February 29, 2008 – 9:36 am
FRIDAY February 29th 2008
When his ex-girlfriend told him to stop pestering her with text messages, Rustan Ang texted back her a photo of a naked woman, legs spread, with her face added, threatening to post it on the net. That’s when she went to the police.
February 28, 2008 – 7:52 am
THURSDAY February 28th 2008
Discovering she was dating the same man as Olga, a shocked Ria arranged to meet the other woman. Discussing their mutual boyfriend’s deception, Olga also mentioned the jewellery that had gone missing from her home. Ria checked her own and found items gone. As a result Johann Garber receives a three-year sentence […]
February 27, 2008 – 8:52 am
WEDNESDAY 27th February 2008
On Via Merlo, Palermo, bullets flew, killing Guiseppe and Gianpaolo Riina, two brothers on their way to work. In this same street ten years ago their father was also assasinated in a mafia feud.
February 26, 2008 – 9:36 am
TUESDAY 26th February 2008
Josephine Cesnick, 76, waited nine days before calling the ambulance. The burglar had said he’d kill her if she told anyone. In hospital, she died of head injuries.
February 19, 2008 – 9:36 am
TUESDAY 19th February 2008
For two years Desmone Bastian had waved her through his border post in exchange for liaisons in nearby hotels. But that night Bastian was working a different lane so Sandra Maas was caught at the US border with nearly 3,000 Oxycodone tablets hidden in her underwear.
February 18, 2008 – 11:05 am
MONDAY 18th February 2008
Melbourne barmaid Emily Craig served Matthew Papaluca a shot of Pine-O-Clean and coke, a drunken prank that ended with Matthew in hospital and Emily in court.
February 15, 2008 – 8:41 am
Friday 15th February 2008
They found Jan Clark’s wife wrapped in a sheet, a cross and sword laid on her. He had been exorcising a demon from her, Clark told Texas police, when the devil entered him instead and made him kill her.
February 14, 2008 – 10:49 am
VALENTINE’S DAY
Barbie Alvarado has had a black heart tattooed on her chest as a Valentine’s day gift for the man she married two months ago. It had to be black to cover up the tattoo of her ex-husband’s name.
February 14, 2008 – 10:39 am
THURSDAY 14th February 2008
Lending her 1980 Oldsmobile to a man she only knew as “G”, Katherine Lambeth is disappointed by his failure to return it. He’d promised her fifty bucks worth of crack in exchange for the loan, she told Tennessee police.
February 13, 2008 – 10:08 am
WEDNESDAY 13th February
Brian Matthews was on his second date with Jennifer when Eduardo Morales-Soriano killed him, speeding through the red light. Of particular interest to the press: while Brian was a Corporal, fresh from Iraq, Eduardo was a drunk illegal migrant.