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Death by SWATting: A Former Target’s Thoughts About a Deadly ‘Prank’

Tyler Barriss was arrested for a deadly SWATting incident this week. SWATting is attempted murder. In 2013, I was the target of a SWATting, which is a type of hoax in which someone (usually using online services that can mimic a telephone number) calls 911 to make a false report of a violent crime at […]

TWO MEN CHARGED IN MURDER OF LESBIAN COUPLE, TWO CHILDREN

Murder suspects Justin Mann (left) and James White (right). Breaking news from upstate New York: Two Schenectady men were arraigned on several murder charges Saturday morning following the brutal slayings of two women and two children. Justin C. Mann and James W. White are each charged with a count of first-degree murder and four counts […]

‘Heinous Atrocity’: N.Y. Lesbian Couple, Two Children Brutally Murdered

Left to right: Shanta Myers, Brandi Mells, Jeremiah Myers, Shanise Myers. News from Troy, N.Y.: Police are working to try and unravel the mystery of who killed a woman, her partner and her two young children, whose bodies were found in a riverfront apartment house the day after Christmas. “After being in this business for […]

Violence Against Women Update: Houston Mother Killed, Baby Kidnapped

  Grim news for the holidays: A Texas woman killed a mother and kidnapped her infant daughter in an attempt to cover up her own miscarriage, police say. The murder and abduction triggered a nationwide Amber Alert for 6-week-old Shamali Flores, who was found unharmed Thursday. Erika Miranda-Alvarez, 28, was arrested and charged with the […]

Transphobic Violence Update

Police say “Jessica” Winkler murdered “Rhiannon” Layendecker. Earlier this week, I noted what seemed to be a case of “violence against women” that feminists would ignore: A lesbian in Florida who police say confessed to killing her wife. Turns out I was mistaken: “The two women are both transgender and neighbors say they kept to […]

DNA Tests Identify 817 Serial Rapists in One County: Can You Guess Which One?

Wayne County, Michigan — that’s metro Detroit: Ten thousand rape kits tested. One hundred twenty-seven convictions won, 1,947 cases investigated, 817 serial rapists identified. It’s been a long eight years for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. In 2009, 11,341 untested sexual assault kits — the results of an hours-long process that collects evidence from the […]

#LoveWins Update: Florida Lesbian Charged With Murdering Her Wife

Police say Jessica Jaye Winkler murdered Rhiannon Layendecker. Another victory for “marriage equality”: An Englewood woman shot her wife to death during an argument early Saturday in their home and planned to bury the victim’s body in nearby Charlotte County, according to Sarasota County investigators. Jessica Jaye Winkler, 48, is being charged with murder and […]

The Sexual Harassment Apocalypse

  Remember “Mattress Girl”? In 2014, Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz became a feminist heroine for her performance-art project dramatizing what she claimed was rape, but what her ex-boyfriend Paul Nungesser said was a consensual hook-up. Neither the police nor university officials believed there was a case against Nungesser, but feminists insisted that anyone who […]

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