Trump: Mitt Romney Is A Pompous Ass!

Trump calls Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) an ass.

An ass calling another one an ass. Ironic.

Donald J. Trump was always an ass. At least, Mitt Romney has more class than our current occupier of the White House.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is a vote for Trump. However, he is a harsh critic of Trump. He supports Trump about 94% of the time. That 6% of the time is criticism of his handling of a controversy that could have him impeached.

As many of you know, Trump is facing an impeachment inquiry involving him asking Ukraine to dig up dirt on Democratic candidate Joe Biden. His blatant admission of asking for foreign help in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election has many within the Republican Party nervous.

They want to defend him. How can you defend the indefensible?

Enter Romney.

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 4, 2019

By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 4, 2019

Most Republicans, who are currently scattered across the country for a two-week recess, have remained silent on Trump publicly suggesting that foreign governments investigate a potential 2020 rival.

But Romney is part of a small group of Republicans who have spoken out this week, though none have backed the impeachment inquiry against Trump.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), in a statement on Thursday night, said "Americans don’t look to Chinese commies for the truth," while also knocking House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for running a "partisan clown show in the House."

Retiring Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) told CNN's "New Day" that he thought Trump's comments were "terrible."

Romney's comments on Trump asking for the Chinese government to investigate the Bidens come as he also voiced concerns about the phone call where Trump asked the Ukrainian government to help his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, look into the issue. There's been no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden.

"I did read the transcript. It remains troubling in the extreme. It's deeply troubling," Romney told reporters last week. "Clearly what we've seen from the transcript itself is deeply troubling."

Romney became one of the first GOP senators to raise concerns about the phone call. The public questioning earned him mockery from the president, who tweeted out a video comparing Romney's failed 2012 presidential bid with his own victory four years later.

Enter Trump.

Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my statement on China pertained to corruption, not politics. If Mitt worked this hard on Obama, he could have won. Sadly, he choked!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2019

Mitt Romney never knew how to win. He is a pompous “ass” who has been fighting me from the beginning, except when he begged me for my endorsement for his Senate run (I gave it to him), and when he begged me to be Secretary of State (I didn’t give it to him). He is so bad for R’s!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2019

Trump today launched an attack on Romney by calling the senator a "pompous ass" and acknowledged his failure to defeat his 2012 rival, Barack Obama. He also hinted the fact that Romney is a carpetbagger.

Trump and Romney have feuded with regularity in recent years, with Trump regularly referring to Romney's 2012 defeat to President Barack Obama. Romney, earlier this year, penned an op-ed in which he attacked Trump’s conduct and said, "he has not risen to the mantle of the office."

Matthew Knowles: Breast Cancer Affects Men!

Beyonce's father Matthew Knowles has breast cancer.

The former manager of Destiny's Child and father of Queen Bey (Beyonce Knowles-Carter) reveals he has breast cancer. The media mogul revealed he is being treated for breast cancer.

He said it all started with a few drops of blood on his shirt and pillow.

I noticed because I wear white T-shirts. I had a dot of blood on my T-shirt.

The first day I was like "Oh, OK, no big deal ... maybe it’s something that just got on my T-shirt." Second day I looked and the same thing and I was like, "Eh ... interesting."

Then on the third day I was like, "What is this? I wonder what this is."

A couple of days passed, and I didn’t have any type of discharge. Then on the fifth day, another, just a tiny drop of blood. I told my wife, I said, "Look at this," And she says, "You know, when I cleaned the sheets the other day I saw a drop of blood on it, and I didn’t pay any attention to it -- but this is kind of weird." I immediately went to my doctor.

The Knowles family. 

When I had the blood on my T-shirt initially I didn’t think it was breast cancer. My mind went a lot of places. My mind went to what medication I was on, because different medications might have caused some sort of discharge ... and then I thought, just because of the risk factor, that it could be breast cancer and I would go get a mammogram.

For context, in 1980 I worked in the medical division of Xerox. I worked there for eight years, selling Xeroradiography, which was at that point the leading modality for breast cancer.

Knowles went to the doctor and got a mammogram and confirmed he did, in fact, have breast cancer. He immediately got surgery and a BRCA test, a genetic test which shows if a person has a higher risk of developing breast cancer.

"I am going to get the second breast removed in January, because I want to do anything I can to reduce the risk," Knowles said.

He also revealed a family history of the disease: his maternal aunt died of breast cancer, as did two cousins. "My kids have a 50- to 70-percent chance of getting the BRCA mutation and breast cancer. That's male or female," he said. "We used to think this was only an issue for women, but this is male or female."

'The Cleveland Strangler': The Story of a Brutal Serial Killer & His For...

At least 11 black women were raped and killed on Cleveland's East side between 2007 and 2009 by a man named Anthony Sowell. It's one of the worst cases of serial murder in recent history and has been largely left untold.



For Wilbert L. Cooper, who was born and raised in Cleveland, the real story lies in how Sowell was able to get away with these heinous acts for two years. These crimes say as much about the depraved killer as they do about race, class, and law enforcement in the City of Cleveland.



Wilbert goes home to dive back into the case that's haunted the city, meeting with some of Sowell's surviving victims, family members of the deceased, and the police officers who put Sowell on death row.



May the victims rest in peace and may the families of the victims, living and dead, find help and solace. 



Never again.  Never again.

Diahann Carroll Passed Away!

Diahann Carroll passes away.

American actress Diahann Carroll has passed away at the age of 84. According to her daughter, the actress had died after battling cancer. Carroll is best known for her roles in screen and television.

Born in The Bronx, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) was an American actress, singer, and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 1959. In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for a black woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings.

Her 1968 debut in Julia, the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s she played the role of a mixed-race diva in the primetime soap opera Dynasty.

Carroll would work steadily in TV throughout the 1970s and returned to the stage in 1983 to become the first black actress to replace a white actress in a dramatic role with Agnes of God, but it would be the role of Dominique Deveraux on Dynasty that would cement Carroll as a legend.

Deveraux was the jet-setting and glamorous rival half-sister to Blake Carrington, putting her toe-to-toe with Joan Collins as Alexis Carrington Colby. The starring role just so happened to also be the first time a primetime soap had a black lead.

Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In A Television Series in 1968. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for the 1974 film Claudine.

The 1990s would see Carroll star in projects of particular importance to the black audiences and entertainers she inspired, starring as Whitley Gilbert’s mother on A Different World, and appearing in Robert Townsend projects like The Five Heartbeats and Jackie’s Back.

In more recent years, Carroll was one of the select actresses to play Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of Sunset Boulevard, and gained a new generation of fans as Jane Burke, mother of Dr. Preston Burke on Grey’s Anatomy, as well as savvy landlord June on the USA series White Collar.

Carroll wrote two memoirs, Diahann! in 1986 and The Legs Are the Last to Go in 2008.

She was also a breast cancer survivor and activist.

Carroll was married four times, first to record producer Monte Kay in 1956. Her father boycotted the wedding ceremony which was presided over by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. The marriage ended in 1962. The union produced a daughter, Suzanne Kay Bamford (born September 9, 1960), who became a freelance media journalist. In 1959, Carroll began a nine-year affair with married actor Sidney Poitier. She claimed that Poitier persuaded her to divorce her husband and he would leave his wife to be with her. When Carroll got her divorce, Poitier did not keep up his end of the bargain, yet the relationship continued until 1968. Carroll dated and was engaged to British television host and producer David Frost from 1970 until 1973.

In 1973, Carroll surprised the press by marrying Las Vegas boutique owner Fred Glusman. Several weeks later, she filed for divorce, charging Glusman with physical abuse.

In 1975, Carroll married Robert DeLeon, a managing editor of Jet. She was widowed two years later when DeLeon was killed in a car crash.

Carroll's fourth marriage was to singer Vic Damone in 1987. The union, which Carroll admitted was turbulent, had a legal separation in 1991, reconciliation, and divorce in 1996.

Carroll was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She said the diagnosis "stunned" her because there was no family history of breast cancer and she had always had a healthy lifestyle. She underwent nine weeks of radiation therapy, and was clear since. She frequently spoke on the need for early detection and prevention of the disease.

Carroll was among the trailblazing black women Halle Berry paid tribute in her historic 2002 Oscar acceptance speech, and will long be remembered for her enormous contributions not only to entertainment but to the country.

Pumpkin Seeds!

Another weak jobs report.

The jobs report is out once again and it shows that 136,000 jobs were added for the month of September. The expected gains were 145,000 but it was offset for issues involving the weather. There are other factors as well. The tariffs also put a dent in the economy.

Donald J. Trump and Republicans aren't touting the jobs report because they know the writing is on the wall. It's not good.

You're telling me that for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the five U.S. territories, those 136,000 jobs were spread across. A population of 335.6 million.

Right.

Jobs are on the line: The service industry. Kmart, Sears, Forever 21, Kroger, Walmart are laying people off and closing up locations.

Kroger and Walmart will survive.

Also the strike with GM is affecting the global impact of vehicle sales.

Many companies are filing for bankruptcy and closing up locations.

Unemployment drops to its lowest since 1969. Do you believe it?

Unemployment rate heads to 3.5 percent.

The weak jobs reports has forecasters predicting a recession is coming.

There got to be at least 164 million Americans not working a current time. So that means the jobs are either not paying well enough, folks are retiring or folks are dead.

We have over a lot of candidates running for the Democratic nomination. No candidate has emerged as a viable candidate to take on Trump. Impeachment talk is on the table. Trump's presidency is on the line.

Those die-hard Trump supporters will say that his leadership is successful. All the while, they find that their average wages are stalling. Many of these Trump supporters probably lost their jobs. Some are probably losing their homes due to flooding, wildfires and foreclosure.

Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen.

Real Reason To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is!

1. DEAD

2. BORN

3. IN PRISON

4. IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

5. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

6. IN HIGH SCHOOL

7. IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING

8. VOLUNTEER

9. DISABLED 

10. STAY AT HOME PARENT

11. RETIRED

12. QUIT ON THEIR OWN

13. NOT HIRING QUALIFIED

14. NATURAL DISASTERS

15. ACTIVE MILITARY 

16. NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED

17. LAID OFF

18. FIRED FROM THE JOB

19. DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY

20. OUTSOURCING

21. IMMIGRANTS TOO AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED BY I.C.E.

22. SHAMED BY SOCIAL MEDIA

Let me remind you, that Trump and Republicans believe austerity is the key to a strong economy and job market. The Republicans are not in control of the House of Representatives. The Democrats now control the House and will push for an agenda that Trump will likely oppose. Republicans in the Senate will continue to pass ridiculous laws that hurt the working class and middle class. They are already streamlining federal judges that could rollback years of progress.

The inept Senate leadership of Mitch McConnell is slowly getting covered. He is leading our country into the abyss. The Senate is delaying legislation on sensible gun reform. McConnell and many Republicans are fearful of the NRA and white gun owners. They clearly are ignoring the rest of America being fed up with these constant mass shootings.

Trump and Republicans believe that trickle down economics (i.e. free market capitalism) is helping Americans. Really, it's making people work harder and we're not seeing the benefits of it. So far private equity firms are buying corporations and piling on debt. These corporations can't sustain the debt and are forced to declare bankruptcy and eventually liquidation. Many of our nation's largest companies and start-ups have equity firms investing in them. When the firms want their money, they're going to get their money.

With Republicans trying to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, many of Trump's die hard supporters are going to get a culture shock when they find out their health coverage from their employer is terminated it because they are no longer forced to provide it. Or they'll keep hours lower to keep people from obtaining health insurance.

The Jobs and Tax Cut Act has added trillions of dollars of debt to the economy. The results of the tax cuts haven't produced the stability. It's still considered a very unpopular law.

Trump is destroying the economy. I won't say anything positive about him. Regardless of what happens, this is short-term success.

Forever 21 Begins The Slow Bleed!

Forever 21 begins its demise.

On Monday, Forever 21 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. That means to stop the company from completely going out out business (Chapter 7 liquidation), the company will shave off about nearly 1/2 of their stores. Foot traffic, weak sales and leasing space are some of the reasons to why companies go out of business.

Of course, my community was affected.

Dayton, Ohio has a population of 135,000 residents. Montgomery County, Ohio has a residency population of 832,000 residents. The Dayton metro region has a population of 1.1 million residents.

Cincinnati has a population of 302,000 residents. Hamilton County, Ohio has a residency population of 959,000 residents. The Cincinnati metro region has a population of 2.6 million residents.

Four stores that are affected are in Dayton and Cincinnati area.

The Dayton Mall, Kenwood Mall, Liberty Center and Tanger Outlet Jeffersonville are on the list of closures. The struggling apparel company announced they were filing for bankruptcy and issued a statement that the company is shutting down 300 stores.

The company describes itself as the authority on fashion and the go-to retailer for the latest trends, styles and hottest deals. What got them was the equity firm that purchased them and piled them with enormous debt.

The planned closures represent a third of the Forever 21's fleet of stores in the U.S.

Stores are affected in 32 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

So of the 300 stores, there will 249 stores remaining (for the time being).

Donald J. Trump's economy is tanking. He's too dumb to realize that Americans are losing their jobs.

Glady's Wade Encounter With Serial Killer Anthony Sowell back in 2008

Gladys Wade is the one who survived.

This month, it will be a decade since ​Anthony Sowell was arrested for raping and strangling 11 women in Cleveland. He committed six of those murders after police botched an investigation into Gladys Wade’s 2008 allegation that Sowell had attacked her.

The detective in that case failed to tell prosecutors that Sowell was a convicted rapist. She later admitted that she had failed even to review evidence gathered by patrol officers.

Sowell walked out of jail two days after his arrest. Just under a year later, police searched his home on Imperial Avenue and found ten bodies and one human skull. Had Wade’s case been seriously investigated, many of those women presumably would be alive today.

Even before the Sowell murders, The Plain Dealer had reported for decades on persistent problems within the city’s sex crimes unit, mostly concerning inadequate staffing. Afterward, The Plain Dealer discovered that detectives had failed to send thousands of rape kits in for DNA testing, leaving hundreds of serial rapists free to attack again.

This is a story of Gladys Wade and how Cleveland Police botched up her case back in 2008.  This is sad that women, especially Black women, have their rape case dismissed as unfounded, their reputations attacked by the very same law enforcement people who were sworn to protect.



Gladys Wade, like all of the other victims, is a recovering drug addict. She testified today that Sowell attacked her at his home in December 2008. She said Sowell punched her in the face and choked her.

According to court documents, Gladys Wade had never seen Anthony Sowell before he wished her a Merry Christmas and asked her to share a beer nearly 10 years ago. She said no thank you. He wouldn't let her pass.

When she tried to push by him, he punched her in the face and dragged her toward the back of his house. He choked her and she blacked out. She awoke on the third floor.

"B****, take off your clothes," he demanded. Wade clawed at his eyes. She kicked and screamed. At some point, she reached between his legs, grabbed and twisted. She careered down some steps, smashing her hand through glass in a door.

Shivering in a thermal shirt and jeans and bleeding from a gash in her thumb, Wade flagged down a police cruiser.

Officers called EMS - she would need stitches - and noted the red marks on her throat. They arrested Sowell and took shots of the blood on the walls and stairs of his house, and of Wade's black and white sweater, shoved into a trash can.


Detective Georgia Hussein caught the case but never talked to the arresting officers in an investigation which a defense expert said was best described "as shoddy, incomplete, and biased."

When asked at that same deposition if police brass ever questioned her work in the Wade investigation, Hussein said that then police chief Michael McGrath assured her that "he felt I had done my job," she said . . . "Basically commending me, saying the mayor's office felt I did my job."


Under Ohio law, cities and their employees are not responsible for harm they cause because of negligence. However, they are liable if their employees were reckless, defined as "a perverse disregard of a known risk."

Based on a review of the evidence, a three-judge panel in the Eighth District Court of Appeals found that "reasonable minds" could conclude that "Det. Hussein acted in a reckless manner."

Now it's up to a jury to decide. Also under Ohio law, the city has to cover any damages Hussein is assessed.

Hussein retired in 2010. And Moore? She and the other women have hung together through years of motions and setbacks and settlement conferences that go nowhere.

She can't help but feel the city is trying to wear them down. Tire them out. But they won't give up.

For that they deserve our thanks.

A big verdict against the city might motivate change, says Wade's lawyer Blake Dickson.

If city officials are having such a hard time admitting the Wade investigation was so deficient that it could hardly be called an investigation at all, how can any of us expect current and future rape cases to be handled any better?


The city owes us something too - a place to feel safe.

Fox News Fires Todd Starnes Out The Cannon!

Todd Starnes fell over the cliff. Fox News decided to let his dumb ass fall off that cliff.

Finally, that far-white network fired that white extremist out the cannon!

Fox News got rid of that bigot.

Todd Starnes' contract with Fox News is not being renewed. TheWrap has learned that the far-white agitator is no longer on the network, Fox News Radio and Fox Nation.

He made headlines on Monday claiming that the Democratic Party do not believe in the Christian God and instead may worship Moloch, a pagan god that associates with child scarifice.

Starnes was a white nationalist. He was openly spewing bullshit on radio and television. He was openly being a racist white dick.

Another conservative agitator falls. Todd Starnes was fired from Fox News. Who will be the next conservative agitator to fall? (Expect trolls to pick the dumbest answers)

Ann Coulter John Solomon Michelle Malkin Mark Levin Jeanine Pirro Tomi Lahren Candace Owens Tucker Carlson Lou Dobbs

Ben Garrison Laura Ingraham Ben Shapiro The Drudge Report The Gateway Pundit Fox & Friends Newsmax TV Rush Limbaugh Sean "Softball" Hannity

Fox News Radio will no longer have The Todd Starnes Show. It will be replaced with Fox Across America. Who's gonna replace this white nationalist?

Harris Faulkner, Greg Gutfeld and Stuart Varney are likely nominees to fill that spot.

Fox News confirmed that he's fired out the cannon.

For at least 10 years, folks were focused on Bill O'Reilly, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham. Starnes fell behind them. He practically got away with it.

His bullshit carnival was promoting anti-Black, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, anti-women and anti-Islamic rhetoric.

I am glad he's gone. I mean he's not truly gone. He'll find a new place to loiter. I have a feeling he'll end up on The Blaze, Newsmax TV or One America Network. These outlets want to compete for Donald J. Trump's attention.

Good riddance to Todd Starnes and wannabes like him.

I am waiting for the day Fox News gets rid of folks like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean "Softball" Hannity.

To quote Trump, "This will be HUGE!!!"

Bernie Sanders Had A Health Scare!

Bernie Sanders had a health scare while campaigning.

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a health scare.

Sanders had a emergency heart procedure. It was a blockage in his artery. They gave him two stents in his heart. The lawmaker shrugs off the concerns of his age being a factor.

Sanders is hoping to get back on the campaign trail.

Sanders will be in Columbus, Ohio for the CNN Democratic Debate.

According to the Sanders campaign, the lawmaker experienced chest discomfort in one artery.

He was doing a campaign stop in Las Vegas.

In a statement from his official campaign social media, he thanks his well-wishes and promises to return back to the campaign trail with spirits.

"Thank for all the well wishes. I'm good. I'm fortunate to have good health care and great doctors and nurses helping me recover. None of us know when a medical emergency might affect us. And no one should fear going bankrupt if it occurs. Medicare for all!"

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Andrew Yang, Julian Castro, Tom Steyer and Beto O'Rourke will be on stage with Sanders at Otterbein College in Westerville, a suburb of the Columbus area.

We only hope the best for Bernie Sanders.

The polls say that Sanders, Warren and Biden are the leading contenders.

Dime For Dirty Cop!

Former Texas cop goes to the iron college for 10 years.

The former Dallas cop who shot and killed Botham Jean was convicted of murder. Texas state law for murder is 5 to LIFE. It seems like the jury decide on the fate of this woman.

The family of Jean even felt a few tears rolling down their faces. When the dirty cop entered Jean's home, she shot him in the chest. She didn't render aid. She didn't care about his life. She was more concerned about her job and future.

The jury decided that she should spend a dime of her life in the iron college. That's equivalent to involuntary manslaughter.

Botham Shem Jean's death is vindicated.

The former cop's conviction means that she loses her pension. She will no longer work as a police officer ever again. She will have to pay back the costs of funeral expenses and find comfort that she didn't get LIFE.

Prosecutors had urged the jury to give a punishment of no less than 28 years, while the dirty cop's defense attorneys wanted to show leniency.

A moment of comfort is the fact that one of Jean's brothers came over to hug the dirty cop while she was sobbing. That was a sign of forgiveness.

The dirty cop's mother and sister as well as a former drug addict came to her defense.

The prosecutors had exposed some of her social media presence. In her now deleted Facebook, she shared some offensive and racist postings. In a text message, a cop shared a  meme with her about a racist dog.

Some of the most embarrassing things were shared. Her admitted affair with a dirty cop who was married with children. Her family posting Trump-themed memes.

Botham Jean's brother hugs the former cop as she is now an intern of the Texas penal system.

The dirty cop can file for an appeal. It is risky though. If she gets convicted again, the time could be longer.

Justice was served for Botham Jean. He didn't deserve to die.

The dirty cop wasn't concerned about his life. Even though, she puts on the tears and apologies, her actions shows reckless contempt for human life. She had a Taser and pepper spray. She choose to use deadly force.

She shoots a man inside his own apartment. Had she gotten a trial in a Republican-friendly county, she would have walked.

Mendelsons Is Out Of Business!

Dayton's longtime stable Mendelsons is going out of business. The developers of Water Street are working on refurbishing it to upscale housing.

Thifters are going to be disappointed. Dayton's own Mendelsons is closing.They are going to see their favorite nick-nack store going out of business. Local business man Sandy Mendelson is retiring.

He has decided to sell his store to the developers of the Water Street district near the Fifth Third Baseball stadium.

Columbus development company Crawford Hoying is working on turning the property to upscale apartments and small businesses.

The store was located on East 1st Street in downtown Dayton.

Mendelsons was a stable of the community.

They were the last places in the Midwest to have a elevator operator.

The deal could net Sandy Mendelson and his employees $100 million. The deal is still in the works and Brent Crawford is hoping the deal with be win-win for Dayton.

"It's another addition to our ongoing property there, so we're pretty excited about it," said Crawford in a phone interview.

So before Mendelsons closes their doors forever, you might want to pick up that discount item that you may never find in the local stores.

It was a stable of Dayton for over 50 years. It was dubbed "The First Place To Look For Every Last Thing."

The company was started by Sandy's father Harry Mendelson. The property had 1 million square feet of warehouse space and inside loading dock facilities, Mendelsons handles surplus and liquidation inventory from one box to 50 truckloads.

Dayton has lost a lot of great companies. Mendelsons was a stable of great companies.

Diane Turner

Diane Turner and her children

This is a story about the tragedy of an attractive woman named Diane Turner. Her story is the most difficult to write because she had so much tragedy in her life.

Diane Turner poised for a comeback in 2001.

One by one, her five children had been taken away. She had spent years self-medicating her shame and pain away with street drugs.

But she had been sober for 21 months and was pregnant with the daughter of her new boyfriend. She was involved in the church and had finally broken her longtime addiction to crack cocaine. She truly believed she could be a real mom to the little girl she would name Denise.

"When Denise was born was probably the best time of her life," the boyfriend James Martin said. "She was clean. Everything was good."

But like every good thing in Turner's life, it didn't last. Social workers swooped in and removed Denise from her mom's care four days after she was born. Turner fought to get her daughter back, but failed. It shattered her, and she relapsed -- again, Martin said.

After more years of abusing drugs, Turner disappeared in September 2009 -- the last to go missing of the 11 women whose remains were found in a house on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland. Her body was found in a third-floor bedroom of Anthony Sowell's house.

Her remains lingered unidentified in the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office the longest as well. It took more than a month to confirm her identity, because of her tattered family ties.