Daily Rotten Archives January 16, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Man allegedly murders mom in hospital Gadsden Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A 63-year-old patient was stabbed to death in her room at the University of South Alabama Medical Center on Friday and police charged her son in the slaying. Tyrone Hollis, 30, was arrested about 30 minutes after police got a call about the death of Janice Marie Hollis... It was the second slaying at an area hospital in six months. In August, a 79-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery was shot and killed at Thomas Hospital in Fairhope by her 80-year-old husband, who shot himself and later died." Read article... Suspected kidnapper's parents shot dead XETV-TV 6 San Diego | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Police say 23-year-old Joshua Vick walked into a classroom at the Hooper Early Education Center in South Los Angeles Friday morning and demanded Tesha Collins leave with him. When she refused, Vick brandished a handgun and pulled the teacher's aide out of the school. Police searching for Vick and Collins went to his parents' home in South Los Angeles and discovered homicide detectives investigating their murders. Gable Vick and Mary Vick had been found shot to death in the home shortly after midnight." Read article... Man admits killing girlfriend, pleads not guilty anyway WLEX-TV 18 Lexington | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Eugene Strunk, Jr., 37, was expected to plead guilty in Fayette Circuit Court in the February 2004 stabbing death of Sheila Kim Gibbs... However, after Strunk admitted to the judge that he stabbed Gibbs three times, causing her death, and disputing stabbing her 23 times, one of Strunk's family members spoke up from the gallery and said 'take it to trial.' At that point, Strunk decided to do exactly that, and the judge ultimately did not accept Strunk's original guilty plea... Along with admitting he killed Gibbs, Strunk also told the judge he consumed seven controlled substances at the time of the murder." Read article... Hospital worker allegedly molested boys WRIC-TV 8 Richmond | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A man who worked as a medical technician at McGuire VA Hospital in Richmond is charged with over two dozen counts of sexually abusing and assaulting three teenage boys... Federal prosecutors say [Theodore Hodson III] lured the victims to the hospital on the pretense that he was conducting medical research. While at the hospital, the indictment says Hodson engaged in numerous explicit sexual acts with them, as well as performing several inappropriate and unnecessary tests, including nude body scans and rectal examinations. The indictment says Hodson often paid the children for their participation in the study he claimed to be conducting." Read article... Cop charged with domestic violence KFOR-TV 4 Oklahoma City | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Officer Dax Laporte, a 31 year-old officer, ended up in handcuffs earlier this week. He has been accused of severely beating a woman in front of his house early Tuesday... A report issued by the Cleveland County DA's office states Laporte dragged the woman by her hair across his yard and sidewalk. The report claimed that he choked and strangled her, even threatened to kill her... Officer Laporte has been charged with one misdemeanor count of domestic abuse." Read article... Preacher/bounty hunter indicted WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Baltimore minister has been indicted on charges related to using fake court orders to get personal information on people... [Anthony Hill] is accused in the indictment of sending fake court orders to wireless telephone companies to obtain telephone records of people he was hunting. The fake orders included the forged signatures of city judges... Hill is a bounty hunter for an east Baltimore bail bondsman and a minister at the Covenant Life Worship Center in northeast Baltimore. That's where Hill lists his name as Tony Golphin Hill. As a result, he faces an additional charge of perjury for using a different name to get a driver's license." Read article... Yogi allegedly choked girlfriend Aspen Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A woman told police her boyfriend locked her in a room in the Red Mountain home of socialite [and Marc's ex-wife] Denise Rich for three days over the Thanksgiving holiday... The victim, whose name was not being released, called authorities Sunday to report that [Jules Paxton] assaulted her at the residence they share at 731 S. Mill St. The woman said Paxton picked her up by her neck, threw her to the floor and choked her Sunday night. Officers found the Mill Street home disheveled with furniture and other items thrown about, according to the police report... She told the officer that Paxton assaulted her in Rich's home, then refused to take her to the hospital for treatment. When she threatened to go to the police, she said, he locked her in the room and would not let her out for three days, according to the report." Read article... and This... and This... Naked, bleeding nutball breaches school security WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The 23-year-old man walked through the front door, passed a school security guard and forced his way into the office of Taft Middle School at about noon, Local 4 reported. The man - who police said is mentally challenged - demanded that school employees listen to his 'demo tape,' according to the report. Then he started to remove his clothing. 'All of the teachers tried to grab him. He pushed some of them down,' said eighth-grade student Rita Woodard. Woodard said nobody could grab the man. When police arrived at the school, the man was naked. He tried to enter a classroom by breaking a window, Local 4 reported. 'I saw all the blood on the floor and on the doors, and the window bust out,' said eighth-grader Dominique Moore." Read article... DWI suspect allegedly drunk on mouthwash Wire Services | Submitted by: Tiffany B "A woman who admitted drinking three glasses of Listerine mouthwash had a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit when she was arrested for drunken driving, police said Friday... [Carol A. Ries] showed signs of intoxication after her car rear-ended another vehicle Sunday, [Sgt. Mike Shadbolt] said. She told police she had not consumed any alcohol and also passed a Breathalyzer test, but 'there was something not quite right about her,' Shadbolt said. She failed a second test using different equipment and, under further questioning, admitted to drinking three glasses of Listerine earlier in the day, Shadbolt said. According to Listerine manufacturer Pfizer Inc.'s Web site, original formula Listerine contains 26.9% alcohol." [Listerine is 54 proof? That would mean she allegedly drank the equivalent of one glass of Bacardi 151.] Read article... Principal's exercise in censorship backfires WXIA-TV 11 Atlanta | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Berkmar High School students opened the school newspaper to a blank editorial page after the school's principal ordered the staff to yank two opinion pieces about a new club for straight and gay teens. Gwinnett County school officials said Principal Kendall Johnson told the staff to remove the editorials because he felt it would disturb students during exam time... Liberty editor L'Anita Weiler, 18, said, 'I had a feeling it was going to be censored.' Weiler and student copy editor Kelly Shaul, 17, distributed copies of the editorials to Berkmar students after the paper was published. The pair provided copies of the editorials to the media Friday. 'We wanted to run a censored stamp on the page. But Mr. Johnson censored our 'censored' stamp, which is pointless.'" Read article... Park worker shrugs off toilet peepholes St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[Melody Davis] realized the two pits in the pale blue panels were not natural marks. They were peepholes. 'They were carved,' said Davis, who went back into the stall and stood on the toilet to get a closer look... Then the two women saw the locked door to the tiny park office between the bathrooms. 'That's when my heart sank,' Davis said, 'because I knew it was a county employee that had done it.' ... The women said they complained to a parks worker Thursday after discovering the holes. 'He said, "I don't usually work at this park,"' Davis said. 'Not, "Oh, my God," or "Where are they?" or "Let's go see." He was not shocked at all.' ... At one point the sandy beach had a seedy side. About a dozen men were arrested in a series of undercover stings at the park in 1997, after the Sheriff's Office received complaints of men engaging in sex at county parks." Read article... Judge allegedly played favorites with child custody New York Post | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The FBI is investigating allegations that heiress and alleged welfare cheat Linda Jacobs was pals with the judge who gave her custody of her two sons. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Marylin Diamond awarded Jacobs custody of her teen sons, Jason and Jeffrey, in 1999 - even though the boys told a court-appointed shrink that their mom beat and abused them. Diamond ignored those claims and their pleas to live with their father, Gary Jacobs, due to her friendship with their mother, according to the boys and the father... Jacobs said the two women both had manicures at Vogue around 5:30 p.m. on July 22 - the night before the case was due back in Family Court... records obtained by The Post show that Diamond - who had not presided on the case in five years - personally requested the Jacobs case file April 13, six weeks before Linda Jacobs filed a petition in Family Court asking that Gary be ordered to make support payments." Read article... Tourist's leg amputated in Costa Rica Ananova | Submitted by: Leggy Mountbattan "[Professor Ronald Jurisch] said he had gone to see a doctor at a hospital in San Jose because his left foot was swollen. He said: 'An aspirin usually did the trick. I have had the problem before - it was nothing serious - just something caused by my diabetes. 'When I got to the hospital they put me on a bed and I heard the word amputate. I tried to protest, but before I knew it they had given me drugs to black me out, and when I woke up I was at the departure lounge. My suitcases were by my side - and then I realised my leg was missing. I couldn't move, and when I checked my wallet I found that $375 had been taken out and replaced with a receipt for the amputation.'" Read article...