A mother accused of fatally slashing her two daughters’ throats inside their Los Angeles home has been charged with two counts of murder. Relatives told the Los Angeles Times the 37-year-old mother recently lost her job, could not make mortgage payments on her Sun Valley home, and had been hospitalized for stress. Antonia Gomez was [...]
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Mother Loses Job, Unable to Pay Mortgage, Goes Crazy and Stabs Her Two Daughters to Death
Posted: 10th September 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Sad News47
Power Plant Explosion Leaves 8 People Dead and 65 People Missing
Posted: 17th August 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Sad NewsAn accident during repair work at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant on Monday killed at least 10 workers, while as many as 65 others were missing after an engine room was suddenly flooded, officials said. The cause of the accident at the Sayano-Shushinskaya plant in southern Siberia was unclear. Federal investigators said a transformer exploded during [...]
Ex-wife Starts Deadly Wedding Fire Killing Over 40 Women and Children
Posted: 17th August 2009 by The Dude in Crime, Sad NewsThe ex-wife of a groom has confessed to starting a fire at a wedding party in Kuwait in which 43 women and children died. A 23-year-old woman told police she used petrol to torch a packed women-only wedding tent in the city of Jahra on Saturday. She said she did it to avenge her ex-husband’s [...]
Helicopter and Plane Midair Collision Leaves 9 Bodies and Counting, in the Hudson River
Posted: 9th August 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Sad NewsDivers pulled a helicopter and four more bodies out of the murky Hudson River on Sunday in their search for victims, wreckage and explanations from a midair collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane that killed nine people.
An 11-year-old boy died in the intense heat of Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded in one of the world’s most inhospitable areas and survived for several days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts and cheese sandwiches, authorities said Friday.
15 Yr. Old Dies at Internet Addiction Rehab Camp
Posted: 6th August 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Sad NewsTags: addiction, China, chinese, internet
China is investigating the death of a teenager who was allegedly beaten to death in a camp designed to treat Internet addiction, state media said. Deng Senshan, 15, died Sunday, less than a day after his parents sent him to the camp in southern Guangxi province, Xinhua News Agency reported.
3 Freelance American Journalists Disappear in the Most Dangerous Place in the World
Posted: 4th August 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Sad NewsTags: Iran, Iraq
Reporting from Baghdad — Iranian authorities are questioning three American nationals who strayed across the border into Iran from Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region last week, Iranian state media reported today.The deputy governor of Iran’s Kordestan province, Iraj Hassanzadeh, told the Fars news agency that the three were still being held in the border town of [...]
Taxi Driver Decapitates Himself While Driving
Posted: 10th July 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Sad NewsTags: decapitated, decapitates, London, taxi, taxi driver
The driver of a black cab decapitated himself in his taxi today after tying one end of a rope to his neck and the other to a lamp post. The man, believed to be in his thirties, is said to have then driven off at full speed shortly after midnight.
Death and Disaster in Disney’s Fairytale World
Posted: 5th July 2009 by Veritas in Sad NewsTags: crash, Disney, Disney World, Florida, lake buena vista, monorail, orange county, Orlando, walt disney world
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Two monorail trains crashed early Sunday morning in the Magic Kingdom section of Walt Disney World, killing one train’s operator, emergency officials said.