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Crackhead Dad Throws 4 Kids From 24m Bridge
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| Dr. DAS |
ing Crackhead.
RIP, little ones.
The gist: Mom and Dad fight, Dad drives onto 24m (72') high bridge, throws kids (4mo, 1yr, 2 yr, 3yr) off and lies about thier whereabouts. Poor weather hampered the rescue/recovery and the kids haven't turned up.
Strange also, his previous crack conviction is the result of calling police himself to confess smoking rock. WTF?
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Father Confesses To Throwing His Four Kids Off A Bridge
Thursday January 10, 2008
By Garry Mitchell, The Associated Press
Search crews in boats were looking Thursday in Bayou La Batre, Alabama for the bodies of four young children while a judge denied bond for their father, who is accused of throwing them from a 24-metre coastal bridge.
Fog halted the search Wednesday afternoon, but boats went back into waters around the Dauphin Island bridge early Thursday. Divers and helicopters were still on hold because of the fog.
Lam Luong, 37, was charged with four counts of capital murder in the death of the children, who range in age from four months to three years, after he broke down and confessed, authorities said Wednesday.
District Judge Charles McKnight denied bond Thursday morning, describing the allegations as "heinous."
Luong's court-appointed lawyer, Joe Kulakowski, was conferring with him and not immediately available for comment.
District Attorney John Tyson declined to discuss details of the case.
Authorities allege Luong threw the children from the bridge after an argument with his wife, but they gave no details on what the dispute was about. Luong had a crack cocaine possession charge pending in Georgia, and his wife's brother-in-law described Luong as a drug addict.
The search for the bodies had been halted Wednesday afternoon when the dense fog rolled in and obscured the bridge, a five-kilometre span over the Intracoastal Waterway. Authorities held out little hope of finding them.
While some friends and family members maintained hope the children remain alive, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said searchers were "in the recovery stage at this point."
Luong's wife, 23-year-old Kieu Ngoc Phan, discovered the children were missing Monday and went with Luong to the police, Tyson said. Luong initially told them the children were with his girlfriend from New York in a hotel in Gulfport, Miss., and that she had failed to return them, according to family members and authorities.
Based in part on a witness's account, investigators said the children were thrown from the highest part of the two-lane span Monday morning, a point about 24 metres above the waterway. The channel below that part of the bridge has a depth of about 17 metres.
Phan's brother-in-law, Kam Phengsisomboun, said he was told that a witness saw someone throw a bundle from the bridge and then saw three children in a nearby car. Tyson said there was a witness but declined to give details.
Luong came to the United States from Vietnam in 1984 and was employed as a shrimpboat fisherman. He and his wife lived with their children and a grandmother in a brick home near Bayou La Batre, a fishing village 32 kilometres southwest of Mobile, with a large Southeast Asian community.
Presumed dead are: four-month-old Danny; one-year-old Lindsey; two-year-old Hannah; and three-year-old Ryan Phan, who was raised from infancy by Luong but is not his biological child.
Phengsisomboun, who is from Thailand, said Luong had quickly spent money from an insurance settlement after an automobile accident. He said he initially feared Luong had traded the children for drugs.
Luong was arrested Oct. 10 in Hinesville, Ga., on a charge accusing him of possessing crack. Luong called police and "requested an officer at his residence because he had used narcotics and wanted to turn himself in," according to a report by Officer Jeffrey Liu.
Luong was giving his children a bath when Liu arrived, the report states. He eventually emerged from the bathroom and pulled from a shirt pocket a pipe and "a whitish yellow rock that appeared to be crack cocaine," Liu wrote.
A grand jury has yet to act on the case. Luong advised Hinesville authorities on Nov. 1 that he had moved.
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| exstasie |
I was reading that this morning...
Now that is ed up! |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
Now that is ed up! |
NO THIS IS F'D UP
Man kills, cooks and possibly eats girlfriend, police say
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/06...g.ap/index.html
TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police to tell them what he was doing, authorities said Sunday.
Christopher Lee McCuin allegedly killed his girlfriend and then called police to say he was boiling her body parts.
Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, called 911 on Saturday and told an emergency dispatcher he had killed Jana Shearer, 21, and was boiling her body parts at his mother's home, said Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith.
When authorities arrived at the home, they found Shearer's mutilated body, one ear boiling in a pot of water on the stove and a fork sticking out of some human flesh sitting on a plate on the kitchen table.
Authorities said it was unclear whether McCuin consumed any part of Shearer's body.
"We cannot prove that he did," Smith told The Associated Press. "He was either going to, had been or led us to think that he was doing it."
Authorities believe Shearer, 21, was abducted from her home Friday night and killed. Her death and mutilation was apparently the beginning of a crime spree that also included McCuin allegedly stabbing the boyfriend of his estranged wife and breaking into a business.
The stabbing victim is in critical condition at an area hospital, officials said.
McCuin, of Tyler, about 110 miles east of Dallas, was charged with capital murder. He was being held in the Smith County Jail on a $2 million bond Sunday and did not have an attorney, officials said. He was scheduled to be arraigned Monday, Smith said.
Before he called 911, McCuin told his mother and her boyfriend to look in their garage, authorities said. There the couple saw the remains of Shearer. McCuin's mother and her boyfriend fled the home and flagged down a police officer. McCuin dialed authorities after they left. Watch how killing shocks quiet Texas neighborhood »
A man who answered the door Sunday night where the body was found declined to comment.
Shearer appeared to have died from blunt trauma to her head, Smith said. She may have been kidnapped Friday night, when her mother witnessed her get into McCuin's truck.
"There was no struggle but she could see the girl left with no shoes, no purse and no cell phone," Smith said.
McCuin then drove to his estranged wife's home, where he stabbed William Veasley, 42, Smith said. McCuin was still in that home when deputies arrived, but escaped in his car after a short chase, Smith said.
"We thought it was a disturbance or an assault," Smith said.
McCuin wasn't seen again until Saturday morning, when he arrived at his mother's home and called her into the garage so she could "come see what he had done," Smith said.
When sheriff deputies arrived, McCuin barricaded himself in the home for a short time before coming out. After he emerged, officers entered and found Shearer's body, Sgt. Gary Middleton said.
Detectives were trying to determine where the slaying happened. They think McCuin drove to his mother's home with the dead woman in the back seat of his extended-cab pickup, Smith said.
Freddy Castillo, who lives two houses down, said he frequently heard McCuin and his girlfriend argue in the house and the yard.
"They would get pretty loud," Castillo said. "They'd yell back and forth and then he would just get in his car and leave." |
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| Swamper |
| Makes you wonder if all this crazy is more prevalent today or it's just that we have the means of distribution to hear about it more often... |
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| zokissima |
| quote: | Originally posted by Swamper
Makes you wonder if all this crazy is more prevalent today or it's just that we have the means of distribution to hear about it more often... |
Good question.
Truthfully, both of these sound absolutely sick. I don't exactly understand why tax-payers should be tasked with keeping these two alive inside of a jail... |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by zokissima
Good question.
Truthfully, both of these sound absolutely sick. I don't exactly understand why tax-payers should be tasked with keeping these two alive inside of a jail... |
because it actually cost more to carry out the death sentence than a long term jail sentence (cost of appeals, paying for court and associated cost, actual cost of carrying out death sentence, paying for personnel, etc) |
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| Skipper |
| Regardless of which option costs more, I don't think the justice system shouldn't be based on a cost/benefit analysis...and it's not. |
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| afterhrsgurl |
| that second story reminds me of an article i read last year where a guy killed his gf and then BBQd her body parts on his balcony for 2 days straight..then the neighbours called the cops on him because they could no longer stand the smell coming from the balcony and that's when they discovered what he did |
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| jsibilin |
| quote: | Originally posted by afterhrsgurl
that second story reminds me of an article i read last year where a guy killed his gf and then BBQd her body parts on his balcony for 2 days straight..then the neighbours called the cops on him because they could no longer stand the smell coming from the balcony and that's when they discovered what he did |
wow, thats sick.. i guess willie pictin takes the cake but bbq'in a body is just nasty.. theres stories like this all over the world. jeffery dawmer comes to mind when u think of the sickist of sickos...
i wonder if any of the kids from the first story survived |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
Regardless of which option costs more, I don't think the justice system shouldn't be based on a cost/benefit analysis...and it's not. |
i wholeheartedly agree with you |
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| TheVrk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dr. DAS
ing Crackhead. |
You honestly cant say it any better |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by jsibilin
i wonder if any of the kids from the first story survived |
No bodies recovered...safe to say they're out at sea, I think. |
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