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Doubleheader coincidence! On Monday I was making small talk at the front desk and someone mentioned the name Lucius. We all agreed that's a super rare name. After work I was watching (surprise!) a crime show and they were talking about a woman named Dawnia who was killed by a man named Lucious -- pronounced the same as Lucius. I immediately looked up the killer and found out he killed at least 3 people. Dawnia's death date was the second coincidence: the anniversary was the very next day.
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Really unlikely coincidence: I was listening to "Sad Wedding" by Marvin and Tammy on disc, then changed over to the radio. The deejays were talking about a groom who got beaten to death at his wedding reception when he tried to kick out a couple of party-crashers.
This afternoon (New Year's Eve day) I was reading Signed in Blood: The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold Blooded Murder p. 141 I read this...New Year's Eve 2008 came and went at the Lynwood jail. Tonight, my husband was just starting to watch a PBS documentary about the country music group The Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash) and I was sitting in the recliner reading The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac when I read this....fills the room with the deep, accusing baritone of Johnny Cash.
This one seemed like a hopeful omen. I was watching the first episode of Don't F**k With Cats, and at the place where they were talking about the maniac's bottomless need for attention I thought, "This is exactly like Trump. This is exactly how Trump is going to trip himself up." Within seconds, someone on the screen said something about "trump cards."
Fishface wrote: "This one seemed like a hopeful omen. I was watching the first episode of Don't F**k With Cats, and at the place where they were talking about the maniac's bottomless need for attention I thought, "..."Fishface,
First, Happy New Year to you and yours.
Next: I'm curious about that TV series you are speaking about. My question: is there actual showing of the videos of the guy killing kittens, or even torturing any? I started watching the trailer and it seems way too graphic. I couldn't finish watching it.
Fishface wrote: "This one seemed like a hopeful omen. I was watching the first episode of Don't F**k With Cats, and at the place where they were talking about the maniac's bottomless need for attention I thought, "..."Where can we see this?
Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "This one seemed like a hopeful omen. I was watching the first episode of Don't F**k With Cats, and at the place where they were talking about the maniac's bottomless need for atten..."A friend recorded it for me but I am pretty sure it is on Netflix. Check our section here on movies and TV shows; I'm almost sure that's where I first heard about it. Hari: the title of the series is in fact Don't F**k With Cats. They do show some clips of the videos of the kitten killings, but they always cut away before the coups des graces. They show similar clips of the murder of a human that he also filmed and posted online.
Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "This one seemed like a hopeful omen. I was watching the first episode of Don't F**k With Cats, and at the place where they were talking about the maniac's bottomless ..."Thanks, Fishface.
I think I'll skip this series. I don't think I've ever watched a show in which videos of the crimes themselves are shown. And somehow I feel more revulsion about cruelty and abuse toward animals than the idea of the same toward people,
I've actually canceled my Netflix subscription in protest.
Thanks for the info, Fishface.
Hari wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "This one seemed like a hopeful omen. I was watching the first episode of Don't F**k With Cats, and at the place where they were talking about the man..."In America they recently made animal abuse a federal crime. Now we will see how they prosecute that and how many go to prison for it.
Koren wrote: "Hari wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "This one seemed like a hopeful omen. I was watching the first episode of Don't F**k With Cats, and at the place where they were talking ..."In addition, it should be a crime to show it on any platform especially if someone is making money by airing it.
Hari wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "This one seemed like a hopeful omen. I was watching the first episode of Don't F**k With Cats, and at the place where they were talking about the man..."Quite a while ago I watched the video called Food, Inc. and watching the hogs getting killed in the meat packing plant still haunts me. It didnt make me become a vegetarian, but almost.
I rarely tell my husband about coincidences, but I told him about this one and he said coincidences seem to happen to me quite often. Anyway, this happened two days ago. I was at work and a woman came into the office with a 7 mo. old boy. The boy's name was Jaspar. We commented that Jaspar is not a very common name. A couple of hours later I was on my lunch break and took my current book out of my purse. I had totally forgotten that the book takes place in Jaspar, Texas and the city limit sign is right on the cover of the book! 
I was just typing in the anniversary of the murder of Georgina Green, who was targeted by a serial killer because he had a thing about redheads. It just hit me: I just got an email 10 minutes ago from a redhead named Gina Green. REgina, not GEORgina, but still.
Yesterday 2 former clients of mine popped into my head in that "whatever happened to them" kind of way. Today one of our emergency services guys announced that he'd had contact with them and said they were probably coming back to us for more services.
This one is pretty huge for me. I think I mentioned here that when I was Googling old acquaintances, I found an old boyfriend listed on the National Missing Person Directory as having dropped off the map in March of 2014. I periodically looked for more and never found anything, which left me increasingly convinced that he was long dead. Well, sir, over the past few days I kept hearing "our song" on the radio, one you don't hear very often as a rule, and when I was looking up someone else on Google Images I thought, what the heck, take a look, and typed in his name. There was a brand-new photo of him, a mugshot, looking much the worse for wear and apparently telling off the photographer. It was attached to a page saying that he was jailed on 1/23/2019. I shared this happy news -- that a year ago at least he was alive -- with a co-worker who knew I was down about the situation and she asked me a question about him I couldn't answer. I decided to use the booking number I found on that page to search at the jail where they said he was jugged -- tomorrow will be 1 year since his last stay there started, which is often the limit before they let you go or punt you over to prison. Well, sir, I got nowhere until I searched there using his name and birthdate. He was rebooked into that same jail on Monday. He's alive!!!!
After posting that audio recording here today of Amber Heard trying to gaslight Johnny Depp, I heard the word "gaslight" twice more. They mentioned on the radio that Ingrid Bergman starred in the movie of that name and then I just saw it on Reddit a minute ago. And it just struck me this second that they were also talking about someone's boyfriend gaslighting her at a dinner I attended on Friday.
Fishface wrote: "This one is pretty huge for me. I think I mentioned here that when I was Googling old acquaintances, I found an old boyfriend listed on the National Missing Person Directory as having dropped off t..."Wow.
Here's another. Right now I'm reading Medication Madness: True Stories of Mayhem, Murder & Suicide Caused by Psychiatric Drugs and the author mentions in there that the mental hospital in the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is based on a real place, where one of the patients he examined was treated for a while. So naturally that got the old country-western song by Lynne Anderson playing in my head.Well, sir, it was still playing when I logged onto Goodreads just now, and right on the home page it said that one of my GR friends is now reading I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
Yesterday (Mar. 17) I was reading Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service by Gary Sinese and read that Mar. 17 is Gary's birthday. He was 65 years old. It was also my oldest son's birthday.
Read You Carried Me: A Daughter's Memoir by Melissa Ohden about a woman who survived a saline abortion when she was born. When I started the book I did not know most of the book took place in Iowa and just found it funny that every place she mentioned was somewhere someone in my family lived. The first sentence mentions Sioux City, Iowa, where my oldest son lived until a few months ago. He now lives in Vermillion, South Dakota, which is the town the author went to college. Her adoptive mother was originally from Estherville, Iowa, which is a fairly small town about 20 miles from me and where my #3 son lives now and as a child the author moved to Storm Lake, Iowa, which is where my sister lives, but I called her and she had never heard of the author, but then she is not much of a reader.
Someone recently (like within the last several minutes) posted in the true crime subreddit about a few true crime books they just got from a thrift store. One of them was Hush Little Babies: the true story of a mother who murdered her own children. I started watching Forensic Files on Netflix a few days ago. It was starting the episode about the same case the book is about literally seconds after I reloaded reddit to see if there were any new posts of interest and saw the person's post at the top of the page.
My ex-sister-in-law was on my mind because her husband passed away yesterday. Today, reading Predator I read someone's name that was the same as hers, except her name is hyphenated and the person in the book didnt have the second hyphenated name. Otherwise, the first name and the first part of the hyphenated name was the same.
This one is so very odd I don't even know what to think. I spent yesterday reorganizing my shambolic hall closet and one of the tasks that came with that was consolidating bottles of stuff. (For instance, I found 4 opened, partially-used bottles of aspirin that were all poured into the main refill bottle.) In the course of the day I opened a new bottle of Gymnema sylvestre and was thrown to find a pen cap in there -- a black PaperMate InkJoy gel pen cap, to be precise. I have a little wire basket of those pens so I know what they look like.So this mornjng I reached over to the nightstand for a pen to write down a loopy dream I had, and I noticed that the cap was missing. It's a black PaperMate InkJoy gel pen.
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On the one where it was, name six (or eight) jobs you've done add one that is a lie, the job that was a lie was driver.
Today I opened my work e-mail to see the regional director for my office is saying they need more volunteers, for drivers.
This one was disturbing. I was just reading in Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come about a loved and respected shamanic healer named Menindor who died of Ebola. They just mentioned that she died on April 8th. Today is April 8th. Of course I decided to read it now because of the novel coronavirus, but still.Ebola sounds much, much worse than Covid-19. Much.
A fun one. Yesterday I was at a message board discussing which giant Japanese monster has the best roar -- yes, this is what I do while the rest of you are out there living your lives! -- and we all agreed that Godzilla has by far the best roar. As I was adding my two cents, a text message came in. Someone I used to work with sent an image of Godzilla eating marshmallow Peeps.It almost goes without saying that I was eating Peeps when the text came in.
Fishface wrote: "A fun one. Yesterday I was at a message board discussing which giant Japanese monster has the best roar -- yes, this is what I do while the rest of you are out there living your lives! -- and we al..."Wow!
Happy Easter and Passover to those that celebrate. This morning I was reading Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America by Ron Powers and read this: A photo from Easter, 1955. Jimmy, Dad, and I are lined up on the rim of the concrete driveway of our house...
I just finished posting a review of Gayleen Hays's cop memoir, Policewoman One: My Twenty Years on the LAPD. I went to the biography group to post it there, too, and the first thing I saw was a comment by Selina that mentioned her friend Gaylene.I also had the name Giselle come up probably four times in one day last week.
AND I was puttering around town in my car and it occurred to me to wonder how that ex-BF of mine is resisting the viral scourge in his jail cell. The DJ immediately put on his favorite song, at least hus favorite song when I last saw him in the Eighties. That song ended and the very next song I found when I turned the dial was "our song." The third one I found specifically mentioned the unusual religion he belonged to when I first met him.
I don't know whether to feel reassured or not...
This morning I woke up with "Promised You A Miracle" by Simple Minds playing in my head and before getting out of bed used the phrase "simple minds" probably 3x in a rant on another message board. I got in the car to go to the chiropractor and the first song I found on the radio was by Simple Minds.
Two today:A) I was watching a training vid about anti-anxiety techniques and an ad zipped across my phone screen saying "NOBODY HAS ANXIETY..."
B) I posted a question about Kendall Francois, the Poughkeepsie Maniac, at Reddit and afterward fojnd a link to a vid of an interview with David Bowie. I was watching and just a few minutes into it, the interviewer mentioned Poughkeepsie.
Fishface wrote: "Two today:A) I was watching a training vid about anti-anxiety techniques and an ad zipped across my phone screen saying "NOBODY HAS ANXIETY..."
B) I posted a question about Kendall Francois, th..."
I just looked in at Reddit and there was a notification that I'd gotten 500 upvotes on my post about Kendall Francois. I tapped it just in time to see someone give it upvote #666. Not a coincidence exactly but LOL!
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A) I was watching a training vid about anti-anxiety techniques and an ad zipped across my phone screen saying "NOBODY HAS ANXIETY..."
B) I posted a question about Ken..."
I now know your Reddit identity! Not that I'm stalking you or anything, .....
Also I was living in the area when he was killing. Scary stuff. I was about the same size and physical appearance as his victims. I never went to Pok though and also never engaged in risky behavior.
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Poughkeepsie - local nickname
Ah...like calling Coral Watts's old hunting grounds "Fat Tip."
I almost dropped the book I was reading. Yesterday I thought of someone I used to work with and dated once or twice about 40 years ago. Hadn't thought of him in a long time. He was much older than me and if he is still alive he would be in his mid 80's. I've tried to google him but he has a common name so at least 100 people come up. Anyway, last night reading Final Justice: The True Story of the Richest Man Ever Tried for Murder I read his name in the book! Not him specifically, but someone else with the same name. I'm still a little freaked out by that.
Koren wrote: "I almost dropped the book I was reading. Yesterday I thought of someone I used to work with and dated once or twice about 40 years ago. Hadn't thought of him in a long time. He was much older than ..."This seems like almost an ironclad guarantee that you are going to read his obit in the paper soon. At least that's the way it always works for me. Unless his name is something unbelievably common like Bill Johnson.
Go ahead and cyberstalk me, BTW, Bel. On your own head be it. 
On the day I posted one of Patrick Mackay's known murders, I came across an article posted on another site saying they are discussing releasinh hom:https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesen...
Having read Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay, I can say with confidence that the British judicial system has holes in it big enough to drive a lorry through. The whole book is a seies of failures to keep an obviously disturbed, increasingly dangerous man from hurting others. They are currently pulling a Coral Watts maneuver, trying to convict him of more murders before he can be set free again.
Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "I almost dropped the book I was reading. Yesterday I thought of someone I used to work with and dated once or twice about 40 years ago. Hadn't thought of him in a long time. He was mu..."It took a little time but I was able to find an obit for this guy. He died in 2014. So in a way you were right.
Huh. Maybe he stopped by to say hi?
Not sure whether this was intentional or not. If they did this deliberately, the Ford family has more of a sense of humor than I ever suspected:https://www.boston25news.com/news/tre...
Fishface wrote: "Not sure whether this was intentional or not. If they did this deliberately, the Ford family has more of a sense of humor than I ever suspected:https://www.boston25news.com/news/tre......"
If it's not intentional it certainly is a coincidence.
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That is similar to what Stephanie Harlowe says when she warns people about the graphic nature of some cases, which she won't mention on her videos, but she will post a link and then she says: "I'm not responsible for what you might google."
Working on Ancestry.com at my desk. My desk top tv is on but I'm not paying much attention. The ancestor I'm working on had the last name Stangl. Then I hear the commentator say his interviewee's name-Richard Stangel. (I googled the spelling).
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