The near-fatal strangulation of boxer Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter appears to be a "tragic accident," police say.
Exodus Tyson was on life support Tuesday after apparently accidentally hanging herself on a cord dangling from a treadmill in her modest central Phoenix home.
"Somehow she was playing on this treadmill, and there's a cord that hangs under the console - it's kind of a loop," police Sgt. Andy Hill said. "Either she slipped or put her head in the loop, but it acted like a noose, and she was obviously unable to get herself off of it."
Tragic beyond belief.
Update: Exodus Tyson has died.
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I mentioned some time back about the 48 Hours broadcast of the case of Sonia Rios Risken, the so-called "Black Widow of Lomita" (California) who was suspected of masterminding the deaths of her two husbands for insurance money and herself was murdered in 2007. This article is a month old, but I thought I'd post it here that two people were arrested in connection with her murder, one of whom was mentioned on the show, and who Peter van Sant tried to interview, Eric Delacruz.
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Background:
Risken, whose body was found at her home in a pool of blood on April 27, 2007, had been suspected for a year in the death of her second husband, Law "Larry" Risken, who was killed April 18, 2006, while on a trip to visit his wife's family in her native Philippines. His wife did not accompany him.
Larry Risken, a retired Naval officer who taught special education courses at Lawndale High School, was ambushed outside a hospital where he had taken his wife's niece for medical treatment. A gunman shot him in the head.
Following his death, investigators became suspicious when they learned that Risken's first husband, retired U.S. Marine Earl John "Duke" Bourdeau, also was shot to death in the Philippines 19 years earlier.
Another story is here.
Is this the motive?
The Lomita woman suspected of masterminding the slayings of two husbands 19 years apart in the Philippines might have been shot to death because she didn't pay her hit man, according to information in a court affidavit.
Eric Santander Delacruz, the Carson man charged with killing Sonia Rios Risken, 60, in 2007, suggested that possible motive as he tried to deflect detectives' attention from himself.
"Suspect Delacruz stated that he had learned via rumor, from relatives in the Philippines, that the victim did have Larry Risken killed," sheriff's homicide Sgt. Michael Rodriguez wrote in a search warrant affidavit. "He said that he learned that a possible motive for her own killing may have been that she did not pay who she was supposed to pay for having Larry Risken killed."
Delacruz, 29, and his friend, Fernando Romero, 25, of Highland have pleaded not guilty to killing Sonia Rios Risken, the so-called Lomita Black Widow, in her 252nd Street home April 16, 2007. Risken died while under suspicion in the 1987 shooting death of her first husband, Earl John Bourdeau, and the 2006 killing of her second husband, Law "Larry" Risken, 43.
Bourdeau and Larry Risken died while visiting her family in the Philippines without her. Police there arrested Sonia Rios Risken's brothers in the 1987 killing, but they were released.
In both cases, police in the Philippines suspected Sonia Rios Risken committed the crimes for thousands of dollars in life insurance money. She received a payout after her first husband's death, but insurance carriers did not release money when the second death occurred and brought suspicion upon her.
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