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Woman Hangs And Burns Nephew’s ‘Devil Dog’ After It Chews Up Her Bible
Miriam Smith, 65, has been charged with animal cruelty after admitting that she hung the pit bull and burned her, because she was a ‘devil dog’.
Smith’s nephew left Diamond, the one-year-old female pit bull with his aunt whom he shared a home with while he went away. When he came back to the home, he found no trace of the dog and had assumed that she managed to free herself from the chain she was normally tied to on the porch. Fortunately, an environmental enforcement officer had come across the dog’s body thanks to the smell of kerosene that was coming from beneath a mound of dried grass.
Diamond was found with an orange extension cord loosely tied around her neck and had some recognizable burns on her body. No animal deserves this kind of treatment for chewing one’s bible. And no one that reads the bible should feel that murdering a helpless animal is a good thing to do. What a sick and twisted woman.
Authorities said bail was not immediately set for Smith, who remains jailed in Spartanburg County, South Carolina after her weekend arrest.
Smith is charged with ill treatment of animals in general, torture, according to an arrest warrant.
She faces 180 days to five years in prison if convicted.
I hope this bitch gets the five years she deserves. Not only did she kill the poor dog, but she did it in the most inhumane way I could imagine. Sadly, diamond had to suffer and struggle for air before having her body burned and tossed away.
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Reality Television Ruined Russell Armstrong’s Life
Dailymail - Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong was at the house when her estranged husband Russell’s dead body was discovered, it has been reported.
The 40-year-old reality star became concerned for Armstrong’s wellbeing when he failed to show up for a meeting they had arranged for on Monday afternoon and did not respond to her phone calls and texts, TMZ claim.
The website alleges that she went to the Mulholland Drive house where her ex was staying with a friend that evening, and raised the alarm with the home owner.
Grief: Reality star Taylor Armstrong was present at the house when her estranged husband Russell’s body was discovered, it has been reported
The owner then looked through Armstrong’s bedroom window and saw his dead body hanging, TMZ claim.
According to the site, the estranged couple had been in regular contact despite her recent allegations that he physically abused her during their marriage.
Following the news of his death, Russell’s photographer pal Tom Vickers says the father of three – who had a five-year-old daughter with Taylor – was struggling to cope with the pressures of fame, saying reality television had ruined his life.
Family portrait: Russell Armstrong with wife Taylor and their daughter Kennedy in June when they chartered a private jet
Vickers, who forged a friendship with Russell over recent months, last spoke to him on August 4.
He told RadarOnline: ‘It’s terrible news. But during our phone call he didn’t sound like the Russell that I knew.’
Vickers said Russell was depressed after Taylor filed for divorce from him amid allegations he physically abused her.
He continued: ‘I told him people don’t believe everything they read and he told me: “It’s funny how a reality show can ruin your entire life”.’
In the last interview before his death, he spoke to website Rumorfix last month about how difficult he found it to live with his new fame, and how it contributed to his marriage break-up.
Fatherless: Russell is survived by his daughter Kennedy, who is sure to be devastated at the news
He said: ‘The pressure of being in the TV spotlight was pretty overwhelming.
‘It took our manageable problems and made them worse. We are very supportive of each other and love each other.
‘I will support her as best I can moving forward.
‘This is a devastating time. We had a wonderful marriage and I don’t want you to get the impression that Taylor and I are bitter enemies — we’re not.
‘We have a beautiful five-year-old daughter who we both love.’
According to Radar Online, the businessman was also concerned over an alleged tell-all book, which was to include ‘extensive details about Russell’s sexual indiscretions and preferences along with sordid secrets which could be deemed by some as deviant behaviour.’
His lawyer Ronald Richards told TMZ he was broke and had been staying at his friend’s house on Mulholland Drive, where he was found.
He said: ‘I feel bad because his credit cards weren’t working. He had tremendous financial problems.
Plush: The house on Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles where Russell Armstrong was found hanged
‘He was also extremely bummed out about the divorce with Taylor.
‘As far as a will, even if he does have a will, they don’t have any assets, so I’m not sure what there would be left to leave.
‘I am extremely saddened, I had no idea he was depressed.’
Ed Winter of the L.A Coroner’s Office said: ‘He hung himself with no suicide note found.’
No drugs or alcohol were found in the bedroom where Russell died and he was fully clothed when his body was discovered.
Lavish: The couple appeared to have it all when they appeared on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills but it was only a facade
His wife Taylor, 40, has accused him of calling her names, grabbing her, shoving her, pulling her hair and throwing objects at her, and had filed for divorce.
According to TMZ she is yet to reveal the heartbreaking news to their daughter.
Armstrong has had two separate restraining orders filed against by him.
The first was by his ex-wife Barbara and the other came from an ex-girlfriend.
In addition, Armstrong has a criminal record, pleading guilty to battery in 1997.
Russell is survived by Kennedy, his five-year-old daughter with Taylor, and Aiden, a 13-year-old son from a previous marriage and a an 11-year-old son with former fiancee Milette Fields.
Disabled Young Lady Held as Sex Slave for 5 Years
A Kirkwood man arrested by the FBI on Thursday was one of four Missouri men who paid a fifth to either watch him torture a mentally disabled woman online or torture her themselves, prosecutors said.
The 20-page federal indictment, unsealed with the men’s arrests Thursday, contains accusations of sexual and physical torture lasting five years, acts that U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips called “among the most horrific ever prosecuted” in the Western District of Missouri.
The alleged torturer, Edward “Master Ed” Bagley Sr., 43, of Lebanon, Mo., tattooed the woman to mark her as his slave, convinced her that she was legally “bound” to him and threatened her, prosecutors said. He also is accused of forcing her to work as a stripper.
Bagley tortured the woman for five years, until he induced a heart attack while suffocating and electrically shocking her on Feb. 27, 2009, prosecutors said. She was hospitalized.
Her hospitalization sparked an 18-month investigation that led to the charges.
Those alleged to be customers for the woman’s forced services included Bradley Cook, 31, of the 11500 block of Big Bend Road in Kirkwood; Dennis Henry, 50, of Wheatland, Mo.; Michael Stokes, 62, of Lebanon; and James Noel, 44, of Springfield, Mo., prosecutors said. Henry’s occupation was listed as postmaster general of Nevada, Mo., but that could not immediately be confirmed Thursday evening. Cook, according to state records, is a licensed real estate broker associate.
The indictment alleges that Bagley met the woman when she was 16 and a runaway and persuaded her to move into his trailer with promises of a “great life” and a future as a model and dancer.
She got her own room, furniture and TV, and Bagley began giving her drugs, showing her pornography and sexually abusing her, prosecutors said.
When she turned 18, he persuaded her to sign a ‘sex slave contract,” which he said bound her to him for life, prosecutors claim.
Bagley “beat, whipped, flogged, suffocated, choked, electrocuted, caned, skewered, drowned, mutilated, hung and caged” the girl “to coerce her to become a ‘sex slave,’” the indictment says. It adds that he tied her up and hung her in the air, locked her in a dog cage and used staples, nails and a sewing needle and thread during torture sessions too violent to describe.
In 2005, Bagley began boasting online that the girl was his slave and could be tortured during online sessions or in person, the indictment says.
Henry, Stokes, Noel and Cook gave Bagley cash, cigarettes, computer equipment, sadomasochism videos, coats and meat in exchange for access to the girl, the indictment says.
If she cried out or tried to stop the torture, it only got worse, prosecutors said. Bagley threatened her by claiming to have buried other bodies behind his trailer home and shooting animals that she cared for in front of her, prosecutors said.
Bagley also performed abortions on the girl, the indictment says.
The indictment says Cook, the Kirkwood man, downloaded pictures and videos of the girl being tortured, gave Bagley a computer hard drive containing sadomasochism and torture videos downloaded from the Web, watched the torture live and had sex with the girl.
Court documents allege that Cook has a long history of violent behavior, sadomasochistic conduct and drug abuse and that “he tortured and sexually mutilated at least two other female victims in the past.”
A call to one of Cook’s former addresses was answered by someone who declined to answer questions about Cook and referred a reporter to Cook’s lawyer, but declined to provide a lawyer’s name.
The men could face life in prison.
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This is sick and cruel. All off these men better be in prison and suffering the same type of torture that she was, although I’m sure that is impossible. She’s lucky to have survived the nearly fatal attack that ironically saved her life.

