Well this is random and scary, it’s been revealed two men in their thirties were arrested outside Joss Stone‘s Devon home in the UK under suspicion of planning to rob and kill the singer.
The Sun reports that the two men, one aged 33 and the other 30, were spotted driving around the area in a red Fiat Punto so neighbors called the police who then arrived and searched the car. In it they found swords, a rope and a body bag. They definitely weren’t messing around.
The men, who traveled over 200 miles from Manchester, were arrested on suspicion of planning a terrifying raid on the singers home and then taken to a local police station were 20 detectives were put on the case. Police reports say that the two man had detailed maps and aerial photos of her property in order to help them go through with their plans to rob Joss, who is apparently worth over $14 million.
Joss released a statement to People which read “I’d like to thank everyone for their concern but I’m absolutely fine and getting on with life as normal while the police continue with their inquiries.”
I’m sure more details will emerge as the investigation goes on but a rep for the singer also says that they are keeping her updated with any developments. Scary shit.
DJ Megatron, a hip-hop DJ and a regular host on BET’s 106 & Park, was shot and killed on Sunday morning near his home in Staten Island. He was just 32-years-old.
Megatron, real name Corey McGriff, was apparently on his way to buy a cigar at 2am when he was shot and killed. The reason behind the murder is unknown but his family and friends are saying it was just a random shooting.
When police arrived on the scene they found him lying face down with his wallet and cell phone still on his body, which makes it seem like this wasn’t a robbery. He was shot once in the chest.
Keith Robinson, a brother of Megatron’s fiancee, said it was just simply “the wrong place at the wrong time” for Megatron. He leaves three children behind. R.I.P.
A man who was a suspect in the murder of Ronni Chasen, killed himself last night after police officers approached him outside of his apartment complex.
The man, who is apparently called Harold, has been going around bragging that he “offed” the Hollywood publicist and that he got paid for it. Because of this police have been watching him and finally approached him with a warrant.
They asked him to raise his hands outside of the Harvey Apartments complex on Santa Monica Boulevard when he whipped out a gun an shot himself in the head. He died on the scene.
The LAPD say they aren’t sure if the man actually committed the murder himself, was an accomplice or if he just had knowledge of the murder. Either way he has been going around saying he was to receive $10,000 soon.
source: Suspect in Beverly Hills Murder Shoots, Kills Himself [TMZ]
Former ‘Survivor’ producer Bruce Beresford-Redman was arrested in Los Angeles Tuesday for the murder of his wife, People reports.
Beresford-Redman is accused of murdering his wife, Monica, while the two vacationed in Mexico. He will appear in federal court on Wednesday.
Beresford-Redman has long been a person of interest in the murder case–and after months of investigation, Mexican authorities requested his arrest. The reality TV producer had left Mexico earlier this year against the wishes of Mexican authorities who had taken his passport.
U.S. Marshals arrested him “without incident” at his house in Rancho Palos Verdes, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed.
Monica Beresford-Redman was missing for two days before her body was found in a sewer at the resort where the couple was on a family vacation. Investigators say her body was found with signs of asphyxiation and evidence of a blow to the right temple, RadarOnline.com reports.
TMZ.com reports that the federal complaint states a forensic expert investigated the couple’s hotel room and found several blood stains. It also alleges that two teenagers staying in the room below Bruce and Monica were woken up by “screams, crying for help and extremely loud banging from the room above … it sounded like a woman in extreme distress.”
It was revealed during the investigation that in the months before the couple’s trip to Mexico, Monica had discovered an affair Bruce had with a co-worker.
I vow to love and protect you, then later kill you.
Los Angeles police are investigating the death of woman found dead in a hotel stairwell while visiting her husband, a contestant on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ RadarOnline.com is reporting.
Laura Finley, wife of contestant Joe Finley, was found in stairwell at the Millenium Hotel in Los Angeles on Saturday morning. Auditions for ‘America’s Got Talent’ were being held at the hotel.
Joe Finley, right, with wife Laura, who was found dead. Photo: Facebook
Surprisingly, Joe auditioned for the show while his wife was still considered missing. RadarOnline.com reports he told police she was missing but then went to his audition anyway.
TMZ.com reports Joe told police he and Laura took ecstasy on Friday night before hitting the town. He said they came home and eventually went to sleep. At 3am, Laura got out of bed and left the room. He assumed she was getting ice. When he woke up the next morning, she was gone.
After his audition, police interviewed him again which is when he revealed the two were on drugs the night before and that he still had some. Joe was then arrested for drug possession and taken into custody. He was released on $10,000 bail on Sunday.
Police suspect Laura fell from the 11th floor to the 3rd floor and have deferred the cause of death–it’s still undetermined whether her death was a suicide, homicide, or accident.
Manfred Westphal, a spokesperson for Fremantle Media, which produces ‘America’s Got Talent’, released the following statement to RadarOnline, “We are fully cooperating with authorities to investigate this very unfortunate situation and have no further comment at this time.”
Friends of Lady GaGa have said that she is terrified of having the same fate as John Lennon - being killed by a crazy fan, just like he was back in 1980.
GaGa is afraid that she might be shot at her apartment building like Lennon so she has beefed up the security at her apartment block and has also hired more round the clock personal bodyguards. A source says…
“Gaga thinks some of the fan mail has been pretty ominous. Some of her fans are completely obsessed – they make weird comments like saying they won’t be happy until they die with her. She worries over how John Lennon died and fears the same happening to her. She has these horrible thoughts that there may be plans to kill her.”
The source also says that her boyfriend, Luc Carl, isn’t too happy with the added security measures and that he is having a hard time dealing with it.
I know that Lady GaGa fans can be delusional but I didn’t think they were this batshit crazy that they would want to die with her.
A German singer facing accusations that she infected a man with the virus that causes AIDS acknowledged in court Monday that she had unprotected sex despite knowing she was HIV-positive.
The 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa, a member of German girl band No Angels, is charged with grievous bodily harm for allegedly infecting a partner with the virus in 2004 and also faces charges of attempted bodily harm for having unprotected sex with two other men.
“I am sorry from my heart,” she said in a statement read by her lawyer to the Darmstadt administrative court. “No way did I want my partner to be infected.”
The man who claims Benaissa infected him says they had a three-month relationship at the beginning of 2004, and that he got tested after Benaissa’s aunt asked him in 2007 whether he was aware that the singer was HIV-positive.
Prosecutors say Benaissa had known she was HIV-positive since 1999.
Benaissa was arrested in April 2009 and kept in custody for 10 days – a move that a German AIDS awareness group criticized as disproportionate. The Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe group argued that the question of whether her partners also carried a share of the responsibility had been neglected.
Benaissa joined No Angels in 2000 through the TV casting show “Popstars.” The group sold more than 5 million albums before breaking up in 2003.
Benaissa helped reform the group in 2007 with three other members. The group represented Germany in the 2008 Eurovision song contest.
Basically, it’s murder.
source: HIV-positive German singer Nadja Benaissa admits unprotected sex [BBC News]
Yoko Ono will again oppose the release of the man who nearly 30 years ago killed her husband, former Beatle John Lennon, and who comes up for parole next month, her lawyer said.
Ono has consistently opposed parole for Mark David Chapman and has again sent a letter to the parole board, her lawyer, Peter Shukat, told the Daily News.
“Her position has not changed,” Shukat said in an article published Tuesday.
Lennon was shot to death on December 8, 1980, outside the famed Dakota apartment building just west of Central Park as he and Ono returned home from a recording session.
Chapman — now 55 and serving a 20-years-to-life sentence for the slaying — is scheduled to be interviewed by a three-member parole board panel during the week of August 9. It will be his sixth bid for parole.
Shukat refused to say whether Ono’s most recent letter to the board is the same one she has submitted every two years since Chapman first became eligible for parole in 2000.
In that letter, Ono wrote that if Chapman is released, “I am afraid it will bring back the nightmare, the chaos and confusion once again. Myself and John’s two sons would not feel safe for the rest of our lives.”
She also wrote that Chapman would not be safe if allowed back on the streets.
Due to his notoriety, Chapman is kept in a special unit apart from the upstate Attica prison’s general population. He works as a porter, cleaning up offices, and assists inmates in one of the prison’s law libraries.
Despite some early minor prison violations, Chapman’s record has been clean since 1994, the Daily News said.
Robert Gangi, head of the prisoners’ rights group, Correctional Association of America, doubts Chapman will be released because of the public outrage it would cause.
“Given that he committed a high-profile crime and he killed one of the most famous and most beloved figures literally in the world, it’s highly unlikely three parole commissioners would vote to grant him release,” Gangi told the News.
Lennon would have been 70 this October.
source: Yoko Ono opposes parole for John Lennon’s killer [reuters]
Following last week’s release of the first batch of Mel Gibson‘s racist rantings comes another audio clip of a phone call between the crazy actor and his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.
Audio should be considered NSFW –
This one contains lots of loud screaming, profanities, and death-threatening, so you should definitely turn up your speakers as high as they go before listening, especially if you’re at work.
source: EXCLUSIVE NEW AUDIO: Mel Gibson Admits Hitting Oksana, Threatens To Kill Her – Listen To It Here [radar]
Well known Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza has been arrested today along with his wife and several friends for allegedly murdering his mistress. Oh yeah, let’s not forget that he also is being accused of chopping her into tiny little pieces and feeding her remains to a rottweiler.
No remains of 25-year-old Eliza Samudio has not been found, although her blood was discovered in Fernandes’ car. Samudio was kidnapped from a hotel, beaten, strangled and cut into pieces. Some of her parts were fed to a rottweiler and others were buried in concrete, according to some of the suspects.
Fernandes was supposedly angry because Samudio had insisted on having the child that they conceived and was demanding that he acknowledge his four-month-old son.
Fernandes de Souza surrended to police, but claims that he has a clear conscience and will “laugh at all this” in the future.
Seriously? He’s going to laugh about it?
The only concern Fernando says he has right now is whether or not this arrest will keep him from playing in the next World Cup.
source: Brazil Soccer Star’s Lover ‘Fed to Dogs’ [newser]
She’s kept quiet about the brutal 2008 murders of her mother Darnell, brother Jason and nephew Julian.
Now, Jennifer Hudson is finally speaking out.
“It’s all a blur, it was surreal,” she says on VH1′s Behind the Music: Jennifer Hudson on Monday night, June 28. “It was like I was outside of myself.”
As her very public nightmare unfolded, the Oscar-winning actress says she went into seclusion.
“For almost two weeks straight … [I was] inside one room with just family and friends coming in and out,” she says. “I prayed when I’d get up in the morning and prayed before I laid down at night.”
Hudson barely addressed the murders until the 2009 Grammys, where she performed a poignant, moving rendition of “You Pulled Me Through.”
“I was definitely thinking of my family when I was singing that song,” she says. “I could hear my brother in my head, like, ‘Jennifer, you need to kill this, you need to get up and do it.’ I knew he would be disappointed if I didn’t do it justice.”
Today, “I feel like I’ve lived about three or four different lives,” she says, adding that her 11-month-old son David (with her fiance David Otunga) has helped her heal.
Little David, “reminds me of my nephew,” says Hudson, and he also helps her remember her mother. “In so many ways I channel her because she was such a great mom.”
Her son, she adds, “makes me feel like the most special person on earth. I want him to get the same love and the same upbringing my mother gave us.”
I can’t even imagine how she managed to deal with this tragedy. Losing one family member would be hard enough, but three at once?
source: Jennifer Hudson: Family Murders ‘All a Blur’ [who]
Former lightweight boxing champion Edwin Valero was found dead, apparently by suicide, this morning in a jail cell in Caracas, Venezuela.
Edwin Valero was revered in Venezuela, where his aggressive fighting style and 27-0 record (all by knockout) made him a household name.
Valero, 28, was detained last night on suspicion of murdering his wife. Prosecutors intended to formally charge him today. The boxer left a hotel in Valencia Sunday morning after allegedly telling a security guard that he had killed his 24 year old wife, Jennifer Viera. Police found Viera’s body in their hotel room, where she had been stabbed multiple times. Police have not yet found the murder weapon.
An inmate alerted authorities this morning around 1:30am when he found Edwin Valero hanging. Valero apparently used his own clothes to kill himself. Police say that he was showing signs of life when they got to him, but they were unable to revive him.
Source: Boxer Valero found dead in jail, apparent suicide [Yahoo News]
Memphis police had been searching for a missing woman named Sony Millbrook for the past two months, and finally found her on March 15. In the motel room that she had been renting at the time of her death.
Millbrook had been staying at the Budget Lodge for about a week with her boyfriend and five children when she went missing. Since her “disappearance” the room that she had been staying in was rented five times and cleaned multiple times. Apparently the housekeeping staff does a fantastic job of cleaning the rooms.
Motel staff found the body after a guest complained about a foul odor coming from the room (finally!). Sony Millbrook’s body was tucked away inside the metal frame below the mattress and box spring.
Now police are considering this case a homicide and are questioning Millbrook’s boyfriend, LaKeith Moody.
How would you like to be one of the people that has stayed in that room? I mean, holy crap. Could you imagine taking a date there, because your wife was home and you couldn’t use the house? Yeah, you just cheated on your wife on top of a dead body. There is a special place in hell reserved for you.
Source: Memphis motel rented room containing missing mom’s body five times [USA Today]
A 17 year old Ohio County, Indiana kid showed no remorse when telling prosecutors that he had fantasized about killing someone for years, and modeled himself after TV’s Dexter.
Andrew Conley, aka “psychotic little douchebag”, murdered his 10 year old brother Connor by putting him in a headlock and spending 20 minutes choking him after they wrestled. He also planned to kill his father.
Prosecutor Aaron Negangard stated:
“He’s a cold-blooded murderer, he spoke with no emotion, no remorse, in describing the death of his brother. This was a deliberate murder.”
While his parents were at work, Conley put his little brother in the choke hold, and said that the little guy’s last words were “Andrew, stop”.
He dragged his brother into the kitchen, got a pair of gloves, and preceded to choke Connor for an additional 20 minutes until he bled from the mouth and nose. He then put a plastic bag over Connor’s head and used electrical tape to secure it around his neck.
After making a stop at his girlfriend’s house, he dumped the body in a wooded area near the elementary school that Connor attended.
During his interrogation, the nutbar told police that he “just felt like” Dexter, from the Showtime show of the same name.
When asked why he killed Connor, Andrew stated:
“Like I had to … like when people have something like they are hungry and there is a hamburger sitting there and they knew they had to have it and I was sitting there and it just happened.â€
source: Andrew Conley, 17, charged with murder in the death of his brother, Conner Conley, 10, in Rising Sun., Ind. [Cincinnati.com]
Touched by the national news of the kidnapping and murder of five year old Shaniya Davis, Cleveland Cavalier Shaquille O’Neal was moved to pay for the young girl’s funeral.
Over 2000 people attended Shaniya’s funeral, whose body was found on November 16th on the side of a road.
Antoinette Davis, her mother, has been charged with child abuse involving prostitution and human trafficking, and a man named Mario McNeill is charged with kidnapping, rape and murder.
Shaquille O’Neal stated,
“I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye.”
source: Touched By NC Girl’s Death, Shaq Pays For Funeral [NPR]
