Thursday, October 31, 2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Irving police reopen 36-year-old cold case of murdered pregnant woman
https://www.fox4news.com/news/patricia-wilson-garcia-murder-1988-irving-cold-case-reopened
When Patricia Ann Wilson was born on 26 October 1965, in Dallas, Texas, United States, her father, Robert George Wilson, was 36 and her mother, Theresa Agnes Schiltz, was 37. She died on 29 April 1988, in Irving, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Irving, Dallas, Texas, United States.
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LV7Z-KV1/patricia-ann-wilson-1965-1988
At the time of her death, Garcia was only 22 years old. She had been employed at Allstate Insurance and left behind a husband and a young daughter.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137019013/patricia-anne-garcia
Cause of Death Revealed for Jocelyn Nungaray, 12-Year-Old Texas Girl Found Slain in Creek
https://people.com/jocelyn-nungaray-texas-girl-found-slain-creek-cause-death-8667602
We have decided to keep this gofundme up and running to help Jocelyns mother and little brother have the opportunity to properly mourn in peace.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Poverty and Single-Parent Families
Family Structure About half of children (48 percent) in low-income families – 15.1 million – and 37 percent of children in poor families – 5.6 million – live with married parents. 30 percent of all children with married parents – 15.1 million – live in low-income families. 68 percent of all children with a single parent – 16.2 million – live in low-income families.
https://www.nccp.org/publication/basic-facts-about-low-income-children-2009-children-under-age-18/
In a First Among Christians, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women
Young men have different concerns. They are less educated than their female peers. In major cities, including New York and Washington, they earn less.
Monday, October 28, 2024
For years, the Delphi double murder case went cold. Then a volunteer found a file with an interesting piece of information
Shank submitted the tip to the detective in charge of the investigation because she thought it was worth looking into, she testified last week at Allen’s trial for the murders of Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14, in Delphi, Indiana.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/us/delphi-murders-richard-allen-case/index.html
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Parents of Utah woman accused of killing her husband are arrested after bombshell revelation
Jennifer Gledhill reported Johnson missing on Sept. 28 — but a man subsequently came forward and told police he had an “extramarital affair” with her and that she confessed to killing her husband, according to prosecutors.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Mother of baby boy mauled to death by dogs opens up about attack
He and his wife Erika Castro say they're mad Heather Rodriguez who was supposed to be babysitting Jiryiah left him at home with the dogs. Rodriguez was arrested after the attack and is being charged with three felonies.
Friday, October 25, 2024
Homicide victim featured on "America's Most Wanted" identified 38 years after her body was found in Louisiana lake
The woman has now been identified as Pamela Lee Hupp, also known as Deborah Gail Justice, the sheriff's office said in a news release Tuesday. Hupp, who was born in April 1958, was pregnant at the time of her death, and her last known residence was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, authorities said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homicide-victim-identified-louisiana-lake-pontchartrain-pamela-hupp/
Florida man accused of throwing 10-year-old girl from car, leaving her on busy roadway in the middle of the night
https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-man-throwing-girl-from-car-leaving-roadway-overnight/61744156
Other deputies stopped Serrano’s vehicle near West 192 and Old Lake Wilson Road, which is west of Interstate 4. During the stop, Serrano advised that he had a verbal agreement with other family members (whose names were redacted in the report). He said those family members had texted him less than an hour prior, demanding he return the girl to the residence, they would “involve law enforcement.”
Though Serrano’s arrest report is partially redacted and thus lacks specific details such as names and certain relations, he spoke of having entered a verbal agreement regarding visitation, as well as claiming his alleged actions were in response to receiving a warning that law enforcement would be called on him “if he did not return her to the residence,” which the deputy reported was about a 21-minute walk from where the girl had been left behind.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Boy, 14, fell in love with ‘Game of Thrones’ chatbot — then killed himself after AI app told him to ‘come home’ to ‘her’: mom
He is survived by his mother, Megan Garcia, father, Sewell Setzer, Jr., step-father, Alexander Garcia, sister, Kayla Taft, and brothers, Alexander Garcia and Gabriel Garcia,
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/sanford-fl/sewell-setzer-11692220
Sewell stole back his phone on the night of February 28. He then retreated to the bathroom in his mother's house to tell Dany he loved her and that he would come home to her....
That's when Sewell put down his phone, picked up his stepfather's .45 caliber handgun and pulled the trigger.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13992101/teen-boy-suicide-chatbot-ai-message.html
Setzer has two younger siblings. Everyone in the family was home at the time of his death, and Garcia said Setzer's 5-year-old brother saw the aftermath.
"He thought by ending his life here, he would be able to go into a virtual reality or 'her world' as he calls it, her reality, if he left his reality with his family here," she said. "When the gunshot went off, I ran to the bathroom … I held him as my husband tried to get help."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-mother-lawsuit-character-ai-sons-death/
Three times is enemy action
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Should we try to fix political parties…or improve them?
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/autobiography/
Title: Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States
Monday, October 21, 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
About one-third of U.S. children are living with an unmarried parent
The type of family arrangement a child lives in is associated with a household’s economic situation. A recent Pew Research Center analysis found that 30% of solo mothers and their families are living in poverty compared with 17% of solo father families and 16% of families headed by a cohabiting couple. In comparison, 8% of married couple families are living below the poverty line.
The Changing Profile of Unmarried Parents
While it’s well-established that married parents are typically better off financially than unmarried parents, there are also differences in financial well-being among unmarried parents. For example, a much larger share of solo parents are living in poverty compared with cohabiting parents (27% vs. 16%).3 There are differences in the demographic profiles of each group as well. Cohabiting parents are younger, less educated and less likely to have ever been married than solo parents. At the same time, solo parents have fewer children on average than cohabiting parents and are far more likely to be living with one of their own parents (23% vs. 4%).
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/04/25/the-changing-profile-of-unmarried-parents/
Cohabitation and Child Wellbeing
Fragile Families and the Reproduction of Poverty
Body found in Genesee River identified as missing woman Penny Busch, sister charged with murder
Penny Busch grew up in Schenectady and then spent time in Texas before moving to Monroe County roughly a year ago, according to the sheriff’s office. She had two children.
Penny had two sisters and two children.
https://www.whec.com/local/missing-honeoye-falls-woman-found-dead-in-genesee-river/
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Libby German's family speaks out after arrest of suspected killer
The mother of Libby German, Carrie Timmons, released the following statement to 13News.
Liberty's mother lives in Lexington
Timmons discovered police had made a charge after Libby's grandmother, and legal guardian, Becky Patty received a call from police and passed the information on.
Abigail J. "Abby" Williams, 13, of Delphi, died Tues.-Feb. 14, 2017. She was born June 23, 2003 in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, to her mother Anna M. Williams. ... Surviving: mother-Anna M. Williams of Delphi
https://www.abbottfuneralhome.com/obituary/4114709
He is said to have admitted to talking to Libby German using a fake Instagram profile called Anthony_shots.
Kline - who is heavy-set and pasty-faced - used an image of a ripped and muscular young man to trick underage girls into speaking to him.
He is said to have arranged to meet with Libby on the Delphi High Bridge the day before she was murdered while walking along it.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Drove by the Powers building the other day and Tom Termotto's name popped into my head. Does anyone remember this huge saga/scandal from the 80s?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Rochester/comments/yk3zec/drove_by_the_powers_building_the_other_day_and/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle/40313515/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle/7022440/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/4/18/netmen-sweep-doubles-turn-columbia-aside/
Monday, October 14, 2024
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Body parts in freezer left at Colorado home spark homicide investigation
According to Colorado Public Radio, records show a home on the street where Overstreet’s remains were discovered belonged to a Bradley David Imer, who died of Covid-19 in 2021. The outlet said Imer’s death certificate lists his spouse as Leanne Overstreet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/colorado-freezer-body-part-homicide-investigation
She was apparently taken in by her grandmother and formally adopted by her at some point.
The grandmother was a geometry teacher in Kountze, Texas.
But the grandmother had cancer and died of it in 2005, the same year the girl disappeared.
Her grandmother /adoptive mom was Half a O Overstreet.
Her bio mother is LeAnn or LeAnne Overstreet.
10 yrs ago, reportedly, friends were looking for her and were brushed off by LeAnne, who allegedly told them the girl had run away.
The dad did it.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Aristotle’s Political Theory
He next considers paternal and marital rule, which he also views as defensible: “the male is by nature more capable of leadership than the female, unless he is constituted in some way contrary to nature, and the elder and perfect [is by nature more capable of leadership] than the younger and imperfect” (I.12.1259a39–b4).
Aristotle is persuasive when he argues that children need adult supervision because their rationality is “imperfect” (ateles) or immature. But he is unconvincing to modern readers when he alleges (without substantiation) that, although women have a deliberative faculty, it is “without authority” (akuron), so that females require male supervision (I.13.1260a13–14). (Aristotle’s arguments about slaves and women appear so weak that some commentators take them to be ironic. However, what is obvious to a modern reader need not have been so to an ancient Greek, so that it is not necessary to suppose Aristotle’s discussion is disingenuous.) It is noteworthy, however, that paternal and marital rule are properly practiced for the sake of the ruled (for the sake of the child and of the wife respectively), just as arts like medicine or gymnastics are practiced for the sake of the patient (III.6.1278b37–1279a1). In this respect they resemble political rule, which is the form of rule appropriate when the ruler and the subject have equal and similar rational capacities. This is exemplified by naturally equal citizens who take turns at ruling for one another’s advantage (1279a8–13). This sets the stage for the fundamental claim of Aristotle’s constitutional theory: “constitutions which aim at the common advantage are correct and just without qualification, whereas those which aim only at the advantage of the rulers are deviant and unjust, because they involve despotic rule which is inappropriate for a community of free persons” (1279a17–21).