Tag Archives: crime

Halloween Horrors: Creepy Doorbell Footage

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Lawrence Person

How about some unsettling doorbell footage for the Halloween season? Some of it is of home invaders, and others that have ill intent, but some of it just seems to be of weird or deranged people whose motives are unclear.

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Halloween Horrors: Three Bedrooms, Two Bathes And A Murder Tunnel

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Many of the must-have homeowner amenities considered an essential feature are no longer to be found on modern homes. No longer are buildings including such once-essential features as coal cellars, lightning rods, fallout shelters or murder tunnels. And remember: A … Continue reading →

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Halloween Horrors: The Pedophile Living In Your Daughter’s Closet

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Remember the spider man of Denver and the Japanese woman that secretly lived in a man’s cabinet for a year without him knowing? Well, the wackiest state in the union manages to one up that one: A Louisiana man has … Continue reading →

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National Book Auction’s David Hall Pled Guilty

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Lawrence Person

A new National Book Auction/Worth Auctions notice came in via email, and it made me wonder what happened to the legal case against owner David Hall for defrauding a consignee. It turns out he pled guilty back in February: Local … Continue reading →

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Another Industrial Book Piracy Site

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Lawrence Person

It looks like we have another massive book piracy site, https://full-english-books.net. Here’s the WhoIs information: Domain Name: FULL-ENGLISH-BOOKS.NET Registry Domain ID: 2298584626_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namesilo.com Registrar URL: http://www.namesilo.com Updated Date: 2019-06-10T04:26:19Z Creation Date: 2018-08-17T17:40:19Z Registry Expiry Date: 2021-08-17T17:40:19Z Registrar: … Continue reading →

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National Book Auctions Owner David Hall Arrested for Fraud

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Lawrence Person

This was bought up by a commenter on an older thread, but I thought it worth a post on its own, even if it falls into the “old news is so exciting” category. National Books Auction owner David Hall was … Continue reading →

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Lyle Steed Jeffs Wanted by the FBI

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Lawrence Person

This is not exactly breaking news, but I stumbled across it looking for something else, and it ties into previous posts on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints head Warren Jeffs. Last year, his son, Lyle Steed … Continue reading →

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Important Safety Tip

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Lawrence Person

Try not to kill anyone over cutting in line for a taco trick. Just after bar-close at 2:38 a.m. on Sunday, May 8th, the Austin Police Department responded to a report of gunfire at what appears to be the Tortillas … Continue reading →

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Of Top 25 Films on IMDB, Most Involve Crime

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Lawrence Person

Glancing through the top 25 films in the the IMDB Top 250 list, it occurred to me that most involved crime as the central subject, and a few more peripherally: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (Yes: Central characters are mostly convicted … Continue reading →

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Literary Forger Lee Israel Dies

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Lawrence Person

Lee Israel has died. Who? She published a number of biographies, but that’s not what she’s best known for: In the early 1990s, with her career at a standstill, she became a literary forger, composing and selling hundreds of letters … Continue reading →

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