009 //

This is one of those stories that involves so many layers of nastiness that it sort of resembles a rotten onion. In 2006, a Nebraskan dude named Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez raped a 14-year-old girl. When he found out that the young girl was pregnant, he realized he was in deep trouble and was very likely going to get caught. So he asked his son to serve as a look-out while he stole a 300-year-old portrait of the Virgin Mary worth about $100K from Omaha’s St. Cecilia Cathedral. He then grabbed the girl he’d raped and fled with her to Mexico, where he sold the painting for $3K and took the girl to an abortion clinic. When he discovered an abortion wasn’t an option, he kept the girl there until she gave birth and forced her to give it up for adoption. Luckily, this horrible guy got caught, and plead no contest to the charges of first-degree sexual assault and theft. Hopefully, when he’s sentenced this week, he’ll get the full 70 years. [Fox News] Keep reading »

Inside The Twisted Head Of Gym Shooter George Sodini

Nikki DowlingAugust 6, 2009 //

Yesterday we reported on the horrific health-club shooting in which woman-hater George Sodini walked into a Pittsburgh LA Fitness Club and open fired on a bunch of women taking a Latin Impact dance aerobics class. He killed three and injured nine others before killing himself. New facts are emerging about this crazy dude and they are totally disturbing. After the jump, find out more about George Sodini’s life. Keep reading »

Woman Commits Crime Under The Influence Of Bikini

adminJuly 27, 2009 //

When you imagine a crime spree, you probably think of a beefy guy in a ski mask with maybe, I don’t know, a weapon? Well, in Mississippi last week, a 24-year-old woman carjacked another woman in her driveway, allowing the woman to remove her kid from the car first. Then, she tried to rob an RV dealership. She told the dealership employees that she was packing heat and told them to cough up the cash. But the employees didn’t believe her. Why? Probably because she was wearing a bikini during this entire venture. Where are you going to hide a gun when you’re wearing four triangles of clothing? [Yahoo! News]

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Should Letting Your Kid Get Really Fat Be A Felony?

Nikki DowlingJuly 22, 2009 //

A South Carolina woman is being charged today with criminal neglect, a felony that could land her up to ten years in the slammer. Why? Because her 14-year-old son weighs 555 pounds. The kid’s mother, Jerri Gray, was poor and often had to work back-to-back shifts, so her son was home alone a lot. Gray claims there wasn’t a lot of junk food in the house, but that her son was stuffing his face in school, eating several lunches each day and feasting on snacks given to him by his friends. Keep reading »

Hottie Underwear Model Is Arrested For Robbery Spree

Daniela GuernicaJuly 17, 2009 //

Joshua Walter used to walk down the catwalk in his underwear, but it looks like he’ll soon be donning something with a few more stripes on it. The former undies model was arrested Thursday after an alleged robbing spree of 24-hour stores in Queens and Brooklyn, New York. Joshua was nabbed by police after running out of the Astro van getaway car that he and three other guys supposedly used in the robberies. The 20-year-old boy-toy turned bad-boy lives with his girlfriend, Gina Salamino—a 37-year-old ex-second grade school teacher who was fired for having sex and a love child with Joshua when he was 17. Joshua is charged with robbery and criminal possession of a firearm. But now he can add a mugshot to his modeling portfolio! [NY Daily News] Keep reading »

Man Arrested (Twice!) For Having Sex With His Cow And Other Bizarre Crimes Committed This Week

Ali JawinJuly 9, 2009 //

There is an old adage along the lines of “real life is stranger than fiction.” Apparently a man from my sleepy town in Connecticut was arrested for having sex with his cow…again. Oh yes, the local dude was arrested once before a few years ago for doing the nasty with his cow. I am not sure what was the most disturbing element of this story: the fact that he was caught having sex with his cow, that he was caught again, or that he was single at the time of the first arrest and he was (and, to my knowledge, still is) engaged at the time of his second arrest. Inspired by this bizarre story I went to searching for other random crimes committed in the past few days. Read about the weirdest and wackiest ways the law has been broken, after the jump. Keep reading »

A Cheerleading Tazer Attack

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comJuly 1, 2009 //

It’s hard to go more than a few months in the United States without a juicy cheerleading scandal. (Don’t believe me? Check out my book CHEER!: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders.) Today, a case in Oklahoma is eerily reminiscent of Wanda Holloway, the infamous Texas cheer mom who tried to have her daughter’s cheer rival offed in the 1990s. Find out what happened this time time around, after the jump… Keep reading »

Mom Charged With Changing 200+ Grades For Daughter

adminJune 29, 2009 //

Talk about being an overly-involved parent. Last week, mom Carolina McNeal was charged with hacking into a Pennsylvania high school’s computer system to make her daughter come out at the top of her class. Caroline worked as the school’s secretary, and used other people’s passwords to change four years worth of grades, test scores, and SAT scores for her daughter Brittany…even giving her daughter’s classmates crappier grades and scores! McNeal is accused of changing 200 scores and is charged with 29 counts of tampering with public records—third-degree felonies that warrant up to seven years in prison and $15,000 in fines. (For each count…yikes.) Nutso mom got caught when a guidance counselor noticed that Brittany’s SAT score of 1370 was listed as 1730 in the school’s computers…which totally could have just been a dyslexic mix-up, right? Also, 1370 is practically perfect on its own! I guess that’s motherly love to the extreme—doing time so your daughter could get into a good college? But my guess is that Brittany would rather have a mother than good grades. [Yahoo News] Keep reading »

A Mom Coaxs Her Teens Into Armed Robberies

Daniela GuernicaJune 2, 2009 //

You may think your mother is bad, but this mama takes the cake. No really, she probably took it. Arizona mother Cynthia Robertson has been charged with masterminding 20 cases of armed robbery and aggravated assault in Phoenix, Arizona. How did mama Robertson do it? She used her bad financial situation and unemployment to guilt her two young sons, ages 12 and 14, and their friends into robbing people. Seriously, I know the economy sucks, but geez. Keep reading »

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