Tanya Friedly Burned The House Down
Filed under: Arson, Assault, Attempted Murder, Attempted Suicide, Burning, Drugs
Warren, MI - Tanya Laura Friedly, 32, tried to kill herself and her two children on Tuesday. And if not for the quick action of Friedly’s 13-year-old son, she probably would have succeeded.  After pulling her kids out of school Tuesday morning, Friedly made the kids hot chocolate laced with prescription drugs. She then left her son and ten-year-old daughter in the downstairs living room, went upstairs, and set the house on fire. Read more
Josie Navarro Drowned Her Little Boy
Filed under: Assault, Attempted Suicide, Child Abuse, Child Murder, Drowning, Filicide
L to R: Edgar Manuel Sanchez, Josie Navarro (Myspace) and an unidentified man
Pomona, CA - Edgar Manuel Sanchez was five years old. He’d done nothing wrong. But that didn’t stop his mother, Josie Navarro, from drowning him in a hotel bathtub on Monday.  Police were called to the Pomona hotel by a desk clerk, who said that they had been notified that a woman in one of the rooms was trying to kill herself. Read more
Gloria Arroyo Wasn’t Peachy
Filed under: Attempted Suicide, Child Murder, Crime, Domestic Violence, Filicide, Infanticide, Murder, Stabbing
Paterson, NJ - I have no idea what Gloria Arroyo was thinking last night. Neither, apparently, does anyone else.  Seven-month-old Jose Bell Jr., called “Baby 8″ or “Ocho”, was dead when police arrived at Arroyo’s home at about 10:30 last night.   Gloria Arroyo, 18, called “Pichy” (like “peachy”), had stabbed her son multiple times to the chest and turned the knife on herself. She’s not dead, but her baby sure is. Read more
Howard Keown Has Bad Luck
This is a sad one, and kind of funny in a tragic way. 61-year-old Howard Koern was not a very happy man it seems. Living in a rented trailer with is sick dog, Pookie, Howard decided he had enough. So he ripped the gas line from his water heater and reportedly laid back and waited for a nice, peaceful death. Unfortunately, something sparked the gas that had filled the trailer and created and explosion that demolished the trailer and threw debris 50 to 100 feet.
John Atchison Almost Does The Right Thing
Detroit - John Atchison, 53, a federal prosecutor from Florida, flew to Michigan for a sexual encounter with a 5-year-old girl in an arrangement he had set up on-line with what he thought was the girl’s mother. When he arrived at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport he was arrested and found that the mother was actually a Macomb County sheriff’s detective participating in an Internet sex sting operation.
Well, as sickening as all that is, he almost did one thing right by attempting to hang himself in his cell at the Sanilac County Jail using a bedsheet. Unfortunately, another inmate notified deputies who were able to stop him from finishing the deed. But the man has shown persistence in the past, especially when it comes to fucking children, so who knows…maybe he will show the same diligence and actually get it right before any more money is spent housing him. If this had been my jail, his cell would not only have contained a bedsheet, but also packs of shoelaces, a box of razors and a gallon of complementary anti-freeze.
