Ex-Boyfriend Kills DV Victim

JACKSON, MI - A tragic end to the search for a missing Mississippi college student. Authorities say the ex-boyfriend of Latasha Norman has led police to her body.

Stanley Dwayne Cole is being charged with murder.

Norman was last seen leaving class on November 13th. The body of the Jackson State University accounting major was discovered Thursday off a sparsely populated road next to some old tires and empty beer bottles. It's not clear how long she had been there.

Authorities say Norman had been the target of attacks in the weeks before her disappearance.

Cole had been facing a simple assault charge for allegedly hitting Norman.

Commentary - That body was not "discovered." HE LED POLICE TO IT. It is not some coincidence that he just happened to be the person who knew where it was. Do not use language to obscure the awful truth. He dumped her body "next to some old tires and empty beer bottles."

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Ex-Police Chief Pleads Guilty To Raping Motorist

SAWYER, OK - A former police chief from a town in southeastern Oklahoma has pleaded guilty to raping a driver after pulling her over.

Coke Douglas Makerney admitted that while he was the chief in Sawyer, he had sex with a woman at an intersection against her will after the traffic stop.

A federal grand jury indicted Coke Douglas Makerney earlier this month on one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.

Makerney could spend up to life in prison and pay up to $250,000 in fines.

Makerney, 48, entered the guilty plea Thursday.

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Ex-Boyfriend Kills Pregnant DV Victim

BETHANY, OK - Bethany police confirmed that a missing pregnant woman was found Friday morning at a wildlife refuge in northwest Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma state medical examiner said Lauren Barnes, 20, was asphyxiated, and the man accused of killing her allegedly told a friend that he choked her to death. Barnes was found dead on Friday at the Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge after a weeklong search.

Eric Phan, 20, who turned himself in on Wednesday night, is accused of killing Barnes, who has been missing since Friday. Bethany police believe this case is a homicide. Phan has not been charged with anything yet, but he is being held at the Oklahoma County Jail. Neither Phan nor his attorney are willing to comment about the case yet.

Police said that Phan and Barnes met at Eldon Lyon Park to discuss issues about Barnes' pregnancy relative to paternity. Phan told police that he doesn't believe he is the father; however, police said that Barnes sent a text message to her sister at 8:40 p.m. Friday saying that she was meeting the baby's father.

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Peterson case: Did cops protect one of their own?

Story Highlights

• NEW: Police called 18 times in two years, but Sgt. Drew Peterson never arrested
• Domestic disturbance calls involved third wife, Kathleen Savio, now dead
• Fourth wife Stacy Peterson has been missing since October 28
• Police have named Peterson a suspect in Stacy's disappearance

Commentary - The answer is that, yes, they protected "their own," i.e. abusive controlling men protecting other abusive controlling men. The answer is always yes.

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Man abuses girlfriend by slipping her pills, causing multiple miscarriages

A Wisconsin man is accused of slipping his mistress a pill to cause her to miscarry. CNN's Sunny Hostin video reports.

Commentary - This post is scary for a number of reasons -- (1) because most violence against women and children is committed by intimate partners (2) because so many states, and the federal government, have created a law that if construed improperly could make choosing an abortion a felony murder charge, and (3) because this subhuman used one of the few desperate measure's a woman has to protect her own independence to commit a heinous act.

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Two DV Victims Killed as Abuser Violates Restraining Order, Shooting Them, Himself

COLUMBIA, SC - Willa Beasley's daughters tried to protect their mother from her husband's beatings and the alcoholism that was jeopardizing their family's home and farm. They paid with their lives.

Court documents obtained after Alton Beasley's double murder-suicide this week in Aiken, South Carolina, paint a picture of a troubled man who alternately threatened and hit his wife of 39 years and pleaded with her to return to him.

The marriage of my parents Willa and Alton Beasley has been volatile all of my life," she wrote. "The bruises were noticed in April and never seemed to go away."

Willa Beasley left the couple's home in Aiken at the end of July and moved in with daughter Elizabeth Beasley in Townville.

By September, she started divorce proceedings and got an emergency restraining order against her husband, said her attorney, Thomas Dunaway. The daughters sold some of the family's land to pay the bills.

On Tuesday, the estranged couple were back in court for a divorce hearing. Dunaway said Alton Beasley pushed and shoved his wife and had "a verbal altercation" with the judge. Afterward, law officers had to escort Alton Beasley from the courthouse, the lawyer said.

Dunaway said he had a brief conversation with Willa Beasley and her daughters after the hearing. The three left to have lunch at the home of Alton Beasley's parents, William and Mabel.
Then he showed up.

Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton said Alton Beasley shot Anna Loebsack twice, then wounded family friend Eddie Pruitt, whom Dunaway said hid Willa Beasley before her husband could shoot her.

Elizabeth Beasley, 47, tried to run away, but Alton Beasley followed her to a neighbor's yard. He shot her twice before killing himself, Carlton said.

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