Wes Craven, actor and movie director passed away of terminal brain cancer.
On Sunday, the entertainment industry lost a legend. Famed horror director Wes Craven passed away of brain cancer.
His representatives confirmed the director had passed away fighting terminal cancer.
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, writer, producer, and actor known for his work on horror films, particularly slasher films. He died weeks after his 76th birthday.
Wes Craven on the set of The New Nightmare with Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.
Wes was famous for the cult classic Nightmare on Elm Street. It introduced the world to Freddy Krueger, the infamous serial killer who stalked his victims in their dreams. He was responsible for the hit thriller Scream. Craven also directed all four films in the Scream series, and co-created the Ghostface character. Some of his other films include The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left, Red Eye and My Soul to Take.
Grown up in Cleveland, Ohio, Wes always had an interest in the art of horror. He was a professor working at a college. He taught English studies. He got bored with teaching. He thought of doing X-rated movies but felt that the market was swamped with it. So he decided to take advantage of the teenage lust of sex and spice it up with a serial maniac who took advantage of their naive awareness.
The directing of Nightmare of Elm Street was on a low budget. That movie would go on to become one of the best screams in history. It would spark numerous sequels, a crossover with infamous Jason Voorhies of Friday The 13th and a reboot.
Also the Scream movie was one of the highest grossing horror movies to ever exist. He would produce the three sequels and executive produce the television series.
His art gave people a reason to fear the unknown. Believe me the damsel in distress is often the first to go in a most horror movies.
We're gonna miss them days.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Wes Craven.
Erica Crippen went missing for nearly three months. Not one peep from the junk food media. Her body was found in rural Maryland. The suspect Kyle Crosby is facing murder charges. He was the husband of the victim.
Thanks to The Black and Missing Foundation for dropping this one. If it wasn't for Black and Missing this story would be watershed for a missing pretty White girl.
S. Baldwin and I have long talked about how the junk food media often ignores missing people cases.
These type of missing people stories that attract agitators such as Nancy Grace have to be the perfect formula.
VICTIM (WHITE WOMAN AGE 17 - 35) + SUSPECT (WHITE MAN/BLACK MAN) + SITUATION (COLLEGE, VACATION, INTERNATIONAL TRAVELING, STRANDED MOTORIST) + TIMING (DAY/NIGHT/HOLIDAY) + LOCAL ACTIVISM (REWARDS, MEDIA DRIVEN BIOGRAPHY) = JUNK FOOD MEDIA SENSATION.
No matter how you put it, the junk food media will obsess over missing White women.
Hence the term Missing White Woman Syndrome. It's used by social scientists to describe the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases that involve young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls.
Sociologists define the media phenomenon as the undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the disproportionate degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases concerning missing women of other ethnicities and social classes, or with missing males of all social classes and ethnicities.
The PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill is said to be the originator of the phrase.
Although the term was coined to describe disproportionate coverage of missing person cases, it is sometimes used to describe the disparity in news coverage of other violent crimes. The concept is similar to hierarchy of death, in which certain types of deaths garner more news coverage than others. Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of tough on crime measures named for white women who went missing and were subsequently found harmed.
Since New Year's Eve, no one could have imagine New Jersey mom Erica Crippen would have just disappeared. Some believed that her abusive husband Kyle Crosby may have something to do it.
This week the law found Erica's body on the side of a rural Maryland road near Sykesville.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Erica Crippen.
The AP reports that investigators used a GPS device that was in a New Jersey man's vehicle to find the body of his wife, who had been missing since New Year's Eve, along the side of a rural road in Maryland, a New Jersey prosecutor said Wednesday.
The body of Erica Crippen, 26, was found under branches and brush in Sykesville, Maryland, on Tuesday; she was wrapped in a blanket; her arms, legs and neck were bound with an electrical cord and duct tape was on her face and nose, Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi said.
Crippen's husband, Kyle Crosby, 28, was charged in January with murder in his wife's death after investigators found items of "evidential value" in the trunk of his car in connection with her disappearance. They haven't disclosed what was in the trunk. He remained in county lock up Wednesday. Court and lock up records didn't list a lawyer for him.
Bernardi said that after Crosby's arrest, investigators found a GPS device in his car that contained 8,600 points, or what the prosecutor characterized as "bread crumbs" that showed where the vehicle had stopped. Crippen's body was found less than 100 feet from one of the points, Bernardi said.
Kyle Crosby is in lockup. He murdered his wife Erica after she was threatening to leave him.
It's unclear how or when Crippen died but authorities believe Crosby dumped her body either on the evening of Jan. 10 or morning of Jan. 11, Bernardi said. An autopsy was scheduled in Baltimore.
Investigators searched three times in Maryland for her body, but their efforts were hampered by the brutal winter, the prosecutor said.
A business card from Gloucester Township, where Crosby is from, was found near the body along with discarded food in a box from Royal Farms, a gas station chain, Bernardi said.
Investigators also found surveillance video from one of the stores in Maryland showing he had been there, Bernardi said. Phone records also showed he made a call from the store.
The couple lived in Mount Laurel with their infant daughter and Crippen's 7-year-old daughter. Crippen's body was found the same week her husband's 67-year-old mother, Jo, was charged in the case with hindering and tampering with physical evidence.
Authorities allege Jo Crosby deleted several text messages from her phone sent to her son the morning police believe he killed his wife.
According to an affidavit, at least 15 text messages between her and her son on New Year's Eve were retrieved during a forensic examination of their cellphones. The two also had an 18-minute phone conversation, according to an affidavit obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request. Jo Crosby eventually admitted deleting the messages when she learned authorities were coming to interview her, the affidavit said.
Kyle and Erica have a daughter. Now that child will not have a mom or a dad to raise her. Her dad murder her mom and threw away all the opportunities to see his child become a beautiful woman.
She has been released on $12,500 bail. It wasn't clear Wednesday if she had an attorney who could comment on the charges. No one responded to a note left at her house seeking comment.
A story that the racist right agitator Colin Flaherty missed was the death of Erica Crippen.
She was a married woman from New Jersey. She was reported missing for over a month. Her body was found in Maryland, and the suspect is in custody.
The shocking twist it was her husband.
But even more shocking was the fact the woman was Black and the suspect is White.
So where is Colin Flaherty?
Somewhere in the cesspool trying to find his next bombshell featuring a Black criminal inflicting harm on a White victim.
Universal Pictures releases Unfriended, a horror movie about a mysterious figure trying to seek revenge on those who filmed a woman who committed suicide after a public ridicule.
This Spring movie is the desperation of the movie industry. It's a horror movie based off the social networking and online bullying.
Universal Pictures releases Unfriended in April, and its another White teen horror movie. The obvious plot focuses on a teen girl who had a drunk binge and was passed out. Someone filmed her being raped. She gets slut shamed by her social networking friends. She gets depressed. In a dare, she post her suicide on the internet.
A few years later, someone who claims to be her threatens her friends and tormentors.
The obvious bad behavior of White America.
Teenage suicide, underage drinking, posting stupid behavior on the internet and the social networking are common themes among the young.
The real horror is this movie exploiting the deaths of Megan Meier, Phoebe Prince, Tyler Clementi, Carl Walker-Hoover, Kenneth Weishuhn, Lelah Alcorn, and every life lost to suicide. These individuals committed suicide due to online bullying.
This also brings up the Stuebenville rape controversy. The young woman who was raped in 2011 by M'alik Richmond and Trent Mays was a targeted by her friends.
Are you interested in this movie?
Do you believe that Hollywood ran out of ideas when it comes to movies?
Hannah Graham is missing. The law is looking into a man who was last seen with her.
The junk food media is going to Virginia in the search of a missing college student.
We here at Journal de la Reyna hope for a safe return for Hannah Graham.
Hannah is a 18 year old University of Virginia student who went missing last week. The FBI and Charlottesville police are intensifying the search for her. They also are looking into a 32 year old man from the area. According to the witnesses he was the last person to see her. His acquaintance with the young woman has driven him to be the "person of interest" in the disappearance of her.
Jesse Matthew is a 32 year old Black male who is considered a suspect in the disappearance of Hannah. Matthew at first was willing to allow the law interview him, but all of sudden had a change of tune.
Jesse Matthew is a person of interest.
Charlottesville chief Tim Longo said during a Sunday afternoon press conference. Matthew, is wanted on two counts of reckless driving after Virginia State Police saw him speed away from Charlottesville police headquarters Saturday.
Longo said Matthew walked into the station and asked for a lawyer late Saturday afternoon. After he spoke with a lawyer, Longo said Matthew left the station, got into a vehicle with another person and sped off.
State and federal investigators followed the vehicle, but had to give up the pursuit because the vehicle was traveling too fast.
“State and federal authorities who were overtly monitoring his movement saw him get into a car and leave a location to Albemarle County at a high rate of speed, driving in a matter that was reckless and placed others in danger,” Chief Longo said.
Accordingly, Virginia State Police charged Matthew with two counts of reckless driving, a Class 1 misdemeanor, and an arrest warrant was issued.
Longo said he would not speculate on why Matthew sped off, but said investigators are “aggressively pursuing his location.”
Longo also pointed out that while at the police station, Matthew did not give investigators any additional information about his interaction with Graham at the Tempo bar and restaurant.
“I believe Jesse Matthew was the last person she was seen with before she vanished off the face of the earth,” Longo said. “It’s been a week and we can’t find her. It’s been a week and someone has got to know something.”
That said, the police chief reminded the community, “Don’t get tunnel vision just because we have a name.”
Again, that person of interest is not a suspect. It is a witness that may offer insight to a crime. That may change if they can prove that evidence found could link Matthew to the disappearance.
However, police would not comment Sunday on whether Matthew and Graham were captured on surveillance video getting into Matthew’s car.
“I think he can help us find Hannah Graham,” Longo reiterated. “We want to talk to him about his interaction with a sweet young girl we cannot find.”
Hannah's grieving parents John and Susan Graham are hoping that Matthew could help. They're outraged that he would not talk about the last night he saw the 18 year old woman.
Matthew is described as a black male with dreadlocks, six feet two inches tall and weighing about 270 pounds.
Graham's disappearance has sent a ripple of fear through the quiet college town of Charlottesville.
Students have said they've begun walking in pairs at night and are paying closer attention to their surroundings. More than 1,000 volunteers also participated in a weekend search for Hannah Graham, according to authorities.
Graham's parents appeared at a Sunday news conference where her father, John Graham, appealed for anyone with information to call a police tip line.
"This is every parent's worst nightmare," John Graham said. "We need to find out what happened to Hannah and make sure it happens to no one else."
According to family members and police, Graham is an alpine skier and plays the alto saxophone.
Organizers of a candlelight vigil last week at the university handed out her favorite candy, Starburst.
Longo said he learned from visiting with Graham's parents that the graduate of West Potomac High School earned straight A's six years in a row.
The racist right loves Black on White crime stories. They may have hit the jackpot with this controversy. The victim is White and the suspect is Black. Enough said, cue the outrage from the racist right.
They are so worked on calling Black men "natural born criminals". After all Black men are dating White women. That is a growing trend. I am certain that the racist right isn't too pleased over the fact that a White woman is smooching on a Black man. They already assume that the guy killed the woman.
Of course they'll blame President Barack Obama, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and every other victim of gun crime that happens to be Black.
The junk food media always (and I mean always) focuses on the missing pretty White woman. They figured that if she's a pretty blonde White girl between the ages of 14 to 25, its a ratings grabbing event.
Obviously the ambulance chasers are often rushing with cameras in tow. They obsess over the suspect history and draw conclusions to what happened without knowing the facts. They perceive guilt over innocence. They create this narrative that every event in America has to always have a damsel in distress and a hero to come to her aid. I mean some women know how to fight off an attacker. If the suspect was injured in an encounter, you would notice wounds.
One thing is clear, this guy is on the run and he's got something to hide. Hopeful we can find Hannah safe and sound.
Ohio Republican governor John Kasich cheers on the Cleveland kidnapping survivors, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight (now Lily Rose Lee).
Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry had overcome the odds.
A year ago in Cleveland on a quiet street, the yells of a young woman. Local neighbors were startled by a young woman and her child pleading for them to call the police. The young woman would tell the tales of being held captive in the house and tells the world that she's Amanda Berry.
Amanda Berry was kidnapped in 2003. She was leaving her job at Burger King when out of nowhere she would disappear. Her disappearance sparked national coverage.
She would tell the neighbors that two other women were in the home of this crazy man named Ariel Castro.
The other women were Michelle Knight, a young mother who ran away and Gina DeJesus, then a teenager who was walking home from school and was abducted in 2004.
Three women were held captive in a Cleveland area home. They spent nearly a decade in an old Seymour Avenue home being enslaved by Castro.
Castro, a former school bus driver and local musician held these women against their will. He would torture them, rape them and cause them miscarriages.
Castro would rape Amanda and father a child by her. He would beat Gina and Michelle when they couldn't bore his children. They would sit in a separate room in a well secured home.
Castro was a divorced father of four. He divorced his wife after he abused her. According to the law, Castro would have a sexual fetish. The man would troll the stroll for hookers and occasionally meet women on social networks. Castro feared rejection.
Castro groomed a distraught Michelle after she lost custody of her son. She would be the first victim of the horrors.
On May 6, Castro and his brothers would leave to take care of an errand. Amanda would find a portion of his home that had a broken door. She would use that broken door to escape.
Cleveland Police, the FBI and Cuyahoga County Sheriff would gather around the Seymour Avenue home grabbing evidence and reveal to the junk food media about this home being a "place of horrors".
Deep inside Castro's home was hidden rooms. Those hidden rooms and his basement were padlocked.
Castro's four grown children would be advised not to stroll around his home too much. He would regularly attend church, have relationships with women and troll for hookers. When he was done, he would go back home and have his three.
Castro's arrest ended the horror. When interviewed by the law, he would tell them that he "let his guard down" and he was thankful for allowing the law to catch him. When he was to go to trial, he wanted to plea not guilty knowing that if he was found guilty he would be given the gas chamber. So he copped a plea. That plea meant for him to give up his home, his assets would go to the victims, he would have no contact with his family or the victims, and he would spend the rest of his life in the iron college with no parole.
He took the deal. And off he goes to Orient Lockup. After a few months in the iron college, Castro would hang himself. The law knew he was suicidal, but somehow two correction guards got the pinkslip after Castro put the blankets around a bar and let his neck slide between them.
As a year passes by, I've read that the three women were award a victim's compensation and are trying to adjust to their lives.
They still live in the Cleveland area. Michelle Knight, 33 year old has distanced herself from the events. She no longer talks to Amanda Berry or Gina DeJesus. She would change her name to Lily Rose Lee, got tattooed and pierced. She reunited with her family and her son. She is attending a cooking school.
Gina DeJesus, 24 and Amanda Berry, 27 are going to be Washington, DC this week to meet with the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children. They will accept an award for their bravery and speak to national speakers including Elizabeth Smart, a survivor of a kidnapping in the 1990s.
Amanda and Michelle are mothers of children.
We here at Journal de la Reyna wish those three young women the very best. Personally, I wish each woman well. They've survived a madman's horror. They are truly loved and blessed.
We love you Michelle (Lily), Amanda and Gina! We hope that you can move forward in your lives.
The smirk of an unapologetic young woman who failed the breathalyzer test. The woman posted on the social networks that she deliberately cheated the court ordered test.
You can't win......
You can't fix stupid!
Or both?
Who knows?
Anyway, as I click on The Huffington Post today, I look at their Weird News section. It was labeled the most dumbest crime to ever happen.
A young woman from Michigan goes to county lock up for doing something that professionals see as the death of a working career. She posts on Facebook her actions unbeknownst of a judge.
Part of a court order probation, Colleen Cudney was to stay away from the booze. She was required to take a breathalyzer test on order of the court.
She passed the test with flying colors.
She would later post on Facebook that she made an "achievement".
Unfortunately, she added a few extra things to the posting and of course confessed that she deliberately sabotaged the test.
For you see, Ms. Cudney, 22 did have a good St. Patrick's Day. She got wasted and must of seek advice from people who have no business telling her to beat a rap.
Investigators say she posted this: “Buzz killer for me, I had to breathalyze (sic) this morning and I drank yesterday but I passed thank god lol my dumba@@."
Anita Brown, a resident of Oak Park, says she didn't find Cudney's post humorous at all.
"I hope they throw the book at you young lady because it's sad that you did something like that because you could hurt someone or kill someone," Brown said.
A Westland police officer saw her post that morning and notified the probation office. When a probation officer called Cudney to return to the office for an urine test, she hung up the phone.
Probation officials say that was a violation of her probation. It was set to end in a few weeks.
An urine test would have detected if Cudney had anything to drink in the 80 hours prior to taking it, probation officials said.
Local 4 went by her house Thursday afternoon and were told no comment. Her Facebook post is sparking a lot of comments on the streets.
"People post some crazy things. They don't even think before they do anything," said Thomas Boyce, of Inkster.
Cudney is due in court on April 1st for a probation hearing. She could be sentenced to 93 days in jail.
She will also get a lifetime of shaming because the story went viral.
On top of that, she may get death threats, the possibility of losing her job, and/or the possibility of never driving again. Cause when you get behind a wheel while intoxicated, you put your life and others at risk for death.
So here's a lesson in American culture.
DON'T POST SOMETHING THAT MAY LAND YOU IN THE IRON COLLEGE! DON'T POST SOMETHING THAT MAY ATTRACT UNWANTED ATTENTION! DON'T POST SOMETHING THAT YOU MAY REGRET IF YOUR FAMILY OR FRIENDS SEE IT! DON'T POST ALL YOUR BUSINESS OUT THERE! SOMEONE IS ALWAYS LOOKING! WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME FOR YOU TO MAKE A MISTAKE! IF YOU POST SOMETHING ONLINE AND IT'S EMBARRASSING! IT'S THERE FOREVER!
