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September 29, 2012, 08:10
JohnR
You Can't Make This Up
DNA from maggot guts used to identify corpse in criminal case

Link
October 01, 2012, 22:03
JohnR
70-year-old Oregon farmer eaten by his hogs

MSNBC Link
October 02, 2012, 07:48
Gretchen
"I told you they was organised." ~Mr. Tweedy
(Chickens, hogs...farm animals are all the same.)
October 02, 2012, 16:29
Boyd Kennedy
I recall attending a TDCAA seminar in the 1980s at which a big city medical examiner presented some slides of some of his more unusual cases. One of those was involved a farmer found dead and mutilated in his hog pen. The ME was able to determine that the farmer had died while tending to the hogs and they had helped themselves to some of his fingers and face.
October 03, 2012, 16:42
Andrea W
I don't think I need anything more than the headline on this one.

Marijuana joint falls out of assistant city attorney's pocket -- in court
October 04, 2012, 12:13
JB
Careful what you wear to court:

Details.
October 04, 2012, 12:42
JohnR
Boy I love this thread.
October 04, 2012, 14:31
Scott Brumley
Well, the incident did arise in Ohio, which also gave us Terry. The story does not indicate whether a stop and frisk ensued.
October 05, 2012, 08:07
Andrea W
That's a prime example of the strategy "I don't care if it's true, I just want to hear her deny it."
October 31, 2012, 16:29
JohnR
Air Force Academy brawl injures 23 cadets
DENVER (AP) — An Air Force commander says 23 cadets were injured in a brawl during an unofficial ritual marking the first snowfall of the season.
Brig. Gen. Dana Born says in an internal email that cadets needed treatment for injuries including concussions, cuts and a human bite in the Oct. 25 brawl.
MSNBC Link
November 06, 2012, 15:36
Andrea W
A woman who repeatedly drove on the sidewalk (in front of a daycare) to avoid stopping for a school bus was ordered to stand at the intersection wearing a sign reading "Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a schoolbus."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/si...idiot-173523817.html
November 17, 2012, 08:10
JohnR
NY prosecutor admits he acted in 1970s porn films
A district attorney in upstate New York has admitted that he acted in pornographic movies in the 1970s, then lied when questioned about it during his second campaign.
MSNBC Link
November 23, 2012, 23:34
Gretchen
Mafia-style hit was self-inflicted.

quote:
The body of 43-year-old Uwe Sattler was found in the River Elbe in July by a fisherman. He was wearing a rucksack full of rocks and had been shot in the head and put into a sack fastened with cable ties before he hit the water.

Local media was rife with speculation about a Mafia murder - but after extensive investigation, the police now say they are nearly certain that the Sattler killed himself.

"We are 99.999 percent certain it was suicide," a Hamburg police spokeswoman told The Local.

"There is no other explanation; no other motive and no other evidence."

Detectives have worked out that there was enough of an opening in the sack between the cable ties for Sattler to get an arm out and shoot himself so that afterwards the gun would fall to the ground. He would have had to have done this while perched on the edge of a bridge or jetty to ensure falling into the water.

Why he would make such an effort to do this remains a mystery - as does the whereabouts of the gun, which was never found. "It just goes to show, there is nothing that does not exist," the police spokeswoman said.

November 25, 2012, 20:10
Gretchen
Casey Anthony went free because...well, this will just make you ill. And it will make you want to discuss your computer forensics with your experts in a little more detail.

Check searches on every search engine, not just IE

quote:
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Florida sheriff's office that investigated the disappearance of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter overlooked evidence that someone in their home did a Google search for "fool-proof" suffocation methods on the day the girl was last seen alive.
...
WKMG reports that sheriff's investigators pulled 17 vague entries only from the computer's Internet Explorer browser, not the Mozilla Firefox browser commonly used by Casey Anthony. More than 1,200 Firefox entries, including the suffocation search, were overlooked.
Whoever conducted the Google search looked for the term "fool-proof suffication," misspelling "suffocation," and then clicked on an article about suicide that discussed taking poison and putting a bag over one's head.
The browser then recorded activity on the social networking site MySpace, which was used by Casey Anthony but not her father.
...
Baez didn't respond to phone or email messages Sunday from The Associated Press but told WKMG that he expected prosecutors to bring up the search at trial.
"When they didn't, we were kind of shocked," Baez, who no longer represents Anthony, told the station.

November 28, 2012, 12:49
JohnR
If arrested for child porn, don't e-mail threats to rape, kill a federal agent

Link
December 07, 2012, 13:49
JohnR
Mystery in the meat: Supermarket employee finds handgun in frozen food
A supermarket employee in Roswell, N.M., found an unexpected item in a case of frozen meat this week: a loaded handgun.
The Albertsons worker was unwrapping the meat, which had been shipped from a packing plant in Colorado, when he discovered the firearm, along with seven rounds of ammunition, on Wednesday.
MSNBC Link
December 12, 2012, 12:00
JB
Cocaine Implants

Spanish authorities said they arrested a Panamanian woman trying to smuggle cocaine into the country by using breast implants as a stash, according to the Guardian and other news outlets. The woman was a passenger on a flight coming in from Colombia.

Details.


December 20, 2012, 10:30
JohnR
Now that's just gross...
December 20, 2012, 10:33
JohnR
Geneticist Fined in Texas Deer Semen Case
An Illinois geneticist must pay $30,000 and serve three years of probation for illegally obtaining valuable semen from whitetail deer in East Texas.

MSNBC Link

I wonder what the deer thought of this procedure?
December 20, 2012, 11:04
David Newell
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.