Daily Rotten Archives February 23, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Alleged body parts thief maybe into witchcraft Davis Enterprise | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "David Beale may have dabbled in sorcery and witchcraft when he experimented on more than 150 pounds of human remains he took from a Sacramento hospital, it was revealed Friday in a Yolo County courtroom. But whether that means the former autopsy technician is mentally incompetent to proceed with his case will be the subject of yet another court hearing next month. This latest twist in Davis' body-parts case came on the day that Beale, 47, was scheduled to be sentenced on charges of receiving stolen property, possession of methamphetamine and unlawful disposal of human remains. Instead, sentencing was postponed for the fifth time so Beale could be evaluated by a psychologist to determine his competency... prosecuting attorney Jim Walker volunteered that Beale made references to sorcery, witchcraft and Satanism during his conversations with Dr. Eargle." Read article... Toddler allegedly beaten to death for refusing PB&J KOAT-TV 7 Albuquerque | Submitted by: optional "A father is under arrest, charged with killing his 3-year-old daughter... Etzer Estiverne confessed to killing his daughter because she wouldn't eat her dinner, a peanut butter sandwich, police said. That was at 8 p.m. on Monday. The mother was at work at Target when the death occurred. Seven hours later, emergency room workers said the girl's lifeless body was brought in by the parents - dead on arrival. Melanie Estiverne had multiple internal injuries to her vital organs. The father said the weapon was his fists, according to police." Read article... Amateur exorcist allegedly murders niece, 8 Pakistan Daily Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Police said on Tuesday they had arrested a man for allegedly beheading his eight-year old niece with a hatchet during an exorcism. The man's wife delivered a stillborn boy two weeks ago and an 'exorcist-cum-magician' told him that the victim's mother had performed black magic on them, police said. The exorcist said that to ward off the effects of the evil spell he had to kill his niece, said Mukhtar Tikka, the district police officer of Vehari... Asghar murdered his niece on Sunday and dumped her body in a canal, police said." Read article... Forensic science fails to identify 1,100 WTC victims ABC News | Submitted by: casu marzu "The medical examiner's office has largely ended its effort to identify the remains of those killed at the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11, 2001, leaving more than a thousand victims unidentified... The forensic effort failed to identify any remains of more than 1,100 victims, or almost half of the 2,749 who died there. Since the attacks 3 1/2 years ago, the medical examiner's office identified nearly 1,600 victims, although progress had slowed considerably in recent months. Since September, only eight victims have been identified." Read article... Plague spreading in Congo BBC | Submitted by: heystoopid "An outbreak of what tests suggest is pneumonic plague has spread to a second town in the Democratic Republic of Congo... Thousands have fled the remote diamond mining town of Zobia since the disease first emerged at the end of last year. At least 60 people have died so far. The plague affects victims lungs and is fatal if left untreated... Those who have died are all diamond miners. Another 350 miners have been infected." Read article... Assistant Scoutmaster pleads guilty to child porn WISN-TV 12 Milwaukee | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A former assistant troop leader with the Greater Milwaukee Boy Scouts pleaded guilty Monday to eight counts of possessing child pornography. Robert Lee Mueller, 55, is expected to serve three years in prison and remain on extended supervision for several years after that. Mueller drew the attention of authorities when a man claimed he'd had a repressed memory of being sexually assaulted by Mueller in 1982 when he was a boy scout. Police found a large number of images of young boys engaged in sex acts on Mueller's computer when they visited his residence in December." Read article... Cop admits kidfuckery This Is Hertfordshire | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A former Hounslow police officer is facing jail after admitting a string of sex attacks on teenage boys in the early 1980s... [Clifford Lawrence] admitted four counts of indecent assault on boys under 16, along with two charges of indecency with a child... The 43-year-old's victims were abused at his flat while he showed them pornographic videos, Kingston Crown Court heard. Some of Lawrence's victims told how they would awake during the night to find Lawrence, a heavy drinker, performing lewd acts upon them." Read article... Man convicted of running horrific tiger facility ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "John Weinhart, 62, was found guilty Tuesday on 56 of 61 charges, including animal cruelty and child endangerment... Investigators allegedly found 11 newborn tiger and leopard cubs living in an attic space, 58 frozen tiger cub carcasses and the rotting or mummified carcasses of at least 30 exotic cats scattered around the property, some tied to abandoned cars. Investigators also found Weinhart's 8-year-old son in the trash- and feces-strewn home, where alligators were kept in a bathtub and syringes and powerful animal tranquilizers were stored in an unlocked refrigerator." Read article... Tiger killed near Reagan Library WAVE-TV 3 Louisville | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Authorities shot and killed a tiger Wednesday that had been roaming for days in the hills near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library... The hunters had been looking for the animal for eight days, using infrared equipment at night. They had set traps with goat meat and chicken... The hunt began after the discovery of paw prints on a ranch near the library that were far too large for native bobcats or mountain lions... The animal's body was removed via helicopter." Read article... Children married to canines The Australian | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Two small boys and two girls were married off to four puppies by tribal villagers in the northern Indian state of Jharkhand to ward off evil. Local officials in Kuluptang village in Jharkhand said the kukur vibaha, or dogs' marriages, were organised on the last day of a local tribal festival, the Press Trust of India news agency said... Neighbours and relatives of the four children danced to music performed by the band before the marriages were solemnised with puppies of the opposite sex, the report said." Read article... Airport security screeners allegedly cheated San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The private firm in charge of security at San Francisco International Airport cheated to pass tests aimed at ensuring it could stop terrorists from smuggling weapons onto flights, a former employee contends... In a wrongful-firing lawsuit filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, Gene Bencomo, 39, a former supervisor for Covenant Aviation Security, said the company devised an elaborate system to alert security checkpoints when undercover federal auditors, called decoys, arrived at the airport last year to conduct unannounced tests... the lawsuit said Covenant tracked the decoys via closed-circuit television cameras and tipped off workers at security gates to expect a test. As a result, Covenant's personnel intercepted as many as 90% of the federal decoys in the tests, according to the complaint." Read article... and This article...