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Jeffrey Dahmer’s Killer Shops Tell-All Book

Christopher Scarver, the man who ended the life of serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer in 1994, is now looking to have his story told.  The convicted killer is reportedly contacting publishers, with the hopes that he can finally reveal his version of the gory facts involving Dahmer’s murder.

Scarver, who once described his killings of Dahmer and convicted murderer Jesse Anderson as “the work of God,” worked with both inmates on a bathroom cleanup detail while in prison.  As the three men toiled away, the corrections officers left them unattended. Scarver eventually returned to his cell earlier than he was expected to, and he was questioned.  When asked why he had finished his detail so early, Scarver explained, “God told me to do it. You will hear about it on the 6 o’clock news. Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer are dead.”

After Scarver had beaten both men with a broomstick, Anderson hung on for two days at the hospital but was later pronounced dead, and Dahmer died en route to the hospital from his extensive injuries.

Scarver, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia while in prison, was sentenced to two more life sentences in addition to the one he already had for a previous murder.

In the book, the 42-year-old plans on exposing  all of the intimate details of the “sick, sadistic mind games and practical jokes” that Dahmer allegedly played on prison officials and other inmates and wants to impart the life lessons he has learned up until this point.

So far, no publisher has expressed an interest in Scarver’s self-professed tome.

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Baltimore Mom Charged With Stabbing Baby In DSS Office

Baltimore Mom Charged With Stabbing Baby In DSS Office

Kenisha Thomas, the Baltimore Mother accused of stabbing her 8-month-old daughter five times during a visit to the Department of Social Services (DSS), was charged Thursday with attempted first-degree murder, child abuse and assault, reports WBAL-TV.

The attack happened on Tuesday morning, when Thomas visited DDS to have a supervised visit with her baby, Pretty Diamond. who had been removed from her care.

Officials would not give a reason as to why the state took the baby away from Thomas, but according to witnesses at the DSS office, the 29-year-old woman was not happy with her child’s care and felt she could to do a better job.  When social worker Dana Hayes told Thomas that her hour visitation had ended, she reportedly became enraged and said, “It’s about to be over!”  She then reportedly fumbled through her purse, frantically looking for something and wound up pulling out a long kitchen knife. Court documents then state that Thomas began stabbing her baby.  Hayes then frantically ran from the office screaming for help.

Hayes co-worker William Purnell Short III heard Hayes’ cries and offered to help save the baby.  The 23-year veteran ran into the office where he witnessed Thomas wielding the knife, but by that time, the child had been stabbed a total of five times in the head, neck and chest.  He then saw Thomas place the knife to the baby’s throat as she stated, “I’m going to kill her!”

Short acted quickly and threw chairs at the Mom’s face, which prompted her to release her child. Pretty Diamond fell to the floor with the knife still lodged in her throat.  Short’s heroic deed didn’t stop with the throwing of the chairs. He also grabbed Thomas, wrestled her to the ground, and held her until police arrived even though she dug her teeth into his hand and refused to let go.

After Thomas was restrained, she was reportedly quoted as saying, “Lock me up!  If I can’t have her, nobody will!”

Investigators are now trying to determine how Thomas was able to bring the knife onto the DDS premises in the first place. Patrick Moran, the director of AFSCME Maryland, says Thomas’s purse should have been searched and that she should have passed through a metal detector, according to WBAL-TV.

While Thomas is being held without bail and will also receive a psychiatric evaluation, miraculously, Pretty Diamond is reported in good condition and is being treated at a local hospital.

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Hooker Offers To Shine Gem Trader’s ‘Jewels’ But Steals Diamonds Instead

Hooker Offers To Shine Gem Trader’s ‘Jewels’ But Steals Diamonds Instead

Gem trader Kurt Kaiser was having a bad day on April 17 when he met a nice-looking lady at the bar. But what he didn’t know was that the woman, Erika Cooper, was a conniving hooker looking for a John to take advantage of, the Daily Mail reports.

Kaiser met the woman at the Whiskey Bar in midtown Manhattan on April 17 and suggested that they get a room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

Kaiser told the paper that before they got to the room, they stopped at a CVS store where she used his credit card to purchase a $500 gift card and a box of condoms.

Then they went off to the Cosmopolitan, where they sealed the deal and had sex. Unfortunately for Kaiser, he fell asleep first.

Cooper grabbed his briefcase full of uncut diamonds, the certification documents, his passport, watch and sunglasses. ‘It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life,’ he said.

You think?

The New York City Police Department want to charge Cooper with grand larceny, but they won’t charge Kaiser for paying to get his jewels polished.

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Toddler Falls From Window, Parents Plead Guilty To Child Neglect

Toddler Falls From Window, Parents Plead Guilty To Child Neglect

The parents of a two-year-old child pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of fourth-degree child neglect after their son was left alone and fell from a two-story window reports the Detroit Free Press.

The incident occurred last Sunday, when Matthew McIntosh (pictured left), 21, and Mattie McCann (pictured right), 22, left their little boy unattended in their Pontiac, Michigan apartment.

According to police deputies, McIntosh told them that he had to accompany McCann to first buy some cigarettes, then escort her to her job at a residential group home.

The child somehow climbed out of the apartment window at around 2:45 am and fell to the ground.  Only wearing a diaper, the little boy managed to walk over to a neighbor’s house and knock on the door.

The child, who miraculously did not sustain any life-threatening injuries did however have several abrasions and was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Neither McIntosh or McCann have previous arrest records according to the sheriff’s office.  The pair were jailed, then released on a $2,000 bond each.  Neither parent is allowed to have any contact with their son whatsoever until they are sentenced which has not been placed on the court calendar as of yet.

In the meantime, the toddler has been placed with a relative.

Both McIntosh and McCann could be looking at up to a year in jail or 5 years probation when they face a judge.

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Brain Dead Mother Gives Birth To Twins

Brain Dead Mother Gives Birth To Twins

DETROIT — Vance Terrell offered encouraging words to his pregnant sister during visits to a western Michigan hospital. It didn’t matter that she couldn’t see or hear him, and would never hold her twin sons.

Christine Bolden, 26, was already brain dead from aneurysms, but doctors kept her on a respirator for a month to allow for the development of babies who were born prematurely at 25 weeks. It was a rare procedure: In 2010, German researchers found just 30 similar cases worldwide dating back to 1982.

“It was hard to go up there and walk down the hallway and go into her room,” Terrell said Monday in a phone interview from Muskegon, Mich. “I knew she wouldn’t be talking to me. I’d rub her belly every time, and I’d rub her hands and kiss her and let her know I was there.”

Nicholas and Alexander Bolden weighed less than 2 pounds when they were born by cesarean section on April 5, and remain on ventilators at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids.

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Mom Charged With Negligent Homicide After Children Die In Fire

Mom Charged With Negligent Homicide After Children Die In Fire

LOUISIANA – Shaqueta McDade was charged with 4 counts of negligent homicide on Sunday after four of her children burned to death in her Rayne, Louisiana trailer home, reports NBC affiliate News 33.

The children who perished in the fire were Jamari McDade, 8; Amous Mouton Jr., 7; LaShay McDade, 5, and Brian Steiner, 2. Neighbors tried to save the children but the heat was too intense, according to investigators.

The blaze began before midnight and, by the time firefighters arrived on the scene, the trailer was completely engulfed in flames. Investigators are not sure of how the fired started, though they believe it started in the living room of the home. Due to the severe damage caused by the flames, accidental causes for the fire were unable to be ruled out, and the cause is being classified as undetermined at this time.

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Pastor’s Mother Shot Dead During Church Service

Pastor’s Mother Shot Dead During Church Service

COLORADO – The mother of a Colorado pastor was shot dead on Sunday afternoon during church service, CBS Denver reports.

The shooting took place outside of New Destiny Christian Center just as service was ending. CBS Denver has more:
Police said two vehicles ended up in the church parking lot after some sort of argument between the drivers. Police said one vehicle was chasing the other. The man who was being chased got out of his vehicle and entered the church and told people to take cover. A woman came out of the church to see what was happening in the parking lot and got shot.

The woman who was shot and died of her injures was Josephine Echols, mother of New Destiny’s pastor, De Lono Straham. The shooter was shot dead by an off-duty cop who is also a cousin of the pastor, according to the report.

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Brothers Go On Trial In Beating Of Black Teen

Brothers Go On Trial In Beating Of Black Teen

BALTIMORE – Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.

The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights activists hope the Martin case will draw more attention to what they believe was racial profiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes.

Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim are accused of beating a 15-year-old boy who was walking through a Baltimore neighborhood in November 2010. The brothers pulled up next to the teen in a vehicle, then got out and “surrounded him,” according to charging documents. The passenger threw the teen to the ground and the driver hit him in the head with a hand-held radio and patted him down.

The teen remembered the driver yelling, “You wanna (mess) with us, you don’t belong around here, get outta here!” according to court documents, which do not identify which brother was driving.

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Pres. Obama Raises $53M

Pres. Obama Raises $53M

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama raised a combined $53 million for his campaign, the Democratic Party and other campaign funds in March, his campaign said Monday as it prepared to face Mitt Romney and a rejuvenated GOP in the general election.

Pres. Obama has collected nearly $350 million since the start of the campaign last year, representing a boost in campaign cash compared with recent months. He has raised about $127 million for his campaign, the Democratic National Committee and other campaign funds since the beginning of 2012.

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