Genesis, up Mickey Mouse’s butt for the 1974 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. (First published in Rolling Stone, Jan 2, 1975, via)
Peter looking a little more dressed to be IN the parade than just watching it. I feel like there’s more to the story than we ever got told.
Newsweek: Killer Covers
Amber Creek was born on July 2, 1982. Initially, she lived with her coke-addicted mother and her boyfriend at the time who sexually abused her. At the age of 6, the state removed her from her household and sent her to live with her father. By the time she was 14, she became a wild teenager, sneaking out or running away regularly to drink, do drugs, and have sex. Her father could no longer handle it and eventually dropped her off at the police station in December 1996, refusing to take care of her any longer. Amber was placed in a Chicago youth center, where she ran away a total of nine times over the course of six weeks. That was until January 23, 1997, when she ran out one last and final time and became homeless, turning to prostitution to survive. One week later she was seen entering a party with a group of men and left with only one man, never to be seen again, that was until nine days later when two hunters were roaming near a marsh in Wisconsin when they found Amber’s frozen corpse posed up against a tree with her arm raised high above her head, appearing to be waving. She had been beaten and raped. She had a garbage bag covering her head, and was nude from the waist down. The word ‘’Hi’’ was written in black marker on the palm of her waving hand, and a $5 price tag was attached to her arm. Police were unable to identify her and buried her as just another Jane Doe. It wasn’t until over a year later when her case was run on the show America’s Most Wanted that her father identified her and she had a proper burial.
Amber’s murderer was caught in 2014 after an Oklahoma crime lab was reviewing old cold case fingerprints and got a hit on a thumbprint on the garbage bag that was over Amber’s head. It matched 36-year-old James Eaton, who was 19 when he killed Amber. James was arrested. Although he never confessed to the crime, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
As strange as it sounds, Sharon Lopatka was a 31-year-old woman from Maryland who arranged the sexual torture and murder of herself. She spent several weeks searching the internet for a man who could fulfill her gruesome sexual desires until she finally met Robert Frederick Glass in a BDSM-related chatroom. The two exchanged about 900 emails explaining each other’s darkest fantasies. On the morning of October 13, 1996, Sharon told her husband that she would be visiting acquaintances in Georgia. Before she took off, she left a short note for her husband: ‘’If my body is never retrieved, don’t worry: know that I’m at peace.’’ When Sharon met up with Robert in North Carolina, Robert drove her to his mobile home and ultimately strangled her with a rope. Police tracked down Robert and found all of the emails which displayed explicit homicidal consent on his computer, as well as child pornography. He was sentenced to 36 to 53 months in prison for voluntary manslaughter and 21 to 26 months for possession of child pornography.
After the bombings.
A poignant look at last meals of innocent men who were executed for crimes they did not commit.
Photographs by James Reynolds.
The Usual Suspects
Exhibit from the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center in New Mexico.
From 2010-2017 the police had been called to the Cruz home (shown above) 39 different times for various reasons. Those reasons include, domestic disturbance, mentally ill person (disruptive), child/elderly abuse, and missing person, amongst many others.
Victims of the Douglas High School shooting (14 Feb. 2018)
‘‘… History remembers the killer’s name and rarely does history remember the name of the victim, … Everyone should read the names and look at the faces of the people who lost their lives that day… Take a moment to remember them…’’
Aaron Feis (37) | Alaina Petty (14) Alex Schachter (14) | Alyssa Al Hadeff (15) | Cara Loughran (14) Carmen Schentrup (16) | Chris Hixon (49) Gina Montalto (14) | Helena Ramsey (17) | Jaime Guttenberg (14) Joaquin Oliver (17) | Luke Hoyer (15) Martin Duque (14) | Meadow Pollack (18) | Nicholas Dworet (17) Peter Wang (15) | Scott Beigel (35)
Columbine survivors reflect on Parkland Shooting.
David Hogg, a high school student who survived the Florida shooting, just looked directly into the camera and made this plea to members of Congress: “We are children. You guys are the adults. Work together, come over your politics, and get something done.”
I’ll update when more information is released. My thoughts go out to the families and all those affected by this tragedy.
Nikolas Cruz’s mugshot. Charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
17-year-old Ocean Parodie, on Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz (via abstract-concept-difficulties)
Allen Ivanov after getting arrested
On July 30, 2016 a shooting took place during a house party in Mukilteo, Washington. Three people got killed and one person injured. The gunman, Allen Ivanov (19 at the time), fled the scene but was arrested around 90 minutes later. Allen’s motive for the shooting was to get revenge on his ex-girlfriend, he had told friends he was thinking about harming her because he was upset that she seemed to be moving on after their breakup. Allen’s ex-girlfriend turned out to be one of the three victims.
Allen Ivanov was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In 2014, a father from Daytona Beach in Florida was horrified to walk into his 11-year-old son’s bedroom to find him being molested. The perpetrator was 18-year-old Raymond Frolander, a family friend. The father, who has not been named to protect his son’s identity, beat the child molester to a pulp. His mugshot was released to the public and went viral. As it turned out, Raymond had been sexually assaulting the young boy since he was just 8-years-old. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. “He’s going to learn in the next 25 years why I let him live,” said the victim’s father.
For some, Easter is a time for rejoicing and new beginnings. An Ohio man by the name of Steve Stephens (right) had more sinister plans for this holiday. On April 16, 2017, Steve began a live stream on Facebook in which he stated that he was going to kill a man. Unfortunately, this was no prank— he approached 74-year-old Robert Godwin, who was walking home from an Easter meal with his children, and without any hesitation, fatally shot the man. Robert later uploaded a video of Robert’s cold-blooded murder on Facebook and provided a motive for the senseless slaying, explaining that he was upset at his girlfriend. A nationwide manhunt for Steve was soon commenced, but by then, he had already fled the state. He wouldn’t be spotted until two days later at a McDonald’s drive thru in Erie, Pennsylvania. Employees immediately recognized him and called the police, informing Steve that he will have to wait on the fries so as to stall for enough time for police to arrive. Steve, however, looked suspicious, and without bothering to wait around, he drove off. Pennsylvania State Police troopers gave chase and used techniques to attempt to halt his vehicle. As Steve’s car was spinning out of control, he drew his pistol and fatally shot himself in the head.
