French Students Laurent Bonomo & Gabriel Ferez Robbed, Tortured and Murdered in London, England

Bizarre and Heinous Murders in London, England …

What would possess someone to stab one victim 196 times and the other 47 times. Many of the wounds were inflicted after the two students were already dead. Then methodically try to cover the crime scene with a fire.

Bound up by their attacker or attackers, they received multiple stab wounds in the head, neck, back and torso.

Mr Bonomo was stabbed 196 times, Mr Duthie said. Almost 100 of those wounds were inflicted to his back after his death. Mr Ferez was stabbed 47 times. (Times on Line)

A robbery that appears to have gone bad across the Pond of two French bioengineering students turned into a heinous torture and murder case that has shocked both sides of the Atlantic. There appears to be a burglary link to this double murder.  Bonomo and Ferez were students at Universite Blaise-Pascale in Clermont Ferrand, France. Bonomo and Ferez  had arrived in London in May to do research at Imperial College They had planned to return to France at the end of July. A grisly murder put an end to those plans.

Laurent Bonomo (left) and Gabriel Ferez (right)

Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, appear to have been robbed, tortured and murdered in a ground floor apartment in New Cross, southeast London last Sunday night. What is more heinous is that the two students were bound and stabbed at total of 244 times. They were then set on fire and burned so badly that DNA had to be used to identify them. What could possibly have been the motive to exact such cruel actions upon an individual?

The victims were bound and repeatedly stabbed across their bodies. Police said they had suffered a total of 244 wounds. Police told ABC News that Bonomo was stabbed 197 times, while his friend received 47 stab wounds. Both men suffered injuries to the head, neck and chest.

Police told ABC News that no weapon had been found despite an extensive search. In a statement, police said they are studying limited closed-circuit TV footage of the area.

“I have never seen injuries inflicted to bodies like this before,” Detective Chief Inspector Mick Duthie today told a news conference at Scotland Yard.

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Body of 12 Year Old Brooke Bennett Found Dead Near the Home of Her Uncle Michael Jacques

There is sad news tonight out of the state of Vermont. The body of 12 year old Brooke Bennett was found dead at approximately 4:45 EDT. The police called the death “clearly suspicious” but declined to give details before a planned briefing Thursday morning. The body of a missing 12 year old Brooke Bennett was found hours after documents surfaced that accused her uncle of planning to initiate her into a child sex ring.

Earlier Wednesday, in an affidavit unsealed in U.S. District Court in Burlington, the FBI said an unidentified 14-year-old girl told investigators she was present on June 25 when Jacques, 42, tricked Bennett into thinking she was going to a party and took her to his Randolph home to be initiated into a sex ring.

The girl said she was led to believe the 12-year-old “would have sex with adult males” during the initiation.

The teenager said she and Bennett watched television for a while before Jacques told her to leave and took his niece upstairs. The witness said she left the house with her boyfriend and didn’t see Bennett again.

Rest in peace Brooke, from all that we have heard with arrests and sick behavior in this family … Brooke is finally at peace and safe.

BETHEL, Vt. - The body of a missing 12-year-old whose uncle allegedly planned to force her into a sex ring the day she disappeared was found Wednesday in Randolph, not far from his house.

State Police Director Col. James Baker said Brooke Bennett’s body was found about 4:45 p.m. and her family had been notified.

The uncle, Michael Jacques, has been in custody since Sunday on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a different underage girl. He has pleaded not guilty.

Brooke Bennett’s body was found a few miles from the home of her uncle, Michael Jacques who was arrested on June 29, 2008 and charged with the sexual assault of another minor. Michael Jacques was the last person seen with Brooke Bennett on June 25 prior to her disappearance.

According to an affidavit, Michael Jacques planned to force Brooke into a sex ring.

As we have always said, once a sex offender … always a sex offender and there is no such thing as a one time rapist.

Court Papers: Uncle Brought Brooke Home for Sex

This is the same uncle that the State of Vermont had previously arrested for sexual assault on a minor and was a registered sex offender. But some how in Vermont’s infinite wisdom, he was un-supervised. When will people learn that sex offenders cannot be cured. Well, there is one cure.

New information revealed in court papers indicates her uncle did not leave her there. According to the juvenile who was with them, they took Brooke to Jacques’ Randolph home. They told her she was going to a party, but the juvenile told police she was actually being taken into a secret program called “Breckenridge,” where she’d be having sex with adult males– just as the other juvenile had been doing for the past five years, with Jacques as her “trainer.” That juvenile left the house after Jacques took Brooke upstairs — and never saw her again.

The story that Brooke may have been meeting someone she met on the online networking site MySpace– police say Jacques made that up. He showed police a posting made sometime after midnight June 25– the day she disappeared.

Missing Vermont girl found dead

UPDATE I: More than 300 people are gathered to mourn Brooke

About 300 people gathered Wednesday night to mourn the death of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett, whose body was found near her uncle’s home a week after she had disappeared.

The gathering was originally organized as a candlelight vigil for Brooke’s safe return. Authorities found her dead about 4:45 p.m.

At the gathering, people hugged each other around the town gazebo, lit candles and sang “Amazing Grace.”

“We must realize in our community, oh God, that we are not this horrible act, that this horrible act happened to this community,” said the Rev. Robin Junker, associate pastor of the Bethany United Church of Christ in Randolph. “Bennett

UPDATE II: MySpace page used in cover-up

Police say Gagnon, 40, lives in Texas but often visited Vermont. According to the affidavit, he told police he accessed Brooke’s MySpace page from a laptop computer at his home in San Antonio after getting login information from Jacques.

Police said they have evidence that postings to the account were altered to make it appear that Brooke had discussed a secret rendezvous with someone identified as “Skittlemeup” shortly before she disappeared.

Gagnon also told police he had downloaded child pornography onto the laptop, according to the affidavit.

Authorities said Gagnon was on a regular visit to Vermont from Texas when he was arrested Monday.

Grisly Autopsy Report of Murdered UNC Student Body President Eve Carson Killed After Shot Multiple Times

The heinous murder of Eve Carson, the popular president of UNC’s student body shocked the campus of Chapel Hill and the country earlier this year. Her body was found on March 5, 2008 the intersection of Hillcrest Drive and Hillcrest Circle.  Original reports stated that she died of multiple gun shots to the head.

Some three months later, the autopsy of Eve Carson is being made public. The autopsy states that Eve Carson was shot 5 times. One thing is for certain after reading the autopsy reports, NC should bring back the firing squad or hanging for the two suspects, Demario Atwater and Lawrence Lovett Jr., who committed the crime. NC may want to think about a public stoning. Both are charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Eve Carson.

Carson’s autopsy report lists six gunshot wounds, but says two were probably from the same bullet, according to North Carolina’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Her autopsy — released after a North Carolina newspaper filed a court motion to have it unsealed — describes wounds to various parts of Carson’s body. It says shotgun wounds to her head and hand “most likely represent a single shot with the hand acting as an intermediate target.”

One of the other four wounds was also a gunshot to her head.

A separate, handwritten summary of the medical examiner’s report says Carson was “shot multiple times” and found lying on her back, with one arm bent behind her head.

The autopsy says sexual assault testing was done. It does not say whether any sign of sexual assault was found.

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Why did they have to kill her? The whole incident was about a robbery. The two suspects abducted and kidnapped Eve Carson and forced her to give them access to her ATM account where they withdrew $1400 over a two day period. Eve Carson’s final minutes are documented HERE.

Autopsy Report: Carson Shot With Shotgun And Handgun

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Australia: American Daniel “Gabe” Watson charged with wife’s, Christina Mae Watson, Scuba-dive Murder

Murder after 11 days of marriage? Bridegroom has been charged in his wife’s drowning in Australia.

Daniel Watson has been charged charged with the murder of his wife, Christina Mae Watson in Australia. The couple had been married for 11 days and was on their honeymoon on a scuba diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef. It was originally reported that Christina Mae Watson, (Tina), drowned on Oct. 22, 2003 while on diving at the wreck of the SS Yongala, a passenger and steam freighter and sank during a cyclone in 1911 on the Great Barrier Reef near the northeastern city of Townsville.

 Daniel Watson has been charged with her murder and intentionally cutting off his wife’s air supply. According to the family of the deceased Christina Mae Watson, she had told them that before the wedding that her fiancé had asked her to increase her life insurance and change the policy to make him the sole beneficiary.

An American tourist was charged with murder yesterday for allegedly drowning his bride of 11 days on a scuba diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef during their honeymoon. Christina Mae Watson, 26, died while diving on a shipwreck near the northeastern Australian city of Townsville while her husband looked on.

Daniel Watson, 31, of Birmingham, Alabama, had claimed during police interviews that his wife had panicked a few minutes into the dive. He said that as she thrashed around in the water, she grabbed hold of his mask and pushed it off his face. He later described seeing her, with her eyes wide and arms stretched out towards him, sink into the deep.

Yesterday police began preparing a warrant for Mr Watson’s arrest, the first step in what is expected to be a drawn-out extradition battle. It is not known where Mr Watson is living.

The inquest in Townsville heard that police, who believed initially that the death was an accident, started to become suspicious when Mr Watson changed some details of his story.

A postmortem examination found no medical condition that could have explained the death of Mrs Watson. Tests showed that there was nothing wrong with her diving gear. (Times on-Line)

This photo, taken during a scuba diving trip in Oct. 2003, shows the lifeless body of Christina Watson (right) lying on the seabed. Police believe her newlywed husband shut off the oxygen to her air tanks. (The Times Online)

Husband Charged With Killing Wife During Honeymoon Scuba Dive

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Ricardo Cruz Pineda and Frank Jule Sandoval Facing 1st Degree Murder Charges in Death of Canadian Bouabal Bounthavorn Ingo in Mexico

According to Mexican police, two men have been arrested in the murder of Canadian tourist Bouabal Bounthavorn Ingo in a Cabo San Lucas hotel. Ricardo Cruz Pineda, 35, from Acapulco, Mexico and Frank Jule Sandoval, 48, of Los Angeles, CA were arrested and are currently in custody facing first degree murder charge in connection with the death of Bouabal Bounthavorn. The murder appears to be the result of a botched robbery. 29 year old Bouabal Bounthavorn Ingo, a Laos-born Canadian, was gunned down while staying at Hotel Riu Santa Fe.

Baja California Sur state police Commander Jesus Alberto said the two suspects had prior criminal records and were “occasional” friends of another U.S. resident, Michael Thompson, 32, who was staying next door to Bounthavorn. Thompson, from Chicago, was recently charged with making false statements to authorities.

Alberto said police believe the alleged assailants entered Bounthavorn’s room after knocking on an adjoining door and claiming to be from the hotel. They used a 9-mm handgun in the attack. He said the two men had been allegedly scouting Bounthavorn because he appeared to have a lot of money. Alberto said they were allegedly looking for money for drugs.

Previously, Mexican authorities have arrested a U.S. man for allegedly lying about the killing of a Canadian tourist at this popular beach resort

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Aruba: Natalee Holloway: Deepak & Satish Kalpoe Suing Dr Phil for Defamation … Doesn’t One Have to First have Character?

Can people who knowingly and willfully lie, obstruct justice and bear false witness have the credibility to sue for defamation? Doesn’t one first need character in order to sue for it’s damage? The Kalpoe’s and Aruba have been dancing around the truth in the Natalee Holloway case for 3 years running. The question that needs to be addressed is did either Deepak or Satish Kalpoe have the ability to sue for libel seeing that their reputations were already tarnished prior to the Dr Phil tape. Namely, their reputations were tarnished by their own doing. By the way, why does one wash their car in the middle of the night? A car that Natalee Holloway was last seen in and never was heard from again?

Satish, Deepak and Dr. Phil

The defamation lawsuit filed by the two Surinamese brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, against Dr. Phil McGraw and CBS over a broadcast concerning the disappearance of Natalee Holloway continues to go forward. The first question that one would ask is, how can one claim defamation of charters if they are void of said character? Should the law suit go forward? Probably not; however, I say why not … discovery and interrogatories of the Kalpoe brothers might just be what the doctor ordered to help find answers and “Justice for Natalee”.

A lawsuit filed in December 2006 by Surinamese brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe maintains they were defamed in a Sept. 15, 2005, “Dr. Phil” show, when it was alleged they gave Holloway a date-rape drug and had non- consensual group sex with her. They also contend the episode implied they helped kill Holloway and dispose of her body.

What did they know and when and why did they lie?

The “Dr. Phil” segment included statements by Deepak Kalpoe that were “significantly manipulated and altered,” the suit alleges. In addition to defamation, the Kalpoes’ suit alleges invasion of privacy, emotional distress, fraud, deceit and civil conspiracy.

But in court papers filed Wednesday, attorneys for CBS, McGraw and Kay Skeeters — widow of Jeremy Skeeters, a private investigator hired by McGraw to interview Deepak Kalpoe — maintain the brothers are “libel-proof.”

They say the brothers’ reputations were irreparably stained by prior published accounts of the Holloway case, meaning they cannot claim to have been damaged by the “Dr. Phil” broadcast.

Satish Kalpoe’s June 24, 2005 important and must read statement

Read all of the suspect & witness statements HERE and HERE

What reputation does one have when they continually lie in witness statements and provide constant inconsistencies in their stories?

One needs to ask themselves, what reputation did the Kalpoe’s have prior to the Dr. Phil report other than that of suspects in the murder of Natalee Holloway and admitted liars? The Kalpoe’s were last seen leaving Carlos N’ Charlies with Natalee Holloway along with Joran Van der Sloot, Natalee was never seen again. It was also the Kalpoe’s that were complicit in the lie that they dropped off Natalee Holloway that night at the Holiday Inn and subsequently implicated two black security guards for her disappearance.

The position of the Dr. Phil defense attorneys is as follows:

The brothers also did not ask for a correction of the “Dr. Phil” broadcast in time and are limited public figures, meaning they have to prove malice by CBS and the other defendants, the defense attorneys argue.

The defense attorneys have a motion pending Aug. 5 to dismiss the case on grounds the plaintiffs’ lawyers disobeyed court orders to turn over information.

Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary - Wednesday, June 10, 2008 - Another Tragic Crime Against Children. Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11

• Dana discusses a sad news item from rural Oklahoma

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The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - Guests Include Aden McEvoy, Rhonda Wheelus, Robin Sax, Pat Brown and Dr. Clint Van Zandt

On Tonight’s Dana Pretzer Show, Dana will discuss today’s ruling on the Becca McEvoy Case, and other topics.

• Aden McEvoy and Rhonda Wheelus - On The Becca McEvoy case court ruling today
• Robin Sax - LA County Deputy DA on the McEvoy case court ruling
• Pat Brown - Criminal Profiler on the Nick Hogan tape controversy
• Dr. Clint Van Zandt - Discussing a double-child murder in small-town Oklahoma

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Heinous Double Homicide: Murders of Two Oklahoma Girls, Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11, Shock Community

The double murder of Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11, have left an Oklahoma community stunned and searching for answers. The two girls were killed as a result of gunshot wounds. According to reports they had been shot multiple times. The bodies of Taylor Paschal-Placker and Skyla Whitaker were found on the roadside near the small town of Weleetka in Okfuskee County.

Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11

They left the older girl’s home late Saturday afternoon to take a walk along the rural road.   An hour or so later, the Skyla’s mother called to say she wanted to pick up her daughter, and Taylor’s father left the home to go looking for them, “Her dad come down the road and found her.  It’s pretty hard,” said Taylor’s uncle Joe Mosher. Sheriff Choate tells 2NEWS that his investigators have interviewed “persons of interest” in the case, as well as several possible witnesses. The sheriff says Okfuskee County had not had a homicide in more than five years.

VIDEO: 2 Girls Found Shot to Death on Oklahoma Road

Police are continuing to look for a motive for this double murder where Taylor Paschal-Placker and Skyla Whitaker who were found in a ditch on the roadside. Taylor’s grandfather, Peter Placker, found the children after he became worried when his wife tried calling a cellular phone the girls had with them and got no answer.

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Police Seize Bath Tub Where Drew Peterson’s Third Wife, Kathleen Savio, Was Found Dead

Drew Peterson’s future of a free man may be going down the drain. Drew Peterson was already a suspect in his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson’s disappearance … now this.

This cannot be good for Drew Peterson. Detectives investigating the death of Drew Peterson’s third wife, Kathleen Savio, have seized as evidence the bath tub where she was found dead. The police are now in possession of the tub where Kathleen Savio was found dead in 2004. Better late than never, 4 years after Kathleen Savio dies and the police now seize the tub.

One of the people who now live in the home where Savio died told the Chicago Tribune that state police removed the tub last week. A spokesman for the Will County state’s attorney’s office confirmed that the tub had been removed and is in storage.

Savio drowned in the tub only weeks before her divorce from Peterson was finalized. Her death was first ruled accidental, but has since been ruled homicidal.