Author: Avi Selk
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Dozens more infant corpses found as Detroit police widen investigation of funeral homes
Detroit Police Chief James Craig announced a “wide probe” into Michigan funeral homes Friday, after hidden caches of baby corpses were allegedly discovered at two unrelated businesses inside a week. “This is deeply disturbing,” Craig said at a news conference, hours after police raided Perry Funeral Home and allegedly seized 63 fetus or infant bodies,…
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Inside an abandoned funeral home: A hidden compartment, a casket – and 11 dead infants
The horrors inside the old Cantrell Funeral Home had been cleansed in the spring, people thought. State inspectors had walked into the east Detroit establishment one day in April and found two bodies grown over with mold, the Detroit Free Press reported. The face of a third was covered with strange fluid. They had been…
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Were Colorado girls strangled? Father’s lawyers requested DNA swabs from children’s necks.
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The two young Colorado girls who, along with their mother, were killed this past week may have been strangled before their bodies were dumped in an oil well, according to a court document. A motion filed Friday by attorneys defending Christopher Watts, who investigators believe killed his pregnant wife and daughters, asks that DNA samples…
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A 71-year-old man tied a gun to a weather balloon to fake his own murder, police say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department’s first homicide investigation of 2018 opened in late January — rather early in the year, considering that Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., is basically a live-in golf course of 50,000…
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‘I wanted to stop her crying’: The image of a migrant child that broke a photographer’s heart
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By now, millions of people have seen a photo of a 2-year-old girl screaming while a U.S. border agent pats down her mother. Taken last Tuesday, the image has become a symbol of the Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance”…
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A woman went to check her corn — and was swallowed by a 23-foot-long python
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For the second time in barely more than a year, an Indonesian villager has been swallowed whole by a python. Wa Tiba, 54, left her home on Muna island to visit her cornfield Thursday night,…
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A 3,000-year-old glass head deepens one of the Bible’s oldest mysteries
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Buried under a pair of hills at Israel’s northern border, at the nexus of three ancient kingdoms, is one of the last large biblical sites yet to be uncovered. So said an international team of archaeologists after they started to dig up the ruins of Abel Beth Maacah five years…
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An American Airlines passenger was refused beer — so he screamed, fought and spit blood, FBI says
It began, as so many plane debacles seem to, with a ruckus in the bathroom. They were the noises of Jason Felix, one of the passengers on Wednesday’s American Airlines flight out of Saint Croix, according to an FBI affidavit recounting events leading up to his arrest. A flight attendant at the back of the…
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A Florida prep school prom. A live tiger. What could go wrong?
The prom’s advertised theme was “Welcome to the Jungle,” and staff at Christopher Columbus High School went to some effort to fulfill this promise of the wild. Not that the all-male Catholic prep school waived its standards of etiquette for the big night on Friday. The boys — about 400 were due to graduate this year — were told to arrive at the DoubleTree…
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He bottle-fed a lion cub. Ten years later, it attacked him on video and was shot dead.
The video above is disturbing, and if it is all there was to this story, it would have been bad enough. Recorded by a tourist in a South African safari park last weekend, the footage shows a lion drag a man from a tour truck — his neck in its jaws as if he were a chicken. The animal drags the man behind a bush while one onlooker…