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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2002
Volume 1, Issue 265
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Alleged murder-suicide rocks neighborhood Husband allegedly killed wife, himself BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON Daily Press Staff Writer
there they’ve definitely made their presence known,” he said. “There were a lot of four letter words over there. I know she was 52 because I heard her yell it once.” Sources who spoke to the daughters said they believed their father might have shot their mother before committing suicide.
A domestic dispute between a Santa Monica couple turned deadly over the weekend after the husband allegedly shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself. “I walked to the end of Santa Monica police were called to 901 Euclid Ave. Sunday at 11:30 a.m. after the the corner and heard daughters of the couple found their parents dead in their apartment. Preliminary ‘bang, bang.’ I have been investigation indicates that it was a muraround guns and those der-suicide, police said. The cause of death for the man and woman is from were definitely gunshots.” apparent gunshot wounds, police said. Witnesses said the daughters, one in her early 20s and the other a teen-ager, went to — NEIGHBOR the apartment after becoming worried about them when they couldn’t reach them over Carolyn Sackariason/Daily Press the weekend. (Left) Los Angeles County Coroners remove a body from apartment No. 9 at A man who was with the women called 901 Euclid Ave. Sunday afternoon. A husband and wife were found dead in the police after they broke into the apartment A man who declined to give his name living room. (Right) Santa Monica police officers investigate the crime scene. through a window and found their parents said he was walking down Idaho Avenue dead in the living room, witnesses said. Friday at about 6:15 p.m. when he heard A woman walking her dog along Idaho yelling coming from the apartment. Avenue and Euclid Street Sunday morn“I heard people arguing and there was ing said the daughters’ screams caught her stuff being thrown around and the winattention so she stopped to talk to them. dows were shaking,” he said. “I walked to “She was beside herself,” said W. the end of the corner and heard ‘bang, BY ALISA TANG floors that used to creak under the weight Friedman. “The older one said ‘I had such bang.’ I have been around guns and those a feeling. I knew it was going to happen ... were definitely gunshots.” Associated Press Writer of customers, Chan said. During one of its twice-weekly “chub- I don’t know why I can’t cry.’” Police have not said when the incident BANGKOK, Thailand — It’s a hefty, by nights,” the bar doled out about 20 free Several neighbors said the couple, who took place, or how long the bodies were in twice-weekly offer you don’t find at other bottles of whiskey to mammoth quartets. lived in the apartment for about three the apartment. The investigation is onnightspots: If you and three friends The patrons get a chance to relax away months, fought incessantly. Police are going. together weigh more than 794 pounds, from a modern world seemingly obsessed investigating the motive. An unidentified neighbor who lives you get a free bottle of whiskey. Bill Bauer, who lives across the street below the couple said he didn’t know them, with thinness. Welcome to the Ichub Club, Bangkok’s It’s not often you hear a group of four from the couple and writes for the Daily but would see and hear them frequently. He fat-themed karaoke bar. Paintings of men cheer when they added up their Press, said he called the police about a said he didn’t hear gunshots on Friday. fleshy nudes line the walls, and pillars are weights for a grand total of 816 pounds. month ago because of their arguing. plastered with pictures of a chubby comic “The couple of months they’ve been See MURDER, page 5 book character. The chairs are metal, to They weren’t vying for the club’s free whiskey, but merely seeing if they could withstand the weight of the clientele. “We used to have wooden chairs, but make the 794-pound goal. “We have a scale here,” said Chan, sitthe amount of money we spent on repairs ting at a table chatting with his three was tremendous,” said Ken Chan, one of the owners of Ichub, which is pronounced chubby friends. The scale can weigh only up to 308 pounds. “So if they (the cus“I Chub.” Chan, a 35-year-old who weighs 202 tomers) say they are anything over 140, By The Associated Press pounds, and his partners are all weighty by we trust them.” One of those at the table, Robert Asian standards. They opened the club as a REDONDO BEACH — Here’s a story about a big one that didn’t get away. place where fat people would feel comfort- Biscontri, 253 pounds, added: “If it’s anyFisherman John Miller spent nearly six hours battling an 815-pound mako off thing beyond me, it’s obvious.” able, “where they don’t feel like freaks.” Santa Monica Bay before he hauled in the shark with the help of a friend. Biscontri, a 33-year-old Australian who But Ichub doesn’t discriminate against Miller said he hooked the female shark alone, but placed a radio call to friend Mike the slim, he added. While the club’s heav- teaches in Hong Kong, comes to Thailand McNamee for help reeling her in. iest regular customer weighs 353 pounds, often. He said he prefers Ichub to the “We both held on for dear life,” McNamee said. “glitz and glamour, sticky floors and the slimmest is 110 pounds. Once they secured the over 10-foot-long shark, they tied it to the side of the boat The year-old karaoke bar relocated in crusty seats” of other clubs in Bangkok. and towed it back to a Redondo Beach yacht club. “In a perfect world, you don’t need (a June because it needed more space. Makos are rarely seen in West Coast waters, said Dr. Steve Strand, director of the Besides the sturdy chairs, the owners place like Ichub), but we don’t live in a University of California, Los Angeles, Ocean Discovery Center. chose concrete instead of the parquet perfect world,” he said.
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