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No wonder women rejected him
Posted on September 04, 2008First mistake, he came on to them in a doughnut shop. Then he tried to ram them with his car. Hat tip: Thanks, JUNGLE JIM! | Sara Shepherd
School bus takes 4.5-hour detour, no one really knows where
Posted on September 04, 2008The driver told supervisors he got lost and was meandering around Brooklyn -- while frantic parents waited for hours after their children should have been dropped off. ?We are trying to find out exactly what happened with this driver, because...
Bear singlehandedly takes out entire pot farm
Posted on September 04, 2008Deputies who raided the pot farm found pipes chewed in half, food containers ripped apart, cans scarred by bites, claw marks and bear prints and trees bearing claw marks. If they can find this bear, the sheriff says, he's hired!...
Four men charged with killing 10-year-old girl
Posted on September 04, 2008Stupid gang members. Nee-Nee had stopped to tie the shoes of her younger sister, who is blind, when she was hit by a bullet on her left side. She was supposed to have started 4th grade at Arnold Mireles Academy...
Teacher's husband on trial for killing her student-lover
Posted on September 04, 2008A jury will decide whether he premeditated or acted in the heat of passion when he shot the 18-year-old lover of his wife of 11 years in the head. This story has all kinds of drama, I can't pick just...
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on September 03, 2008Good morning all, and welcome to Crime Scene KC! This is the blog's Open Thread, where you're encouraged to chat about off-topic stuff, post links to crime stories, share jokes or pretty much whatever you want. However, please remember the...
Nixa's naked standoff
Posted on September 03, 2008Nixa (it's just south of Springfield) police first responded to reports of an intoxicated man in a vacant house. After he leaped out a window: Attempts to Taser the naked man were unsuccessful ... and the man was able to...
KC motorcycle cop hurt in hit-and-run
Posted on September 03, 2008Yikes. Police said the suspects -- who were later caught -- intentionally swerved into the officer's motorcycle. | Sara Shepherd
Another homicide in the metro
Posted on September 03, 2008A man was shot and killed at a gas station in KCK Tuesday evening. | Sara Shepherd
8 dogs die after being left in hot truck
Posted on September 03, 2008This happened in Houston, where an animal control officer left the dogs in her truck while she took her lunch break. | Sara Shepherd
Ex-Jayhawks kicked out of NBA rookie camp
Posted on September 03, 2008Apparently former Kansas basketball players (this Jayhawk is sorry to report) Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur got kicked out of the NBA's rookie transition program today, after getting caught with marijuana in their hotel room. Both players left KU early...
Sex-on-the-beach couple still fighting to escape Dubai
Posted on September 03, 2008A British couple on trial for allegedly having sex on a Dubai beach asked the judge for a quick ruling that would allow them to get out of the country -- and got denied. The judge instead scheduled another hearing...
You can't even get away with this in Amsterdam
Posted on September 03, 2008This guy allegedly raped an Olathe special-needs group-home client -- then ran off to Amsterdam. But authorities there arrested him, just a day after he was charged. | Sara Shepherd
Worst friend ever
Posted on September 03, 2008From Eldon, Mo., where a man crashed his car then proceeded to put his badly injured friend in a ditch. The friend died, and the man apparently drove on home to his trailer park, where the police found him asleep...
Dear criminals: Don't be your own tipster
Posted on September 03, 2008A Denton police officer agreed with a man at the scene of a convenience store robbery who said, ?We always seem to run into each other when bad things happen.? The officer investigated and determined the man who spoke to...
Crash, douse, torch
Posted on September 03, 2008If it wasn't bad enough that this Canadian pickup driver drove into the man on the ATV -- then he doused him with gasoline and tried to light him on fire. | Sara Shepherd
In the fridge and 'naked with a knife'
Posted on September 03, 2008From Tennessee, where a U.S. marshal testified that the man charged in a 2003 abduction-slaying of an Atlanta restaurant owner was hiding naked in the restaurant refrigerator and holding a knife when he was arrested. The story says the man...
Rampaging gunman 'had been living in the woods'
Posted on September 03, 2008From rural Washington state, where a man shot and killed a sheriff's deputy, two construction workers and three other people who haven't been identified. He wounded two others, continuing to shoot as he led authorities on a high-speed chase. They're....
Cattle truck wreck turns deadly (for the cattle)
Posted on September 03, 2008The semi trailer overturned early this morning near Peculiar. :( | Sara Shepherd
'Preppie killer' back in action, jail
Posted on September 03, 2008Back in 1986, this guy was all over the tabloids after the strangling death of Jennifer Levin, an 18-year-old graduate of the exclusive Baldwin School, during a tryst (he called it rough sex) in Central Park. The slaying made headlines...
A 15-year-old killer in KCK?
Posted on September 03, 2008Wyandotte County authorities have charged a 15-year-old boy with first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Krystal Dewalt. They say he shot her in the head at his grandparents' house, where police found her lifeless body early Friday morning. Note:...
Body parts hacked, plundered, sold
Posted on September 03, 2008In Philly, a pair of brothers who ran a funeral home admitted to allowing at least 244 corpses to be carved up without families' permission and without medical tests. Skin, bones, tendons and other parts -- some of them diseased...
The memorial on the bridge
Posted on September 03, 2008The family of Angel M. Cameron, the man hit and killed by a car on the Heart of America Bridge over the weekend, has set up a makeshift memorial to him on the bridge. But their memorial also included spray-painting...
Stupid Reasons For Murdering Someone, No. 211
Posted on September 02, 2008Because you had an argument over fast food. The victim was 18 years old.
NY girl, 6, finds abandoned baby during hide-and-seek
Posted on September 02, 2008Talk about your everyday miracles. The baby was left in some bushes in a vacant lot. The little girl found her maybe an hour or two after the birth -- so it sounds like Kiddo will live. The story would...
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on September 02, 2008Thanks for spending a little time on the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. Or if you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. PROGRAMMING NOTE: James is off all...
Sentence in Olathe dog-fighting case
Posted on September 02, 2008Olathe has logged Johnson County's first dog-fighting conviction, Jim Sullinger reports. Posted by John Shultz
"Why did you give out my momma's phone number?"
Posted on September 02, 2008Charges were filed this weekend in the slaying of Otis J. Brown. Brown's killing last Wednesday was one of a rash of homicides that made August a particularly brutal month for KC. Christine Vendel has the details here. Allegedly, the...
A friendly reminder from the FBI...
Posted on September 02, 2008Possibly getting out ahead of the curve, the FBI has put out a preemptive warning about scammers playing off Tropical Storm -- nee Hurricane -- Gustav. Seems Katrina was a popular topic for phony fund-raisers, according to the bureau. Some...
Car burglar hides in porta-potty. Porta-potty overturned.
Posted on September 02, 2008Short and sweet, and another point for cosmic justice. Posted by John Shultz
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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