All Articles by Morbid
BUFFALO, N.Y. A horrible scene being described outside a New York Tops store. Witnesses say a man parked in a handicapped space hit a car parked in front of him before speeding in reverse through a guardrail, pinning 8-year-old Richard Alexander Colon against a wall. The boy and his grandfather had just exited the store holding hands but the older man was not able to pull his grandson out of harms way. The strange thing is that the report I linked to says that the driver, a 50-year-old man, reversed into the boy twice before trying to leave the scene. People on the scene stopped him from doing so. “He was thinking of driving. I stood next to him, pushed him and put the car in park and then I ripped off his seatbelt,” said Timothy Mercedes. Others described seeing lots of blood and “leg and bones hanging out.” The boy was rushed to the hospital, but was pronounced dead a short time later. The driver was taken into custody, but I’m betting this accident is the result of a medical condition and not an intentional act. [Read more...]
Tags: Hit and Run, New York, Richard Alexander Colon, tops
Woman Shot To Death By Ex Shortly After Changing Her Facebook Relationship Status
September 2, 2010 by Morbid
Maysville, N.C. – Shortly after changing her Facebook relationship status to “engaged” a woman was shot to death by her roommate. Karen Ann Rooney, 63 and Peter Terrance Moonan, 62 were not married but had been in a 16 year relationship and purchased their home together in 2002. The couple broke up earlier this year and since that time, Rooney had met another man, William Jenkins, and the pair had gotten engaged. Police feel that when Rooney changed her relationship status on Facebook to reflect that fact, Moonan flipped. He used a .357 handgun to shoot her twice before turning the gun on himself. The pair were found by a neighbor on Saturday. While I joined in on the Facebook angle with the title of this article, the truth is that it really had nothing to do with this. It’s not like Moonan didn’t know she had met a man and gotten engaged. And on the slim chance he did not know, he would have found out eventually without Facebook and this story would probably have still played out like it did. Even so, this is a good time to mention that if you do use Facebook, you really should check your privacy settings. If you already do, periodically check them again. Facebook loves to add new features that may reveal information about you that you were not even aware of, like that “Here Now” thing.
Tags: facebook, handgun, Karen Ann Rooney, Murder, North Carolina, Shooting, Suicide
YORBA LINDA, California – A 48-year-old man got a nasty surprise after leaving the Messiah Lutheran Church Monday night. As he began pulling out of the parking lot his ex-girlfriend, 47-year-old Elizabeth Cuevas Villanueva, jumped up from the backseat and proceeded to stab him multiple times in the head and shoulder with an icepick. This caused the victim to drive his car into a tree before escaping from the vehicle. Villanueva also got out of the car and ran from the scene but was picked up later at a nearby intersection. The man was taken to the hospital suffering from non-life-threatening injuries, treated and released while probably wondering why his ex couldn’t have just got stuck in his chimney like that other guy. Reports state the couple were living together although they had broken up four months ago. Villanueva is currently living in jail on a $500,000 bail, charged with suspicion of attempted murder, domestic violence, assault with a deadly weapon and brandishing a weapon.
Tags: Attempted Murder, California, church, Domestic Violence, Elizabeth Cuevas Villanueva, icepick, Stabbing
Apex, NC – More Taser controversy after a a fight between students at Westlake Middle School ended with a girl getting tased. The girl was choking a significantly smaller boy and refusing commands to let go. When the resource officer was unable to physically pry her off the boy, out came the trusty Taser. “He deployed it and immediately it was effective,” Deputy Police Chief Barry Nickalson said. Off course people who were not there to witness the situation feel that the use of the Taser was excessive but Nickalson doesn’t see it that way. “Our victim was basically dangling from being choked,” he said. “The way we see this, is we saved a life yesterday as a result of using this tool. Other techniques were just not effective.” I agree with him. If a kid is choking another and refusing commands from a cop to let go, even when the cop is physically trying to separate them, friggin’ tase ‘em. Obviously it works really well and keeps a cop from either physically hurting a child or using more lethal means. Some of these people who do not agree with the method used should be thanking that cop and focusing their derision at…I don’t know…maybe the parents of the girl that got tased? I’m surprised to see that the ABC poll is showing most people agree.
Tags: Crime, fight, North Carolina, student, Taser, westlake middle school
Teen Charged With Two Felonies After Setting Off Chemical Bomb At Bus Stop
September 1, 2010 by Morbid
PALM COAST, Florida – You would think in this day and age that even teenagers would realize that setting off a chemical bomb may land you in some serious trouble, especially if you do so around any type of school property. Deputies said Giuseppe Verdone, 18, added a mixture of household cleaner and a household item to a bottle at about 6:50 a.m. and placed it on the grass at his bus stop. After a few minutes the bottle exploded. Someone saw this and called the school who in turn contacted the bus driver and instructed him to pull into a Home Depot and wait for cops. After being questioned, Verdone was hit with felony charges of possession or discharge of a destructive device at a bus stop and discharging a destructive device, then placed into the Flagler County Inmate Facility on $1,000 bond. The toilet bowl cleaner bomb claims another moron. It’s an oldie, but with the internet and online videos, instructions take about 5 seconds to find. Common sense usually keeps people from actually making one, though. I never made any of these and set them off in the woods with my friends…mainly because I’ve always tried to stay away from anything that could damage my good looks.
Tags: bomb, bus stop, chemical, Florida, Giuseppe Verdone
Vancouver Woman In Serious Condition After Having Acid Thrown In Her Face
September 1, 2010 by Morbid
VANCOUVER, WASH – Bethany Storro, 28, was getting something out of the passenger side of her car before going to buy a coffee in a Starbucks. She was appraoched by a woman holding a cup who said “hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?” After Storro replied that she didn’t, the woman threw the liquid in her face and ran off. The liquid turned out to be some kind of acid, and Storro fell to the ground screaming in pain. Luckily she had been wearing a pair of sunglasses she had purchased earlier, keeping the acid from getting in her eyes. She is currently listed in serious condition at the Oregon Burn Center. “Thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers,” Bethany said in a statement Tuesday. “I appreciate all of the well wishes being sent my way. I do ask, if anyone should know the woman who assaulted me, please contact the Vancouver Police.” The attacker is being described as a black woman between 25 and 35, who wore a green shirt and khaki shorts. She had medium-length black hair that was pulled back into a ponytail. Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Vancouver Police Tip Line at (360) 487-7399. [Read more...]
Tags: acid, assault and battery, Bethany Storro, Vancouver
Detroit, Michigan — A 20-year-old Michigan juror is facing her own criminal charges (and demonstrated why I pray to God my fate is never in the hands of twelve of my “peers”) after making some comments on Facebook. While still serving on a jury in the trial of a man charged with a misdemeanor and a felony for resisting arrest, Hadley Jons made a post to her Facebook account. “actually excited for jury duty tomorrow,” she wrote. “it’s gonna be fun to tell the defendant they’re guilty. 
”. She ended up deleting her post but before she did, the son of the defense attorney found it while looking up jurors names on the Internet. This means she either accepted a friend request from someone she didn’t know, does not know how to work her privacy settings, thinks that when you delete something on the Internet, it truly is deleted or all of the above. The next day in court she denied making the post she had since deleted, until the judge read it aloud to her. She was dismissed from the jury and will be back in court on Thursday to face possible contempt charges. “I would like to see her get some jail time, nothing major, a few hours or overnight,” defense attorney Saleema Sheikh told reporters. “This is the jury system. People need to know how important it is.” Jons is a classic example of why I feel that anyone serving on jury duty should have to pass an IQ test. Help keep juries filled with intelligent people who want to be there.
Tags: contempt, Crime, facebook, Hadley Jons, jury, Michigan
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. — After two separate incidents involving one of their neighbor’s pit bulls, residents of Rochester Hills have had enough. Larry Adams said on Monday his son was walking Pebbles, a 5-month-old Jack Russell terrier, when two pit bulls jumped out of the open window of a car and began attacking her. He said his son tried to hold Pebbles up and out of the reach of the attacking dogs, but he eventually lost his grip and the dog was mauled to death. According to neighbors, this isn’t the first incident with the dogs. “My kids were attacked in our own back yard … they went through the gates attacked my daughter and she was mauled for several minutes,” said one mother in the neighborhood. The owner lived right around the corner and Oakland County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it did removed one dog from the house. The owner also tried to apologize to Larry Adams, but Adams didn’t want to hear it. He wants criminal charges filed against the owner and new laws put in place to keep things like that from happening again. “Pit bulls aren’t welcome in Rochester Hills,” Adams said.
Tags: animal attack, mauling, pit bull, rochester hills, terrier
Teen Injured After Attaching Electrical Cord To His Nipples Is Suing Teacher, School And City
August 31, 2010 by Morbid
DOVER, N.H. — I really thought we featured this story, but a search turns up nothing. Anyway, remember the kid who was in shop class when he attached electrical clamps to his nipples and had his heart stop when he plugged in the cord? Yeah well, he and his parents are suing the teacher, the school district and the city of Dover. For those of you who do not remember this, back in March, 17-year-old Kyle Dubois was in an electrical trades class where the instructor was teaching about electricity using some electrical demonstration cords. At some point, Dubois attached a clamp to each of his nipples then another student plugged in the cord. As you can imagine, the results weren’t exactly what anyone was expecting. Critically injured, he staggered and collapsed having gone into cardiac arrest. He survived, but his parents say he now suffers from brain damage (which some may argue he was suffering from before he attached the clamps to his nipples) and the teacher, Thomas Kelley is at fault. They claim he did not warn the kids of the dangers of the electrical demonstration cords, informed them that their workstations were equipped with safety outlets that prevented fatal shocks and that he was aware of the stunt — standing 8-feet away when it happened. [Read more...]
Tags: Dover, electricity, Electrocution, kyle dubois, Lawsuit, New Hampshire, student, teacher, thomas kelley
Lawrenceville, GA – I held off on this one because I was hoping he would be found already, but police are still searching for 10-year-old Mario Taddeo who went missing after leaving a friend’s house yesterday afternoon. After coming home from Alcovy Elementary School, Taddeo visited a friend in the neighborhood. At around 3 p.m. he started walking back home. He has not been seen since. Police searched the surrounding area that night using a helicopter and K-9 units. Gwinnett police are now asking authorities in Gainesville and Hall County for help after there search turned up no sign of Taddeo. He was last seen wearing a gray Polo shirt with red stripes, dark blue jeans and red shoes. “Whoever knows about my kid, please call us, call the police, call me,” his mother pleaded. “My kid has nothing to do with all the craziness going on in the world. Please give me back my kid.” Update: Channel 2 Action News reported late Tuesday morning that the boy’s mother told them he had been found safe in Hall County. More info to be released later today.
Tags: Georgia, mario taddeo, Missing Person
INGLEWOOD, CA — Witnesses say a woman walked into the courtyard of an apartment complex Saturday with a 3-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. She asked some residents if they had seen the boy’s father to which they replied they had not. She then walked the children to the children’s pool and left them there. Witnesses say the children were crying after her, but she told them to stay put as she drove away in a car with no plates. Another resident at the apartments took the kids in and fed them dinner thinking someone would be by to pick them up. When no one showed, and no one at the complex recognized the pair, police were called. The children told police their names are Kayshawn and Kimberly Denver and that they are brother and sister. After airing their faces on television, relatives of the children contacted police. According to this report, police may have identified and contacted their parents. Real interested to hear the reason why these kids where abandoned like that. Kudos to the people who took care of them and called police.
Tags: Abandoned, California, Child Abuse, Crime, endangerment, Kayshawn, Kimberly Denver, neglect
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – On Saturday, a person house sitting for a friend noticed a foul smelling liquid dripping into the fireplace. She used a flashlight to investigate and found the rotting corpse of doctor Jacquelyn Kotarac stuck in the flue. The 49-year-old had once been involved with the man who lived there and earlier in the week had tried to force her way into the home. The man, William Moodie, chose technique number 14 from Morbid’s Handbook For Dealing With Crazy Women and snuck out of the house unnoticed. Police believe that Koterac then used a ladder to gain access to the roof, removed the chimney cap and then slid down the fireplace feet first where she learned a valuable lesson about chimney construction. The Bakersfield Fire Department spent five hours dismantling the chimney and flue to remove Kotarac’s body. Neighbors were as shocked over the news as her patients were. “I don’t care who your are — a doctor, lawyer, garbageman — I think you can snap over any kind of heartache,” one neighbor said. One of her patients added, “I’m just totally deflated because she was such a sweet person and she cared about her patients.”
Tags: Accident, California, chimney, flue, Jacquelyn Kotarac, Weird News
Mocksville, NC – Busy, busy! Got a busy day today but here are a few stories making the rounds this morning. Starting with this poor guy who was turned into a chew toy by his neighbor’s three boxers. According to their owner, Ralph Kimery, the dogs have never shown any signs of aggression before including other times David Potts has been by his home. But on Sunday evening, the dogs thought Potts looked mighty tasty. After encircling him they latched on to his legs and arms biting of chunks. They did not stop attacking until Kimery called them off. “I couldn’t have lasted much longer, and it seems like the dogs had no intentions at all of stopping. So I don’t know if they would have,” Potts said. “I was fighting for my life and they would have killed me.” He would require 30 stitches on his arms and legs. The dogs were taken to the animal shelter, where they were under quarantine. Kimery has owned the dogs for three years, and states that if they are determined to be viscous, he’ll have no choice but to have them put down.
Tags: animal attack, boxer, david potts, dog, dog attack, jogger, North Carolina
BARTOW, Fla. — Timothy Hammerstone, 22, is facing 16 counts of possessing child pornography after he convinced a 10-year-old boy to send him nude pictures in exchange for Xbox Live points. He explained he needed the pics because he was gay and that his mother would not let him look at pornography. the boy agreed and Hammerstone bought him a separate, secret Live account the boy would use to send pornographic images of himself. Deputies searched Hammerstone’s home where he lived with his sister and and found 16 images of child porn on his Xbox. They confiscated the console as well as some computer equipment. His sister feels her brother, who was employed at Disney’s Hollywood Studios as a AMC Theater concession clerk, is facing an unfair fate. “He needs help,” Sarah Hammerstone said on Facebook. “Other people can go out there and rape and keep doing it and get a slap on the wrist, and [Timothy] is going [to] serve life in prison.” oO. His brother went on to add that the 10-year-old lied about his age. “The kid said he was over 18, and James just found out last night he was 10,” James Hammerstone said. [Read more...]
Tags: Child Pornography, Crime, Florida, Pedophile, timothy hammerstone, xbox. microsoft
PALM BAY, Fla. — Nothing points to you having a drinking problem like getting busted for DUI while picking your kids up from school. Andrea Vellender, 38, pulled into the bus lanes at Christa McCauliffe Elementary School at around 2:30pm Wednesday and accidentally bumped into the back of a van. When school staff came out to investigate, they knew something was wrong with her and called police instead of letting her child get in the vehicle. Police arrived and noted her eyes were glassy and bloodshot. They asked her to perform some sobriety tests that she failed with flying colors, and administered two breathalyzer tests that revealed her blood-alcohol content was .240 and .241 — three times over the legal limit. To add to her legal problems, before she was taken to jail police found half a Xanax in her purse. She admitted that she did not have a prescription for the pill and that her husband gave it to her. She is now facing charges of drunk driving and drug possession charges.
Tags: alcohol, Andrea Vellender, Drunk Driving, DUI, Florida, school
