Saturn's Moon Might Hold A Hidden Alien Water World.

Enceladus is Saturn's fifth largest moon. It is mostly covered by fresh, clean ice.

NASA’s Cassini probe sampled a plume of material erupting from Enceladus’s surface and discovered the surface of the moon could be much more hospitable to life than previously believed.

The oceans of the moon has concentrations of carbon dioxide and hydrogen and a Earthlike pH level could provide fuel for living microbes.

Is there an extraterrestrial world hidden below the surface?

Kelsey's Body Has Yet To Be Found, But The Trial Against Her Ex Marches On.

In April police ended their two month search at a Colorado landfill for Kelsey Berreth's remains. No trace of Kelsey was found. 

Now, with the trial against Kelsey's ex, Patrick Frazee, on the horizon, Krystal Lee Kenny is preparing to testify for the prosecution.

Kelsey Berreth was a 29-year-old flight instructor from Woodland Park, Colorado. She hasn’t been seen in public since Thanksgiving afternoon 2018, when surveillance video captured her with her and Frazee's daughter entering a local market.

Kyrstal Kenney Lee was a nurse and became romantically involved with Frazee prior to Kelsey's disappearance. 

Lee told police that Frazee took matters into his own hands. Lee claims that Frazee wrapped a sweater around Kelsey Berreth's head and fatally beat her with a baseball bat at her home on Thanksgiving Day. She says then he allegedly called her to help come clean up the mess and help get ride of the evidence.

Was Saddam Hussein Really Behind The Bush Assassination Attempt?

On April 13th, 1993, George H. W. Bush was targeted in an assassination plot when he visited Kuwait to commemorate the coalition's victory over Iraq in the Gulf War. This happened 25 months after U.S.-led forces chased Iraqi troops out of Kuwait in the first Gulf War and three months after Bush Sr. surrendered the White House to Bill Clinton. 

The terrorists were believed to be working for Saddam Hussein when they smuggled bombs into Kuwait. The plot was foiled when Kuwaiti officials found the bomb and arrested 17 people who were allegedly involved in using a car bomb in an attempt to kill Bush. Two of the suspects, Wali Abdelhadi Ghazali and Raad Abdel-Amir al-Assadi, retracted their confessions at the trial. They claimed that their confessions were extracted by repeated beatings. At the time, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International expressed strong doubts that the trials could be fair, noting that it had received credible reports of severe beatings meted out to defendants accused of capital crimes in Kuwait. 

The FBI established that the plot had been directed by the Iraqi Intelligence Service. A Kuwaiti court later convicted all but one of the defendants. 

Two months after the attack, then-president Bill Clinton responded by launching a cruise missile attack on an Iraqi intelligence building in Baghdad. The plot was used as one of the justifications for the Iraq Resolution, which authorized the use of the United States Armed Forces against Saddam Hussein's Iraq government in what would be known as Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The day before the strike, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright went before the Security Council to present evidence of the Iraqi plot. 

Then Vice President Al Gore said the attack "was intended to be a proportionate response at the place where this plot" to assassinate Bush "was hatched and implemented"

A closer look at the plot, in light of the findings by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), the special team of experts that spent 15 months investigating Baghdad's WMD programs, brings forth doubts that Saddam was behind it.

According to the report, Saddam was convinced that the CIA had thoroughly penetrated his regime, even though they hadn't. This led him to believe they would know not only that he had dismantled his WMD, but also would know about his plans for important intelligence operations. So if Saddam thought that the CIA would probably know of the assassination attempt ahead of time, why would he order it in the first place?

Also according to the report, while Saddam derived ''prestige'' from being an enemy of the U.S., he also considered it to be ''equally prestigious for him to be an ally of the United States, and regular entreaties were made during the last decade to explore this alternative''.

The report stated that high ranking Iraqis made proposals through intermediaries for dialogue with Washington.

''Baghdad offered flexibility on many issues, including offers to assist in the Israel- Palestine conflict. Moreover, in informal discussions, senior officials allowed that, if Iraq had a security relationship with the United States, it might be inclined to dispense with WMD programs and/or ambitions,'' it added.

The report even concluded that Iraq was willing to be Washington's ''best friend".

Saddam was bewildered at Bush's and Clinton's lack of interest according to the report.

"Saddam seems to be not a madman, but someone who would understand very well the consequences of an assassination'', notes Gregory Thielmann, a former senior State Department analyst who specialized in Iraq's WMD programs. ''If his top priority was getting the (UN economic) sanctions lifted, then it doesn't follow that he would try to kill the president of the United States.'' 

Honeymoon Horror

George Allen Smith IV

He was born on October 3, 1978 in Glenville, Fairfield County, Connecticut to Maureen and George Smith. He had played football in high school. 

He was 26 years-old and with his father, he managed the Cos Cob Liquor Store in Glenville. George was 6’2” tall and a quiet and friendly guy. His caring and compassionate nature, witty sense of humor and zest for life made him someone family and friends loved to be around. His friends from both home and college meant the world to him, and he considered them all to be his family. 

George Smith and Jennifer Hagel had been together since June 8th, 2002. 

On June 25, 2005, George and Jennifer married at cliff side ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island. 

For their honey moon eleven days after they walked down the aisle, they embarked on a romantic 12-day Mediterranean cruise.

George and Jennifer, were on their honeymoon in waters between Greece and Turkey on the Royal Caribbean ship "Brilliance of the Seas." 

They had a balcony stateroom on the 9th deck of the ship. 

On July 4th, 2005, halfway through their honeymoon cruise, they spent the day ashore in Mykonos. 

At night, they returned to the ship and changed for dinner. They had a romantic dinner in one of the shipboard restaurants, afterwards they went to the casino to meet up with another couple also on their honeymoon. They also connected with several young men that they had met on the cruise. 

There was a rumor on the ship that George was carrying large sums of money, and a report that both George and Jennifer had talked about how people were stuffing cash into their pockets at their wedding. Their was also rumors that they had brought all the money with them on the cruise. 

When the casino closed at 2:30 a.m., they moved on with their friends to the disco. They were all drinking heavily, and Jennifer began flirting with other men, including one of the casino staff. At some point, someone brought out a bottle of absinthe.

It was around 3:25 a.m., Jennifer and George got into an argument, and at least three witnesses said that they were both very drunk, and that Jennifer kicked her husband in the groin before walking out of the disco. 

Later, Jennifer said that George was mixing alcohol with his prescription medications, Zoloft and Clonazepam.

Around 4 a.m. on July 5th, 2005, passengers heard loud noises, including scuffling and a thud, coming from Smith's cabin and called security.  But no cruise line employees entered the cabin or called to determine what was happening.

Cleaning personnel would later find Jennifer unconscious lying in the alcove some 400 feet away from her cabin. Security personnel would then take her by wheelchair back her empty cabin, where the cruise line security personnel put her in bed, turn out the lights, and closed the door.

The ship docked in Kusadasi, Turkey, at 6:14 a.m., and passengers were cleared to go ashore at 6:39 a.m.  

When Jennifer awoke on the morning of July 5th, she was not immediately concerned that George was not in their room. She believed he had continued partying after she went to bed and had simply fallen asleep in their new friends’ room, as had happened once before. She and George had appointments at the ship’s spa for massages, so she went to the spa to keep her appointment. Jennifer thought that George would join her there when he woke up.

Around 8:30 a.m., several passengers on their balconies noticed a large bloodstain on one of the lifeboat canopies.

16 year-old cruise passenger Emilie Rausch took a photograph of the large blood stain, with a hand print off the side of it, on the awning. Blood was also found on the Smiths’ balcony railing, in their cabin, and on the side of the ship. 

A search of the ship initially showed three missing passengers: George and Jennifer Smith, and Josh Askin. Jennifer was located in the ship’s spa shortly before 10 a.m., and Josh Askin was also found. 

Three officers told Jennifer that George was missing. When questioned, Jennifer said she did not remember anything after leaving the casino until she woke up in their room that morning. 

After looking at the electronic trail of their movements and looking at surveillance footage and talking to witnesses, a basic timeline of events were constructed.

3:30 a.m- The disco closed and George and his friends went back to his room. When George realized that Jennifer was not with them, he asked the other men to help him locate her, but they were unable to find her. 

4:02 a.m.-They all returned to George’s room where the partying apparently continued. 

Between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m.- George’s companions returned to their own room and ordered room service, even taking pictures of the food.

Around 4 a.m.-The passengers in the neighboring rooms, Cletus Hyman, a law enforcement officer and Pat and Greg Lawyer, said they heard what sounded like a loud party and a drinking contest in the Smiths’ room that night. 

4:05 a.m.- Mr. Hyman called the Guest Relations desk to complain about the noise. He thought he heard at least one voice out in the corridor, and then what he describes as an argument on the balcony that lasted about a minute, involving three voices. 

Around 4:15 a.m.- Mr Hyman heard voices saying “good night” softly and when he looked out his door, he saw three men walking away. Pat and Greg Lawyer who were staying on the other side of the Smiths’ room also called Guest Relations to complain about the noise. They said they heard three male voices talking quietly outside their room and believed two of the men spoke with accents.

Then Smiths’ neighbors heard someone talking in a conversational tone in the Smiths’ room, and sounds like furniture was pushed around and cabinets being opened and closed, as though the room was either being put back in order or searching for something. 

Mr. Hyman said there was only one voice speaking, and after about ten minutes, the voice moved to the balcony, where he heard one of the metal balcony chairs being moved. It was quiet for a minute or so, and then he heard what he described as “a horrific thud” coming from the Smiths’ balcony, strong enough that he felt the vibration in his room. He said his first thought was that someone had fallen on the balcony. He did not hear anyone leave through the Smiths’ door, which he normally did.

4:30 a.m- Security personnel finally responded to Mr. Hyman’s call about the loud noise in the neighboring room. Everything by now was quiet. Mr. Lawyer suggested they might want to enter the room because it sounded as though the room was being trashed, but when the security staff knocked and there was no response, they left.

Shortly after 4:30 a.m.- Jennifer was discovered passed out in a corridor on Deck Nine, but on the other side of the ship from her own room. She was too disoriented to find the correct room but was able to tell the staff who she was and her room number. Crew members stayed with Jennifer while two other staff went to her cabin to try to find George. 

4:45 a.m.- Unaware of the first visit by security staff just a few minutes earlier, the crew members entered the room around  looking for George and found the room empty. 

4:57 a.m.-Two security officers and a female crew member took Jennifer by wheelchair back to the Smiths’ cabin and helped her to bed. As they were leaving, Mr. Hyman stuck his head out the door and mentioned that he had heard commotion in the room about an hour earlier. The security personnel said that they had seen nothing amiss and then left.

George was reported missing to the Turkish police. The captain insisted that Jennifer leave the ship in order to undergo a day of interrogation by Turkish officials. Josh Askin, one of the men who had been partying with the Smiths, was also taken ashore to be questioned by police. 

6 p.m.- Captain Lachtaridis had the crew wash the bloodstain away and prepared to depart for the ship’s next port of call. When Brilliance of the Seas returned to the Bahamas, the captain filed George’s disappearance a “probable accident.” The Turkish police and Royal Caribbean turned over their findings to the FBI, who didn't board the ship until two days later, including over 100 security tapes from various points on the ship.

The last people that George was seen with were Josh Askin of California and three Russian-Americans, brothers Greg and Zachary Rozenberg and their cousin Rostislav “Rusty” Kofman of Brooklyn. All four men were in their late teens or early twenties. The Turkish police interviewed Askin, but none of the others. When contacted by the FBI, they insisted that they had all left George’s room by 4:15 a.m. and returned to Kofman’s room to order room service. Askin said he returned to his own room around 5:15 a.m. All insist George was alive and well when they left him in his own room. 

The young Russian men had already been warned by ship personnel regarding their behavior and during the 48 hours after George vanished, there were several more incidents involving them. All 13 people, Kofman, the Rozenberg family, and the Askin family, were removed from the ship in Italy after an alleged sexual assault on a female passenger that at least two of the young men participated in and videotaped. 

The Turkish police investigated the crime scene for about two hours, but were rushed off the boat so that the cruise ship could continue on to its next scheduled port of call. 

Jennifer and a crew member stayed with her from the moment she learned that George was missing until she left Turkey to return home. 

The Smiths’ room was sealed to preserve a potential crime scene.

January 2006- Royal Caribbean allowed forensic specialist Dr. Henry Lee aboard to collect forensic evidence from the Smiths’ room. He collected samples, photographed the scene and took measurements.  However, they wouldn't let him to his experiments involving throwing a dummy off the balcony.

May 2012- A video, that the FBI had in their possession since 2005, was released to the public. It was taken the day George disappeared while the search for him was underway. In it it shows the four men that were with George prior to his disappearance. They were in the dining room, on board the Brilliance of the Seas, sitting around and talking about his death and apparently mocking him. The four men took the video themselves, apparently passing around a flip phone. At the end of the video one of the men stands up, hunches his shoulders, and flashes gang signs saying, “Told ya I was gangsta.”

Jennifer received a $1.1 million settlement from Royal Caribbean in 2006. George’s family challenged the settlement and Jennifer's position as executor of her husband's estate, but a probate court approved the settlement and the ruling was upheld in Superior Court in 2008. A portion of the money went to create a charitable fund in George's name. Included in the settlement was an agreement from Royal Caribbean to turn over the evidence they collected at the time of George's disappearance from their own internal investigation. 

“I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that my son was murdered on that cruise ship,” explained George’s mother.

George's parents didn’t approve of the ship giving their son’s belongings, which they say may have held forensic value, to Jennifer. 

“The evidence will be given to a woman whose whereabouts are unknown when George was thrown overboard,” says the Smith family. “A woman who has done everything in her power to stop us from finding out what happened to George on July 5, 2005…”

George's body has never been found.

Did you know that an article about George’s disappearance was deleted from Wikipedia?

22 Pages Of The FBI's Investigation Into Big Foot Were Just Released.

In 1976, Peter Byrne was the director of the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition of Oregon, where the Sasquatch is thought to roam. The FBI’s records show that Bryne convinced the federal bureau to aid in an investigation of new materials he believed confirmed the creature’s existence. These new materials were 15 hairs attached to a tiny piece of skin. Byne cited this as the most promising discovery Bigfoot researchers had alighted on in six years. In one of his letters to the FBI, Byrne said, “Please understand that our research here is serious. That this is a serious question that needs answering.”

Byrne received a letter back from Jay Cochran Jr., assistant director of the agency’s scientific and technical services division. Cochran wrote,“The FBI Laboratory conducts investigations primarily of physical evidence for law enforcement agencies in connection with criminal investigations. Occasionally, on a case-by-case basis, in the interest of research and scientific inquiry, we make exceptions to this policy. With this understanding, we will examine the hairs and tissue mentioned in your letter.”

In an internal letter, confirming the examination request was granted, Cochran stated to his colleagues that this does not change the FBI's policies and reminds them that the FBI has helped out museums and such before.

After an examination of the root structure of the hairs, the FBI lab concluded that they were “of deer family origin.”

Who Killed Erik Cross?

Vicksburg Michigan is a small, quiet town, about 130 miles west of Detroit in Kalamazoo county. The town of about 3,000 people is where the Cross family called home. The Cross family loved Christmas, fishing and the simple things in life. 

Erik Cross and his younger sister Jackie were extremely close growing up. It was the two of them in the adventures in childhood.

Erik was good-natured, outgoing and made a wonderful older brother. He loved playing outside. Erik and Jackie loved exploring the outdoors. 

When Erik about 16 years old, he started chasing girls and hanging out with his buddies. His father was concerned that Erik was hanging out with a bad crowd.

It was June 25th, 1983 and 16 year-old Erik Sterling Cross was getting ready to leave his home to attend a graduation party at a lake house about a mile down the road from his home.  Jackie remembers "The Look Of Love By Dusty Springfield" playing as Erik fixed his hair in the mirror. It was the last time Erik's sister would see him alive.

Erik's parents had no idea he was going to this party, which was a drinking party, a"kegger" and being thrown by one of his buddies. The price for all the beer you could drink was $2.00. All of Erik's friends were going and there were supposed to be a lot of pretty girls in attendance.

Erik was highly intoxicated when he left the party and was seen stumbling down the road towards home at around 1 a.m. A witness said he saw Erik walking past a general store on his way home. Also seen at the general store at that time was two parked cars, one yellow and the other a dark color.

Investigators believe that Erik made it home. Sometime after 1 a.m., his father heard the front door but went back to sleep, assuming Erik made it in safely.

It was theorized that since the front door was locked, Erik made his way to the rear of the house and as he did so he was approached by those who decided to do him harm. Between 1:15 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Erik was beaten, tied to a car and dragged, then run over by the car to conceal the beating he'd received.

Around 5 a.m., Erik's parents said that they heard a car with a loud muffler turning around in their driveway. After 5:30 a.m., Erik's dad went out to retrieve the newspaper and that is when this inconsolable father discovered Erik's shoe in the road and his partially clad remains at the foot of the driveway. The dad ran back inside to get Erik's mother. She brought out a blanket to cover him up with and called a neighbor who had worked at a hospital.  The neighbor preformed CPR, but Eric could not be revived.

Detective Sargent Madison was one of the first cops on the scene. He was young patrolmen at the time. He says that evidence of Eric's demise was found strewn for hundreds of yards along the road.

At first, investigators thought that Erik's death was due to a simple hit and run, but Erik's family believed something more sinister was a foot. His family pressured police to look deeper at the case and Erik's case became not so simple.

Police began to believe that the dark colored car, that was parked at the general store when Erik walk past, drove past Erik's house and saw him. That they might have tied him to the hood of the car and took him hood surfing. Then he had fallen off and was run over.

Within weeks of Erik's death, police dropped that theory as well and look at his death as a deliberate act of murder. 

Erik's autopsy showed that contusions, deep abrasions, rope burns, striations on his skin. He had leg fractures and a large, gaping laceration on his back.

Many leads came in, a very few credible and the rest a waste of time. Some of them down right bizarre. The police interviewed more than a hundred people and they confirmed the theory that Erik was tied to a car by a bunch of teenagers, dragged him along the road for hundreds of yards, ran him over and then dumped his body outside his home. 

There was a core group of persons of interest in Erik's murder. The main suspect and the one that many people pointed a finger at, was the town bully named Brent Spaulding. He allegedly was the ringleader of the group and the driver of that dark colored car. 

Brent's girlfriend at the time, and another person of interest from that core group, was Amber Thomas. It is said she had first hand knowledge of what exactly happened to Erik and might have even been in the car when Erik was run over. Police also believe that she was the woman that a neighbor had heard yelling " Oh my god, he's seen us!" from that car that Erik's parents had seen pull from their driveway just before Erik's body was discovered. 

Amber was also at the party at the lake house and was seen flirting with Erik. This made police wonder if this made Brent jealous and motivated him to seek vengeance against Erik. A witness told police that there was a rumor going around that Brent was seen pushing Erik at that party. Another witness said that after Erik's death, Brent called himself the Lucifer and was sent to a mental institution. 

Many people said that Brent acted crazy after Erik's death and police wondered if it was all an act, if he was trying to build up an insanity defense for the day that he might have thought was coming.

Also after Erik's death, Brent's car mysteriously vanished.

During the investigation, another witness came forward and stated that Brent actually confessed to them about his role in Erik's murder. However, police had no concrete evidence of Brent being involved in Erik's murder and Brent, along with the other people that were said to have been with him in his car that night, all denied any of them had anything to do with Erik's demise. 

Police are sure that the group knows something that they won't divulge to authorities. The group adopted "a conspiracy of silence" and would no longer cooperate with the police.

In 2016 police named persons of interest in the case. Brenton Spaulding, Amber Thomas and Bill Cook, people Erik knew from Vicksburg High School who were in attendance at the party. Also Tim Martin and Brenton Spaulding's father, Brian Spaulding.

No one has ever been arrested or charged in Erik's death.

Erik's younger sister, Jackie, went to the same high school as Spaulding, Thomas and Cook while the rumor mill churned that these three were responsible for her brother's horrific murder.

It is 2019 and 36 years later and Jackie, who started a Facebook page for her brother, has never given up on Erik's case. And even after all these years, the town hasn't forgotten Erik either and they still yearn for justice.

Erik would have been 52 this year and there was a vigil held in his honor that attracted a lot of media attention. This caused a break in the case investigators had been waiting for and solidified their suspicions about their core group of suspects. So much so that investigators submitted their evidence to the attorney general's office and are awaiting search warrants and official charges.

Abby Has Been Missing Since Friday

19 year-old Abigail "Abby" Godfrey was last seen at 1 a.m. on June 7th. She was on Hwy 101 off Rockmart Road in Rome Georgia in a 2014 silver Jeep Wrangler. License plate number for the Jeep is CGD2689.

Abby has not been in touch with any friends or family since then.

Police say if you know where she is, call them immediately.

UPDATE
Polk County Police confirmed Sunday night that the search for Abby had ended after she was found safe.

France's Biggest Bank Heist Ever And The Money Is Still Out There Somewhere.

Albert "Bert" Spaggiari was born in 1932 in France. He was constantly in trouble for stealing. His father died when he was three and his mother, who ran a lingerie shop, quickly remarried, but the boy hated his stepfather. He left home at 17 to join the Parachute Regiment, which was fighting Ho Chi Minh’s communist army in Indochina. 

Spaggiari was a tough soldier, wounded twice and decorated for bravery. But his old weakness resurfaced and in 1953 he was arrested after breaking into a milk bar in Hanoi to steal the takings. He was sent back in irons to France and jailed.

By the late 1960's Spaggiari seemed to have turned over a new leaf, married a nurse and moved to the South of France where he opened a photography shop in Nice.
In 1975 Spaggiari and The Corsican Brotherhood were recruited in France by the Chilean secret police, DINA. Spaggiari's code name was "Daniel".

Spaggiari began to get itchy fingers once more. When he learned that the sewers of Nice ran close to the walls of the Société Générale bank, plans for a daring robbery began to form in his mind.

First he rented a safety box in the bank's vault and planted in it a loud alarm clock set to go off at midnight. Spaggiari wanted to make sure there were no acoustic or seismic detection alarms to spoil his plans.

He didn't have to worry about any alarms, the bank's vault was thought to be impregnable. The door was incredibly thick and there was no obvious way to access the walls.

He then decided to recruite a gang of professionals from Marseilles who headed into the sewers. Spaggiair decided not to participate in the heist itself. For two months in the summer of 1976 the gang waded each night through human waste, digging an eight-meter tunnel which Spaggiari demanded was shored up as well as a mine shaft.

On the Friday night of the three-day Bastille Day weekend they broke through into the vault floor, sealed its door shut from the inside with a welding gun, and broke open 371 safety deposit boxes. Spaggiari brought them a meal including wine and pâté, and reportedly they sat down in the vault for a picnic lunch. Before they left on July 20th, they left a message on the walls of the vault: sans armes, ni haine, ni violence ("without weapons, hatred, or violence").

The bank did not know what was in the boxes, so the value of the haul would never be known. Estimates ranged from 30 million to 100 million francs in cash and jewels.

Police were baffled at first, but a few weeks later, acting on a tip-off, the police arrested one of the thieves. After a lengthy interrogation, he named the entire gang, including Spaggiari. Spaggiari was on a trip to the Far East accompanying the Mayor of Nice as a photographer and was arrested when the returning plane touched down.

Spaggiari first denied his involvement in the break-in, then acknowledged it but claimed that he was working to fund a secret political organization named Catena.

During his case hearings, Spaggiari made a fictitious document which he claimed as evidence. He made the document coded so it had to be deciphered by the judge. Spaggiari asked to see the judge in his chambers. While in the judge's chambers, judge Richard Bouaziz was distracted by the document he was trying to decipher Spaggiari suddenly ran to a window, flung it open and jumped out. He landed safely on a parked car. “Au revoir,” he shouted with a wave, then roared away sitting on the back of an accomplice’s motor cycle. The French police never saw him again.

In his absence the judge gave him a life sentence. He is reported to have had plastic surgery. Spaggiari spent the rest of his days drifting between South America and Europe and is believed to have returned to France occasionally to see his wife, "Audi". When he died of throat cancer on June 8th, 1989, in a country house in Belluno, Italy. He had been living in Italy under a false name for a number of years.

None of the proceeds of the robbery were ever found.

Spaggiari wrote a book about the robbery in 1977, translated into English as “Sewers of Gold.” 

Army Veteran Killed Because Of A Flashlight

38 year old Cody Wayne Seals served in the U.S. Army between 2004 and 2008, doing more than one tour in Iraq. Between 2008 and now, His mother got sick, and he got sick and he moved in with his father.

Seals was shot and killed by a Fort Worth Police Department swat officer on June 1st, after a three hour stand off. He had barricaded himself inside his father's house in the 5700 block of Sixth Avenue.

Seals chambered a round and pointed a rifle at officers, then locked himself inside, according to police. 

It was dark outside be the time Seals came outside holding both arms out in front of him while holding a light. Police said that it looked like a weapon-mounted lighting system, but it was only a flashlight. He turned toward an officer, still locked out in a shooting stance, and pointed the light at him. Believing officers were about to be fired upon, a SWAT officer fired his weapon an killed Seals.

No one ever called his mother, Sandra. She believes she could have talked him down.

"They spent hours negotiating, and they did not try to get in contact with me," Sandra Seals said. "I wanted to be involved. He was my baby."

"He was a good kid, and he was a good soldier, and he's being remembered as a fruitcake," Sandra Seals said. "It's not OK. He was a kind-hearted person. I feel like the VA does bear some responsibility because they were treating him for PTSD. But once they're done with you, they don't care."

Seals suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, back problems and ulcerative colitis, conditions worsened by stress. Sandra Seals said that the talk and group therapy provided by the government seemed inadequate to treat his PTSD.

She Went For A Flight For Her Birthday And Went Missing

31 year old Trista Applebee a joy flight for her birthday in a Soviet-era Yak 52 warplane on Wednesday with morning with recreational pilot Marcel van Hattem at the controls. The aircraft was the same model plane that crashed in a similar location in 2008, claiming two lives.

Hattem's  body was found on Wednesday, but Trista's body was missing.

On Friday afternoon on the southern end of North Stradbroke Island Trista's body was found. Offshore search efforts had been suspended earlier on Friday due to rough sea conditions.

Southport Flying Club president Neil Aitkenhead said the conditions had been "perfect" for flying and the aircraft was "very reliable, solid and Russian-built".
The Yak 52 is a training aircraft often used for aerobatics and scenic flights.