Cecila Avila was finishing a work shift at a Walmart. David Gordon was at church. Darrell Reese was watching his granddaughter at home. Jessica Albritton had pulled into the parking lot at her job, where she packed and shipped bike parts.
All four were arrested by an armed constable, handcuffed and booked into jail. They spent anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days behind bars before being released after paying a few hundred dollars in bail or promising to appear in court.
None of the four, who...
All four were arrested by an armed constable, handcuffed and booked into jail. They spent anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days behind bars before being released after paying a few hundred dollars in bail or promising to appear in court.
None of the four, who...
- 12/4/2019
- by Anjali Tsui, ProPublica
- Rollingstone.com
Will the death of Johnny Kitagawa lead to a change of attitude by the Japanese media to the powerful Johnny & Associates talent agency that he formed?
Public broadcaster Nhk and others this week reported a warning to the company from the Fair Trade Commission over alleged pressure on TV stations to keep members of the boy band Smap off air following its breakup. Johnny’s denied the allegations and that it had not received an administrative punishment, but added that it would be “careful not to cause future misunderstandings.”
When Kitagawa died on July 9, age 87, the Japanese media treated it as major news. President of Johnny’s, Kitagawa was a power on the Japanese entertainment scene for more than 40 years, launching a succession of boy bands. His acts, including Tanokin Trio, Smap, Arashi, Kinki Kids and Kat-tun, not only generated hit records, but became ubiquitous on TV as everything from...
Public broadcaster Nhk and others this week reported a warning to the company from the Fair Trade Commission over alleged pressure on TV stations to keep members of the boy band Smap off air following its breakup. Johnny’s denied the allegations and that it had not received an administrative punishment, but added that it would be “careful not to cause future misunderstandings.”
When Kitagawa died on July 9, age 87, the Japanese media treated it as major news. President of Johnny’s, Kitagawa was a power on the Japanese entertainment scene for more than 40 years, launching a succession of boy bands. His acts, including Tanokin Trio, Smap, Arashi, Kinki Kids and Kat-tun, not only generated hit records, but became ubiquitous on TV as everything from...
- 7/18/2019
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
The killer moved in plain sight on the foggy morning of Sept. 6, 1982, in the tiny southeast Alaskan fishing village of Craig.
Hours after shooting his eight victims with what police believe was a .22-caliber pistol or rifle, he fired up the engines on the 58-foot fishing boat Investor, waving nonchalantly to a nearby skipper as he moved the vessel — with his victims’ bodies inside — to a secluded bay a mile outside of town.
He motored back to the weather-beaten docks in the Investor’s skiff, returning the next afternoon with a can of gasoline to set the craft ablaze before...
Hours after shooting his eight victims with what police believe was a .22-caliber pistol or rifle, he fired up the engines on the 58-foot fishing boat Investor, waving nonchalantly to a nearby skipper as he moved the vessel — with his victims’ bodies inside — to a secluded bay a mile outside of town.
He motored back to the weather-beaten docks in the Investor’s skiff, returning the next afternoon with a can of gasoline to set the craft ablaze before...
- 12/12/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
It’s not a mystery how the Coulthurst family and a group of teenage deckhands were killed on their fishing boat, Investor, on Sept. 6, 1982, in the tiny southeast Alaskan fishing village of Craig.
What remains unknown, more than 35 years later, is who did it — and why.
“You never stop thinking about them,” says Dave Freeman, who grew up with Jerome Keown and Dave Moon, two of the massacre’s eight victims.
“The shock of losing everyone really tore up our town,” Freeman tells People. “They all had their whole lives in front of them, and they were just blown away.
What remains unknown, more than 35 years later, is who did it — and why.
“You never stop thinking about them,” says Dave Freeman, who grew up with Jerome Keown and Dave Moon, two of the massacre’s eight victims.
“The shock of losing everyone really tore up our town,” Freeman tells People. “They all had their whole lives in front of them, and they were just blown away.
- 12/11/2017
- by Johnny Dodd and Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Thirty-five years have passed since the massacre of eight people on the fishing boat Investor first shocked the nation. For those whose lives were upended by the killings, the case remains a painful cloud that refuses to lift.
For John Peel, the former deckhand who police and prosecutors suspected of committing the grisly slayings, the mystery is something else: a question mark that still hangs over his head.
Peel was charged with the killings in 1984, but after two expensive, headline-grabbing trials, he was found not guilty. Decades later, the case is Alaska’s worst unsolved mass homicide.
“Somebody out there knows what happened,...
For John Peel, the former deckhand who police and prosecutors suspected of committing the grisly slayings, the mystery is something else: a question mark that still hangs over his head.
Peel was charged with the killings in 1984, but after two expensive, headline-grabbing trials, he was found not guilty. Decades later, the case is Alaska’s worst unsolved mass homicide.
“Somebody out there knows what happened,...
- 12/8/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Here's an amazing set of original product shots for the Kenner's classic Star Wars toy line from 1977 to 1985. The photos were all taken by Kim David McNeill Simmons and Roy Frankenfield over the course of a decade while the original trilogy were being released in theaters.
The collection comes from The Man Who Shot Luke Skywalker, where you can find even more great shots of these original Star Wars action figures. You can also find photos of a huge collection of figures here.
I wish I still had all of my original Star Wars toys. Even if I had I known as a kid that they would have been worth a lot of money when I grew up, though, I still would have played with them till they were broken or lost. I freakin' loved playing with those toys!
Via: TheForce.net...
The collection comes from The Man Who Shot Luke Skywalker, where you can find even more great shots of these original Star Wars action figures. You can also find photos of a huge collection of figures here.
I wish I still had all of my original Star Wars toys. Even if I had I known as a kid that they would have been worth a lot of money when I grew up, though, I still would have played with them till they were broken or lost. I freakin' loved playing with those toys!
Via: TheForce.net...
- 12/29/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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