Joomla! site syndication http://www.taph.com 2009-07-02T20:02:43+01:00 http://www.taph.com http://www.taph.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2009-02-09T01:00:00+01:00 http://www.taph.com http://www.taph.com/corpse-abuse/families-want-answers-from-man-who-says-he-dissolved-300-people-2.html By Richard Marosi Tijuana — Fernando Ocegueda hasn't seen his son since gunmen dragged the college student from the family's house three years ago. Alma Diaz wonders what happened to her son, Eric, a Mexicali police officer who left a party in 1995 and never returned. Arturo Davila still pounds on police doors looking for answers 11 years after his daughter and a girlfriend were kidnapped in downtown Ensenada. For the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of families of people who have vanished amid Baja California's drug wars, the search for justice has been lonely and fruitless. But their hopes have been buoyed recently by the Jan. 22 arrest of a man Mexican authorities believe is behind the gruesome disposal of bodies in vats of industrial chemicals. text/html 2009-02-13T01:00:00+01:00 http://www.taph.com http://www.taph.com/capital-punishment/violence-sickness-chance-wipe-out-miss.-family-2.html By HOLBROOK MOHR  VAUGHAN, Miss. (AP) - Truth is, most of Earnest Lee Hargon's people had been wiped out by the time he went to death row, and those who knew the family weren't sorry to see him go. He got there by killing his cousin, the cousin's wife and their 4-year-old boy - the one who was supposed to carry on the Hargon name - over getting cut out of a will. He told his wife about it over Valentine's dinner five years ago, hours after the murders. I got them, all three, he said. text/html 2009-03-03T01:00:00+01:00 http://www.taph.com http://www.taph.com/strange-and-unusual/man-accused-of-beheading-on-bus-pleads-not-guilty-2.html WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada apologized to police when he was arrested and begged officers to kill him. The details emerged Tuesday as Vince Li pleaded not guilty at the start of his murder trial. I'm sorry. I'm guilty. Please kill me, Li said, according to an agreed statement of facts read in court. The Chinese immigrant is accused of the second-degree murder last summer of Tim McLean, a 22-year-old carnival worker who was killed in what passengers described as a random, horrific attack. text/html 2009-03-05T01:00:00+01:00 http://www.taph.com http://www.taph.com/corpse-abuse/stranger-hits-dead-man-2.html Laurens County, SC (The Greenville News) Tammy Fausel said that she and her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle's funeral in Gray Court. A Candler, N.C., woman danced in front of the service, waved a wand around the casket, opened the lid, laid her hands on the deceased's head and struck the body with a wand, according to an incident report from the Laurens County Sheriff's Office. text/html 2009-03-09T01:00:00+01:00 http://www.taph.com http://www.taph.com/strange-and-unusual/hammond-man-lived-with-sisters-corpse-2.html CROWN POINT, Ind. -- Authorities have filed murder charges against a man they say smothered his ailing sister and then lived in a house with her decomposing body for eight months. Prosecutors charged John Zajic, 57, with murder and a misdemeanor count of failure to report a dead body Friday in the death of his sister, Mary Zajic, 61.