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Mexican Couple Found With Body Parts Eyed in Slayings of 20 Women

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The suspected husband-wife serial killers boasted of slaying up to 20 women

ECATAPEC, Mexico — A couple caught carting away dismembered body parts in a baby carriage are being eyed in connection with up to 20 women in a suburb of Mexico City, police said.

The suspects, identified only as Juan Carlos N. and his wife, Patricia N., were caught with their grisly haul as police investigated the disappearance of an Ecatapec woman and her two-month-old baby in September.

When questioned, Juan Carlos boasted of killing as many as 20 women, although he only provided details for 10 killing, Mexico State police said.

“What seemed macabre to me is that this person mentioned 10 cases in which he gives details, the names of the victims; he gave us the clothing they had on at the time,” prosecutor Alejandro Gomez told Radio Formula. “He seemed happy about what he had done.”

Gomez said Patricia N. appeared to have participated in the slayings, but it was unclear how active a role she had played.

Local media has already dubbed Juan Carlos as the “Monster of Ecatapec.”

Investigators found body parts in the couple’s apartment and at an abandoned lot nearby. At their home, the couple kept the remains in buckets filled with cement and in a fridge.

Neighbors said that whenever they saw the couple, they were pushing the carriage in which police found the body parts.

Police stopped and searched the couple after phone records connected them with a 28-year-old woman, Nancy Huitron, who disappeared the disappearance in September with her two-month old baby, Valentina.

Investigators say Juan Carlos confessed to killing Huitron and identified two other of his victims as 23-year-old Arlet Olguín and 29-year-old Evelyn Rojas.

Prosecutors say he also confessed to sexually abusing some of the victims before killing them and selling off their belongings and some of their body parts.

The three victims — all single mothers — had disappeared in recent months.

Police say they found the baby, Valentina who they say was sold by the couple. She has since been returned to her maternal grandmother.

Investigators say couple cruelly drew the the women in by offering to sell them cheap baby clothing and formula.

 

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Famed Italian Gigolo Who Slept With 6,000 Women, Dies Having Sex

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Zanfanti, known as the ‘Romeo of Rimini,’ claimed he bedded 200 women every summer in his prime

RIMINI, Italy  — A legendary Italian lothario known as the “Romeo of Rimini,” who laid claim to having bedded more than 6,000 women, died while in the throes of passion with a 23-year-old tourist in the backseat of a car. Maurizio Zanfanti was 63.

“Zanza died after doing what he did best — loving women,” Il Resto Del Carlino, a Bologna newspaper, reported.

Zanfanti began his run as the reigning playboy of the coastal resort of Rimini when he was just 17 and working as a nightclub promoter charged with luring mainly German and Scandinavian female tourists into a club called Blow Up.

With his flowing locks, olive skin and ample chest hair, he had great success convincing the women to come to bed with him as well. In his prime, he boasted that he would often sleep with 200 women every summer.

In the winter, he would would travel to Scandinavia to work for tourist agencies. His exploits became so famous that some of his lovers erected a wax statue of him in a Swedish town.

His success with women led to him becoming the subject of numerous media profile. In 1986, Italian newspaper L’Espresso named him: “Italy’s most successful lover.” He claimed to have once seduced a French journalist who was interviewing him.

In 2016, he was a guest of honor at a Rimini nightclub at a reunion of Swedish women who had visited in the 1980s.

In an interview with German newspaper Bild in 2014, he announced his retirement and said: “At 59, I’m getting too old for it.”

But on Tuesday, he was “entertaining” a tourist from Romania in the backseat of a car, when he had a fatal heart attack.

The woman called paramedics, but Zanfanti could not be revived.

Local media said it was the way the man once called “Italy’s most successful lover” would have wanted to go. The mayor of Rimini said Italy had lost “a legend of the night.”

 

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Cops Discover Police Arsenal Has Been Secretly Replaced with Toy Guns

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Cops only realized their guns were missing when they started showing up on the black market

CAPIATA, Paraguay — Talk about stealing someone’s thunder.

Police in Paraguay discovered that a cache of their weapons had been stolen and replaced with plastic toy guns.

An inspection of the department’s armory revealed that at least 42 FN-FAL battle rifles had gone missing, the BBC reported.

The probe was triggered after cops realized that their rifles had fallen into criminal hands.

The weapons had been stashed in the armory in the city of Capiata as the department was in the process of upgrading its officers weapons.

Authorities believe the guns are likely destined for the black markets in Argentina, Brazil and beyond.

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Thieves Steal Priceless Swedish Crown Jewels in Daring Daytime Heist

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A smashed display case was all that stood between the thieves and these priceless crown jewels

 

STRANGNAS, Sweden — Brazen thieves carrying out a daring daytime raid at a medieval Swedish cathedral, made off with priceless crown jewels and then made their escape by boat through a nearby series of lakes.

Two men sauntered into the Strangnas Cathedral about 40 miles east of Stockholm around  noon on Tuesday and smashed open a display case in front of stunned visitors.

They grabbed a gold crown and an orb dating to 1611 that were made for King Karl IX’s funeral, and a jewel-encrusted crown dating to 1625 that was used in Queen Kristina’s funeral. Breaking the glass on the display triggered an alarm, but the men quickly ran out of the cathedral

Outside, the men hopped aboard two bicycles and pedaled to a nearby lake where they vanished aboard a speedboat or on jet skis into the dizzying patchwork of lakes that surround the city, police said.

Police sent out a helicopter and boat to hunt for the thieves but were unable to locate suspects.

While the stolen artifacts are of great historic and cultural value, police said the stolen pieces would be “impossible to sell” because of their notoriety, according to the Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet.

“It’s too difficult to assign a value to these things. They are so unique and historically significant,” said police spokesman, Thomas Agnevik.

The stolen artifacts are funeral regalia, which are placed inside or on top of a coffin to symbolize a deceased royal’s identity and social ranking.

While some funeral regalia are kept in the cathedrals of Strangnas, Uppsala and Vasteras, most of Sweden’s crown jewels are kept in vaults under the Royal Castle in Stockholm.

In 2013, 16th-century copies of King Johan III’s crown, orb and scepter were stolen from the cathedral in the central Swedish city of Vasteras, 60 miles west of Stockholm, during a nighttime burglary. They were eventually found and returned to the cathedral. No one was arrested.

 

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Canadian Thief Steals Funeral Home Van With Corpse Still Inside

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It’s unclear if the thief knew there was a corpse in back when he stole the van

RED DEER, Canada — It was a stone cold theft.

Cops in Canada are hunting for whoever made off with a funeral home van that still had a corpse inside.

The creepy caper unfolded early Tuesday, when the driver of the the van stepped out briefly in the parking lot of a funeral home in Red Deer, Alberta. That’s when the suspect jumped in and drove off with the black Chrysler Town and Country, perhaps not knowing there was a dead person in the back.

“This vehicle theft was almost certainly a crime of opportunity, but with a very unfortunate and upsetting twist in that there is a deceased person in the back,” said Red Deer Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superintendent Ken Foster. “This is a sensitive incident and we’re very aware of the distress it is causing to the family of the deceased and everyone connected to the incident.

It took nearly a whole day before officials eventually recovered the van  — fortunately with the corpse still inside — but the culprit was nowhere to be found.

Cops have been going door to door to question neighbors in the community to see if they had seen anything suspicious.

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Brazilian Butt Specialist Known as Dr. BumBum on the Run After Patient Dies

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Doctor Bumbum (L) is accused of killing Lilian Calixto in a botched butt enlargement procedure

RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil — A celebrity surgeon known in Brazil as “Dr. BumBum” went on the lam after a patient died during a botched butt enlargement procedure.

A judge issued a warrant for Dr. Denis Furtado arrest on homicide charges after 46-year-old Lilian Calixto fell ill and died at a Rio hospital following the procedure at Furtado’s home in the posh district of Barra de Tijuca.

Investigators believe Furtado injected acrylic glass filler into the rear of the married mother of two, the BBC reported.

Furtado vanished after the judge issued a warrant for his arrest. Police detained his girlfriend, Renata Fernandes Cirne, on suspicion of taking part in the procedure.

Furtado is a well known figure on Brazilian TV, and had nearly 650,000 followers on his recently-deleted Instagram account. His Facebook page is filled with before-and-after shots of butt enlargement procedures.

Niveo Steffen, the president of the Brazilian Plastic Surgery Society, said Furtado’s practices suggested he wasn’t a completely legit doctor.

“You cannot perform plastic surgery inside an apartment,” he said. “Many people are selling a dream, a fantasy to patients in an unethical way and people, weakened, are often attracted to low prices, without considering whether or not the conditions are adequate.”

Friends of Calixto, a former HSBC bank manager, told local media she had always had a “dissatisfaction with her butt” and had undergone many other procedures to change her appearance.

“She did not need it, she’s always been beautiful since she was a teenager. I remember her at the age of 16. Everything about her was perfect. … But a woman is never satisfied with her body,” said her friend Lucy Macedo.

 

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Japan Doomsday Cult Leader Executed for Subway Nerve Gas Attack

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Cult leader Shoko Asahara said his group had been preparing for a apocalyptic war with the Japanese government

TOKYO — The leader of a Japanese doomsday cult and six of his top disciples have been put to death for a spate of killings including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people and sickened thousands.

Shoko Asahara, leader of the murderous Aum Shinrikyo cult, was the first to be hanged, followed by the other six, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.  Asahara was 63 years old.

In all, 12 of Asahara’s followers had been sentenced to death for crimes that killed 27 people.

The most shocking attack came in 1995, when Asahara’s followers punctured plastic bags to release deadly sarin gas into packed train car. In all, 13 people were killed and 6,000 sickened.

Founded in 1984, the cult became popular among young people, including some graduates of top universities, who became Asahara’s top lieutenants.

The group amassed a large arsenal of chemical, biological ahead of what they believed would be an apocalyptic showdown with the government.

At its peak, the cult claimed 10,000 members in Japan and 30,000 in Russia. It has since disbanded, though nearly 2,000 followers have migrated over to three splinter groups, whihc are closely monitored by authorities.

Authorities said they are taking precautionary measures in case of any retaliation by his followers.

 

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Lion Pride Eats Rhino Poachers in Attack on South African Game Reserve

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The rhino poachers didn’t stand a chance when they stumbled onto a pride of hungry lions

KENTON-ON-SEA, South Africa — Mother nature takes care of her own.

A group of rhino poachers was eaten by a pride of lions as they attempted to break into a South African game preserve to hunt for the endangered species, officials said.

At least three poachers made their way into the Sibuya Game Reserve sometime late Sunday, amed with a high-powered rifle and silencer, an axe, wire cutters, gloves and food supplies for several days.

The group had “all the hallmarks of a gang intent on killing rhino and removing their horns,” the reserve’s owner, Nick Fox, said in a post on Facebook.

At some point early the next morning a dog trained to sniff out poachers alerted her handler that something was amiss. But when the handler heard a “loud commotion coming from the lions,” she didn’t think much of it as it is not unusual to hear them hunting at night.

But what had really happened was that “they strayed into a pride of lions.”

“It’s a big pride so they didn’t have too much time,” Fox said. “We’re not sure how many there were – there’s not much left of them.”

It took until Tuesday for a field guide to discover what remained of the group, when he stumbled upon human remains, the gun and the poachers’ gear.

Officials had to tranquilize the lions in order to get to the remains.

“Clearly, the poachers had walked into a pride of six lions and some, if not all had been killed,” he said.

Officials used helicopters to see if anyone had gotten away and were hiding in the bush, but they found no sign of others.

In parts of Asia, rhino horn is erroneously believed to have aphrodisiac qualities and there has been a rise in poaching in Africa in recent years.

Nine rhinos have been killed by poachers in Eastern Cape province, where the reserve is located, this year alone. More than 7,000 have been killed in South Africa in the past decade.

 

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Polish Charity Gets Giant Phone Bill Due to Migrating Stork

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A SIM card taken from the GPS tracker on the stork was used to make thousands of dollars in calls

WARSAW, Poland — No good deed goes unpunished.

A Polish ecological charity got hit with a gigantic phone bill when a GPS tracker it had placed on a migrating stork was stolen and the SIM card used to make thousands of dollars in calls.

The environmental organization, EcoLogic Group, had tracked the white stork some 3,700 miles from Poland to the Sudan last year, when it lost the signal somewhere in the Blue Nile Valley.

The group assumed that the GPS device had fallen off the bird, but it appears someone found the device and pulled the SIM card out of it, placing it into a phone and then running up 20 hours worth of long distance calls, the BBC reported.

Next thing the charity knew, it had received a bill for 10,000 Polish zloty (approximately $2,700).

Tagging migrating birds has played a big role in scientists’ understanding of how better to protect endangered animals.

While the white stork is not currently at risk, it had been pushed to near-extinction in Europe in the middle of last century due to industrialization and habitat loss.

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Woman Declared Dead in Ambulance is Later Found Alive in Morgue Fridge

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Dead or Alive? Ambulance workers thought she was dead, but morgue workers found something else

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (July 3, 2018) — Reports of her death had been greatly exaggerated

South African authorities have launched a probe after a woman who had been declared dead by paramedics was discovered to be alive inside a morgue refrigerator.

Officials say the woman had been involved in a motor vehicle accident that killed two people. She was taken to the Carletonville morgue after being declared dead by paramedics.

As the crew from Distress Alert ambulance service was filling out forms, one of them went into the fridge to check on something and got the shock of his life.

“When he pulled out the woman’s body‚ he saw that she was breathing,” a morgue official told The Times of South Africa.

The woman, who was not identified, was rushed to a local hospital near Johannesburg.

An investigation into the incident is being carried out

Ambulance service officials insist they are not to blame about the latest familiar.

“This did not happen because our paramedics are not properly trained. There is no proof of any negligence by our crew‚” he said.

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