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  • Maine man accused of killing woman at senior housing complex because he thought she was a witch

    TOPSHAM, Maine (TCD) — Police have arrested a 71-year-old man on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 64-year-old female resident at an affordable senior housing complex who he believed was a witch.

    According to Maine State Police, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, at around 9:30 a.m., the Topsham Police Department received a 911 call from an employee at River Landing Senior Housing regarding a possible assault. Officers and medical personnel responded to the complex on Elm Street and found Christine Miller dead at the scene.

    Police said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy and determined Miller died due to “sharp force injuries,” and they ruled her death a homicide. WGME-TV reports that Miller sustained multiple stab wounds.

    Police allege Robert McClure, who also lived at River Landing, killed Miller. Witnesses reportedly saw McClure exiting the victim’s home holding a knife.

    The property manager told WGME that other residents in the building said that McClure talked about witches, and he allegedly threatened to set the complex ablaze. Miller and McClure were allegedly dating, and Miller had tried to convince him to visit a psychiatrist.

    According to the court documents obtained by WGME, McClure admitted to killing the victim and said, “I did stab that lady today.”

    Maine State Police apprehended McClure at the scene on a charge of murder. McClure reportedly told police during his arrest that demons and witches lived in the apartment building, and he heard voices about them. McClure allegedly believed Miller was a witch and that she needed to die.

    McClure was scheduled to appear in court on Monday, Nov. 27

    MORE:

    • MSP Investigating Homicide in Topsham – Maine State Police
    • ‘I did stab that lady today:’ Court paperwork says Topsham murder suspect believed victim was a witch – WGME

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  • Nevada man accused of fatally strangling his wife and setting her remains on fire in metal drum

    HENDERSON, Nev. (TCD) — Police have arrested a 43-year-old man after they reportedly found his wife’s burned remains inside a metal drum last week.

    According to a news release from the Henderson Police Department, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, shortly before 8 p.m., Henderson Police and Fire responded to the 1700 block of Sunset Road, where they located a metal drum ablaze. The fire department extinguished the flames and found the remains of a deceased woman inside.

    According to an arrest report obtained by KSNV-TV, officials identified the victim as Janell Bowen. The coroner’s office found evidence that Bowen died of asphyxiation by strangulation, and they believe her death was a homicide.

    Police identified the victim’s husband, Freddie Wright, as the primary suspect. According to KSNV, Wright and his wife, along with their children, had been living in a residence with several other people since mid-November.

    An individual in their home reportedly told police that around Nov. 18, Wright kicked them out so he could confront his wife. When the person attempted to get back inside, the door was allegedly locked, and Bowen wouldn’t let the individual in. KSNV reports that the witness said they believe they saw Wright strangle his wife.

    According to police, the Criminal Apprehension Team took Wright into custody on Nov. 27.

    Wright reportedly told detectives that he went to talk to his wife regarding another relationship, and Wright admitted that he had “snapped” and strangled Bowen. Wright allegedly kept her body for several days before he placed it in the metal drum and set the remains on fire at the Whitney Mesa Park trailhead.

    Wright remains held in the Henderson Detention Center on charges of open murder, first-degree arson, and destroying evidence.

    MORE:

    • Suspect Arrested in Homicide Investigation – Henderson Police Department
    • Arrest report: Man admitted to killing wife, setting fire to body in metal drum in Henderson – KSNV
    • Henderson Detention Center

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  • Social Security Overpays Billions Under Leadership of Racial Equity Activist

    Under the leadership of a noted racial equity activist the Social Security Administration (SSA) has mistakenly overpaid beneficiaries tens of billions of dollars, including a 65% spike in overpayments in one year. In 2023 the agency with a stated mission of ensuring equity and accessibility by addressing systemic barriers to participation and a commitment to providing services to underserved communities made a whopping $23 billion in overpayments, according to its latest Agency Financial Report. The figure is a marked increase over the already stunning $11.1 billion in overpayments that SSA erroneously made in 2022.

    SSA’s dreadful habit of overpaying billions in benefits goes back years as American taxpayers get stuck with the hefty price because most of the money is never recovered. In the last few years, the agency has doled out between $6 billion and $7 billion in new overpayments annually, the new report reveals. It shows that most of the 2022 overpayments, around $6.5 billion, occurred within the Old-Age Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) programs which provide monthly benefits to qualified retired and disabled workers and their dependents and to survivors of insured workers. Eligibility and benefit amounts are determined by the worker’s contributions to Social Security. In prior years the problem was mainly in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program which helps low-income elderly and disabled adults as well as children. In 2022 SSI distributed north of $4.6 billion in overpayments.

    At a congressional hearing earlier this year SSA Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi told federal lawmakers that her agency is trying to recover the money by sending out millions of “overpayment notices” to those who erroneously got extra cash. Kijakazi said 1,028,389 people got the notices in 2022 and 986,912 in fiscal 2023, which ended in September. Kijakazi is a renowned racial equity proponent with a storied career of researching—and tackling—structural racism and the racial wealth gap in both government and high-profile nonprofits. She has served as co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Eliminating the Black-White Wealth Gap at the leftist Center for American Progress and on the Washington, D.C. Equitable Recovery Advisory Group. In mid-2021 President Joe Biden named Kijakazi acting SSA Commissioner after previously appointing her to a lower-level position of deputy commissioner for retirement and disability policy.

    In the new agency financial report Kijakazi reveals that in 2023 she began to rebuild the SSA workforce by adding nearly 4,000 employees, yet problems persist. “We made progress toward eliminating our hearings backlog,” the commissioner writes in the report’s opening message, adding that “we ended FY 2023 with 321,819 cases pending, the lowest level since 2000.” The commissioner proceeds to highlight all the great things her agency has accomplished, including working to eliminate a backlog, reducing wait times for claims and improving organizational efficiency. “As good stewards of our programs, we strive to reduce improper payments and combat waste, fraud and abuse through our quality reviews, cost-effective program integrity work, and payment accuracy efforts.” Kijakazi ends her opening message by writing that there are “no material weaknesses in our internal controls.”

    Nevertheless, buried deep in the exhaustive 216-page report the agency discloses the billions it has overpaid in the last few years despite establishing a special Improper Payment Prevention Team in 2019 tasked with developing strategies to determine the underlying cause of payment errors and developing corrective action plans. SSA issues over $1 trillion in benefit payments annually and preventing overpayments can be as simple as providing employees with a “comprehensive tool” when calculating benefits manually. In fact, SSA found that it could have avoided approximately 73,000 overpayments totaling more than $368 million in 2022 if it had furnished a “comprehensive tool” for employees to do their job correctly. “Preventing improper payments is more advantageous than recovering them after they are made because SSA does not have to expend additional resources to recover the overpayments…” the report states.

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  • Man arrested 3 years after pregnant woman was found dead and left in suitcase

    GLADSTONE, Mo. (TCD) — A 26-year-old man was apprehended three years after his missing pregnant girlfriend was found deceased and left in a suitcase in a remote area of Wisconsin.

    According to the Gladstone Police Department, on Nov. 23 right after midnight, a license plate reader flagged a vehicle traveling with stolen plates. At 12:34 a.m., officers tracked the red Ford Fusion to a parking lot and made contact with the male driver. The man allegedly had “multiple ID cards on his person, and gave several different names.”

    Officers soon identified the man as Jose Eduardo Dominguez-Garcia, who had a warrant out for his arrest in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, on charges of first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child, and hiding a corpse.

    The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram reports Rosaly “Cindy” Rodriguez was reported missing in July 2020. Her body was found in October 2020 inside a suitcase on a farm. She was reportedly seven weeks pregnant and was due in January 2021.

    According to the Leader-Telegram, Rodriguez was last seen alive July 2, 2020, at her job at Sprecher’s Restaurant. Dominguez-Garcia also reportedly worked there. Dominguez-Garcia allegedly told investigators on July 23, 2020, that their relationship ended July 4, 2020, because he found out she cheated on him and another man fathered her child.

    On Aug. 26, 2020, police officers reportedly found Dominguez-Garcia’s red Volkswagen Jetta with a red fluid in the trunk, as well as maggots and other bugs inside the vehicle. The detective reportedly wrote in a report that “based on his law enforcement training and experience with death investigations that what he was looking at were the fluids released through orifices indicating the beginning of a decaying body that had been in the trunk of the vehicle.”

    Video surveillance footage reportedly showed Dominguez-Garcia’s vehicle in the area on July 23, 2020. Officials issued a warrant for his arrest in December 2021.

    Dominguez-Garcia was booked into the Clay County Jail and will be extradited back to Wisconsin.

    MORE:

    • Homicide Arrest for Wisconsin Authorities – Gladstone Police Department
    • Man wanted in death of woman found in Chippewa County is arrested – Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
    • Suspect in 2020 killing of pregnant Sauk Co. woman caught in Missouri – WEAU-TV
    • State of Wisconsin vs. Jose Dominguez-Garcia

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  • California mother arrested after police find her 9-year-old daughter dead in home

    WESTMINSTER, Calif. (TCD) — Police arrested a mother on suspicion of killing her 9-year-old daughter after they forced entry into her home and found the child deceased last week.

    On Friday, Nov. 24, shortly after noon, the Westminster Police Department responded to a home on the 14100 block of Goldenwest Street after a concerned family member requested a welfare check. Once there, officers forced their way inside the residence, where they found a 9-year-old girl dead with “obvious signs of trauma.”

    No one else was in the home at the time, and police believe it was an isolated incident.

    Further investigation revealed that the victim’s mother, Khadiyjah Pendergraph, allegedly killed her daughter. Police later found Pendergraph at an Aliso Viejo shopping center and booked her into the Orange County Jail on a charge of murder.

    Westminster Chief of Police Darin Lenyi said in a statement, “While police officers are exposed to tragedies on a daily basis, this murder is particularly disturbing due to the senseless loss of a child allegedly at the hands of her own mother.”

    MORE:

    • Homicide of 9-year-old child – Westminster Police Department

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  • Wanted man arrested in Wyoming for allegedly fatally shooting 73-year-old man

    GOSHEN COUNTY, Wyo. (TCD) — Authorities in Wyoming arrested a 23-year-old man wanted out of Colorado for allegedly shooting and killing a 73-year-old man this month.

    On Nov. 4 at 12:25 p.m., Lone Tree Police Department officers discovered Michael Lohmeier deceased inside his Toyota Highlander, which was parked in a lot on the 8500 block of South Yosemite Street. Several days later, on Nov. 16, Lone Tree Police identified James Matthew Neal as the suspect in Lohmeier’s death and said he was considered armed and dangerous. Neal was last seen in Colorado Springs.

    Then, more than three weeks after Lohmeier’s killing, Lone Tree Police announced Neal was located and taken into custody in Wisconsin. Goshen County Detention Center records do not list any specific charges.

    According to KDVR-TV, Lohmeier’s sister, Marilyn Lohmeier-Howland, said he was killed when a bullet was fired into the driver’s side window.

    Lohmeier-Howland added, “We were told he died fast and were hoping he didn’t know that this was about to happen to him.”

    Lohmeier’s phone, wallet, and camera were still in the car, which made his sister believe he was not the victim of a robbery.

    He reportedly enjoyed walking around the area where he was killed, then sitting in his car and looking at nature around him. Lohmeier-Howland described her brother as a “gentle, fun-loving man” who would “never hurt anyone.”

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  • US Intel Worries TikTok-Connected Tech Firm Could Steal Americans’ Genetic Data

    United States intelligence officials are fearful that an Abu Dhabi technology firm could hand over Americans’ genetic data to China, The New York Times reported on Monday.

    The company, called G42, engages in business with Chinese companies, according to the NYT. It may function as a bridge for China’s government to access cutting-edge U.S. tech and millions of Americans’ genetic data, two officials with knowledge of intelligence reports told the NYT.

    G42 consists of various ventures, including a $10 billion tech investment fund, an Arabic artificial intelligence (AI) model and a genome-sequencing initiative, according to the NYT. Its international investments include acquiring over $100 million worth of shares in ByteDance, the Beijing-based TikTok parent company, Bloomberg reported.

    ByteDance maintains an internal Chinese Communist Party committee, and the company’s personnel utilized TikTok data to track American journalists reporting on the popular app in 2022, Forbes reported.

    The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a classified profile of G42 CEO Peng Xiao, who received his education in the United States but renounced his citizenship in exchange for a United Arab Emirates one, intelligence officials asserted, according to the NYT.

    Xiao managed a UAE company called Pax AI, which had involvement in overseeing a social media platform named ToTok that U.S. intelligence agencies flagged as a surveillance tool the UAE government utilized to monitor users’ movement and discussions, according to the NYT. A 2019 U.S. intelligence evaluation revealed that Pax AI held the collected data.

    Xiao also had a project called Pegasus that entered into a contract with Chinese tech giant Huawei to produce spying tech designed for law enforcement agencies in 2017, according to the NYT. Intelligence agencies have looked into G42 subsidiary Presight AI, which specializes in selling surveillance tech to global law enforcement agencies, offering software that closely resembles products that Chinese police forces commonly use.

    Huawei also assisted in constructing G42’s technology infrastructure, according to the NYT.

    G42 has collaborated “with various international technology players from around the world,” Senior Executive Talal Al Kaissi told the NYT, mentioning the company’s talks with Microsoft in late 2022 and its exploration of working with U.S. firms like Cerebras and Nvidia to upgrade from hardware from China.

    G42 has also partnered with OpenAI, the company behind popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, according to an October press release.

    “Leveraging G42’s industry expertise, we aim to empower businesses and communities with effective solutions that resonate with the nuances of the region,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in the press release. “This collaboration lays the foundation for equitable advancements in generative AI across the globe.”

    G42, the CIA, Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

    Post written by Jason Cohen. Republished with permission from DCNF. 

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  • Ohio man arrested on suspicion of killing elderly father after reporting his death to police

    BATAVIA, Ohio (TCD) — A 39-year-old man allegedly killed his elderly father and then reported his death to police late last week.

    According to a news release from the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office, on Friday, Nov. 24, at approximately 9:38 p.m., Zane Pelfrey called 911 and reported the death of his “elderly father.” Deputies subsequently responded to their home in the 500 block of West Main Street and found the victim, 60-year-old Dewayne Pelfrey, unresponsive. Officials pronounced him dead at the scene.

    With the help of the Batavia Police Department, the sheriff’s office launched an investigation and interviewed family members and witnesses. Detectives identified Zane Pelfrey as the primary suspect.

    The sheriff’s office apprehended Pelfrey in his home and interviewed him at the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office Investigative Unit. The statement noted that Pelfrey was “forthcoming with details related to his involvement in his father’s death.”

    Pelfrey was booked into the Clermont County Jail on a charge of murder, and he remains held without bond. He was scheduled for his arraignment on Monday, Nov. 27.

    The Clermont County Coroner’s Office will perform an autopsy on the victim. The investigation is ongoing.

    MORE:

    • Man arrested for killing his father in their home in the Village of Batavia – Clermont County Sheriff’s Office
    • Clermont County Jail

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  • The Undemocratic Party’s War on America: Exposing The Left’s Ruthless Quest to Control Our Health, Internet & Climate

    In Episode 10 of the “Relentless Podcast with Kyle Becker,” we explore the American left’s ruthless pursuit of political power and its multifaceted strategy to dominate all aspects of our lives.

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    Kyle Becker provides a cutting analysis of the Biden administration’s proposed internet regulations, highlighting potential threats to privacy and free speech. The episode also delves into the contentious issues of health autonomy and vaccine mandates, examining the legal struggles and ethical implications. Additionally, Becker scrutinizes the narrative surrounding the climate crisis, questioning its role in governmental control and policy-making. Offering a critical lens on American politics, digital rights, and the ongoing battle for freedom and democracy, this episode invites you to join us for an exploration of these pivotal topics shaping the nation’s future.

    Segment 1: “Biden’s Woke Takeover Of The Internet” (00:37)

    Critically examining the potential consequences of the Biden administration’s plans to regulate the internet, Kyle discusses concerns about freedom of expression, privacy, and government overreach, emphasizing the risks of such a sweeping policy change.

    Segment 2: “The Undemocratic Party’s War On America” (14:01)

    Addressing concerns over election integrity and the need for decentralization in American politics, Kyle highlights the importance of transparent and secure electoral processes and discusses strategies for reducing centralized power in favor of more democratic systems.

    Segment 3: “The Hijacking Of Our Health Decisions” (33:32)

    Delving into the controversial topic of vaccine mandates, focusing on individual rights and health autonomy. Explore the legal battles and ethical dilemmas surrounding enforced vaccinations and the impact on personal liberties.

    Segment 4: “The Left’s Obsession With The Climate Crisis” (43:16)

    Kyle Becker challenges the prevailing narrative of the climate crisis. He questions the motives behind the climate change agenda and its potential use as a tool for increasing governmental power and control, rather than addressing environmental concerns.

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  • Maine caretaker accused of fatally stabbing romantic partner and her own grandmother multiple times

    DENMARK, Maine (TCD) — Deputies arrested a 53-year-old caretaker over the weekend on suspicion of fatally stabbing her significant other and her own grandmother.

    According to a news release from Maine State Police, on Saturday, Nov. 25, at around 2 p.m., Oxford County Sheriff’s Office deputies conducted a welfare check at a home on Fuller Lane, where they found two deceased individuals inside. The sheriff’s office identified the victims’ caretaker, 53-year-old Tzara Jones, as the primary suspect and transported her to a hospital for evaluation.

    WMTW-TV identified the deceased individuals as Jones’ grandmother, 93-year-old Aremean Mayo, and Jones’ romantic partner, 69-year-old Michael Willett.

    According to court documents obtained by the news source, Jones told police that her significant partner was hunting, but officers later learned that Willett used a wheelchair and was unable to do so. Jones reportedly refused to let police search the home, and she told an Oxford County Sheriff’s Office sergeant that “he was a mongrel and to get down on his knees and pray.”

    WMTW reports that police found Willett deceased on a bed, and they discovered Mayo’s body in the home’s entryway. Police said the medical examiner performed autopsies on Sunday, Nov. 26, and ruled the victims’ deaths homicides.

    Mayo reportedly sustained at least 10 stab wounds, which officials believe occurred before and after her death. Investigators determined she had been dead for over a day before police found her body, according to WMTW.

    Court documents allege that Willett had been stabbed three times, and he had also been dead for more than a day, WMTW reports.

    Police recovered a blood-covered butcher knife at the scene near Mayo’s body.

    Jones and her partner had allegedly been living together for years before her grandmother moved in with them in July. A family member reportedly told police that Jones was tired of caring for the victims, but she wouldn’t allow the family member to help.

    According to police, Jones was charged with two counts of murder, and she was booked into the Oxford County Jail. She was scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, Nov. 27.

    MORE:

    • Maine State Police Investigate Homicides in Denmark – Maine State Police
    • ‘Tired of taking care of them’ offered as possible motive behind double murder in Maine – WMTW

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