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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007I know I haven’t updated in awhile. I’ll have some more stuff pretty soon (Michael Vick), but here’s a nice little story to hold you over until then.
Police: Boss Kills Coworkers Who Asked For Raise
EAST POINT, Georgia (AP) — The owner of a car dealership has been accused of killing two employees because they kept asking for pay raises.
Rolandas Milinavicius has been charged with two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Inga Contreras, 25, and Martynas Simokaitis, 28.
All three are from the eastern European nation of Lithuania but had been living in Atlanta, Georgia, authorities said.
Milinavicius, who was having financial problems, told police he shot the two Thursday after they kept asking for more pay, said police in East Point, which is just outside Atlanta.
“He told us that he was under a lot of stress,” East Point police Capt. Russell Popham said. “Unfortunately, he decided to take his anger out with violence.”
Milinavicius, who had been living in Alpharetta, a suburb north of Atlanta, started RM Auto International two years ago, hoping to meet the demand for American cars in Lithuania. He began shipping cars and later hired the two victims as his only employees.
Milinavicius, 38, turned himself in two days after the shootings and confessed to the killings, Popham said.
“As I understand, the employees were not really happy about the pay, and they had questioned him about it over the course of time,” Popham said. “That morning he said he just snapped.”
Contreras and Simokaitis were cremated and an informal memorial service was held at Simokaitis’ cousin’s apartment over the weekend. The remains were to be flown to Lithuania on Tuesday.
“It doesn’t make any sense,” the cousin, Jaunius Simokaitis, of Fayetteville, said Monday. “If he was having money problems, these two would have been the ones to help him get out of debt. They would have helped him make that money.”
The Sins of The Father
Thursday, June 28th, 2007For days I’ve been reading everything I’ve come across regarding the apparent murder-suicide of the Chris Benoit family. All of the evidence is pointing to the assumption that he snapped and killed his family over the course of a weekend.
Maybe I read too much crime fiction. Maybe I watch Lenny Briscoe more than I should, but I have this nagging gut feeling about this situation that things aren’t exactly as they appear.
Let me start out by saying I was never a fan of Chris Benoit. He wasn’t a wrestler that I particularly enjoyed watching; none of this generation of wrestlers really are. My instincts on this do not stem from the fact that I want him to be innocent of this. My instincts are my gut reactions based on the facts of the crime.
It’s being said that he flew home on Friday for a “family emergency.” He claimed his wife and child were sick from food poisoning and he had to be home with them. When he got there, he strangled his wife. More than 24 hours later, he suffocated his son. Another 24 plus hours later, he hung himself.
He’d have to have gone absolutely batshit insane to have done this. How many people that crazy have you heard of that plan these elaborate crimes, and then carry them out? If he truly went crazy, wouldn’t he have done it all Friday night, in the heat of passion? How could someone in the mental state that he’d have to have been in have carried out this deliberate and well thought out scenario?
Think about it for a moment. Then add something else to the mix. Something more sinister. I’m gonna give you a scenario.
Chris Benoit pissed someone off. I mean, really pissed someone off. He pissed someone off to the point, that this person showed up at Benoit’s house Friday night, and called him from his wife Nancy’s phone. Maybe he threatened Benoit’s family, and forced him to fly back home and make up an excuse about the family being sick.
Maybe this person or persons killed the Benoit family and made it look like a murder-suicide. It’s happened before.
Benoit had some issues with drugs. Maybe he was gonna go public on his supplier. Maybe he could have implicated someone much bigger, more powerful. Professional wrestling has been at the center of drug scandals for years.
It’s a feasible theory, don’t you think?
Or maybe what we’re getting is true, and Chris Benoit truly went off the deep end.
Pro Wrestler Snaps
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Although nothing official has been released yet, authorities are saying that Chris Benoit killed his wife and kid over the weekend, and then himself on Monday.
And he seemed like one of the normal ones.
Benoit’s Death Part Of A Double Murder-Suicide
According to lead investigator Lt. Tommy Pope, of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, in Fayetteville, Ga., the deaths of WWE Superstar Chris Benoit, wife Nancy and son Daniel were the result of a double murder-suicide, WWE.com has learned.
Benoit failed to appear both at Saturday’s live event in Beaumont, Tx., and WWE’s Vengeance: Night of Champions in Houston Sunday night, after informing WWE of a family emergency. Several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning prompted concerned friends to alert Richard Hering, VP of Government Relations for WWE, Inc. Hering, in turn, spoke with Fayette County sheriffs Monday, and requested that they respond to the Benoit residence to check on him and his family.
Authorities representing the Sheriff’s Department initially had a difficult time entering Benoit’s new Fayetteville home Monday afternoon, which had been guarded by two large German Shepherds roaming freely around the property. Once authorities entered the residence, they quickly located the bodies of Benoit, Nancy and Daniel. WWE was notified of the discovery at approximately 4 p.m.
At 10 p.m. Monday night, Lt. Pope held a press conference in conjunction with Scott Ballard, the district attorney for Fayette County. The press conference officially ruled authorities’ findings as a double murder-suicide from within the home.
WAGA, a FOX-owned and operated television station in Atlanta, reported that investigators believe Benoit killed his wife and 7-year-old son over the weekend, then himself on Monday.
The three bodies have been received by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab, in Decatur, Ga., where autopsies will be performed Tuesday morning. Toxicology reports will not become available for at least two weeks.
WWE.com has further information relating to both the investigation and the cause of death, but the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department has requested that WWE.com not release any additional details at this time.
Skank Hilton Released
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Ok, this idiot drives drunk. More than once. Gets arrested and sentenced to 45 days. Serves 5 days, and is released due to “medical reasons.”
WTF?
Sure, now she’s under house arrest. Big fucking deal. She gets to hang out at home for a month.
She’s a God damn worhtless human being. She never did anything to deserve to be famous, yet people adore this piece of trash.
Now, she’s walking proof that the law doesn’t apply to celebrities. Our society is so obsessed with these idiots that we let them get away with whatever they want. Oh, poor Paris Hilton. She’s too good for prison.
She’s sick, so fucking what? If it were anyone else, they’d have been sent to the prison infirmary.
God damn it, this pisses me off. Here, read the article from CNN.com:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Paris Hilton was let out of jail Thursday morning, days after she began serving what was to have been a 45-day sentence for violating probation, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
Hilton must wear a monitoring bracelet and remain at her home for another 40 days, said sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Medical considerations “played a part” in the decision to offer Hilton home confinement for the remainder of her sentence, Whitmore said. (Watch Whitmore detail Hilton’s deal
)
He said privacy rules prohibited him from giving details about the medical issues, but celebrity Web site TMZ.com earlier quoted sources saying Hilton was refusing to eat much of the jail food served her.
Whitmore said that after “extensive consultation with medical personnel” it was decided to offer Hilton “reassignment” to home confinement, which she and her attorneys accepted. (Watch Hilton enter jail
Part of the deal was that her original sentence of 45 days, which had been reduced to 23 days if she showed good behavior behind bars, would be restored to the full length. Although she reported to the jail just before midnight Sunday and departed in the early hours of Thursday, she was given credit for five days, he said.
Whitmore said the decision to send Hilton home was made by a panel of officials in the sheriff’s department, although the judge who sentenced her was advised of the move.
Hilton was arrested on charges of drunken driving in September.
In January, she pleaded no contest to a charge of alcohol-related reckless driving. She was sentenced to three years’ probation and had her license suspended.
In February, she was caught driving on a suspended license, which later was ruled a probation violation.
Hilton entered jail Sunday after attending the MTV Movie Awards, where she answered questions from the press and was the subject of host Sarah Silverman’s jokes.
Scumbags Of The Day
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Now, this happened about a year ago – but I just found out about it, so it’s blogworthy.
The Scum of The Day award goes to a pair of gentlemen named Timothy Webber and Josh Dotts, who have been charged with the murder of a homeless woman. The pair of winners allegedly came into Nashville for the sole purpose of harassing the homeless.
Tara Cole was sleeping on a dock when the two Samaritans approached her, and without waking her up rolled her into the river where she subsequently drowned.
Webber was previously arrested for urinating on a Police car, and resisting arrest.
Nobody really knows for sure why they came into Nashville to harass the homeless. That’s still up in the air. Maybe they watched my favorite film -The Fisher King- and were inspired by the two insipid rich kids who attacked Jack Lucas as he was about to off himself. Who knows. All I know is that they’re in prison – and here’s the article:
Homeless Slaying Suspect Has Violent History
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — There are still questions as to why police said two men specifcally came to Nashville to assault homeless people.
The two men ended up charged with murder in the death of a person living on the streets.When Timothy Webber was booked in Nashville on Thursday evening, it was not the first time he’s had a mug shot taken.
The Lebanon resident was arrested twice before he was charged with the murder in the death of Tara Cole.Lebanon Police Chief Scott Bowen described Webber’s prior actions as “violent behavior.”Nothing in Webber’s criminal history indicates prior acts of violence toward the homeless.
While Josh Dotts, who police said is the accused accomplice in Cole’s death, has no criminal history in Lebanon, Webber has been charged with domestic assault and resisting arrest in a case that many on Lebanon’s police force said they remember to this day.
An officer said he awoke to find Webber and another man urinating on his patrol car.Police said that action showed just how bold Webber can be.
Investigators in Nashville said it was Webber who rolled Cole into the river from the dock where she was sleeping .They said Cole drowned as a result.Police said the death likely would never have been solved if the men and the two friends with them that night hadn’t turned on each other.
After video of the four was broadcast on local television, investigators said the two friends called police not wanting to be implicated in the crime.Even Webber turned on Dotts, his accused accomplice, according to police.
They said Webber told them it was Dotts, not he, who rolled Cole into the water.The only two who really know what happened that night are Webber and Dotts, who are both in jail.One of the other two men, Corey Cothran, said he didn’t know anything.
It is unclear what the other men know about what happened that night.They are considered witnesses, and have not been charged.
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