This post is to inform everyone that my life is missing. I have no idea where the hell it went, but it got away from me at some point. I have a sneaking suspicion that it disappeared somewhere between the first article I published here at dreamindemon.com and my 1000th! That’s right you fucking ungrateful deviants. Morbid has posted OVER 1000 articles here at D’D as of today. If that is not one sad, sad statistic to brag about, I don’t know what is. So thanks to all of you readers and participants, it has been a very interesting experience. Hope the next 1000 are no different. And let me use this time to mention some quick site shit. First, let me remind you all of our Twitter, Myspace and Facebook accounts. Follow, Friend or whatever. Also, we got a site upgrade coming up along with some new faces joining on. Lastly, sorry for the auto Mucinex ad. Nothing I can do about it at the moment, but Jaded likes it (seriously) and does not want me to do a thing with it. She’s a freak like that. My hand is tired from patting myself on the back, so I will end this with a thanks to all of you who keep coming back to read this train wreck. But I think you all need professional help.

For clicking the Read More link, you will now be treated to one of the best jump roping routines I have seen.

Me and the kid got to thinking about what we could do this year to celebrate Halloween aside from the sacrificing, and decided on just having a horror movie marathon. The films would all be horror and would all be movies he has not yet seen. So before any of you start yelling “What about this movie or that movie?” it’s probably not on the list because he is my kid – and he has already seen it. The catch? Can we watch them all without moving from the couch. Read on to see the list of films we have chosen, and the setup we have constructed consisting of the couch, a cooler, coffee maker, computers and a microwave. All strategically placed so that we do not have to leave the front of the television aside from bathroom breaks — which we also tried to find ways out of but ultimately decided pissing in a 2-liter\shitting in a bucket are acts we would only feel comfortable doing in front of each other if we were trapped in a car buried in a snowbank. But beyond that, I think we are set. 2o+ hours of straight horror movie bliss. Maybe.

Here is the list of films so far:

An American Werewolf in London
Near Dark
John Carpenter’s The Thing
The Blob
Zombi
Dead Alive
Demons
Hatchet
Splinter
Ginger Snaps

And before anyone gets on me about him not seeing American Werewolf and The Thing yet, it wasn’t for lack of trying. Two times we have attempted to watch them, but both times were late and he fell asleep. The second time even after I beat his ass for falling asleep the first time.

Here is the COUCH OF DOOM. This pic is from this morning after we slept on it as this post was supposed to go up last night.Also, a side note. The couch was purchased from Rooms-To-Go many years ago. It has survived tremendous, heinous acts of abuse and depravity. Since I have owned it, I have seen it (along with the accompanying rug, lamp and end tables) in several different porn clips. Just thought I would throw that out there.

Here is what we will be staring at for the majority of this weekend:

And yes, for those of you who remember – that is my black Christmas Tree I bought last year. It’s new primary purpose is to celebrate Halloween. So that’s what we will be doing except for when we go to a friends Halloween get together later this evening, only to resume watching when we get back. I will be in the comments section here throughout the weekend as well as Twitter and Facebook. I hope you all have a great Halloween – and for those of you who do not celebrate it in some fashion, you are very, VERY lame.

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Well, I am sitting here after taking my Spawn back to his Incubator’s house and playing some Batman Arkham Asylum on the 360, and felt it was a good day to make a completely bullshit post about a very, very important subject. Me. Well, that as well as let everyone out there know that you have not been imagining anything, the posting at Dreamindemon.com has waned over the last week or so. This is mostly in part to myself and Jaded both getting sick. Jaded probably picked up something from one of the biker bars she hangs in every morning, but seeing as I am pretty immune to all known forms of illness I am pretty sure I just suffered a form of cosmic karma. So read on for a few bullshit items that have nothing to do with crime whatsoever, but fuck it. It’s Sunday.

First off here is a detailed explanation for the site, and why I do it personally. Hopefully it will answer any questions for people wondering what kind of sick fuck would waste their time with a site like this.This is a copy of a write-up used over at Zombo’s Closet of Horror.

The reason why I blog about the subjects I do are a direct result of Steven Spielberg and the 1989 death of a 16-year-old stripper. My love affair with horror began when my parents decided to take me and my brother to see Jaws at the Thunderbird Drive-In. My brother fell asleep, I screamed throughout.

The resulting nightmares eventually faded and my love of horror was born. Not just in film, but in about everything. I used to get those UFO and ghost story books in the school library. Fascinated by the blurry photos of objects in the sky or white blobs in the stairwells of old houses, I loved reading the stories of the Green Man and The Dead Hitchhiker or The Devil’s Footprint. This continued as my mother, not having anyone around who liked the horror genre, took me along to see whatever horror film came out. Classics like The Shining, Friday the 13th, The Exorcist, God rest her old-school, horror-loving soul and not caring about the looks she would get as her young son stuffed his face with Mike & Ikes while staring wide-eyed at the young girl on the screen raping herself with a crucifix.

The mix of horror and true crime, and ultimately the hybrid horror style of Dreamindemon.com, began with a book a lot are familiar with. On a beach trip with my parents, I dug through my Mom’s stack of paperbacks she had brought along to read and found one that looked interesting; 1978’s The Amityville Horror. Aside from being a horror book, this book was (supposedly) true. It not only contained the horrific tale of the Lutz family, it also contained timelines, diagrams, floorplans and pictures. That was it. It opened my eyes to a new kind of horror. The “true” kind. Seeing me devour this book, my mother then turned me on to books like Fatal Vision, In Cold Blood, etc. After she bought my first issue of Fangoria (Tom Savini’s Maniac issue), after I thought out loud “I wonder how they did that?” while watching in amazement as Kevin Bacon got a knife in the throat, my love of horror did not diminish in the slightest; but the revelation of blood squibs and latex – the peeling back of the curtain to see the man behind it pulling the levers – made the real acts acts men do to each other even more horrific.

The Dreamin’ Demon is a blog I started for a couple different reasons but the spark that ignited it was the murder of Chrystal Taylor from Charlotte, NC. She was a girl that hung out with us when I was a teen. 13-years-old and sexually active. Stripping by 16 and an active prostitute. She was cool as hell, though. On August 7, 1989 she went missing from a local strip club after work. Her body was found almost 3 months later. The sad thing? She had never been reported missing. A 16-year-old girl went missing for 3 months, and in that time no one seemed to care. Not me, not her friends, not her boyfriend and not her family. They identified her remains in May of 1990 but the case went cold until 2003 when Charlotte’s newly formed Cold Case Division used some DNA to prove Timothy Street, her cab driver that night, was responsible for her murder. Chrystal’s death is what got me interested in discussing the backgrounds, the circumstances, the environments of certain crimes…the stories behind the actual acts. Her death is why the River’s Edge, Bully and Thirteen hit so close to home for me.

So at its black heart, Dreamin’ Demon is a place for people with morbid tastes to discuss horror in all its incarnations without the apathetic coating. People who enjoy the darker side of media– whether that be a film, a book, the latest episode of Dexter, or the true story of some guy who ate the eyeballs out of his kid. All of them are what nightmares are made of. The Vampire, the Werewolf, Jason Vorhees, Bruce the Shark, almost any icons of horror, were born from true events or the horrific actions of real men and women.

We are not for everyone. Our site can be depressing. It can be disheartening. It can make you think that we are headed to Hell in a handbasket and your kids are best locked up under your constant supervision. But we consistently try to inform our readers that our subjects featured are the minority of people out there who go through their days managing not to rape a kid. Statistically, we are doing ok in society, regardless of what the news – or our site – is talking about.

We are not trying to scare anyone. We are simply the Cannibal Holocaust of horror blogs. Mixing reality with the fantasy.

Ok, so there ya’ go. What else…um, oh yeah! Something very exciting for me this week was to have my Name That Trauma featured over at Kindertrauma. Name That Trauma is where people can send in questions attempting to figure out things that scared them as kids but that they may no longer remember. I have had two such questons relating to a film and an item. It wasn’t that they scared me as much as they have been stuck in my head and if possible, I wanted to own them both. Well wouldn’t you know – one of their readers got them both. I have told the creators of Kindertrauma before, that if possible, I would make sweet, sweet love to their website. I would even do so for 6 minutes straight – which is two minutes past my average. Now that’s real love, people. So click here to check it out and read the comments to view a scene from a movie that has stuck with me for 30 years and a novelty item that I may have just made even harder for me to obtain as I think a lot of people now want one.

I have not finished reading it yet, so a review is still forthcoming, but our very own swivel has written a book you can buy and enjoy. It details a young American girl who takes a trip to France with her family during 1800’s. There she discovers that she has a rare blood disease and ends up falling in love with the doctor who treats her. I wont giveaway the ending, but it involves werewolves. Wait, that’s my book that resides in my head. Swivel’s book is called Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue. He describes the story as being about “ a badass chick having badass adventures across a badass galaxy“. I am on Chapter 17 at the moment, so I am holding off any endorsement aside from stating his description is fairly accurate and I am still reading it (which says a lot). I would have been done by now, but I only read while taking a shit and being sick lately means I have not been eating as much. Now that I feel better, I foresee finishing Molly Fyde this week. Check out the website for more information on the book and the handsome author and how you can get your illiterate ass a copy.

Lastly, we are STILL looking for writers. We have a curse on us – well, the curse actually is with Jaded. See, when we look for people who want to help out with the site, we like to talk with them in person before we let ‘em go. It seems that whenever Jaded talks with anyone, they simply vanish. So either they really, really hate Jaded or they have been killed by a mysterious assassin employed by Danny Vice. But we remain diligent and for those of you who emailed us within the last couple days, we will be back in touch with you. We have been down-and-out a bit and have a lot of correspondence to catch up with. Well, that’s it. I’ll be out for the rest of the evening as I attempt to punch The Joker in the mouth but will be back in full force tomorrow as whoever decided I needed to pay for some of my asshole behavior is now satisfied. And as always, keep up top date with the site and the people behind it on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace or simply subscribe to our feed if you only want to read about the depravity.

We had a situation arise recently in which a member of our forum had a 2004 misdemeanor public exposure charge revealed in our forums. Because of the nature of this site, this member was asked to leave for obvious reasons – which he did without any issues. The people who posted this info are disgruntled people banned from this site who just cannot seem to move on. Not that I blame them, as this site is the shit. But try as they might, they just didn’t get the reaction they wanted so now they are gonna cry louder. They are now gong to notify all our affiliates that we do not run background checks on our members when they sign up. They are going to tell them we somehow harbor deviants. I know, it is all quite pathetic and normally I would let this silly shit slide as anyone who would believe this is as dumb as the people saying it. But it was also a good time to not only point out how sad people are but also ask any sites or readers who may receive such correspondence, please save the messages and forward them to us via the Contact Form. We can all share a laugh and I can ensure they get to the parties who handle this kind of bullshit. Thanks.

Oh, and for laughs, here are the masterminds at work:

[00:28:39] @ Moron : the most recent (i think) in May 2008, with a hearing set for next month
[00:28:54] @ Moron : we’ve heard about more but haven’t talked about the details on those
[00:29:15] @ Moron : the issue at hand is why the nature of XX’s past keeps getting quashed at TOS
[00:29:41] @ Moron : once upon a time, windchime, who was a mod at websleuths got outted for being a child abuser
[00:29:56] @ Moron : Morbid was sympathetic to the site’s owner
[00:30:20] @ Moron : we now know that Morbid ALREADY knew that xx was a sexual offneder
[00:30:29] @ Moron : but he did not ban him
[00:30:46] Moron2? has joined the chat the Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:30 am
[00:30:53] @ Moron : and even with the latest posts regarding XX, XX is *still* a member
[00:31:18] @ Moron : So the discussion is: do we tell all this to the other true crime blog sites?
[00:31:43] @ Moron :

People, it just doesn’t get any dumber, and in regards to any staff knowing he was an actual sex offendor, falser than that. Oh and Trench and Steve, please let me know what info they send you. Thanks.

Well that was a bitch. But it is done. Aside for some tweaking here and there, this will be the new layout for ever and ever and ever. We have upgraded Wordpress to version 2.8. I have no clue exactly what that particular update does for you or me, but whatever, it is done. I am sure it will make all of our lives that much better. As for the graphical changes, we have made a ton. Too many to list, but I’m sure you will see them – since you have eyes and all. If you are blind, trust me when I say the site is absolutely orgasmic looking.

Over the course of the next few days, I will be arranging things here and there, and making a few boxes more dynamic. I had hoped to get that done today, but had no idea that what I thought would take  30 minutes would take a few hours. So, yeah. But basically, I will be making an effort to keep Friday the 13th ads from displaying on an article in which a family gets stabbed to death. But until then, it may happen on occasion.

Other than that, I will continue moving all crimecritics.com data over to the site while adding new at the same time. These reviews are coming from us, some members and a couple new faces we have met over the last month or so. If you find any issues, contact me or just comment here, but it wont be fixed tonight. I am DONE. Gonna go play some more Prototype.

Thanks, you sick fucks, for continuing to visit this train wreck on a daily basis. It has been a fun 4 years, and cannot wait to see what is gonna happen next around here.

I would like to interrupt this daily stream of filth and debauchery, and give everyone a bit of site news and update everyone on our current affairs. First off, Crimecritics.com will be closing down. But wait! Do not slit your wrists just yet, as there is a silver lining to that ominous, dark cloud. We will slowly but surely be importing the content from crimecritics to here. Like Jame ‘Buffalo Bill’ Gumb, Dreamindemon.com is morphing, changing into something beautiful but without the need for killing fat girls. So if you are interested in what the hell is going on, keep on reading. 

So this is the deal, we just do not have the time or resources to manage two sites. It makes it even more cumbersome when the second site pretty much deals with similar subject matter. See, reading all of this evil shit on a daily basis can get to a person. So to take a break from all the kid beating, eyeball eating and shit feeding, we like to relax with one of our favorite subjects. Crime!

But we are talking about the more entertaining variety. The crap in films, books and television. So as we had discussed doing a few years back, or staff (and some members) will be reviewing certain media. We plan on keeping this after hours and on weekends, with these particular posts not (normally) interrupting the steady stream of idiots Monday through Friday. HOWEVER, importing all of this crap from crimecritics – some very excellent crap – means that for a month or so you will see an influx of reviews coming in. We will try and keep this at night and on weekends, but hey, I ain’t promising ya’ anything. Besides, nothing wrong with a little brain bleach after reading about some dude raping a toddler.

So I am working on getting the Crime Screen and Cracked Spine pages fixed so that they will index reviewed media correctlyand there will be a new Review link at the top of the page (crimecritics will be removed later). There may be some slight design changes in the sidebars, and we are introducing a sponsor section for anyone who wants to include a text link ad of some sort. Hey, this damn thing ain’t cheap.

Now, if you have made it this far, imagine me giving you a big, tasty cookie. You deserve it. I would alos like to point out that we have decided to enter another blog contest. We won In Cold Blog’s True Crime Blog Award of 2009 (which we don’t brag about as often as we should), and now we have our sites set on Murray Newlands Blog Competition. So get over there and vote for us. Honestly? Not to concerned with winning it, but as I stated already, I love entering dreamindemon.com into blog contests. We are like Al Bundy at the opera. A whore with a tiara. A Baby Ruth floating in a swimming pool. This particular contest has us along side a Girl Scout site for God’s sake, and that’s just funny.

So that’s it. Nothing major, just a LOT of work for me and the rest of the crew. If you have any questions, pertaining to this post, feel free to ask.We feel this will introduce us to a much wider audience, bring in some fresh meat, and help keep some of us from suffering burn out from posting these horrendous stories every day. And honestly, when you look as good as we do, it would be a sin not to share.

Oh yeah! I almost forgot. Any one out there who watches crime television shows (Dexter, CSI, etc, etc) AND can write up quick, GOOD reviews of episodes, contact us (use the Contact Us link above) we would like to use your stuff for free. This goes for books and film as well.

Who said that? I dunno, and I don’t care. To prove this, I will be messing with the front page layout a bit as there a few things that are getting on my nerves. So if you see some changes or glitches today, it’s just me. I will be using twitter to broadcast any changes or problems so you are welcome to follow along there if you want. Image size and positioning will be forever altered, and the Featured Box above will be taking a nap for a bit while we do some image replacements.

Well this is the time of year that some card company dictated that we are to honor all women with children, if you want to or not, or if they deserve it or not. But God forbid any of you kids with mothers not fall prey to this commercialized day of crap, as no matter if you show your mother her deserved appreciation the other 364 days of the year, if you do not brave the crowds to buy the overpriced, overly-sentimental Mother’s Day card  – there will be hell to pay in some guilt-trip fashion or another.  So we felt it was only fitting that we join in and honor this day as well,  Dreamin’ Demon style, by presenting….

Ten Stories Of Matricide Featured On DreaminDemon.

William Skiratko Killed His Mom

Method - Multiple stab wounds
Reason – Unknown. Rumored abuse.

Glen Burnie, Maryland–A young woman called police after receiving a chilling letter from 17-year-old William Skiratko. The note said that he was planning to kill his mother and himself. Acting on that tip, police arrived at the apartment Tuesday afternoon and found the teen playing a video game…‘It’s too late for my mom,’ he told officers. Cold-hearted little fucker….

This story brought out some commentors who allege to know the teen, and state that he had been abused by his mother for years, which in turn brought up a bit of the gender bias that is prevalent in other cases in which a boy kills his mother, he is a monster. A young girl kills her father, well then once again he must be a monster. - Morbid

Boys are just…bad. - Jaded

William Skiratko Killed His Mom

Method - Strangulation
Reason – He didn’t like the way she was looking at him

Tucson, AZ - Jacob Isaac Bynog, 32, is a single guy who enjoys looking like Jesus or Charlie Manson, digging, and matricide. But you won’t be able to hit that soon, girls, because Jacob Bynog is going away for a very long time. He was arrested on Monday for killing his mother, 65-year-old Patricia Ann Bynog. How do police know he did it? He buried her in the backyard, is how. Oh, and he told the cops his mother was “evil” and “needed to die”. Sounds like an admission to me.

Personally I never thought that he looked crazy, as much as he looked like Jesus. – Morbid

His eyes seem to follow you across the room–like one of those old Jesus on velvet paintings. – Jaded

Erin Ashlyn Moffatt Killed Her Mama

Method - Strangulation
Reason – Unknown

League City, TX - Erin Ashlyn Moffatt, 19, reported her mother missing the week of September 7 – just in time for Hurricane Ike to make its way to Galveston. No wonder, then, that in the flurry of preparations for the storm, Jana Moffatt, 47, didn’t turn up right away. On September 15, two days after Ike made landfall, Jana Moffatt’s body was found in a field.

I particularly liked her welcome message on her profile “WHATS UP TO ALL MY NIGGAS FROM THE H THAT KEEP IT REAL AND DONT HATE…..BUT ALL YOU FAGET ASS BITCHES NEED TO MOVE AROUND CUZ YOUR BREATHIN ALL THE GOOD AIR YA FEEL ME??????” heh. – Morbid

Nikita Lee Weis REALLY Likes Big Tits

Method - Hired “hitman” to beat her with a baseball bat
Reason – Money

FOUNTAIN, CO - Nikita Weis, 18, has to like big titties more than any person I have come across so far. He likes them so much, that he wanted his girlfriend, 21-year-old Sophia Nicole Alsept, to get implants. The only issue that kept this from becoming a reality was a lack of funds. So he came up with a great idea and decided him and his girlfriend would get jobs, make money and save up enough to have the procedure done. Oh no, sorry, that was another couple. Nikita hired two hitmen to kill his mother so he could sell her car and empty her bank account.

I know that the mother didn’t actually die, but still, it wasn’t for a lack of trying.  – Morbid

Leslie Morales + Daniel Pataki = Murder

Method - Beat to death
Reason – Rumored to be over stolen money

Charlotte, NC - Alexandria Salem’s body was found in the trash. At about 5:00 yesterday morning, a woman opened her Charlotte dry cleaners and noticed a large bag next to the dumpster. Inside were the remains of the 46-year-old Salem. She’d been brutally murdered and hastily dumped. Now, police are looking for Salem’s daughter Leslie Michelle Morales, 21, and Morales’ boyfriend Daniel Francis Pataki, 22.

This one is local to me, and both of them have a court date on 06/18/2009. In February, some new robbery charges were added. – Morbid

Christian Taylor, 14, Killed His Mother

Method - Bludgeoned ro death with flashlight. Shot.
Reason – Lifestyle disagreement

WELLS, Vt. – On August 2nd at 3:55 a.m., 911 operators received a call and heard the sounds of a woman screaming along with the unmistakable sound of an object hitting another object repeatedly before the screaming stops. State troopers are dispatched to the address the call originated from and Christian Taylor, 14, answered the door stating he was unaware of any problems and told the troopers he would go get his mother, 40-year-old Francine Morgan. When he returned to the troopers, he stated that there was blood in her room. When troopers went inside, they found Francine Morgan’s body on the floor, a bloody flashlight on the bed as well as blood splattered on the floor, ceiling and walls. An autopsy revealed that Francine Morgan died from blunt force trauma to the head and that she had also been shot in the cheek.

This kid scares the crap out of me. To be that young and so filled with hate and anger that you could just bash your mother’s head in with a flashlight without a second thought? I truly can’t wrap my mind around it. - Jaded

Antwan Anderson Is Ungrateful

Method - Bludgeoned to death with hammer
Reason – Possible argument over phone usage

Riviera Beach, FL – Jeanette Anderson was already over 50 when she took in the little boys. They needed a mother, especially baby Antwan, just three days old. She adopted Antwan and his brothers and raised them as her own, teaching them the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Well, apparently Antwan Anderson wants someone to bludgeon him to death, because that’s what he did to his adoptive mother.  Anderson, 19, is charged with killing Jeanette Anderson, 71, with a hammer to the side of the head.  Her body was found on Tuesday.

Everyone has those stories that deal with subject matter that always fascinates you, even if it is a morbid fascination. Mine are usually stories that deal with kids who kill. And people who kill with a hammer. Just seems like such a gruesome, manual, ultra-violent mode of murder. – Morbid

Angela Modispaw Listens To The Voices

Method - Stabbed to death with scissors
Reason – Voices told her to

Smock, PA – And she listens good. Angela Modispaw, 29, claims that she heard voices early on Friday morning, telling her to kill her mother. By 4:30 a.m., Theresa Modispaw, 58, was dead of brutal stab wounds and Angela’s brother Michael Modispaw had been stabbed in the back with scissors. Apparently those voices weren’t playing around. In March of this year, her attorney claimed she is mentally incapable of standing trial on a homicide charge.

Also, to make this story a bit stranger than it was, there are people out there stating that mind control waves had actually been at fault, and had been controlling her. – Morbid

The voices in my head tell me to eat cheesecake for breakfast. – Jaded

Mary Beth Connolly Pushed Mom Too Far

Method - Pushed down flight of stairs
Reason – Unknown but pair had been in several arguments prior

Livonia, MI. - Mary Beth Connolly, 49, pushed her mother just a little bit too far during an argument March 9. By the end of the dispute, Betty Connolly, 82, lay dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Michigan home. Mary Beth Connolly was found in the living room, bleeding from a self-inflicted neck wound in an apparent suicide attempt. While Mary Beth was in the hospital, police monitored her phone calls.  Betty Connolly’s autopsy showed that Betty Connolly had died of head and neck trauma consistent with being violently pushed down the flight of stairs, and Mary Beth’s telephone conversations did not sound like her mother’s fall had been an accident at all. When Mary Beth Connolly was released from the hospital on Friday, she was arrested.

She later pled guilty to second-degree murder and will serve up to 40 years in prison – Morbid

Jesse James Campbell Read The Bible

Method - Bludgeoned with weight. Throat slashed.
Reason – Argument over computer

Houtzdale, PA — Early Thursday morning, Jesse James Campbell, 20, beat his mother in the face with a five pound weight, choked her, slashed her wrists, cut her throat, then read the Bible to her as she choked on her own blood and died. Cindy Jo Coleman, 49, was found dead in the apartment she shared with her son just hours later. Her parents went to the home to check on Coleman after state police got a tip that Campbell was planning to kill her.

Jesse James Campbell was eventually convicted and will spend life in prison.  – Morbid

Yep…boys are bad. – Jaded

Hopefully all of these individuals get what they deserve. And all you mothers out there who are bitching about the slop your family treated you at Chili’s, or the cheap perfume your husband picked out for your 5-year-old to hand to you, or the crappy card that was obviously picked out yesterday among the ones left that no one wanted – shut the fuck up.

Be thankful you got anything. Be thankful your kid didn’t crack your head open like a melon while you slept, or choked the ever living shit out of you as tears stream out of your bugged-out eyes while you gasp for air so that you can simply ask “WHY!?! WHY!?!” There’s is a saying that parents love to jokingly tell their children that goes something like “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.” Well just let these 10 stories be a nice reminder that while that comment may indeed be true, your kids are very capable of beating you to the punch. Be pro-active. Strike first.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Bwuhahahahahaha!

I really should have cleaned the house, but I kept finding other things to do…like redesigning the site. It has been discussed for a bit, especially after we set up crimecritics. So I started working on it a bit tonight. There is still some work to do with the sidebars and all our old posts, but whatever. I like it. If you don’t, stuff it. HAR!

Hopefully this will help us streamline the page a bit, and keep things a little more uniform. I have a few things left to do, like re-styling the sidebars to the right, and doing a bit of background image re-tooling,  but I will get to them soon enough. Other than that, nothing has changed aside from the fact that we have a feature box active for stories we want to point out, we can get a couple more stories on the page, and we can finally get a little longer titles. I have a legend I am working on, but it isn’t anything really important, just something I want to add.

So if you see any graphical glitches, it is probably just me messing with the site. I figure it will be a few days before I get everything hashed out. I went through and re-formatted the last 20 posts to the new style, but older posts will look a little jacked until we get the re-configured. But we will get them all done eventually.

Thanks to all you sick, gluttons for punishment who continue to come back to this site. You really need help.

Before I start getting emails about it, I figured I would make this quick post to let everyone know that we are trying out Kontera. This is the reason why you are seeing some double-lined words on the site. No need to be alarmed, everyone stay calm and we will get through this with no problems. That is all, have a GREAT day. OR, click on to read about my awesome toe injury.

So the other day, I was moving some shit out of the attic. One of these things being an old Commodore with the outer casing taken off.

Right on top of the components is a thin layer of sheet metal of some type. As I was stepping over it, barefoot and with a cup of coffee, my big toe hit this layer of sheet metal and the side of it was basically flayed. I say basically because the skin did not come all the way off, it was kinda flapping like a car door.

I have very little first aid supplies, the only ones I use the most consist of a bottle of Nyquil and Vodka. I figured that while both may be effective in this case at a later date, they would not help the current situation of my toe now spurting blood all over my floor.

Digging around the medicine cabinet while placing my foot in the sink, I was able to scrounge up a bottle of rubbing alcohol with about an inch left at the bottom, some gauze left over from a dental appointment and a rolled up tube of Neosporin. Fearing some strain of tetanus from a piece of metal that has been in a dusty attic for 8 years, I immediately poured the rubbing alcohol into the open wound. After involuntarily pissing my pants a little from the pain of doing that, I wrapped up my toe with a wash rag.

I repeated the rubbing alcohol technique a second time, remarking on how interesting the inside of my big toe looked and realizing that it almost looked cloved. I then squeezed Neosporin into the gap, shoved gauze in and around it, then wrapped it up with some Scotch tape I had left over from wrapping a birthday present. As of this morning, my expert medical skills have left me with a sort of throbbing toe that just needed a large band-aid. So if any of you need a mid-wife or breast exam, give me a ring. I am effectively a doctor.

Thanks for all the “man up” and “stop being a pussy” comments on my Facebook page in relation to this traumatic, life-changing injury. It’s good to be loved.

… the power of Morbid compels you!

Dreamin’ Demon Home Office, Akron, OH  – It’s the end of our biggest year ever.  We’ve gone from a little blip on the true crime horizon to the juggernaut we are today.  Or, at least, as Morbid says, we’ve raised our level of suck.   At the beginning of 2008, Morbid was the only guy writing here on the front page.  Now he’s got a bevy of stunningly beautiful writers and one Imp Queen.  You’re welcome, internet.    Come and hang with us as we exorcise the Top Ten Stories of 2008.  Begone, foul spirits! 

10. Michael Gagnon Is An Asshole (January 1, 2008 – 262 comments)

Michael Gagnon drove drunk right before the New Year and killed five people:  Bethany Griffin, 36, Jordan Griffin, 10, Vadi Griffin, 8 weeks, Lacie Burkman, 7, and Haley Burkman, 10. Gagnon injured three other members of the family. In late June, he was sentenced to 43 years in prison.

9.  Modesto Police Officer Does World A Favor (June 16, 2008 – 265 comments)

Modesto Police Officer Jerry Ramar shot Sergio Aguiar as Aguiar was in the process of kicking and beating his two-year-old son, Sergio Jr., to death. Aguiar was killing his son on the side of a rural California road in front of multiple witnesses. This case engendered a lot of debate among our readers: should passersby have tried harder to save baby Sergio at possible risk to their own safety? There was little middle ground on this story, and the comments still make for an interesting exercise in morality and ethics.

8.  Felicia Mikels Is Dead-Thanks, Uncle Chris! (January 21, 2008 – 392 comments)

Felicia Mikels, 17, didn’t make it home the night of January 18, 2008, because she was dead.  Her five-week-old daughter Miciana was abandoned on a New Jersey lawn, but Felicia remained missing. Felicia’s paternal uncle, 26 year old Christopher Mikels, and his friend Douglas Mandichak, 25, had reason to believe that one of them was Miciana’s father. Felicia’s uncle and his friend had been having sex with Felicia for some time. They didn’t like being asked for child support, so they beat Felicia to death and threw her body in a river, where it lay unrecovered until April 29 because of ice. Chris Mikels and Douglas Mandichak are under indictment for murder.

7. Cesar Monarrez Rapes Children (February 13, 2008 – 399 comments)

Cesar “Bubba” Monarrez, 18, was arrested after being caught on video molesting a four-year-old-girl at a daycare center in Springdale, Arkansas. This article spawned the Bubbaku, a Demon-inspired haiku used to make fun of assclowns. This article also spawned widespread use of the word “tard” to describe some levels of idiocy exhibited by defenders of the people we cover. Bubba has since been convicted and will be in prison for a very, very long time. But the comments are hilarious. I highly recommend them.

6. Charles Smith & Christina Haynes SUCK! (June 18, 2008 – 522 comments)

The story of Charles Smith and Christina Haynes is one of the most heinous non-fatal cases of child abuse I’ve ever seen. Haynes’ daughter Kyra Wine, 3, lost part of her feet, bits of her fingers, and had extreme bruising all over her tiny body when found by officers doing a welfare check in June. The toddler’s scalp had been pulled away from her skull, her hands and feet had been restrained until the circulation was cut off and her flesh rotted and died. Still, we got family members of the perpetrators in our comments section, yelling that we didn’t know the full story. We knew enough: Kyra remained in the hospital for months. She is now with her grandparents and sister, still recovering.

5. Alicia Hartner Controls the Minds of Men (March 6, 2008 – 611 comments)

Alicia Hartner, Mike Wellwood and Phillip Morris were arrested and charged with the double murder of Jack Mascow and Dennis Langley, Alicia’s mother’s ex-boyfriend, in Michigan.  Alicia wrote out and signed a confession implicating Mike and Phillip, and to all appearances (especially mine), they looked guilty as sin.  Sometimes, looks are deceiving.   While the three suspects were held without bond for months on end, evidence turned up implicating one Doyle Palmer, 40, in the murders.

We have had many family members come to the site on every side of this case: the victims’, Doyle Palmer’s, Alicia’s, and most notably our members FreePhil and FreePhil2, who are relatives of (guess who?) Phillip Morris. Phillip’s family steadfastly maintained his innocence and kept us updated. Early in December, I heard from Phillip’s sister, who told me the charges were being dropped against her brother and possibly against Alicia and Mike as well. She was right. By Christmas, after being in jail for nine months, the three original defendants were released and the murder charges were dropped against them. Charges remain in effect against Doyle Palmer. I got to reverse myself and apologize (a rare occurrence, I might add), and this case continues to develop. Watch this case with us into 2009.

4. Couty Alexander Showed His True Colors (July 1, 2008 – 740 comments)

Couty Alexander shot Christa Ann Baker, his bride of three months, in the head.  No real dispute there – clearly, he did it.  How it happened was another matter, and it seemed that everyone who ever knew Couty or his homeschooling, conservative, fundamentalist Christian family came to our site to talk about it. From “it was an accident” to “don’t blame the homeschoolers”, myriad topics got covered in our comments section, and this story took on a life of its own.

3. Did Tyson Chamberlain Kill Easton Lee? (March 28, 2008 – 896 comments)

The answer is almost certainly “yes”.  On March 21, eight-month-old Easton Lee died a horrific death.  Tyson Chamberlain, a roommate of Easton’s mother, told police he’d been bathing the baby when he slipped under the water.  While trying to save the infant, Chamberlain said, he accidentally caused a few injuries.  The autopsy disagreed.  This case is still pending, and we have multiple family members and friends of nearly every party in this case, including Easton’s grandmother. Those who believe Tyson is innocent have been as vocal as those who believe Tyson is guilty. Easton’s family has shown us grace in the face of their crushing grief; Tyson supporters are adamant that their boy isn’t the babykilling type. We’ll be following this case closely through the trial phase.

2. Dead Baby, Carseat Found On Side Of Road (January 29, 2008 – 1507 comments)

Early on the morning of January 29, 2008, Travis “T.J. Mullis” left the Texas trailer he shared with his girlfriend, Caren Kohberger, and took their three-month-old son Alijah with him. The baby had been crying, and Caren was ready to get him out of her hair – even though Travis said he wasn’t safe to take Alijah. And Travis should know – he’d already attempted to molest a little girl living in the same trailer. Caren insisted Travis take the baby with him, so Travis did. He drove from Alvin to Galveston, where he took baby Alijah out of his carseat, put him on the ground, stomped his skull in, and left his diaper-clad body right off the seawall. A few hours later, birdwatchers stumbled across the body of Alijah James Mullis.

This story was the one that showed us what happens when a case grabs the attention of a group of people. We closed comments at nearly 1500, then reopened them briefly. This case was by far the biggest commenter turnout this site had ever seen. Until…

1. Caylee Anthony (July-December 2008, 7 posts, 31,662 comments.  Yes, 31,662.)

Does this story need any introduction, any explanation?  Yeah, I thought not. Our biggest story of the year was none other than the murder of two-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony. Caylee’s mother Casey Anthony, 22, has been charged with murder in her death. Caylee was killed on or about June 16 and reported missing a month later on July 15. After multiple articles and major drama in and around this case, utility worker Roy Kronk discovered Caylee’s body on December 11 just yards from the Anthony family home in Orlando. Well, actually, he discovered it in August. Yeah, it’s a long story. If you’re not up on your reading, better get on that.

In conclusion, all our stories are important to someone. Some of the stories that have affected us the most didn’t even crack the top ten: Tina Richards and Phillip Waller Suck At Parenting, Tracey Hermann & James Sargent Suck At Parenting, and a lot of other parents who suck at parenting come to mind.

Morbid asked our staff writers to come up with their own top tens, and I’ve posted them in the forums. Here are Ruby’s Top Ten; Lizard’s Top Ten, and So Jaded’s Top Ten. And if you have a favorite (or un-favorite) story we missed, tell us about it. We want to know what moves you. In the upcoming year, we’ll be broadening our focus, sharpening our image, and maybe even putting a patch on that hole in Morbid’s couch. And I started writing this piece last year, so I guess it’s time to shuttup and publish.

Happy 2009!

Imp, Morbid, and the Demoniacs

Update:

Hi, Morbid here…I just wanted to add another list, and that is our top 10 Youtube videos. These are videos that we have had attached to stories featured on the site from our Youtube Channel (which you should join). If you think the comments get strange here, you haven’t read shit compared to the trolls on Youtube. The stories that garnered the most Youtube activity are completely different than the ones featured here on the site.

• Step-Father Busted Molesting Step-Daughter (21,582 views 20 comments)
• Boy, 5, records teacher berating him in class (23,349 views 168 comments)
• Toddler Abuse In Car Wash Caught On Tape Follow Up Video (40,690 views 181 comments)
• 3-Year-Old Videotaped Smoking Pot (42,531 views 190 comments)
• Mother accused of blackmailing man who had sex with her son (45,750 views 5 comments)
• Woman Laughs About Killing Bicyclist (48,547 views 174 comments)
• Woman Stabbed To Death Protecting Her Baby (56,890 views 209 comments)
• Teen Arrested For Making Baby Fly (98,623 views 438 comments)
• Babysittter swings infant into door frame (199,753 views 462 comments)

And our legendary Youtube video that still gets comments pretty much everyday since it was posted back in March..

• Toddler Abuse In Car Wash Caught On Tape (643,323 views and a whopping 3,095 comments)

On the twelfth day of Christmas
Dreamin’ Demon sent to me:

Twelve babykillers,
Eleven bad schoolteachers,
Ten boyfriends beating,
Nine moms abusing,
Eight pedo preachers,
Seven men a-raping,
Six stabby psychos
Five DUIs!
Four necrophiles,
Three cooked dogs,
Two cannibals,
and too much of Casey Anthony!

Merry Christmas, bitchez!  We love you all.

Please note! – I still have a LOT of work to do, but I have to turn the new theme on for a bit. Please read for more information at the bottom of this article.

In preparation for the site upgrade, certain plugins and features have been disabled. This is causing some functions of the site to not function correctly, including the paged comments and comment number feature. I could take the time to fix it, but the upgrade will do that for me, so for now…it will remain broke for a day or so. We had decided to upgrade the site until next weekend, but fuck it…no time like the present.

The look of the site will be changing as well, so if you notice any graphical glitches or anomalies, please know I am aware of them and I am working, in between blunts, to get them fixed. Bare with us over the next few days and the end result should be a sleeker, sexier Demon.

Aside from paged comments and page numbering being broken currently, so is the “click quote” function. Some of the sidebar content has been removed for now, and some ads are not displaying correctly (I know, I know, that really has you guys in an uproar…your ads are missing) but none of this will be fixed until later tonight. Once we change over to the new theme, I will then begin adding stuff back in. The end result will be� a less cluttered look and hopefully a faster running site. Once the theme is activated, I will remove this post and replace it with a new one, explaining some of the differences you may or may not notice, and what has been added or removed…or just moved to a different location.

Until I put up that new message, no need emailing me about something being fucked up. Wait until AFTER I think there isn’t anything fucked up. THEN contact me and let me know something is fucked up.

UPDATE – I still have a lot of work to do, but this will be the new layout. I know it may be a bit jarring at first, but I have used ti all day and I like it much, much better. As usual, hold off on any negative comments or letting me know things are broken. Trust me, I know and I am getting to them.

As for anyone who likes the old look better, great.

Next on my list (in no particular order):

• Getting logo back in header
• Add numbers to the comments
• Changing three icons at top-right to red
• Add icons for our Myspace, Twitter, etc pages.
• Get the friggin’ “recently commented on” plugin working

After those four, I will go on to four more…but those are the ones aggravating me the most. And before anyone tells me that the page loads red first, I know. I’ll get to it later on as it does not hinder anything…and besides, it reminds me of the elevator doors opening in The Shining…and that pleases me greatly.

Just in case anyone has actually noticed, YES the news articles are coming in slow at the moment. But before any of you haters start rejoicing, this does not mean we are slacking, truth be told, we have been seeing a mistress. We will be opening up a second site shortly. This has kept me, and everyone else here at D’D, kinda busy.

So, in the next couple of weeks we will make an official announcement, if some of you have not found it already. But until then, bare with us as we try to get one off the ground while still keeping this one going at the same time. The other site is crime based, but not true crime. Meaning, nothing has changed here. We will all be back in full force, much to the dismay of many out there, in short order.

In fact, it seems as if I may have actually *gasp* LEARNED a thing or two after running this site for the last few years. D’D will be getting a nice overhaul in the next month or two. Cleaner, faster, less bloated is what is in store. Content and attitude will remain intact.

Thanks for sticking around, and I think a lot of you will really dig what we have cooked up with the other site. If you have any questions about these details, feel free to ask.

Update 11-21-2008:

Ok, the new site is not officially open, but we are testing out server loads. So feel free to take a look at it in its current state over at CrimeCritics.com. While some of you may not have any use for it, it is a site dedicated to crime fiction in books, tv and film. Most of the content will be provided by other true crime bloggers, some you are already familiar with. Still work to do, so excuse the mess, but we would like to see how we do with actual traffic and see if this bitch is gonna suck more money out of my pocket.

Speaking of money. We are goofing with different ways to serve ads on this site. We us Ad-Brite. They are ranked one of the largest ad servicess right under Google Adsense (who wont touch us with a 100 foot pole). The banner ads don’t do us much good as the banners that generate the most revenue seem to be the ones that cause pop-ups for users. So, we turned on the full-page ad. It’s the one you may be used to on other sites…it comes up and you have the ability to skip the ad and continue on your merry way. If that option works well (and it is doing better than the banners) we will remove ALL banners from the site (but keep the Amazon ads in the forums) If, INSERT DIETY willing, crimecritics generates the revenue we are hoping for, we will remove every ad from D’D. So, again, give us some time to get that all situated and I apologize that it has to be done at all. It is a necessary evil.

In any event, D’D is getting an overhaul in January, some changes will start immediately. We want to trim the fat and get the site running a bit faster and be less…clunky. We will also be revamping are Cafepress line-up and even offering some other merchandise for both sites in the very near future. Well, that’s it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and hey…you have a wonderful fucking day, ok?

Well, to honor the greatest holiday ever made, we have decided to compile a list of of some of the people who have graced our site for one of the most ghoulish of criminal activities…necrophilia. So continue on my friends if you dare, and check out 5 stories that involved some men who liked their women a bit on the cold side.

First up is Anthony Merino. He was one of our first necrophiles. He was employed as a lab technician at Holy Name Hospital in Tea Neck, New Jersey. For some reason, he decided that he wanted to have sex with a dead person. That is all kinds of sick, sure, but he opted for the corpse of a 94-year-old woman. Thing is, if a coin toss decided whether you had sex with a 94-year-old woman dead or alive, heads or tails…you lose.

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Second is one of our more popular stories, and one that didn’t involve sex with a dead human, but rather, sex with a very dead deer. Bryan James Hathaway felt so enamored by a dead deer on the side of the road, he had sex with it right there, in plain view of a daycare. Aside from the story itself, this article also contains the origins of Morbid’s Couch.

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Martin Hughes was featured in a short article when he was arrested and accused of shooting his half-sister and stepmother, then having sex with his stepmother’s corpse. He also has the honors of having one of the creepiest pictures on the site.

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Kenneth Douglas, David Steffen, Karen Range

Next we have one of our most recent necrophiles, Kenneth Douglas. He was the morgue attendant who was accused and convicted of having sex with the corpse of murder victim, Karen Range. A young girl who was murdered by David Steffen, who was arrested and convicted for the crime. Douglas had sex with her corpse after it had been in the morgue for 4 hours.

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Nick Grunke, Alex Grunke, Dustin Radke

Last, but definitley not least, we have three guys who didn’t get to fully carry out the act of necrophilia, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Remember these three idiots? How could you forget them. Nick Grunke, Alex Grunke and Dustin Radke picked a girl who had recently died in a motorcycle accident as the perfect candidate to embellish a fantasy involving having sex with a corpse. Luckily, their plan was thwarted…and what a plan it was.

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So that’s this year’s Halloween trip through memory lane. With that, everyone have a great and safe Halloween! Sleep Tight!