Three Arrested After Holding Family Hostage For Days

WINTER GARDEN, Florida – One lucky family, I think. 48-year-old Rubens Morais and 27-year-old Marcela Borges were home with their 5-year-old son on SundaySunday reviews when four masked intruders took them hostage. They were all tied up and blindfolded and taken to Apopka. The next day, Borges was forced to withdraw $23,600 from the bank. They were then taken back to their home. Sometime Tuesday, Borges removed her bindings as well as the mask of one of her young, female captors. Not liking that, she reportedly stated “She saw my face and knows who I am. You have to kill her!” Borges, not liking that, jumped from a second-story window. As she ran to a neighbor’s house, one of the captors opened fire on her, hitting her in the side. All four captors then fled the scene. Victor Manuel Sanchez, 20, and Miguel Diaz-Santiz, 25, and Oscar Diaz-Hernandez, 19 have been arrested. The female suspect is still at large. [Read more...]

Stissing Mountain High School Principal Being Held Hostage

PINE PLAINS, New York – I am sure almost every bit of this information will change as this story goes on, but reports are saying that a gunman, possibly a parent of a student, is holding the principal of Stissing Mountain High School hostage. The high school is currently on lockdown. Police are in contact with the gunman and have him confined to one room. Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver tells CNN the students “are safe at this point in time.” All of this began at around 8:30 a.m., no reports on why yet. I’ll add to this as more info comes out. Update: The man surrendered to police. They are saying no shots were fired, he was a former student and in his 40s [Read more...]

Richard Heatwole Ruins Lives

 Hayes, Haley and Richard Heatwole

CANDLER, N.C. — I had been following a story over the New Years holiday in which a man had allegedly shot and killed his ex-wife, two neighbors and then abducted his two young children. The last I had checked before crashing last night, was that police were still looking for him driving a white Toyota Tundra. I woke up this morning to see that the three had been located at a residence, and that a standoff was live and in progress.

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Lauro Canales Hammers Woman for Sex

Lauro Garcia Canales

Naples, FL – Lauro Garcia Canales, 55, must have found it hard to find a woman to love him.  With a face like that, is it any wonder?  More importantly, Canales apparently has a bit of a temper.  So he decided that the best way to keep a woman might just be to catch one and lock her up.

On Monday evening, police were called to Canales’ small home on Ninth Street North, where Canales opened the door and told officers that everything was just fine.  But apparently, it wasn’t. [Read more...]

Intruders Kill Doctor’s Wife, Daughters

Hayley Petit, Michaela Petit, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Dr. William Petit Jr. Courtesy Muldoon Photography.

CHESHIRE, Conn. – Two men broke into the home of William Petit Jr., 50, a prominent doctor, kidnapped his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and forced her to withdraw money from a bank early Monday morning. Jennifer was able to notify bank employees that she and her family were being held hostage and notified police. When police arrived at Petit’s house, the observed two men leaving in a station wagon while the house was engulfed in flames. After striking a couple police cruisers on their way out, the two men, not identified, were apprehended.

InsideInside reviews the house they found a severely injured William Petit Jr as well as the dead bodies of his wife and his two daughters, Hayley and Michaela.

Petit, a well-known diabetes specialist, was in stable condition at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, his injuries nor the cause of his family members deaths, have been released. Authorities would not release the names of the suspects. The two men are due Tuesday in Meriden Superior Court.

UPDATE:

Steven Hayes, 44, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 26 were charged with burglary, arson and sexual assault for allegedly breaking into a doctor’s home, forcing a hostage to withdraw cash at a bank and burning the house several hours later, killing the doctor’s wife and two daughters.

Update

AutopsyAutopsy reviews results released Wednesday revealed that Hawke-Petit was strangled to death, and her two daughters — Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11 — died from smoke inhalation, according to the state’s Department of Public Safety. A source close to the investigation told CNN that Hayley Petit’s charred body was found at the top of a staircase in the home; Michaela Petit’s body was found tied to her bed; Jennifer Hawke-Petit’s body was found on the first floor.

William Petit, who police said was assaulted and sustained serious head injuries, managed to get up the stairs from the basement and outside the burning home.

Wonder who was on the receiving end of the sexual assault?

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