Wednesday the 23rd Reads

 Insanity went on in the UK in the town of Leeds this past Sunday.

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An arrest has been made involving a 1984 murder of a 14-year-old girl.

A New York woman broke down when police told her they cracked her 14-year-old daughter’s 1984 cold case murder through a DNA familial search.

Rochester police on Friday announced the arrest of Timothy Williams, 56, of Melbourne, Fla., on rape and murder charges in the death of Wendy Jerome nearly 36 years ago.

“It’s over,” cried mom Marlene Jerome. “It’s finally over. Our family can go on with their lives.”

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Another cold case involving genetic genealogy:  

An arrest has been made in a Fort Worth cold case that went unsolved for nearly half a century.

Police said 77-year-old Glen Samuel McCurley was in custody Tuesday in connection with the 1974 murder of Carla Jan Walker, who was 17-years-old when she was abducted, held captive and sexually assaulted before being murdered and left in a ditch after a Valentine's Day dance.

Investigators said the abductor snatched the young woman from the passenger seat of her boyfriend's car in a bowling alley parking lot. Her boyfriend, Rodney McCoy, told police the man pointed a gun at him and threatened to kill him before something hit him in the head, knocking him unconscious. McCoy said he later woke up to find Walker was gone and blood coming from his head.

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Obituary:  Tommy DeVito, 92, an original member of the Four Seasons singing group, died as a result of COVID-19 complications:

Guitarist and baritone vocalist Tommy DeVito formed a band in the 1950s called the Four Lovers that included singer Frankie Valli. The Four Lovers had a minor hit and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. In 1960 the group members were Tommy, Frankie, Bob Gaudio, and Nick Massi and they changed their name to The Four Seasons. They would have a string of hit songs in the 1960s including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and “Walk Like a Man.” DeVito left the group in 1970. The Four Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.  

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Another obituary:  Famed NFL player Gale Sayers, 77, passed away early today.  He was celebrated not just for his work on the field, but also off the field.  During his pro days, he befriended fellow Chicago Bears player Brian Piccolo, who unfortunately died of cancer.  The friendship between the two became the focus of the famous made-for-TV movie Brian's Song.

A Kansas native, Sayers played college ball for the University of Kansas Jayhawks, where he was named an All-American twice. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 1965 draft, the fourth overall pick. He quickly gained attention for his fast, unstoppable running style, which earned him the nickname “The Kansas Comet.” Sayers was renowned for his ability to break through blockers as he ran, famously noting that he just needed a small amount of space to zip through: “Just give me 18 inches of daylight. That’s all I need.” Sayers was named NFL Rookie of the Year in his first season, having scored an NFL-record 22 touchdowns and set a rookie record of 2,272 all-purpose yards gained.

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Trump's rallies are turning into unhinged affairs.  Not that there weren't anyway, but they have gotten progressively worse.

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Jeffrey R. Williams, a double-murderer on Oregon's death row, has died in the prison infirmary following being treated for end-of-life care.  He was from Ashland, and back in 1988, he and Medford resident David Simonson, also on death row, picked up two German women who were hitchhiking around the United States on a visit.  The women were shot and killed.

According to trial testimony, Simonsen and Williams picked up the two women hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 101 near the California state line in 1988 and drove them to a remote spot outside Bandon.

There, Williams handed a shotgun to Simonsen and told him to kill the women. Simonsen shot them in the face.

Their bodies were found on a secluded logging road outside Coquille. They had been raped, bound together with rope and killed by shotgun blasts to the head. 

The victims, Unna Tuxen, 24, of Osnabruck, and Kathrine Reith, 22, of Wattenscheid, were on vacation from the university in Marburg, Germany.

Williams' was convicted of aggravated murder, murder and kidnapping crimes. Simonsen remains on death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary custody. 

 

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Scary shit article speculating on what could happen if Trump refuses to concede November's results, should he lose.

However, there are places in that article that I KNOW are bullshit about mail-in voting, and therefore the author is suspect.

Furthermore, why write a novella-length screed that is nothing but speculation?

If Trump doesn't "concede," it has NO legal bearing.  He will be forced out January 20, 2021,  if he doesn't leave on his own, should he lose to Biden, which at this point is almost certain.

Meanwhile, Trump is doing his damnedest to make sure he doesn't get re-elected or win enough EC 

votes.

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What an insane pile of shit from Trump:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is where we are. Will any Republican stand up? <a href="https://t.co/K2Lh2hmp6d">https://t.co/K2Lh2hmp6d</a></p>&mdash; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1308908436101488642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>