Saturday, December 19, 2015

She Disappeared Without A Trace In 1976, And No One Knows Where She Went


When someone disappears without a trace, the world typically panics. Unfortunately, people tend to forget about these cases as time goes on. But for those who are close to the missing person, the search never stops.

One missing person that most of the world has sadly forgotten about is 18-year-old California native Cynthia "Cindy" Hernandez.

In August of 1976, the movie The Omen had just opened in theaters and Hernandez (pictured below) wanted to check it out.






































She first called her boyfriend to join her, but he had other plans. Then she called her best friend, who also declined her invitation. Not wanting to miss out on the summer blockbuster, Hernandez decided to see the film on her own at the Fox Twin Theater in the nearby town of Azusa. She left with enough time to spare before the previews, and that was the last time anyone saw her.




























































After she didn't return home, Hernandez's parents found her white 1963 Chevy station wagon parked behind the theater.


























But there was something odd about it. The car had been backed into the space, which is something Hernandez never did.

Police thoroughly worked the case and came up empty handed. Within a few months, the case had gone cold.
















So what happened to Hernandez?


The prevailing opinion about the fate of Hernandez is that she was kidnapped and killed by a sexual predator operating in the area. Judging by the time frame, it's possible that her murderer may have been convicted killer Manuel Trinidad Cortez, who is currently serving out a life sentence in Oregon. During the mid-1970s, Cortez was living in Southern California. He would have been more than capable of killing an innocent 18-year-old-girl.

This is just horribly tragic. I can't even imagine the pain and grief that Hernandez's parents had to go through when this happened.


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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Drug Dealers Break Into House at Night to Shoot and Burn Corpse in Casket


In the municipality of Redencao, 51 km from Fortaleza in Ceara, Brazil, a group of alleged drug dealers broke into a house in mourning, and shot and set fire to a corpse of a young da Silva resting in a casket, awaiting his funeral.

Marcos Alessandro Arcelino da Silva, known by the nickname "Praiano," was killed in a clash with the military police in the village of Fais, in the district of Serra do Vento, in rural Redencao. Praiano, his girlfriend, and three other men were all shot dead when military police stormed the house where they lived. A spokesman for military police said the gang of five was involved in killings and assaults. Relatives of the victims however claim they were not involved in any criminal activity.





Sheesh! Jermaine Jackson's Wife, Halima Rashid, Bites His Leg During Fight. Arrested For Domestic Violence

Jermaine Jackson's wife, Halima Rashid, went full pit bull on her husband, biting his leg, during a domestic spat over the weekend, TMZ reports.

Jackson was the one who called police.

Rashid was arrested on Saturday, November 28, at the couple's Woodland Hills, California home and hauled off to jail. She quickly posted $50,000 bail and was released, but not before being charged with felony corporal injury on a spouse.


According to WKLaw.com, if Rashid is found guilty she could be sent to jail for up to four years in prison and face a fine of up to $6,000.

The couple have been married since August 2004.







Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Jordan Davis was killed over loud music. Now his parents tell their story in a gripping new film.

By: Erica Williams Simon

3 in a half minutes.

That's all it took for 45-year-old Michael Dunn to approach black boys listening to loud music at a gas station, shoot 10 bullets into the car of unarmed teens, and leave 17-year-old Jordan Davis dead.

Those 3-1/2 minutes in Jacksonville, Florida, on Nov. 23, 2012, didn't just end Jordan's life. They sparked a case ("the loud music murder") that transfixed the nation. They added a landmark story to an ongoing movement about gun violence and the deadly impact of racism.

And those 3-1/2 minutes changed the lives of Jordan's parents, Ron Davis and Lucy McBath, forever.

"3-1/2 Minutes: Ten Bullets," the Sundance Award-winning documentary that premiered Monday, Nov. 23 on HBO (three years to the day after Jordan's murder), was an intimate look inside the courtroom of the riveting and at times unbelievable trial as well as an up-close and personal look at Jordan's short life.

























I had the honor of speaking individually with each of Jordan's parents in advance of the HBO premiere.

I've shared my dialogue with them below, edited for brevity and clarity. At the end of the interview, Lucy gives a chilling reason why you- and everyone- should tune in and watch the film.


EWS: Why was it important for you to share your story, Jordan's story, with the world? Why did you want this film made?

Lucy: Well, because we had paid heed to previous cases, specifically Trayvon Martin's case. We watched how Trayvon had been vilified and demonized as a young man of color who was up to no good, even though he wasn't doing anything other than just existing. And so we decided very early on that our truth needed to be told by us, his parents. That we didn't need anybody to speak for us. We would tell our story, it would be honest, and it would be raw.

We also wanted to prick the consciousness of those that are watching the film. We wanted to open conversations in people's homes and in churches and in businesses and academia about implicit bias', Dunn's racism, and gun violence. We knew that the only way that we could really elevate what we were trying to do is to expose ourselves as a means to motivate people to create some kind of change.

EWS: So how did you know the time was right?

Ron: Very early on, people started approaching us about doing a film, and nothing felt right. But then my lawyer received a letter from Minette Nelson, the woman in charge of The Filmmaker Fund in San Francisco. In the letter, she told me how her son had a friend that was 16 years old who had been killed, and his name was Jordan. An article about our Jordan in Rolling Stone touched him so much that he brought it to her and she read it and cried and said "Look, I'm going to try to reach out."

When I read the letter, it was so heartfelt. It felt like this person got it. I picked up the phone and called her and we had a 30 minute cry-all conversation, both of us crying and said, "You get it."

"We decided early on that our truth needed to be told. And it needed to be told by us, his parents. That we didn't need anybody to speak for us. We could tell our story, it would be honest, and it would be raw."


EWS: How does it feel to go through such personal, emotional moments on film? Did you forget the camera was there or was it always on your mind?

Ron: Most of the time, we forgot the camera was there. You see my emotion at the table when I start talking about Jordan in the beginning of the film and just start crying. I forgot the camera was there then. I was just being emotional. Whether I was talking or swimming or crying, I was just living my life. 

EWS: There were so many moments like that one that showed what it was like as a parent who has lost a child. Have you heard from other parents about that? 

Ron: Yes. Not just other grieving parents, but also other parents who have experienced something similar. For example, we do work with the family of Oscar Grant who was killed by a police officer in California and whose story is told in the film "Fruitvale Station," by his uncle Bobby, and his mother.

When Mike Brown was killed in Ferguson, I happened to be speaking at the United Nations conference in Geneva and I was the first person to talk to the UN about it as an example of racial discrimination in the United States. 

Then I went to Ferguson and I welcomed Michael Brown's father into a club that no one wants to be a member of, just like Trayvon Martin's father had welcomed me into that club right after Jordan's death.

I also told him to find your voice. When these things happen, it's hard to find your voice. That's why you hear so many representatives- like the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons- because as a parent you're so devastated, it's hard to find your voice. But for me, I knew that no one was going to tell the story of Jordan right but his parents, because no one knows my son better than us. So I didn't want anyone to speak for us.


EWS: One of the things that struck me about this case is that it got at the heart of so many issues- racism, gun violence, "stand your ground"- has the film been able to spark meaningful conversations around those issues?

Lucy: At a recent film festival, I had grown men coming up to me crying, crying. Three of them. Two were young white males, millennials, and one was an older black male, maybe in his 40s. All of them bawling.

The older black gentleman said, " I know that this existed, I know I've experienced it. But I have been remiss in not doing anything about it. And I'm a teacher. And I'm going to go back and have these discussions in my classroom. It awakened my sense of activism in me."

"When you're 17 and you see another 17-year-old get killed, guess what you feel? You feel like it could be you any day, any time. And I hate that. I hate that they have to feel their mortality." -Ron Davis


One of the young white men sobbing and saying: "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that my people have done this to you." But beyond saying "we're sorry for your loss," people are saying something's got to change and I've got to be a part of the change. And that's what we need people to do. It's like a spiritual awakening in a sense because we're dealing with a heart issue, a moral issue.

People have the propensity to not be concerned about what is not their reality. But when you expose the reality to people, when you show them the truth, anybody that has a sense of moral fiber can't go away from it not being affected.

Lucy McBath testifying before Congress against "stand your ground" laws.


EWS: During one of your prayers in the film, you say "I'm, still human because I doubt." What about now? Do you still doubt? Or do you have hope?

Lucy: Well, I have to hope. You have to hope to do this kind of justice work. It's a very heavy mantle. Anytime you're doing it, you have to hope that change is gonna come. Ron and I have T-shirts that say "Hope Dealers" because that's what we want to offer the nation and communities that are disproportionately affected by the violence: a sense of hope.


We want them to know that there is an awakening happening now. You've got the Black Lives Matter folks that are mobilizing, you've got gun violence prevention advocacy, you've got mothers groups, grassroots groups popping up all over the country. People are definitely paying attention to what is happening, and that has to instill in you a sense of hope.

People do have to understand that this is going to be a long, long, long fight and battle. When you talk about how long it's taken to build this culture of fear and implicit bias and racism and policing- these structures have been building for years, and you don't tear them down overnight.

Anytime you change a culture- like with LGBT equality, like with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, like with the tobacco industry- it begins long before you see the victories in the newspaper or on TV. But yeah, there's hope because it- protecting the sanctity of life as God intended for us- is the moral, right thing to do.


EWS: What message does Michael Dunn's guilty verdict send to America? 

Lucy: I don't think the guilty verdict was enough. It offers some semblance of hope, but it's not enough because we're one of the only cases that did see justice. There are far more cases where they did not receive justice, there's no indictment, there's no conviction than there are cases like ours. So there's a lot more work that needs to be done.

EWS: And to you, Ron? what did the verdict symbolize to you? 

Ron: It said that this black life matters. Also, the state of Florida said that Michael Dunn was not right in coming to Jacksonville and killing one of its citizens. I wanted that validation from the state of Florida to say that Jordan's life matters and that Michael Dunn had no right to kill him.

EWS: Aside from the obvious trauma of losing your son, how have you changed over these past three years? Do you see the world any differently?

Lucy: Like anyone else, when you're working day to day and you're trying to raise children and you're trying to, you know, keep a roof over your head- trying to do all the things that you normally have to do just to exist- you hear news, hear things that are happening in the country, and in some way you think: "Well, that's not going to happen to me. That's really not going to affect me." And you kind of go on about your own reality and live your life kind of in a bubble. 

I thought this country was more post-racial than it actually is. Because to tell you the truth, we lived in an upscale neighborhood, and Jordan had access to good schooling. His father and I did well financially and have always been able to provide. We never struggled. So we were living in our own little reality. I did not really understand the depth of racism in this country until these cases like Trayvon and Jordan. I certainly didn't understand how systemic it is. I'm shocked because of my experience living in my father's house, entrenched in the civil rights movement, and being hauled around in the car with him as children as he was speaking around the country. I have pictures of my father with Lyndon Baines Johnson as he signed the Civil Rights Act and Eleanor Roosevelt and Roy Wilkins and all the work that he did. And so I can't believe that I'm still fighting the same fight that Daddy fought 50 years later.

EWS: What response do you get from young people when they see this film? 

Ron: They come up to me and most say, "I hope my parents are going to be this strong for me if something happens to me." They feel their mortality. When you're 17 and you see another 17-year-old get killed, guess what you feel? You feel like it could be you any day, any time. And I hate that. I hate that they have to feel their mortality. They're supposed to be able to love and embrace life and live like they're gonna live another 80 years, you know?

Young protesters outside the courthouse during Michael Dunn's trial. Photo courtesy of HBO.


EWS: One of the most beautiful and unforgettable moments in the film is when you are watching footage of your son and bobbing your head along with him. What was going through your head in that moment?

Ron: I was remembering how Jordan used to hate riding in my car because I don't have a MP3 player, so he used to listen to my Motown records. He knew all the Motown songs.

One of favorite groups was the Brothers Johnson "Strawberry Letter 23." He liked that bass. So I was thinking about that as I saw him dancing and listening to his music, and I said to myself: "I wish I had more days of listening to his music with him. I wish I had more days of bobbing my head to his music, even though I'm not into hip-hop. I would have loved to just one more time bob my head to his music while he was listening."

And so I felt a kinship with him, and it made me smile and cry.

EWS: what do you want this film to do?

Ron: It's gonna reconnect the public with the families and the victims. I remember thinking in the Trayvon Martin case, the jury was disconnected from him. They connected more with George Zimmerman. and this is a way to help people who serve on juries, people who don't have exposure to young black kids or to African-Americans period, to see us.

They have to, some way, connect with what we go through and what these kids go through. Looking at this film, they'll connect with us and say, "They look just like us, they have heartaches just like us, they doubt, they hope, and they look for the justice system to prevail just like we do." So I want everyone to take from this film who we are, how much we hurt when we lose a loved one. And our humanity.

EWS: And why should people tune in and watch it?

Lucy: Because their lives may depend on it.





Tuesday, November 10, 2015

'Disapproving parents locked daughter in filthy shed for 6 years because they didn't like her boyfriend'

























Shocking: The grim pictures said to show Zhang Qi that have been leaked online



A woman was locked in a shed and "treated like an animal" because her mom and dad didn't like her boyfriend, it has been claimed. 

Police are investigating claims that Zhang Qi, 24, was allegedly locked up for 6 years after being made to dump her boyfriend in 2009.

Despite being told the relationship was over, Zhang tried several times to run away before her parents told everybody that she was mentally ill and being locked up for her own protection, a villager in Jingang in China's Hubei province said.

Chow Jen, 50, said: "Her parents are powerful people here and everyone was told not to interfere.

"Everyone knew about the girl in the house. I moved away and only come back to visit occasionally so I don't care about their threats, and that's why I was happy to expose these pictures online after the local authorities refused to do anything."






















Rundown: The exterior of the house where Zhang Qi is allegedly being kept



There has been no official comment on the story or on the current status of the young woman since the images were posted.

But many copies of the pictures have reportedly been removed from the internet by Chinese censors without a reason being specified.

Chow Jen said: "Every time I came back for Chinese New Year I went to visit her secretly.

"On my latest visit though I saw her lying on a pile of straw with a couple of blankets and some food around her and I just decided enough was enough.

"Whether what they say about her having mental problems is true or not, she is being treated like an animal here and I'm sick of it so I contacted police, and then posted the images online."


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Monday, November 9, 2015

Nine-Year-Old Boy Shot and Killed Over Father’s Gang Ties





















Nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee from Chicago was allegedly lured from a park to be killed all due to his father's gang relations.

According to msn two Chicago gangs have been feuding for months and this horrible act was actually a gang retaliation.

Tyshawn was a fourth-grader at Joplin Elementary School. The young boy was en route to his grandmother's house when he was called into an alley where he was shot in the head and back. 

Pierre Stokes, the boy's father, is an alleged gang member and a convicted felon. He is also not cooperating with police according to Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy who said, "I don't think he's a witness to it, so I'm not sure how much he could help us, but I could tell you this, I'm a father, many of us here are fathers. My reaction would be a little different."

When asked if he thought his son's murder was a form of retaliation, Stokes said, "No, I don't think it was no retaliation because I never did nothing to- for nobody to hurt my son."

Either way, Tyshawn's murder has the community quite shook up. McCarthy said that this was the, "most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnesed in 35 years of policing. Everybody is sick; everybody is disgusted."

There is currently a $35,000  reward for any information leading to the arrest of Tyshawn's killer. 

Our thoughts are with Tyshawn's family during this difficult time.



Sunday, September 27, 2015

Argentinean Businessman Stabs His Gold Digging Wife to Death



Claudia Schaefer (44) and Fernando Farre (52) were a couple going through a divorce process. They lived in one of Buenos Aires' (Argentina) wealthiest neighborhoods (Recoleta) and had a country house at Martindale.




According to Claudia's lawyer, she had obtained a restraining order against Fernando on August 3, after they had a heated argument in which he ended up choking her with his knee if front of their 3 kids (8, 11, & 13 years old), one of whom is autistic.

In the restraining order she also mentions he had been in psychological and psychiatric treatment ever since he lost his job in October 2014 (Claudia had no intentions of staying with the man who'd lost his lucrative job).

Somehow they agreed to live separately, and she stayed in their Recoleta place, while Fernando stayed at the Country Club. One day, Claudia made arrangements to return to the County House to pick up some of her clothes and belongings.

On August 22, 2015, they had a meeting in the County house, Claudia accompanied by her lawyer, and Fernando by his mother. At one point, the estranged couple were left alone in the kitchen, where they started arguing.

Fernando supposedly took 2 knives from the kitchen and kept pushing Claudia into a walk in closet, where things got physical. He locked the door, and started to choke her. He then slashed her throat with one of the knives.

The screams alerted the lawyer and Fernando's mother who rushed to get to the fighting couple by breaking the closet's windows from the outside, and trying to tear the door down.

Fernando also stabbed Claudia in the chest, who quickly bled out and died. Fernando, who was a business mogul, came out of the closet, sat in a garden chair and waited there for the police to come for him, apparently not resisting arrest.









Man Executes His Own Cousin to Prove Allegiance to ISIS (VIDEO)



Video Below:

A young Arab man kidnapped his own cousin, took him to the desert and executed him in cold blood to prove his allegiance to Abu Bakr al Tel Avivi, leader of ISIS.

A friend who speaks Arabic translated roughly what the pointing guy says:

I pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, to listen and obey, in hard times and in good times, and he ordered to kill the soldiers of the tyrants Al Saoud, protectors of the Christians, and here we are obeying his order, in service of Allah and his prophet, any infidel gets killed, and this guy is an example to Al Salool.

The victim responds with, "Msaaed, I swear no, please no..." And keeps pleading for his life until he's shot.







Friday, September 4, 2015

17-Yr Old Kailin Holland Hit W/Battery Charges After Yanking McDonalds Employee Through Drive-Thru Window (Video)





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A longstanding feud between 17-year-old Kailin Holland and a McDonald's employee could land Holland in jail.

Video of the incident above shows Holland literally yanking the victim through a drive thru window. TMZ reports that she was caught after police used the video to track her and three accomplices down.



Holland has been charged with second degree battery. The three passengers in the car with her face disturbing the peace charges.



Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Chicago Cop Shot & Killed. Manhunt Underway For 3 Suspects ( 2 Videos )

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---Police with helicopters, dogs and armed with rifles were conducting a massive manhunt in northern Illinois Tuesday after an officer was shot and killed while pursuing a group of suspicious men.



The officer, who has not been identified publicly, radioed in to tell dispatchers he was chasing three men on foot in the city of Fox Lake, 55 miles north of Chicago. Communication with him was lost soon after, said Lake County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Christopher Covelli.




"His backup arrived shortly thereafter and found him injured with a gunshot wound," Covelli said. "The officer has succumbed to his injuries and passed away." Undersheriff Raymond Rose told the Chicago Tribune that the officer had also been stripped of his gun and other equipment. Police and other law enforcement, some of them in military-style camouflage, were seen taking up positions on rooftops and along railroad tracks, scanning the terrain with rifle scopes and binoculars. Others leaned out of helicopters with weapons at the ready. Nearby Grant Community High School was placed on hard lockdown with children and staff instructed to say hidden and away from windows. "Grant continues to remain in a lockdown situation at the direction of the Fox Lake Police Department," the school said in an update on its website.



It said all students and staff were safe, with administrators going from room to room. Authorities in Fox Lake have notified a number of other law enforcement agencies to ask for assistance, including the FBI, which is sending agents to help in the investigation. Cara Smith, chief strategist for the Cook County Sheriff's Department, said two bloodhounds from the department were taken to the heavily wooded county to assist in the search.


Monday, August 31, 2015

71 Syrian Refugees Found Suffocated in Abandoned Truck in Austria


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     These pictures were found on a Syrian website, and are alleged to show some of the 71 refugees that were found dead in an abandoned truck parked off the highway in Burgenland state in Austria.

Following the discovery of the dead refugees, which comprised 59 men, 8 women and 4 children, including an infant, Austrian and Hungarian police arrested three and four people respectively. In Hungary, three arrested were Bulgarians, and one was an Afghan citizen.

According to the International Organization for Migration, estimated 300,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to flee conflict in the Middle East and Africa this year. At least 2,373 died while trying to reach Europe.

Funny thing is, the mainstream press continues to talk loud about the humanitarian crisis, but always focuses on the effect, never on the cause. You never hear any mainstream correspondent elaborate on the reason why millions of people left their whole lives behind, and embarked with their kids on a treacherous journey into the unknown.

That would involve admitting that the cause of the humanitarian crisis is the "coalition" forces who invade and bomb the shit out of these countries in order to bring them "freedom and democracy," directly produce the hordes of refugees that are over-taxing European countries and destabilizing the Old Continent.