When cousins marry…
A Pakistani couple murdered their 4-month-old baby girl in a black magic ritual to get rich. They were apparently about to kill their toddler as well, when neighbors heard the screams and broke through the door. Fine idea, folks. Congrats on your success.
More from BBC and The News.
AMAZING translation at My Daily Global News.
When she determined her daughters were possessed by demons, Banita Jacks killed them. All FOUR of them. Ok, allegedly.
The four bodies were discovered in her home in January 2008, when police arrived to deliver an eviction notice. They’d been dead and decaying in an upstairs bedroom for nearly SEVEN MONTHS.
Jacks, 35, told police that she did not kill the girls and that they died in their sleep “one at a time” over a 10-day period, charging documents said. Jacks said the girls were “possessed with demons” and referred to her oldest daughter, Brittany, as a Jezebel, the wicked biblical character. (WP)
More about the woman who knows crazy at Washington Post.
Josef Fritzl was found guilty of all charges: deprivation of liberty, enslavement, coercion, rape, incest, and murder by neglect.
He’s not off to prison, but a “secure psychiatric facility”. Daily Mail speculates that it could be Gollersdorrf — a prison for the criminally insane that is currently home to Robert Ackermann, the teenage killer cannibal of Vienna. Whew, that’s a mouthful.
Standard trial coverage at BBC; sensationalist coverage and creepy close ups of Fritzl at Daily Mail. And KUDOS to Daily Mail for the brilliant sobriquet “Cellar monster”.
Josef Fritzl’s trial started today in Austria. This is the douche who was keeping his daughter in the cellar. SINCE 1984 — nearly 25 YEARS! And three of the SEVEN children he fathered with her were kept in the windowless soundproofed cellar as well.
Oh, but Josef had a “very difficult childhood” himself, so you can see how it’s not his fault.
And how clueless is his wife Rosemarie who allegedly HAD NO IDEA what was going on in the basement?! Just, wow.
So you know some pretty fucked up shit goes on in Africa… People are always getting hacked up and killed by people from another religion or tribe, or a marauding gang, or by their own government. But did you know about the albinos??
In east Africa, it’s really COMMON for albinos (especially CHILDREN) to be murdered, and their bodies sold to witch doctors to make potions. Sometimes the killers don’t even take the whole body. They just hack off the parts they want, and leave the rest.
“Investigators say the body parts of a single murdered albino sell for over $1,000, with the skin and flesh dried out and set into amulets and the bones ground down into a powder.”
Sick FUCKS.
More from The Economist.
It’s been a busy week on death row. The first US execution of 2009 was administered last night in Huntsville, TX.
But the way more interesting and entirely sick story is from last week — a different death row inmate pulled out his “good eye” and ATE IT! His “good eye”?? Turns out, HE PULLED OUT THE OTHER ONE IN 2004!!! Holy crap that guy might actually be insane. But there is a long and valued tradition of executing the insane and mentally retarded in Texas.
This stunning specimen of psychopath was convicted in 2004 of killing his wife, their 4-year-old son, and a 13-month-old girl. Then he TORE THEIR HEARTS OUT and put them in his pocket. Okay, they should totally kill him.
More on the execution of Curtis Moore at IHT.
More on crazy eyeball eater Andre Thomas at Dallas Morning News.
Quentin Lamar Patrick was indicted yesterday on a weapons charge, for the handgun and AK-47 that were found in his house on Halloween night. When 12 year-old T.J. Darrisaw and his 9 year-old brother Ahmadre knocked on the door, Patrick thought we was going to be robbed. He emptied his AK-47 into the front door and surrounding walls and windows, killing T.J. and wounding Ahmadre and their father.
There are life lessons here, people. Listen up. If it’s Halloween and your porch light is on, expect trick-or-treaters. If someone is knocking on your door, they aren’t necessarily there to rob you.
More from Charleston’s Post and Courier.
Testimony begins today to sentence Robert Sparks — a douche-faced shitbag of the highest order. Because he thought his wife and two stepsons (aged 9 and 10) were trying to poison him, he stabbed and killed them. Then he bound and raped his two stepdaughters, and left them in a closet. So they could suffer.
Today’s deliberation is whether he deserves the death penalty. I vote YES.
More from Dallas Morning News.
If you need some extra cash, you might try… setting fire to your house and children. Or taking internet surveys!
AP story + local coverage at The Leaf Chronicle.
