Mug Shot Monday

How horrible of a person must you be to have won the genetic and privilege lottery like this guy did and still choose to THROW IT ALL AWAY?

Bizarre Lust Triangle

An Illinois professor and an online friend brutally murdered the professor's boyfriend to fulfill a "twisted sexual fantasy," prosecutors said. It's bad enough people do horrible things to one another. But that someone could find a warped kindred spirit to join in truly boggles the mind. Read HERE.

Speedo Sunday

I try to avoid Ryan Murphy productions. But if Darren Criss is going to be prancing around as Andrew Cunanan in this, I may just have to watch "American Crime Story." More HERE.

Robert Wone's Suspected Killers: Where Are They Now?

The Washington Blade follows up its piece on the 10-year anniversary of the murder of Robert Wone, whose polyamorous suspected killers have never been convicted of a single crime.

On June 29, 2010, D.C. resident and prominent attorney Joseph Price, his domestic partner Victor Zaborsky, and their friend, housemate and reported lover Dylan Ward were found not guilty of charges linking them to the August 2006 murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone. The three had been indicted in 2008 on charges of evidence tampering, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the Wone case, but no murder charges were brought due to lack of sufficient evidence, police said. Wone, a friend of the three men who was straight, was found stabbed to death in the guest bedroom of the townhouse where the three men lived near Dupont Circle. Wone had been spending the night there after working late at his D.C. office, the men told police. The men also told police they believed an intruder killed Wone after entering the house through an unlocked back door while they were asleep in their respective bedrooms. Homicide detectives and prosecutors disputed that claim, saying forensic evidence showed Wone appeared to have been immobilized by a paralytic drug, sexually assaulted, and stabbed three times in the chest and abdomen with no signs of a struggle.

Keep reading HERE.

If He Did It ...

Read HERE.

The knife he used was buried in his yard.

Marcia Clark reacts to the news:

"I think it’s a remarkable development if it does turn out to be connected to the murders of Ron [Goldman] and Nicole [Simpson Brown],” Clark told Entertainment Tonight. “It would be interesting if there was some evidence on that knife that pointed to who might have helped to bury it, if indeed someone else did.” 

The Wrap reports:

A construction worker is said to have found the knife buried at Simpson’s home on Rockingham Avenue in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles back in the ’90s, it was reported Friday, and subsequently turned it over to an off-duty police officer who happened to be nearby. But rather than hand the evidence over to authorities, the retired officer apparently kept it. Capt. Andrew Nieman, who led a press conference about the latest development Friday, noted that the former officer might have mistakenly believed that the case was closed. The officer, who retired in the late ’90s, planned to frame the knife as a keepsake and recently reached out to a friend at the LAPD for the case number of the murder investigation to include on a plaque with the weapon. The former officer’s friend alerted higher-ranking LAPD officers, who demanded the knife be turned over as evidence. 

“I really don’t know what to think of it,” Clark, the head prosecutor during Simpson’s trial in 1995, added. “I can’t believe someone gave a police officer what appears to be, could be, important evidence in a case — even if it is closed — and takes it home. I don’t know what to say about that except I can’t believe it, but it’s apparently what happened.” However, she is still cautious about the veracity of the knife. “I don’t know whether to say it is truly evidence, none of us knows that yet — it might be a hoax, it might be somebody who planted it and then just pretended to find it and gave it to the off-duty police officer, you don’t know,” Clark says. “But, of course, I’m glad the LAPD is taking it seriously and subjecting it to testing so we can find out.” Even if the knife proves to have any blood, hair, or fingerprint evidence, which Clark says could be found on the knife, and links Simpson to the murders of his ex-wife and Goldman, Simpson cannot be retried due to double jeopardy.

Unreal. I guess this series was good for something in probably got this moron to think about framing the knife again and thus alerting authorities of its existence.

UPDATE:

Not sure how reliable this initial report that it ain't the knife that did the cut, so you must let him strut, but the mere fact that a member of the LAPD would be dumb enough to keep it all these years further proves this case was doomed from the beginning.

Gunman on Trial for Killing Gay Man Is No Homophobe, His Transgender Ex-Lover Testifies

I remember the murder like it was yesterday. Two gay friends were walking down a crowded Greenwich Village street in 2013 when some asshole started calling them homophobic slurs then shot one of them dead as bystanders looked on in horror. He was quickly arrested and charged with murder as a hate crime. Now acting as his own lawyer, the asshole (Elliot Morales) first blamed the victim. Then yesterday called a former lover -- who is transgender -- to the stand as proof he doesn't harbor any animosity toward gay people so therefore it couldn't have been a hate crime. I don't know about you, but to me, his having sex with transgenders, but never actual relationships, only bolsters the prosecution's case. Read HERE.

Transgender Woman Repeatedly Run Over, Killed in Kansas City Parking Lot

Another tragic murder of a transwoman of color. Please contact local police if you can help identify the driver, whom it seems she knew at least tangentially.

The Daily News reports:

Tamara Dominguez escaped discrimination in Mexico only to find death over the weekend in a Missouri church parking lot, her close friends said. The 36-year-old got out of a Chevrolet Avalanche only to be repeatedly run over by the vehicle’s driver, a witness told authorities of the 3 a.m. Saturday killing in Kansas City. “She had a lot of dreams,” her unidentified boyfriend told the Kansas City Star through an interpreter. She came from a place where she suffered a lot. That is why she came here.” He last saw her Friday night and assumed she went out to drink with friends like she often did. His worry grew as the night dragged on and his phone calls went unanswered. Homicide detectives were at his door Saturday afternoon, he told the paper. The Veracruz native’s deaths adds to the growing number of transgender women of color who have been killed in 2015, a statistic that spiked in the past week with at least four known homicides. Paramedics found Dominguez unconscious in a parking lot south of Independence Ave. in northeast Kansas City shortly after the driver fled. Her car was parked two blocks away from where she was killed. Investigators are looking for a black or dark-color Chevy Avalanche with a lower body that is gray. The vehicle also has tinted windows and dark custom wheels. The vehicle has a loud muffler, police said.

Full story HERE.

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Down-Low Lawyer's Killer Pleads Guilty, as Does Her Gal Pal

The Daily Mail reports that Jamyra Gallmon, 21 (bottom left), and her girlfriend, Dominique Johnson, 19 (bottom right), pleaded guilty to charges in the murder of David Messerschmitt (top left with his wife), who was killed in the Donovan hotel in Washington, D.C., in February. The married lawyer had gone there after Gallmon responded to his Craigslist ad soliciting for gay sex. She pretended to be a man, with the intention of robbing him. On Thursday, Gallmon pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while armed. Johnson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery connected to murder. The Washington Post reports that by accepting the guilty plea, prosecutors ensured that details of Messerschmitt's life would be kept confidential. Prosecutors also agreed not to add any additional charges to Gallmon and Johnson. While not a part of the murder, Fulton said Johnson “knew of the deceitful email correspondence” with Messerschmitt.The women will be sentenced in August.

Well, at least his family was spared a trial. Disheartening to learn that the killer turned out to be a lesbian -- and that her partner was also implicated in the heinous crime.

Read WaPo's full (gruesome) story HERE.

Was This Down-Low Hubby Murdered by Woman Posing as Man?

In straighter times

I don't miss living in Washington, but boy do I miss the crime down there. Between the polyamorous Robert Wone cover-up and Lululemon "rape-murder," you can't make up shit like this. (Oh, to be a Washington Post metro reporter!) Now comes the latest, the murder of 30-year-old David Messerschmitt, a married lawyer whose bound and brutally stabbed body was found amidst a bloody scene of zip-ties, condoms, lube and an enema kit in a posh hotel room. Although married to a woman, Messerschmitt was widely known to have been active on gay hookup apps and Craigslist, using the Gmail address dcguy456.

Although security-camera footage caught what appeared to be a young black woman coming out of the hotel, no one was arrested until Messerschmitt's cuckolded/clueless(?) wife held a news conference this week begging for assistance -- then suddenly Jamyra Gallmon, 21, of Southeast D.C., was fingered and charged with first-degree felony murder while armed. While aspects of Messerschmitt's secret life were included in the criminal complaint, what's unclear is why he invited Gallmon to his room. Was he looking to get freaky with a woman? Was she supplying drugs? Or was she was posing as a man -- the masculine-sounding email address "chrissanchez0906" -- responding to his ad?

From my brother, who has been following the case from the beginning:

Yep. It keeps getting more bizarre. Maybe if she had a gun it would sort of make sense. Or if she were male and she could put restraints on him in the course of their encounter. But she really expected to overpower a random male, who presumably would cry false advertising when a female showed up? (And it actually worked?) And for a woman without a previous criminal record to quit her job and start in on a life of violent crime is also hard to believe. This should be Season 2 of "Serial." Or maybe Robert Wone should be. 

 Get ready, kids. Nothing's ever as it seems in our nation's capital ...

A D.C. friend notes:

From the police report, the killer states that the hotel room door was open, which if true explains why he was not aware that she was female. I am thinking he could have been naked on the bed, faced away from the door and ready for an anonymous hookup.

Death of a Playmate

Find-a-Death reminds us it's the 34th anniversary of the murder of Dorothy Stratten, one of the most lurid crimes in Hollywood history. Read HERE.

WTF: 1980 was THIRTY-FOUR years ago??????

4 Dead in James Blake's Florida Mansion

Pictured: Businessman, his wife and two children found dead 'with heavy duty FIREWORKS strapped to their heads' after raging fire at tennis star James Blake's $1.5million Florida mansion

Story keeps getting weirder. Was this a murder? A murder-suicide? The poice haven't said yet. TV reporter Meredyth Censullo tweeted that the victims had gunshot wounds to the head'. Horrifying. Read HERE. 

Police: Aussie Baseball Player Killed by 'Bored' Okla. Teens

What the f**k is wrong with people?

ABC News reports:

Prosecutors filed charges today against three Oklahoma teens accused of killing an Australian baseball player because they were "bored" and "wanted to see someone die."

Two teenagers, ages 15 and 16 years old, were charged with first-degree murder and were ordered to be held without bond.

A third suspect, age 17, was charged with use of a vehicle in the discharge of weapon and being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.

The teens have not yet entered a plea, according to a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

The suspects followed Lane, 22, as he jogged alongside a road in Duncan, Okla., Friday afternoon, shot him in the back and left him to die on the side of the road, Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford told ABCNews.com

"They were bored and just wanted to see somebody die," Ford said.

Lane, who is from Melbourne, Australia, majored in business and finance at East Central University in Ada, Okla., where he also played catcher on the school's baseball team.

Lane's father, Peter Lane, told media in Australia: "There's not gonna be any good to come out of this cause it was just so senseless."

Strike 2?

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Benson, hot star of 'Baseball Wives,' once suspected in murder that was committed in HER apartment 

As far as these kinds of stories go, this story dug up by the Daily News about the "baseball wife" who just got arrested for threatening to kill her soon-to-be ex-husband is pretty damn great. Seems this isn't her first brush with the law -- or attempted murder. Read HERE.

RIP: Mark Carson

This is the face of the young man who was gunned down in Greenwich Village late Friday night for no reason. His killer, Elliot Morales, 33, was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime, menacing and two counts of possession of a weapon in a Manhattan court on Sunday. Cops say he laughed and boasted about the murder as he was taken into custody. "Yeah I shot him in the head." Disgusting. Read HERE.

Crazy Amy

I've been obsessed with this case since the get-go. But now Patrick Raden Keefe has written the definitive story in The New Yorker about "Dr." Amy Bishop, IHOP terrorist and mass murderer. Read HERE.

Life Sentence for Emo Phillips Amy Bishop

 "Dr." Amy Bishop -- who went on a shooting spree in 2010 killing three and injuring three others after being denied tenure at the University of Alabama -- was sentenced to life yesterday. Let's hope she also received a life sentence of that haircut too, to be served concurrently. But there's more. Prosecutors in Massachusetts have charged her for the 1986 killing of her 18-year-old brother. At the time, Amy told investigators that she had accidentally shot Seth Bishop while trying to unload her father's gun. They no longer believe that. Read HERE.

Court of Appeals

 Tennis umpire Lois Goodman has pleaded not guilty to the charge that she murdered her 80-year-old husband with a coffee mug. Her lawyer says she is "physically incapable" of committing the crime. Read HERE.