Alfred Hitchcock could not have created a more bizarre tale than the Rebecca Zahau story. It has been the talk of the town in Coronado, Calif., with buzz over several new developments. It is difficult to summarize this fascinating story in a paragraph, but in short, Rebecca Zahau, 32, was found dead the morning of July 13, , bound, gagged and hanging nude from a balcony at the oceanfront Spreckels mansion.
San Diego Police insist she committed suicide. They say she was distraught over the injuries her boyfriend's son suffered after a fall in the mansion under her care, he later died. Her boyfriend, Jonah Shacknai, is the wealthy CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Rebecca's family does not believe she committed suicide and with their lawyer, Anne Bremner, they have fought to have the case reopened.
Per police records this is near the time a witness said they heard a woman scream. Rebecca was found dead the next morning, with a note painted on a door that said "She saved him can he save her." It was Jonah's brother, Adam, who was staying in the guest house that night, who found Rebecca
Neighbor 1# and Neighbor 2# both heard Rebecca screaming for help the night she was killed.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African former world heavyweight boxing champion Cornelius "Corrie" Sanders died on Sunday after being shot by armed robbers who burst into his nephew's 21st birthday party, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Sanders, 46, was hit in the arm and the stomach when the robbers raided a restaurant outside the town of Brits in North West Province where he and other family members were attending the party, the SABC said on its website.
He was rushed to hospital but died from his wounds in the early hours of Sunday.
"Three guys walked in and then started shooting -unfortunately Corrie Sanders was wounded in that shooting - and they stole some purses, cellphones and car keys from other people," Johan de Jager, owner of the Thatch Haven Country Lodge restaurant, told the SABC.
Sanders, nicknamed "The Sniper" because of his fierce left, won the World Boxing Organization heavyweight title in 2003 with a surprise knockout of Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko.
Out of his 46 professional fights, he lost only four.
Tributes poured in on Sunday from admirers and fellow sports stars. "He was just a fantastic sportsman," former South African rugby captain Naas Botha told eNews Channel Africa.
Police were searching for the robbers.
A Republic Airlines flight attendant was detained and then charged with disorderly conduct after she attempted to pass through security at the Philadelphia International Airport with a loaded .38 revolver in her purse, triggering an incident in which police accidentally discharged the weapon while securing it, authorities said.
According to officials, at 6:33 a.m. today, the flight attendant entered a Terminal C security checkpoint lane with a loaded .38 caliber Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver in her purse.
A Transportation Security Administration employee discovered the gun on the x-ray machine and notified police.
The flight attendant was taken to secondary screening room, where an airport police officer attempted to unload the gun, and it discharged into a wall.
There were no injuries to passengers, employees or police, officials said.
The flight attendant, who police said had a valid Chester County permit to carry a concealed weapon, was charged with disorderly conduct, as per Airport Unit policy.
The permit was confiscated and forwarded to the Chester County Sheriff, and the weapon — an Airweight revolver — was confiscated by the crime scene unit and transported to for testing.
The actions of the officer who discharged the weapon will be reviewed by the Philadelphia Police Department Internal Affairs unit.
The Airweight is a small frame, aluminum alloy, short barrel personal defense revolver and is among the most popular of these.
PESHAWAR (Reuters) - A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world.
"I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000," Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to applause.
"I invite the Taliban brothers and the al Qaeda brothers to join me in this blessed mission."
A spokesman for Pakistan's prime minister said the government disassociated itself from the minister's statement.
While many Muslim countries saw mostly peaceful protests on Friday, fifteen people were killed in Pakistan during demonstrations over the video.
People involved in the film, an amateurish 13-minute clip of which was posted on YouTube, have said it was made by a 55-year-old California man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston police officer shot and killed a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair Saturday inside a group home after police say the double amputee threatened the officer and aggressively waved a metal object that turned out to be a pen.
Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while trying to stab the officer with the pen. At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving, Silva said.
She said the man came "within inches to a foot" of the officer and did not follow instructions to calm down and remain still.
"Fearing for his partner's safety and his own safety, he discharged his weapon," Silva told The Associated Press.
Police did not immediately release the name of the man who was killed. They had been called to the home after a caretaker there called and reported that the man in wheelchair was causing a disturbance.
My name is Li Qiang and I lead a group
called China Labor Watch that investigates and exposes worker exploitation. As a
rights lawyer committed to knowing every detail of China's labor laws -- and how
they're ignored and broken -- I was shocked when I learned what's happening
in the Chinese factories supplying electronic giant
Samsung.
Children as young as 14 years old
work 11 hour night shifts, 28 days a month and are denied medical care and even
pay.
When
14-year-old Xiaofang (an alias, for her protection) got hurt after she fell down
a flight of stairs at the factory, the owners and managers wouldn't even let her
see a doctor. They wouldn't give her sick leave to recover and docked 6
days of her pay. Then, she was fired without any
compensation.
Our
investigators heard dozens of similar accounts from employees at the factory --
even workers being hit by managers or forced to stand all day as punishment for
a mistake. In addition to laboring in dangerous conditions every day, we
discovered that children like Xiaofang working in this Chinese factory
are paid only 70% of what adults are paid. The factory owners know it,
but create fake IDs for the children and exploit them with lower pay and
part-time hours so the authorities won't find out.
A few months ago, I saw the tremendous
impact that a petition on Change.org had when it called for Apple to improve
conditions in a supplier's factory. More than 250,000 people signed that
petition, started by an Apple customer in Washington, DC. It was also covered by
worldwide news media extensively. And in the end, Apple listened. When
we found out about the horrific working conditions at Samsung's supplier
factory, I knew we had to start a petition on Change.org right away.
A Pittsburgh-area couple faces charges of conspiracy after selling a neighbor's puppy on Craigslist for $50, inadvertently caught by their 5-year-old son's slip of the tongue.
Scott Duff, 41, and Roxanne Duff, 38, of Leechberg, Pa., sold their neighbor's 6-month-old Rottweiler puppy, Bailey, after it wandered into their yard, along with a golden retriever mix, on Sept. 3. The Duffs then repeatedly gave authorities conflicting information about the sale and whereabouts of the dog, according to the police criminal complaint filed in Armstrong County.
When Roxanne Duff left a phone message for police on Sept. 3 saying the dogs had come into her residence and asked what to do, she was told to contact the local animal shelter or a dog catcher. Duff told police that she posted on several Internet sites seeking the owners of the wayward dogs.
She also told police that the Rottweiler puppy had since left her property and had not returned.
Later that evening, Shawn Lerch, the owner of the Rottweiler puppy and the golden retriever mix, contacted the Leechberg Police Department to say that Roxanne Duff had returned the golden retriever, but he needed someone to check the area for the missing Bailey. Later, he told police that he had reason to believe that the Duffs still had Bailey.
Scott Duff asked the police to ask Lerch to stop calling him, because "they did not have the dog," according to the police report.
The next day, Chief of Police Michael Diebold went to the Duff residence to question the couple about the missing Rottweiler and found found the Duffs' young child at home with a babysitter. Officers asked the two about the missing puppy, and the child stated "his mommy had given the dog to a woman from the Internet."
Diebold then contacted Scott Duff to confront him with this new information, informing him that charges would be filed if he still had Bailey or had "otherwise disposed" of the dog.
"Mr. Duff continued to say to the chief that the puppy escaped from his residence after it initially was found," the police report stated. Calls to the Leechberg Police Department went unanswered.
Shortly after this conversation, Scott Duff phoned Chief Diebold and admitted that his wife had "given the dog away by posting an ad on Craigslist," according to the police report. After Diebold told Scott Duff that his wife would have to call and that the dog "needed to be returned immediately," she admitted that she had put the pup up for sale on Craigslist for $50, and that her previous report about not having the dog was false.
