Merced County deputies recently arrested a 42-year-old North Carolina man after he attempted to commit suicide. The man planned on dying alongside his 2-year-old daughter. Both were saved after the man’s former girlfriend contacted the authorities.

North Carolina Man Locked Himself and Daughter Inside Makeshift Gas Chamber

Last week, Gerardo Ruiz-Lopez, a 49-year-old Merced County resident, was found guilty of child abuse and attempted murder. For his deeds, Ruiz-Lopez could serve seven years to life in prison.

According to court documents, on the 16^th of July 2016, Ruiz-Lopez’s former girlfriend contacted the authorities after receiving a blood-curdling message from the North Carolina man.

The woman told the authorities that the message hinted at Ruiz-Lopez murdering his daughter.

Minutes later, the first responders broke down the man’s front door. The man and his daughter were found unresponsive in a closet.

According to the police report, the North Carolina man was adamant about ending his life. Subsequently, inside his home, the authorities discovered a makeshift gas chamber. The contraption was powered by two five-gallon propane tanks.

Moreover, next to the closets the investigators found several pillows, some toys, and a tablet. Later, the bomb squad was called in to dispose of the propane tank.

As a precaution, the authorities cordoned off Ruiz-Lopez’s home and evacuated the neighborhood.

Conclusion

Fortunately, the ER doctors managed to save the 2-year-old child and her father. The North Carolina man offered no motive for his actions.

After his indictment, Ruiz-Lopez pleaded not guilty by reasons of insanity. Later on, dismissed the legal ground, stating that the man was previously found mentally fit by a court-appointed psychiatrist.

Ruiz-Lopez will remain locked in John Latorraca Correctional facility until his next court appearance. In conclusion, man could spend the rest of his days behind bars.

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On Monday, the Indiana authorities arrested a 42-year-old individual and charged him with first-degree murder. According to the police report, the Indiana man called 911 to complain about the rancid smell coming from the bathroom. He also told the operator that he stashed a dead body in his bathroom.

Indiana Man Shot Victim After Oxycodone Spat, Authorities Declared

An Indiana Police Department spokesperson confirmed that on Monday, the police officers arrested 42-year-old Dwight Shotts, following a peculiar 911 call.

Based on the police report, the individual, who should definitely receive the most ‘intelligent’ criminal award, called the emergency line and informed the operator that he can no longer stay in his house. When the dispatcher asked him about his problem, the man calmly replied that there’s a foul odor coming from his bathroom.

More than that, the individual actually said that the smell is probably coming from the dead body he placed in the tub (seriously, dude?!?).

When the law enforcement officers arrived at Shotts’ house, they’ve found the body of an individual inside the man’s tub, just like the Indiana man said. The man was promptly arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

During his police interview, Shotts confessed to gunning down his victim, later identified as 35-year-old Anthony Cline and keeping his body in the tub for a week because he ‘panicked’ and didn’t know what else to do.

Conclusion

When asked why he killed Cline, the Indiana man first declared that he was supposed to meet Cline about an oxycodone transaction and that he shot him because he tried to swindle him. However, Shotts later changed his confession, claiming that another individual entered his home and killed Cline because he owed him money.

According to the coroner’s report, Cline’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the back of his head.

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A multi-state investigation was launched after two severed heads have been discovered in Texas and Louisiana. Detectives and forensic experts on-site declared that there might be a connection between the two homicides. A person of interest is sought in Cameron Parish after an eyewitness claimed seeing an individual discarding a black plastic back.

Severed Heads Belonged to Middle Aged Woman, Forensics Confirm

This week, a multi-state task force consisting of homicide detectives, state troopers, deputies, and forensics experts have established a link between two seemingly random cases of homicides.

On the 1^st of March, Louisiana law enforcement agents were summed to an area near the Calcasieu Lake, after an inmate found a human inside a plain black plastic bag. According to the police report, the inmate who made the gruesome discovery was on the marsh cleanup detail.

Despite detectives deeming the assault random, on the 24^th of March, another severed head would turn up, roughly 150 miles away from the Lake Calcasieu’s marshes.

According to the police report, a volunteer cleanup crew discovered a similar plastic bag, tucked between some loose stones, near Lake Houston.

The human remains were taken to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences to be autopsied.

On the 5^th of April, a Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences spokesperson announced the result of the post-mortem examinations. According to report, which was later forwarded to the authorities, both victims had anywhere between 25 and 40 years of age.

Victims, who had reddish or brown hair, appeared to be either Caucasian or Hispanic. Based on the similarities highlighted by the coroner’s report, the detectives concluded that the assailant might be targeting middle-aged or young adult women.

Link Found Between Severed Heads

Furthermore, according to a Cameron Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, a person of interest is currently being sought, after an eyewitness declared seeing a male throwing a black plastic bag of a Louisiana bridge two weeks before the first severed head was discovered.

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A North Carolina court has begun the hearing in the case of Izell Lewis, a 26-year-old Marin County boxing instructor who was charged with sexual assault in 2017. Bent on representing himself in court, Lewis made derogatory remarks about his victim’s weight.

North Carolina Man Fires Lawyer to Build His Own Defense

On Thursday, Judge Andrew Sweet and the jury have had the dubious privilege of hearing Izell Lewis’s confession. The North Carolina man, who’s also a boxing instructor, told the members of the court that he never touched the victim. More than that, with Izell considering himself a good-looking individual, he could not lower himself to go after someone who “weighs 300 pounds.”

Despite Judge Sweet advising the North Carolina man against self-representation, Lewis refused. As a result, the trial had to continue with Lewis using every dirty trick in the book to discredit his victim.

On the other hand, according to Michael Coffino, Lewis’ former court-appointed attorney, there is a chance the jury might vote in favor of the accused, as the accuser’s testimony has several unaccounted discrepancies.

Based on a court document, the North Carolina man accosted and raped his victim in a stairwell, during his stay at the Corte Madera Town Center, Moreover, the victim claims that Lewis frequently came to the mall where she was employed.

However, as the victim first told the police, the alleged assault occurred on the 27^th of July. After a short while, Lewis’ victim declared that assault did not occur on the 27^th but on the 17^th of July.

Coffino noted that this discrepancy could act in Lewis’ favor. Since the prosecutors never announced that the victim changed testimony, the defense did not have time to come up with proof to discriminate the client.

If found guilty, the North Carolina man can face up to eight years in prison.

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The Maryland authorities recently announced that 51-year-old Fernando Asturizaga, sentenced to more than a century in jail for raping his 10-year-old Spanish student, is now a person of interest in the disappearance and slaying of the girl’s mother in 2000. New DNA analysis revealed that the Maryland man attempted to destroy evidence of the woman’s death.

Maryland Man Was Involved with the Victim for Over a Year

Back in 2010, Fernando Asturizaga, then 33, was taken into custody and charged with sexual assault. According to the court documents, between 1999 and 2001, Asturizaga, who was a Spanish teacher, became romantically involved with Hannah Thresher, his 10-year-old student.

Their sickening relationship came to light after the girl reached the authorities and blew the whistle on Asturizaga. Following his trial, the man was sentenced to spend the next century behind bars for engaging in unlawful sexual relations with a minor.

Still, Hannah’s ordeal was only part of her tragedy. In May 2000, Alison Thresher, Hannah’s 45-year-old mother would vanish without a trail.

According to the authorities, Alison’s sister filed a missing person’s report with the Montgomery Police Department after the woman failed to show up for work. The investigator would spend the next eight months searching for the missing woman but to no avail.

The Maryland man was arrested in 2010 and sentence in 2012. After more than six years, the authorities have decided to reopen the case and, in doing so, named Asturizaga, a person of interest in Thresher’s disappearance and murder.

According to a Montgomery Police spokesperson, new DNA techniques were employed to analyze clues found in Thresher’s apartment. The analysis confirmed that the woman was killed there and that the perpetrator, possibly Asturizaga, attempted to destroy the evidence.

The evidence seemed to favor this lead, as the woman’s recently-discovered journals reveal that she was aware, to some degree, that her daughter and the Maryland man might be romantically involved.

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On Tuesday, the Polk County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 23-year-old Florida Burger King manager for having sex with a 10-year-old girl. The man was caught in a Polk County motel room while telling the victim to put on a dog collar.

Florida Burger King Managed Groomed His Victim on Facebook

According to Grady Judd, the Polk County Sheriff, the accused was arrested on the same day the girl’s parents reported her missing.

Several weeks ago, 23-year-old Jonathan Diaz Fundora, a Burger King manager, began chatting online with the 10-year-old girl. However, their conversation took a completely different turn when the man started to talk about his sexual fantasies.

The online chat history reveals that before meeting the girl, the Florida Burger King manager convinced her to send naked picture and clips of her performing sexual acts.

When the girl agreed to meet Fundora, the man allegedly took a three-day leave from the Miami Burger King and drove straight to Polk County, where he rented a motel room.

According to Sheriff Judd, before leaving the house, the 10-year-old girl left a note to her parents in which she wrote that she’d be spending the next couple of days at a friend’s house.

Believing that something might be terribly wrong, the girl’s parents called the authorities. Within 35 minutes, according to Judd’s claims, the sheriff’s deputies managed to determine that the girl left home to meet Fundora at the motel.

When the deputies arrived at the location, they’ve discovered the Florida Burger King manager naked and the girl in the bathroom, wearing a pink dog collar around her neck.

Both Fundora and the child confessed having sex before the authorities arrived. The individual was taken into custody and charged with multiple counts related to having sex with a minor. A search of his computer revealed dozens of movies and pictures of children being sexually abused by adults.

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Although Nikolas Cruz, the individual responsible for one of the bloodiest school shooting since Columbine, has murdered 17 people in cold blood, it would appear that there are people out there who appreciate his ‘work’ and would even like to date him. Broward County Jail, the prison where Cruz is kept pending the outcome of his trial, declared that the man has been ‘showered’ with fan mail since his imprisonment.

Nikolas Cruz Becomes Teens’ Subject of Adoration

More than a month has passed since 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at the Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 students and injuring 17 others. Despite the grieving families growing tired of hearing about Cruz’s troubled past and his alleged ‘mental condition’ the latest piece of news coming from Broward County Jail, the establishment where Cruz is being kept, comes as a slap in the face to everyone who has lost a loved one that day.

According to Howard Finkelstein, the Broward County Public Defender, the Stoneman Douglas high school shooter is literally showered with letters of appreciation each day, some of them bordering on lewdness.

In one of these letters, an anonymous 18-year-old girl from Texas wrote to Cruz what appears to be a love letter, with lots of hearts, smiley faces, and a mention that she’s skinny and she’s wearing a 34 cup.

Another woman, from California according to jail officials, sent Cruz a picture of her wearing a bikini and slurping on a popsicle.

However, it would seem that the high school shooter is not short on male fans, a man sending him a postcard of him and his cat riding a Nissan convertible.

More than that, ever since his imprisonment Nikolas Cruz received approximately 800 bucks in donations.

Conclusion

As Finkelstein pointed out, the authorities reserve the right to open and censor correspondence that could contain inappropriate material or endanger public safety. Thus, Cruz received only mail from fans who wished him well or prayed for him.

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A Polk County fourth-grade teacher was recently taken into custody and charged with child endangerment, drug possession, and possession of drug paraphernalia. According to the woman’s arrest warrant, she left the house for a couple of hours to purchase marijuana and to have sex with a ‘friend.’

Child of Teacher Found Wandering Outside Woman’s Apartment

On Saturday, the Polk County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 26-year-old Marsha Dolce, an elementary school teacher after they’ve discovered that the woman left the child unattended in order to purchase drugs.

According to the authorities, an individual dialed 911 and told the emergency dispatcher about a child who dressed only in underwear and a T-shirt wandering outside a Davenport house. The authorities later arrived, took the child into protective custody, and arrested Dolce. It’s unclear whether the infant is Dolce’s child or she was babysitting him.

During her police interview, the woman first claimed that she left the house after the child was fast asleep in order to help a friend in need who lived in Winter Haven.

However, after searching the fourth-grade teacher’s house, the authorities discovered an undisclosed amount of marijuana and a grinder. Furthermore, the woman’s phone contained a message, presumably from a dealer who told her to come at the designated place at 2:32 a.m.

Conclusion

After being confronted with the newly-discovered evidence, the fourth-grade teacher confessed that she actually went to purchase some marijuana from a man who she identified as Dre.

The woman also told the sheriff’s deputies that after purchasing the pot, they drove to Dolce’s Davenport house where they had sex. Later, Dolce drove Dre to his Winter Haven home.

Following her confession, the fourth-grade teacher was booked into county jail and charged with marijuana possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, and child endangerment.

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