Brazil Cannibal Empanadas: Brazilian Women Murdered, Eaten And Made Into Human Pastries. SAO PAULO -- Police have arrested three people for allegedly killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh to make stuffed pastries known as empanadas that they sold to neighbors in their northeastern Brazil city.
The three suspects – a man, his wife and his mistress – belonged to a sect that preached "the purification of the world and the reduction of its population," police inspector Wesley Fernandes in the city of Garanhuns told the Globo TV network Friday. The newspaper Estado de S.Paulo said the man, Jorge Beltrao Negromonte, wrote a 50-page book titled "Revelations of a Schizophrenic" in which he says he hears voices and is obsessed with the killing of women.
Fernandes said the three were arrested Wednesday and had confessed to the crimes. The three allegedly lured women to their house by promising them a job as a nanny. They were tracked down after one of the arrested women used a credit card belonging to a victim who disappeared last month. NYC con artist pretended to be dead mom to collect her Social Security benefits.
Posted at 2:17 pm on May 4, 2012 by Howard Portnoy Channeling Norman Bates, a New York City man dressed up as his late mother so that he could continue to collect her Social Security benefits after her death.
The Associated Press reports that 51-year-old Thomas Parkin was convicted on Thursday on multiple charges that included grand larceny, forgery, and perjury. He now faces up to 83 years in prison. Prosecutors maintain that Parkin doctored his mother’s death certificate after she died in 2003 to make it look as though she were still living. To lend an air of authenticity to the charade, he dressed up in his mother’s clothing, applied copious amounts of makeup, and had his nails manicured, and learned to walk—as she had—with the aid of a cane. He also enlisted the aid of one Mhilton Rimolo, 44, who pretended to be a nephew taking care of his “elderly aunt.” Related Articles. The decline and fall of James “Whitey” Bulger. Posted at 11:10 am on June 23, 2011 by Jazz Shaw Whether you know about him from the movie The Departed or from the many documentaries made on his life, James “Whitey” Bulger certainly made a name for himself.
Coming from the ranks of abject poverty in post-depression era Boston, Bulger went on to become one of the most notorious of the Irish mobsters in the nation’s history, eventually winding up on the FBI’s most wanted list. And now he’s in custody. (Again) Legendary Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger, who has been on the run for more than a decade, was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica, multiple law enforcement sources told The Times…He was arrested by the FBI inside a building without incident, according to the sources, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. What made Whitey such a standout figure in the world of crime wasn’t simply the fact that he was from the Irish mobs, rather than the early Jewish and Italian organizations.
Jury convicts ex-Ill. Gov. Blagojevich at retrial. CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich, who won two terms as Illinois governor before scandal made him a national punch line, was convicted Monday of a wide range of corruption charges, including trying to sell President Barack Obama's Senate seat.
The verdict, coming after his first trial ended last year with the jury deadlocked on most charges, was a bitter defeat for Blagojevich, who spent 2½ years professing his innocence on reality TV shows and later on the witness stand. His defense team insisted that hours of FBI wiretap recordings were just the ramblings of a politician who liked to think out loud. Blagojevich becomes the second straight Illinois governor convicted of corruption. His predecessor, George Ryan, is now serving 6½ years in federal prison. When sentenced later this year, Blagojevich is virtually certain to get a significant prison term that experts said could be 10 to 15 years. View gallery Former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich was swiftly impeached and removed from office. Breaking: Blago gets 14 year sentence. Posted at 1:50 pm on December 7, 2011 by Ed Morrissey Rod Blagojevich’s sentencing started off with a surprise admission from his legal team that acknowledged the disgraced Illinois governor had engaged in corruption — which was followed by a lengthy apology in which Blagojevich claimed he didn’t realize that he was doing anything wrong.
The strategy apparently impressed the judge only enough to reduce the potential sentence from 20 years, but still slammed Blagojevich with a 14-year sentence: Disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison after making a final plea for leniency, acknowledging his guilt and saying, “I am unbelievably sorry.” “I believe he did, in fact, accept [responsibility],” U.S. Blagojevich’s lawyers wanted a 3 1/2-year sentence, at which Zagel scoffed: Blago-the-4th-past-Illinois-gov-convicted-of. Otto Kerner storyidforme: 14399147 tmspicid: 5007261 fileheaderid: 2460332 Updated: June 28, 2011 2:12AM.
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