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March 6, 2006
Topics cards, florida, palm, murder, beach, police, saddam, iraq, war, hand, book and office
In a tactic made famous by the War on Terror, Florida police are looking to use playing cards to close the book on some unsolved criminal cases. When an International Coalition went into Iraq to topple the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, they brought with them playing cards, each marked with an Iraqi leader and a price for their capture.
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March 3, 2006
A German court prohibits the screening of a film based on the case of self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes. The court rules Meiwes' rights as an individual outweighed artistic freedom and he should not become the object of a horror film. After posting an advertisement on the internet asking for a willing victim in 2001, Meiwes, a computer technician, killed and ate Bernd Juergen Brandes.
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February 23, 2006
A British man admits to pretending to be the infamous Yorkshire Ripper in the 1970s. John Humble says he wrote letters and made a tape during the Ripper murders, which was sent to police. The notorious hoaxer became known as Wearside Jack.
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February 6, 2006
Authorities say Monday that they have arrested a North Carolina couple after finding two groups of human remains on their property. Investigators came upon the decomposing parts while searching for a missing man.
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January 31, 2006
Bronx police arrested a woman and her boyfriend on Tuesday for allegedly beating her 4-year-old son to death. Alicia Smith, 26, was arrested on a manslaughter charge for the death of Quachon Brown. Her boyfriend Jose Calderone, 18, faces a second-degree murder charge.
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