Check this out. A guy inherits his wife’s mom’s assets, after he kills her (the mom). The guy robs his wife’s mom, the mom catches him in the act, so he kills her. Her substantial fortune goes to her daughter, who might have been in on the heist and the cover up. The daughter kills herself in a potential suicide/drug overdose a short time later, and her money is willed to her jailed husband. When he is released in a dozen or so years, he stands to get the cash!???

Talk about coming out on top. This guy must be an inspiration to every guy on his cell block — and to every man outside of prison that wishes he could kill his mother-in-law. It sounds like this thing will be contested. Could we see something like this go to the Supreme Court? I mean there has to be a strong conflict between the integrity of posthumous rights (those of the daughter) and what is just plain wrong. You could make the argument that the mom should have been more careful with willing money to her delinquent daughter. What does the Coliseum think? Also, is this guy a PWSBKTW candidate?

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Steven Hayes testified about the 2007 rape and murder of Jennifer, Michaela and Hayley Petit and a robbery that got “out of control.” He is a defendant in the case. We at PWSBKTW see his testimony as definitive proof that there is no truth to the phrase, “There is no honor among thieves.”

Hayes and his accomplice Joshua Komisarjevsky entered the home through an unlocked basement door and beat William Petit with a baseball bat until he was a bloody mess. With dad out of the way, they moved on to mom Jennifer and daughters Michaela and Hayley. Hayes forced Jennifer to go with him to a bank to withdraw $15,000, and “when they returned Komisarjevsky had already sexually assaulted 11-year-old Michaela.”

We at PWSBKTW are pretty sure that this is bad behavior, but what happened next warms our hearts and makes us think that thieves indeed have a sense of fairness. [Read more →]

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Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem pleaded not guilty to murder. He is accused of throwing his 3-month-old daughter off of a bridge. We at PWSBKTW know that Abdur-Raheem might not be guilty. The details of the case certainly paint him as a victim of a misunderstanding:

Prosecutors claim Abdur-Raheem abducted Zara Malani-lin Abdur from her grandmother’s East Orange apartment on Feb. 16, choking and assaulting the woman and then hitting her with his van as she attempted to block his escape.

Abdur-Raheem later parked on the shoulder of the Garden State Parkway over the Driscoll Bridge — which spans the Raritan River between Sayreville and Woodbridge — and threw or dropped the baby from the front passenger window, according to court papers.

Hasty bloodthirsty types might think that Abdur-Raheem is clearly guilty and that a not-guilty plea is an insult to justice, but enlightened folks, like those of us at PWSBKTW, know that a lengthy trial might bring out new information that proves his innocence. There are many rational explanations for how little Zara ended up dead in the river. [Read more →]

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“A 40-year-old Racine man is accused of killing a 2-year-old boy, punching him because he was spilling his milk.”

Manuel Garcia “lost his temper with his girlfriend’s son, punching him numerous times in the abdomen on Thursday, killing him.” He “admitted punching the boy at least three times because the child was[...] ’frustrating him’ and spilling his milk.”

We at PWSBKTW understand that two-year-olds can be frustrating. They have terrible table manners. Still, no one should die over spilled milk. [Read more →]

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We at PWSBKTW know that kids these days are often coddled. They don’t have to work and their parents give them whatever they want. Some parents, though, understand the importance of pushing their children to have a strong work ethic. They know that their kids need skills that are valued in the marketplace, and they demand that their kids contribute to the family’s income. This can only build character. Even 14-year-old girls need character. Fortunately for one of them, her parents gave her plenty of character, good and hard. As wsbtv.com reports:

The couple bought a minivan from a used car dealership in Eastman, about 140 miles southeast of Atlanta, in March 2008 but has not made a single payment on it… They made their daughter perform sex acts on the dealership’s manager in lieu of making the $281 monthly payments on their minivan [...] It appears the parents may have offered sex with their daughter to as many as six other adults in exchange for money and drugs…

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We at PWSBKTW usually describe some particularly heinous act and explain, with wit, when we can muster it, just how terrible the actions of some murderer or child abuser were. We are sorry to say that this week, we have nothing — no sarcasm, no punchlines as we point out who should be killed this week. We have catalogued horrible cases in past columns, managed maybe even to amuse as we shared outrage with our readers, but we’re at a loss for this one. Our column this week probably isn’t even necessary, since by now most readers are familiar with the case and have reached similar conclusions about a just end, but if we’re going to have a column called “People Who Should Be Killed This Week,” it would seem we’d be remiss to not mention the person who perhaps has most earned it. Dr. Earl Bradley is a pediatrician who is accused of sexually assaulting and raping more than 100 children, his patients, over the course of many years, while their parents sat in waiting rooms. Apparently there are videotapes. There is no end to disturbing details. Your day will be better if you don’t read the linked article. There isn’t anything we have to add that isn’t obvious from this column’s title and graphic. A lightning bolt and quick death would be a kindness Earl Bradley doesn’t deserve.  

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Young children sometimes cry. We at PWSBKTW know that this can be annoying. There are several appropriate ways to address the problem of children crying. This is not one of them:

Thirty-three-year-old Aaron Pace, a friend of the baby’s mother who was babysitting the boy, put Drano on a cloth and rubbed the poisonous cloth on [the] baby’s skin because he had been crying, police said.

Rubbing Drano on his skin was supposed to make the 20-month-old stop crying? [Read more →]

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We at PWSBKTW were going to write a witty set-up to amuse our readers this week. But can anyone, even an anyone with our great skill and sense of humor, top this, the first lines of the news story itself?

A Brazilian man has admitted trying to kill his two-year-old stepson by pushing 30 sewing needles inside him after doping him with wine.

That’s hilarious. [Read more →]

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We at PWSBKTW are on the verge of going insane.

“The second trial of Seattle Jewish Federation gunman Naveed Haq is now in the hands of a King County Superior Court jury.”

Haq stormed the Jewish center in July 2006, fatally shooting one woman and wounding five others. His attorneys acknowledge he did it, but say he was insane at the time and should be committed to a mental hospital for the rest of his life. [...] Haq’s first trial ended with jurors deadlocked over the question of his sanity.

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We at PWSBKTW were once young ourselves, so we appreciate juvenile pranks as much as anyone. We’re not too old to remember how fun it is to steal a bicycle. And we can’t tell you how terribly we miss those innocent days of our childhood when we would douse someone with rubbing alcohol and set them on fire if they stopped us from stealing a bicycle. Wait, that wasn’t us. That was Matthew Bent, Denver Jarvis, Steven Shelton, Jesus Mendez, and Jeremy Jarvis. [Read more →]

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