<![CDATA[Jezebel: Pure Evil]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Pure Evil]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/pure evil http://jezebel.com/tag/pure evil <![CDATA[Evil Gyno Graeme Reeves Brutalized 800 Women Before He Got Caught]]> You know what I'm sick of writing about? GENITAL MUTILATION. Seriously, another day in February = another story about women getting their clitorises brutally cut out of their vulvas. Why is the media so obsessed with covering the 'bad news' of women are getting their labias sewn shut when it never seems to chronicle the billions of women who go through life with perfectly intact vaginas? But hey, it's not my news judgment that feeds this blog, so I might as well let you in on the latest re this guy, Graeme "I'm going to take your clitoris, too" Reeves. To recap: Graeme Reeves is a former OB-GYN who liked to put women under anesthesia, then remove parts of their vaginas. Sometimes he'd get carried away, and remove other organs while he was at it. A woman died at his hands and another woman got cervical cancer, which he ignored, and today it turns out his various hospitals had actually fielded complaints from 800 women! What sort of primitive barbarian society would tolerate such atrocities? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=361496&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Filomena Tobias Got Four Rich Dudes To Marry Her And You Are Still Single]]> Filomena "Phyllis" Tobias had a rocky relationship with her gazillion dollar hedge fund manager husband Seth. This was not surprising, since she had a rocky relationship with the other three husbands she had before him, and by rocky I mean lots of police getting called to the house because she liked to hit them etc. etc., but she managed to hold it together with the help of a combination of Xanax, Vicodin, Ritalin, coke and hundred thousand dollar shopping sprees until one evening Seth was found dead in his pool and Filomena was fingered by her phone psychic as the killer. Did she cook a bottle of crushed-up Ambien into her husband's vodka penne and tell him to go swim in the pool while she took the dog for a walk and returned to a $300 million inheritance? A lot of people seem to think she did. But not her lawyer Jay Jacknin! Oh yeah, and Jay Jacknin also happens to be her ex-husband, who introduced his then-wife to Seth (and says of Phyllis: "She had a great body. Women love her. Men find her fascinating. I just couldn't afford her.") More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=355237&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Drew Peterson Manages To Offend Fox News]]> UPDATE: Stacy Peterson's body maybe was found. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=349255&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Do You Do With Sex Offenders?]]> Mickey, the wiry 46-year-old man pictured, is a recovering alcoholic and a sex offender. In 2000, he pushed a 16-year-old girl into the woods and tried to pull down her pants; today he is the patriarch of a boarding house of sex offenders in a seedy little Long Island neighborhood that this week's New York magazine pinpoints as the island's densest sex offender cluster, the kind of neighborhood dotted with "houses that look like typical suburban ranches but for the smell of crack drifting from the windows." (Ugh.) Mickey is one of those ex-cons who needs to have total control over his surroundings, so he rigorously monitors his house's comings and goings, keeps it drug and alcohol-free, cooks food and cleans up after his fellow boarders, found a therapist friendly and trusting enough to make house calls on them, cries when they fuck up and leave — essentially, it's the Harvarder of registered sex-offender residences, and the story is meant to show us how tough it is to be such a pariah, banned from making eye contact with children, mugshot on the Family Watchdog registry for all to see. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=340293&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Megan Meier Police Report: There Are (Almost) No Words]]> The Smoking Gun has finally unearthed the Megan Meier police report, which is to say, it unearthed the police report filed by one Lori Drew, in response to the "hostility" and "tension" she felt in her suburban St. Louis community after Meier, her 13-year neighbor, hung herself in the closet in despair over having lost the affections of a 16-year-old suitor on MySpace and everyone found out that the 16-year old was actually an elaborate hoax cooked up by Lori Drew to fuck with her. The record states: "Drew wished the current tension in the neighborhood be documented in case any of her property is damaged." Even though it's a police report, you can tell from the way it's worded that reporting officer Edwin Lutz is thinking, "Lady, you have got to be smoking something to come complaining to me." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=325026&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA["Megan Died Never Knowing This Young Man Didn't Exist"]]> The story of Megan Meier, the 13-year-old who killed herself after being abruptly dissed by a MySpace suitor who turned out to be the sick creation of her ex-friend's mother, has hit the national news circuit full-force. Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 brought us footage of her MySpace profile — "Wait for the one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her'," reads the headline — and above the parents tell Matt Lauer how it all happened on Today. The story also made GMA and The Morning Show, but no one as yet has named the mom who masterminded the sadistic hoax on TV — though above Megan's mom says the woman "asked me to stop" after the initial newspaper story ran last week, because pretty much everyone in town knows who they are. (You can even make out their names on a police report shown on the CNN clip.) "I flick 'em off whenever I see 'em," the Meiers' next-door neighbor tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=324402&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Why We Named The World's Worst Parents]]> So, you know how we named the alleged "Worst Parents In The Universe"? Well we're not supposed to do that again until we get our hands on some "proof" or some shit, because of some Gawker Media corporate directive made obviously not by me. But, truth be told, I think the diligent reporter who broke the story of how a couple of residents of suburban St. Louis Myspace-tormented 13-year-old girl Megan Meier into committing suicide should do the honors, as do a lot of readers of his newspaper and a lot of nerdy reporter types who read Romenesko. And while Steve Pokin has not really said much about why he decided not to name the parents, his old editor offers a fleshed out defense of the decision to excercise (ahem) discretion to this end in the Romenesko comments:
It's easy for some blogger in New York City (who likely doesn't have to deal with these kinds of decisions and their real-world impact) to shoot his or her mouth off.
I resent that! Though it's true. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=323835&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Do You Do With The "Missing White Girl" Story?]]> The trouble with the "missing white woman" beat is I'm never quite sure what I'm supposed to learn from those stories. Part of it is that I'm too ADD to get sufficiently engrossed in the details, because it often happens years later that a story like Natalee Hollaway gets recapped in Vanity Fair and I'm like, "Holy shit this makes up for all those hours I wasted trying to figure out who killed Chandra Levy." So anyway, Stacy Peterson. Could I be forgiven for assuming they were talking about Lacey Petersen the first few days of this? She married a cop thirty years her senior at nineteen years old. His ex-wife had "drowned" suspiciously. Another ex-wife feared "accidents" and says he was abusive. He goes on Today to talk to Matt Lauer and shows no signs of remorse or really, humanity. Blames her desire to divorce him on her "menstrual cycle." He gets away with all of it, because he's a cop. And what do you say? What do you learn from this? Some people are not twisted or manipulative in a way that is at all interesting or relatable or revelatory of the human condition but can only be called "evil"? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=323752&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Are The Parents Who MySpace-Tormented Megan Meier Into Killing Herself Ready To Atone? Um...]]> This is Megan Meier, who is now dead. She hung herself at age thirteen after the parents of one of her former classmates used MySpace to create a character named Josh Evans, who spent a few months flirting with her before abruptly turning on her and calling her a "slut" and a "bad person" etc. etc. And while we generally try to do this job without actually performing what might be termed "fact checking" — you know, because sometimes actually talking to people makes them harder to villify! — we felt compelled, in this case, to attempt to call Curt and Lori Drew, the Missouri couple fingered by internet sleuths as the perpetrator of the torment. Not surprisingly, the phone rang and rang. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=323254&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How To Rape 100 (Cute, Educated, Upper Middle-Class) Women And Get Away With It]]> Meet Jeffrey J. Marsalis. Prosecutors know he raped thirty women and believe there are probably hundreds, though they only decided to charge him with ten. And he was recently acquitted on all of those, because this country is not being run by Dick Wolf. Here is the rub: the girls Jeffrey raped met him on Match.com, liked his (totally fabricated) personality and often came to terms with what he had done to them by dating him anyway. One had a three month relationship with him after he fucked her while she was passed out on their first date. "I guess it was an attempt on my part to regain some of the power," she said. Fuck if I don't know THAT feeling. Although he roofied them, belittled them and lied to them, and a handful of girls who didn't want anything to do with him after the fact, the Philadelphia jury still didn't want to call him "rapist." More »
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