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JENNIFER HUDSON’S MOTHER AND BROTHER SHOT DEAD, NEPHEW MISSING

October 25, 2008

Jennifer with mother Darnell Hudson Donerson Missing nephew Julian King Suspect William Belfour The mother and brother of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death Friday afternoon in a South Side residence. Hudson’s mother, 57-year-old Darnell Hudson Donerson, was pronounced dead at 5 p.m. at her home, 7019 S. Yale Ave. Her son, 29-year-old Jason Hudson, was also pronounced dead at the scene, according to a Cook County Medical Examiner’s office spokesman. “This is a very sad day to get that kind […]

CORSPE KEPT UPRIGHT FOR 3 DAY WAKE IN PUERTO RICO

August 19, 2008

A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing – even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake. Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother’s living room. His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own […]

UK NEWS: BOASTING KILLER JAILED FOR LIFE

July 31, 2008

Laura Milne was brutally murdered by Stuart Jack A man who boasted on a mobile phone video that he enjoyed murdering a teenager then cutting up and hiding her body has been jailed for life. Stuart Jack, 22, smiled as he spoke of killing charity worker Laura Milne, 19, and mutilating her body in Aberdeen. Jack admitted murdering Ms Milne at a Union Street flat last year. He was jailed for a minimum of 18 years. Debbie Buchan, 19, received nine years […]

UK NEWS: SHAKILUS MURDER ACCUSED IN COURT

July 10, 2008

Murdered: Shakilus Townsend Four teenagers, including a girl of 15, have appeared in court accused of murdering 16-year-old Shakilus Townsend in south London. Shakilus, from Deptford, was beaten with a baseball bat and repeatedly stabbed in Thornton Heath on 3 July. Tyrell Ellis, 18, of Thornton Heath, two youths, aged 17 and 16, and the girl, were remanded in custody by Sutton Magistrates. One man, 22, has been bailed while a fifth youth was arrested on Thursday. The defendants will next appear […]

CELEBRITY STYLIST/PUBLICIST MURDERED

June 17, 2008

Photograph: AP Sadia Morrison, who was a well-known celebrity publicist and stylist to the stars, has died. She was 26 years old.   Morrison, whose client list has included boxer Zab Judah, rappers Kanye West, Plies and 50 Cent, as well as NFL running back Thomas Jones, among others, was allegedly murdered and thrown from the roof of a building in the Bronx section of New York City on Friday, June 13. Friends became worried about Morrison when they hadn’t heard from her. Morrison, […]