http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/murder/ en-us Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:44:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476664/posts Indonesia: Churches Burned On Jan. 22, two church buildings under construction in North Sumatra, Indonesia, were burned by suspected Islamic extremists, according to Compass Direct News. Persecution.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476664/posts#comment Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:44:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476559/posts TALIBAN militants have beheaded three men accused of spying for US forces, Pakistani police have told AFP. The bodies of three men were found near Mir Ali town in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district, which borders Afghanistan. "Notes found with the bodies said the men were killed for spying for the US," police official Nisar Khan told AFP. Mr Khan said the three dead men had themselves killed "several Taliban and ordinary people". A local security official confirmed the incident. Militants frequently kidnap and kill local tribesmen for spying for the Pakistani Government or US forces, who are battling a... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476559/posts#comment Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2475424/posts Hundreds of Christians murdered in violent jihad; world silent. On March 7, 2010 Muslims armed with machetes burst forth from the cover of darkest night to attack and brutally murder, then burn, hundreds of Christians in Jos, Nigeria. It was a slow and methodical killing. The victims, mostly women and children, were hacked to death with machetes and knives. There has been little to no mention of these bloody religious attacks in the U.S. media. There has been coverage in the European press, but the attacks have been incorrectly characterized as “revenge” attacks. These attacks are jihad... TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2475424/posts#comment Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:25:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474605/posts Have a read at the article - trust me, the sight of mutilated tongues is bloodcurdling. Real Courage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474605/posts#comment Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:54:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2475068/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Authorities in El Paso Arrest Seven in Connection with Kidnapping/Murder Investigation Federal Charges Include Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Murder for Hire, Kidnapping, Drug Distribution and Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering SAN ANTONIO—U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy, DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, FBI Special Agent in Charge David Cuthbertson, U.S. Border Patrol Marfa Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Smietana and El Paso Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Randy Hill, El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza and El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles announced the arrest of seven individuals charged... ElPaso.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2475068/posts#comment Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:18:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474741/posts At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last year, President Obama vowed to make ending border violence a “top priority.” How’s that hope and change working out? Drug-related crime is out of control, the State Department is warning spring-break vacationers to avoid the Mexican states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, and the bloodshed has now reached the U.S. consulate’s office. A young American consulate worker and her unborn baby were slain this weekend in Mexico, along with her U.S. detention officer husband and the Mexican husband of another consulate worker. The wanton murders appear to have been... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474741/posts#comment Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:25:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474778/posts Televised reports suggest the victim, Anthony Beavers, was shot because he refused to turn over his new touchscreen cellphone in a robbery attempt. Beavers, a 2008 Jonesboro High School graduate, was a chess champion and "brilliant" student, a former teacher said Thursday. 20-year-old Broderick Smith, the suspect in the fatal shooting of the 19-year-old chess champion at the East Point MARTA station waived his first appearance before a judge in a courtroom at the Fulton County Jail Friday. At the time of the shooting, Broderick Smith was already serving probation for crimes committed in 2006 and 2008, including two charges... Atlanta Journal and Constitution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474778/posts#comment Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:59:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474449/posts WSB Radio) Police expect to soon file charges against an Atlanta man, suspected in the killing of a 19 year old at the East Point MARTA station. 20 year old Broderick Smith is scheduled to go before a judge later today. He was tracked down to his mother's apartment in the Westlake area of Fulton County. He's suspected in the shooting death of Anthony Beavers, of Jonesboro. Police say it appears the shooting was prompted by a robbery attempt. Beavers, apparently, refused to hand over his new, touch screen cell phone. Police say Smith then shot him. MARTA police say... WSB Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474449/posts#comment Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:53:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2474423/posts Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk, before moving on next week to full-time job at a hospital, when he was gunned down during a robbery. Police say they can't explain why Singh, 35, was shot in the abdomen early Wednesday even after complying with the gunman's instructions to hand over his register's cash in a bag. "He didn't put up a struggle at all," said homicide Detective Jeff Cowdrey. "He did what he was supposed to do and got shot for it." The Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2474423/posts#comment Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:48:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474197/posts New evidence was released Thursday in the Casey Anthony murder case, including the amount of money she received from a television network, as well as conversations she had with other inmates. Anthony's defense team told Judge Stan Strickland that she no longer has funds to pay for the trial. Her attorney testified ABC News paid Casey Anthony $200,000, but that those funds are now gone. FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474197/posts#comment Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:11:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473697/posts For more than six weeks, room 222 at the Budget Lodge at 1533 E. Brooks didn't give up its secret. Cleaning crews were in and out, dusting, vacuuming, washing out the sink and toilet. Five times people rented the room and spent the night. Finally on Monday, the cleaning crew said room 222 didn't smell right. They dismantled the bed and found the body of Sony Millbrook, a mother of five who was reported missing Jan. 27. Her body had apparently been there all along, entombed in a space under the mattress and box springs in a metal frame that... Memphis Commercial Appeal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473697/posts#comment Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:07:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473414/posts Already limping from a bullet wound in her foot, an Elgin woman charged with murder collapsed in court today after a judge set her bail at $3 million. Kristian Branch, 28, fell to the floor of the Rolling Meadows courtroom during her first court appearance for a fatal shooting that occurred early Tuesday at a Schaumburg hotel. She was treated by paramedics in the courtroom for several minutes, then removed on a gurney. She was conscious and did not appear to be seriously injured, authorities said. Branch is charged with felony murder, attempted murder and attempted armed robbery following the... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473414/posts#comment Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:32:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473405/posts Video and photo included. SNIPPET: "FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — After four days of deliberation, a Cumberland County jury found hit-and-run rampage suspect Abdullah El-Amin Shareef guilty of 10 charges, including first-degree murder and attempted murder, for a hit-and-run rampage that encompassed parts of three counties in 2004. Shareef, 31, of Raeford, will be sentenced on Thursday. He faces the death penalty." SNIPPET: "Shareef's family and friends say the jury’s decision ignored testimony from mental health professionals like Rashad Rahmaan. Rahmaan, a friend of Shareef's family..." WRAL.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473405/posts#comment Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:18:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473077/posts Dear xxxx, Over the weekend, members of the Virginia General Assembly budget conference committee met to hash out the final details of the budget that will arrive on Governor McDonell's desk. As you remember, there were two budget amendments remaining that would have been detrimental to women's reproductive health care. Members met behind closed doors, and when the final version of the budget was presented, both of Del. Marshall's harmful budget amendments had been stripped out. In a year when resources across the state are being severely restricted, this is a huge victory! The budget can still be amended by... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473077/posts#comment Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:45:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472555/posts CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Confused hit men may have gone to the wrong party, the FBI said Tuesday as it cast doubt on fears that the slaying of three people with ties to the U.S. consulate shows that Mexican drug cartels have launched an offensive against U.S. government employees. Gunmen chased two white SUVs from the birthday party of a consulate employee's child on Saturday and opened fire as horrified relatives screamed. The two near-simultaneous attacks left three adults dead and at least two children wounded. The working theory, described to the AP by FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons, drives home... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472555/posts#comment Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:49:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2471903/posts State Dept says consulate closed for security review U.S. says too early to say if diplomats targeted U.S. in for long haul in Mexico's anti-drug fight WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - The United States pledged support for Mexico on Monday in its war against drug gangs as the FBI joined the investigation of the murders of two Americans and a Mexican linked to the U.S. consulate in a violent border city. "The tragedy of this weekend just underscores how severe and significant a danger this represents to Mexico, to the United States, to the hemisphere," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2471903/posts#comment Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:26:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472197/posts DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- Edmund Dinis (duh-NEEZ'), the former district attorney who oversaw the investigation into the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's involvement in the Chappaquiddick case, has died at age 85. Henry Arruda, general manager of the radio station Dinis owned, says the former prosecutor died Sunday at an assisted-living center in Dartmouth, Mass. Dinis was voted out of office in 1970, the year after Kennedy's car went off a Martha's Vineyard bridge into a pond with campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne inside. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472197/posts#comment Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:05:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2471949/posts The war is here. In our front yard. 18,000 dead in five years. With the casualty count worsening. And our attention is half a world away. In the wake of a Saturday night party in Juarez, Mexico -- across the Rio Grande from El Paso -- two American citizens affiliated with the US consulate were gunned down in a narco-terror hit. A husband and his pregnant wife died in a spray of bullets just before driving over the bridge to return home to Texas. The gunmen left the couple's baby daughter wailing in the rear seat. In a coordinated hit,... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2471949/posts#comment Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:32:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470986/posts According to BBC news, the legal team behind Phil Spector is appealing his murder conviction, citing judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct. The 148-page appeal claims Spector — who pleaded not guilty to the murder of actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 — did not receive a fair trial, since prosecutors used testimony from five acquaintances to damage the producer’s image. (The women claimed Spector held them at gunpoint in different incidents dating back to the 1970s.) The brief also claims the trial’s judge allowed lawyers to insist that Spector “had a history and propensity of violence against women and thus should... Entertainment Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470986/posts#comment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:05:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470947/posts Two Americans and a Mexican citizen affiliated with the United States consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were shot to death Saturday in this violent border town, across from El Paso, Texas. The Mexico killings drew immediate criticism from the White House. National Security Council spokesperson Mike Hammer said in a statement Sunday that President Obama “is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, including a US citizen employee, her US citizen husband, and the husband of a Mexican citizen CSMonitor.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470947/posts#comment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:58:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470838/posts One person is murdered every two hours in Venezuela. The murder rate in the South American country has more than quadrupled since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1999. There were 54 homicides per 100,000 people last year, a rate only exceeded on the continent by El Salvador, where there were 70 homicides per 100,000 citizens. "The problem is not so much the criminals, but rather the government's inaction and lack of policies," Briceño blames an ineffective justice system and high rates of corruption. The capital city, Caracas, has the highest murder rate on the continent Miami New Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470838/posts#comment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:39:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470690/posts Colorado is again in the headlines as the site of origin for jihad activities. Since I live here, I’m wondering what gives with all this jihad business being exported from the Rocky Mountain State. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez (pictured above), an American convert to Islam, has been arrested and released from custody in Ireland in connection with a conspiracy to murder Swedish artist Lars Vilks. Why would Muslims target Vilks, you ask. Vilks published a cartoon in 2007, depicting Muhammad’s head on a dog’s body – and infuriated Muslims sufficiently to initiate plans for Vilks’ demise. David Horowitz's NewsRealBlog.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470690/posts#comment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:01:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470190/posts CULICAN, Mexico – Gunmen burst into a party in western Mexico and killed eight youths and left another person wounded on Friday. It was the second such attack in two days. On Thursday, gunmen in the border city of Ciudad Juarez shot dead six young men and a woman at a wake, and seriously wounded a 10-year-old girl. Friday's massacre occurred in the Pacific coast township of Navolato, near the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan. Sinaloa prosecutors' spokesman Martin Gastelum said he did not have details on the identity of the victims, but confirmed that there were eight dead and... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470190/posts#comment Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:25:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470038/posts RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement today on the scheduled execution of Paul Warner Powell. "On January 15, 2003, Paul Warner Powell was convicted in Prince William County Circuit Court of the brutal capital murder and attempted rape of sixteen year old Stacie Lynn Reed. Powell was previously convicted of the rape and attempted murder of Stacie's fourteen year-old sister. "On May 8, 2003, the trial court, in accordance with the jury's verdict and recommendation, sentenced Powell to death. Powell admitted to the murder and attempted rape, and thus Powell's guilt is not at issue.... NBC12.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470038/posts#comment Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:37:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2469781/posts An opera singer is suspected of murdering her wealthy husband then using a double to assume his identity to claim his £5 million estate in a case detectives claim is "straight out of a Hitchcock film". Police believe that Waltraud Hill, a 55-year-old soprano, killed her husband Hermann, then used a man to impersonate him to sign over to her his properties, stocks, bonds, cash and life insurance policy. Detectives suspect that she approached up to 10 people to play the part of the "fake" husband, and once she had found a willing candidate, used a make-up artist to... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2469781/posts#comment Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:19:52 GMT