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CRAZY CRIMES BY WALTON GOLIGHTLY
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N October 1, 2019, Tommy Jenkins, 32, of Whitestown, Indiana, struck up an online relationship with 14-yearold Kylee of Neenah, Wisconsin. As their correspondence progressed, Tommy requested sexually explicit photos of Kylee. Tommy Jenkins When she refused to come to Indiana, Jenkins set out for Neenah – on foot. Waiting for him at the end of his 600km trek were Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputies (one of whom was ‘Kylee’) and FBI agents, who arrested Jenkins for using a computer to attempt to persuade, induce or entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
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and later arrested. Police found 159 bicycle from a river and foraged through trash for food, seats at his home. “I started stealing out until passer-by Olena Tashevska recognised the of revenge,” Hatori told police. “I wanted children and called the police. Police are pursuing others to know the feeling.” criminal charges against the parents, and the boys ANOTHER one after revenge was Alex are living in an orphanage. Bonilla, 49, of Gilchrist County, Florida. A MEDICAL examiner in the US state of Georgia On July 14, 2019, he broke into the home has resigned after wildly misinterpreting the cause of the man having an affair with his wife. of death for 61-year-old Ray Neal, who died on July Bonilla forced the man into a bedroom, 21, 2019. Despite reports by police and witnesses where he tied him up and, using scissors, of large amounts of blood on the floor and walls cut off the man’s penis. He then ran away with at the scene, the medical examiner initially ruled it. When last heard of, the man was doing well Neal had died of natural causes. But when his body medically, according to his family. arrived at the funeral home, employees discovered Bozhena Synychka, 20, and Volodymyr a hole in his neck, and Neal was returned to the Zaitsev, 25, got ‘tired of looking morgue for an autopsy, which revealed he’d after’ their toddlers, Andrey, been stabbed several times. Police are now three and Maksim, two. So investigating the death as a murder. in mid-August, they dropped Jeremiah Ehindero, 41, pastor of Jesus Some More Crazy Behaviour: the boys off at a homeless Miracle Church in Sango-Ota, Nigeria, ONE day in 2018, in Tokyo, someone stole encampment in Zaporizhia, blamed the devil for his trouble with the law 61-year-old Akio Hatori’s bicycle saddle. He was Ukraine – and didn’t come after stealing an SUV from a local Toyota so angered by the theft, he told police, he decided back. The naked toddlers were dealership. Ehindero negotiated a price for to become a serial thief himself – until he was watched over by men at the the Highlander, which he said would be used Alex Bonilla caught on surveillance video on August 29, 2019, camp for a week as they drank for ‘evangelism’, then asked for a test drive – and never returned. Ehindero later sold the vehicle to a spare parts dealer. IF you think you’ve seen any of these people, or would like to report a missing person, contact the Bureau For Missing People on (012) 393According to police, he confessed he stole the car 2005, or fax (012) 393-2012. Missing people can contact the bureau to to repay a loan from a bank in Lagos after tithes and let them know they’re alive and well – even if they don’t want to get in offerings from his congregation were insufficient. touch with family. “When the pressure from the bank became unbearable for me, the Devil told me to steal a vehicle from the car dealer to sell and use the proceeds to repay the loan,” said Ehindero. YUSUKE TANIGUCHI, 34, a shopping mall clerk in Koto City, Japan, was arrested in 2019 for using his photographic memory for nefarious ends. According to police, Taniguchi was able to memorize more than 1 300 numbers from credit cards as people used them at his shop register. He admitted to Yusuke Taniguchi investigators that he would remember the name, card number, expiration date and security code, and write the information down as the customer walked away. Then, later, he’d use the accounts to make online purchases of items which he’d sell. BIANCA PRETORIUS PONTSHO ONILA MPHUTHI POLICE in Harris County, Texas, are looking for Disappeared: July 11, 2019 Disappeared: October 14, 2019 Aged: 28 Paul Nixon, 51, on felony charges after taking a Aged: 21 BIANCA left her home in PONTSHO left her home in novel approach to divorce. Nixon filed for divorce in Middelburg without telling anyone Harrismith without telling anyone February, 2019, but forged his wife’s signature and where she was going and never where she was going and never the name of a notary on the legal papers. A judge returned. returned. declared the divorce final in April, but Nixon’s wife didn’t find out until May. “She started finding things showing that he was BONGINKOSI PHAKAMANI MZILZ EDWARDO AMANDIO CHISSICO spending money on jewellery, so she confronted Disappeared: October 8, 2019 Disappeared: September 10, 2019 him and he told her that they were actually Aged: 30 Aged: 41 BONGINKOSI left his home in divorced,” a detective told reporters. “They are still EDWARDO left his home in JHB Moroka to go to work and never Central without telling anyone where married. The fraudulent divorce papers have been returned. He was wearing a black he was going and never returned. retracted.” Nixon could face 10 years in prison.
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