Archive | July, 2008
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Breaking News: Barrel body identified as missing 22-year-old Winnipeg man (PODCAST)

Update, August 14, 10:40pm PST: RCMP set up tip line (Lac du Bonnet Leader)
Update, August 3, 3:49am PST: Family mourns son (Winnipeg Sun)
Update, July 27, 4:43am PST: Facebook page, Help find Chad Davis (a Facebook account is required.  After logging into Facebook.com, enter “Help find Chad Davis” into Facebook’s search engine)

Update, July 27, 3:37am PST: [...]

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Breaking News: Body found in barrel floating in river (PODCAST)

Breaking News: Body found in barrel floating in river (PODCAST)

NEW: Phone interview with George Knight; the man who first saw the body.
*PLEASED BE ADVISED THAT PODCAST IS UNEDITED & CONTAINS SOME PROFANITY
(July 24) While the Royal Canadian Mounted Police already have quite a mystery concerning the human feet that have emerged along the shores of British Columbia, another Canadian waterway has just served-up [...]

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Breaking News: Trial date set for Wayne Bent case

TRIAL SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 20

(Beyond90Seconds.com broke this story at approximately 12:25pm PST on July 24. This page was last updated at 1:47pm PST.)
(July 24) Beyond90Seconds.com has learned that a trial date for the State of New Mexico’s criminal case against controversial church leader Wayne Bent has been scheduled to begin Monday, October 20, 2008 [...]

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Newspaper:  Police knew about footless body before last week

Newspaper: Police knew about footless body before last week

NEW/Related:  Washington officials to send piece of footless skeleton to B.C. (Vancouver Sun, July 22)

(July 21) How do you have a high-profile investigation about five mystery feet washing-up along the coast of British Columbia and not look into the case of a footless body found washed ashore just across the border?
That’s been the question slowly-aimed [...]

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Breaking News:  Missing foot man won't be named

Breaking News: Missing foot man won't be named

In a case that has fascinated people worldwide, police say they will not release the name of a missing man whose foot washed-up in Canada’s Strait of Georgia.
DNA was used to make this first match in the case of the five mystery feet that have surfaced from the waters off the coast of British Columbia.
The [...]

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DA: Bent has "50/50" chance of 2008 trial date (PODCAST)

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Donald Gallegos interview
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In a phone interview with Beyond90Seconds.com this morning, District Attorney Donald Gallegos said it’s possible the criminal case against controversial church leader Wayne Bent may not take place this year.  Pressed for a prediction, Gallegos said he feels that there is a “50/50″ chance the trial will get underway in 2008.
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Small rockslide caught on tape (VIDEO)

Small rockslide caught on tape (VIDEO)

Regular readers of this blog may already know that I enjoy shooting video and taking photographs of storms.  Such was the case early Sunday night when I just managed to catch a small rockslide on videotape.
It happened on Catalina Highway outside of Tucson just under a tenth of a mile north of milepost 4.
A nice [...]

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Breaking News: Possible match in mystery feet case

Update: July 19, 6:57pm PST Feet mystery unrelated to downed plane, CTV (link includes VIDEO)
DNA testing has eliminated the possibility that the feet found washing ashore in B.C. are linked to two brothers whose bodies were never found after a plane crash in 2005. -CTV

(July 18 ) Exclusive CTV video below
INVESTIGATORS NOW LOOKING AT CASE [...]

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Judge sets Wayne Bent's bond at $150,000 (VIDEO & PODCAST)

Judge sets Wayne Bent's bond at $150,000 (VIDEO & PODCAST)

Update:  (July 23): Attorney:  Don’t fringe on religeous freedom (The Raton Range)
The Raton Range delivers excellent coverage of Wayne Bent’s July 18 arraignment.  The newspaper launches into the story with this lead paragraph:
The attorney for the leader of what many people refer to as a cult that maintains its compound northeast of Des Moines told [...]

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Bent court date Friday; no confirmation that State returned "Healed" to parents

Update: (July 18 ) Judge sets Wayne Bent’s bond at $150,000

(July 17)  If you’ve spent time following any criminal or civil case, you know it’s not uncommon for court dates to change.  But a a check with New Mexico’s Union County District Court Clerk this morning confirmed that controversial church leader Wayne Bent (aka Michael [...]

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