Daily Rotten Archives February 18, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Nutball allegedly murders mom, dons hide Independent Online | Submitted by: zsoul "A Dutch man has been arrested on charges of murdering his mother, police said on Friday. Media reports said he flayed her and cloaked himself in her skin during a popular festival. The 42-year-old man, identified in the Dutch press as Roland Z, was detained on February 5 after police in the southern city of Vlaardingen received reports that a man was causing a disturbance. He was said to be wearing a strange suit or draped in a flag and shouting quotations from the Bible... Dutch media were filled with gruesome details of the killing. Reports said the man wandered for several hours during the carnival, a popular street festival in the southern Netherlands. Many thought he was drunk and wearing a costume." Read article... Cops reassess failed suicide-by-train Wire Services | Submitted by: DarrenIsAwesome "Authorities initially said Juan Manuel Alvarez was planning to kill himself when he allegedly parked his truck on railroad tracks where it was struck by a Metrolink train carrying commuters to downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 26. It was believed he had lost his nerve and fled the truck before the train hit it and derailed... witnesses reported seeing a man park next to the tracks and douse a vehicle with liquid. Lorenz said Alvarez told police he poured gasoline on and inside the vehicle The case's lead detective, Lt. Jon Perkins, said police asked Alvarez what he thought would happen if a vehicle was left in the path of an oncoming train. 'He basically stated that he thought there would be an explosion,' Perkins said." Read article... CIA reportedly tortured Iraqi to death New York Daily News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "An Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib died under CIA interrogation while in a position condemned by human rights groups as torture - suspended by his wrists, with his hands cuffed behind his back, according to reports reviewed by The Associated Press. The death of the prisoner, Manadel al-Jamadi, became known last year when the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke... The prisoner died in a position known as Palestinian hanging, the documents reviewed by The AP show. It is unclear whether that position was approved by the Bush administration for use in CIA interrogations... One Army guard, Sgt. Jeffery Frost, said the prisoner's arms were stretched behind him in a way he had never before seen. Frost told investigators he was surprised al-Jamadi's arms 'didn't pop out of their sockets.'" Read article... Army destroyed Afghanistan torture photos San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Pictures of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with hooded and bound detainees during mock executions were destroyed after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq to avoid another public outrage, Army documents released Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union show... The probe of the pictures in Afghanistan began after a CD found there during a July office cleanup contained pictures of uniformed soldiers pointing guns at bound and hooded detainees. The investigation showed that the pictures were taken in and around Fire Base Tycze in southern Afghanistan... An Army specialist told investigators that similar photographs were destroyed after images of torture at Abu Ghraib were leaked to the media. Another Army specialist admitted he was photographed standing behind a prisoner while holding a weapon to his head." Read article... Feds charge pair with sex slavery WXYZ-TV 7 Detroit | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Federal agents say the men flew women to the U.S., forced them to work in a strip club, and then took all the money they made there... [According to a Federal Criminal Complaint] Michail Aronov and Aleksander Maksimenko forced the women to work as strippers at Cheetah's Night Club in Detroit. They were forced to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, and then to give all the money to the two men... The men also allegedly locked one of the women in the basement, threatened to beat and or kill both women, and forced them to have sex." Read article... Landlord arrested for alleged tear gas eviction Wire Services | Submitted by: atxrex "A landlord in an eviction dispute with a tenant allegedly broke windows at his rental property and threw a tear gas grenade into the residence, police said. Joseph Hammock, 69, of West Point, Ga., was taken into custody early Wednesday after a 1:30 a.m. dispute at the Lanett rental property... Deputies found additional materials for building explosive devices and literature for survivalist techniques in Hammock's Georgia residence, said Troop County Sheriff's Lt. Rick Massie." Read article... Driver inadvertently torches own SUV Wire Services | Submitted by: optional "A man barely escaped serious injury Thursday after a lit cigarette he tried to toss out the window while driving across the Bay Bridge blew back in and ignited the vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol... Carried by the wind, the cigarette landed in his back seat and almost immediately burst into flames. The man quickly pulled to the side of the road, and leapt from the flame-filled SUV, which continued rolling into a guard rail, [CHP Officer Shawn Chase] said. 'He thought he had thrown it in park, but he didn't and it just kept going,' the officer said. 'It was in flames by the time he got out. He had some of his hair singed on the back of his head. It burnt down to the frame. There was nothing left.'" Read article... Toddler narrowly rescued from septic tank St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Shovel "Two-year-old Isiaha Gatwood had stepped into the opening to a septic tank, dropping into 4 feet of effluent. 'He was walking across the yard and he just disappeared,' said James Scofield, 42, who was outside clearing tree limbs for Isiaha's neighbor... 'The baby fell in the poopy hole,' 5-year-old Tori Portee told them. By then, her twin sister, Taylor, was screaming, too... Scofield, his heart racing, grabbed [a sledgehammer] and began knocking concrete chunks out of the access hole to enlarge it... [Perry Portee] jumped into the sludge, felt around for Isiaha and fished him out, Scofield said. Scofield didn't know CPR, but he grabbed the boy, turned him upside down and pushed on his stomach, he said. Isiaha, whose skin was blue, coughed up a stream of liquid... Paramedics worked on Isiaha until he started to breathe and cry." Read article... Koko the gorilla allegedly has nipple fetish San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: bhima "Two former employees of the Gorilla Foundation, home to Koko the 'talking' ape, have filed a lawsuit contending that they were ordered to bond with the 33-year-old female simian by displaying their breasts... [According to the suit] '[foundation president Francine 'Penny' Patterson] intensely pressured [Kendra Keller] to expose herself to Koko while they were working outside where other employees could potentially view Keller's naked body. ... On one such occasion, Patterson said, "Koko, you see my nipples all the time. You are probably bored with my nipples. You need to see new nipples. I will turn my back so Kendra can show you her nipples."' ... She warned [Nancy Alperin] and Keller that their employment with the foundation would suffer, the suit says, if they 'did not indulge Koko's nipple fetish.'" Read article... Vatican launches exorcist academy San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: jcool_83 "In a classroom ringed by Rome's pine-covered hills, 100 priests solemnly stood in prayer, made the sign of the cross and got down to business: a lesson on Satanism, demonic possession and exorcism. Worried about ritual killings in Italy and simple adolescent angst, a Vatican-recognized university launched the course Thursday to help priests and seminarians understand what makes people turn to the occult. The class is billed as the first of its kind, with wide-ranging instruction by exorcists, psychologists and a police criminologist... The class debuts as an Italian court prepares to try eight people believed to belong to a Satanic sect for their alleged role in three ritual killings. Sect members belonged to a heavy metal band called Beasts of Satan." Read article...