NY TV Station Owner Guilty of Beheading Wife

Divorce linked to gruesome murder

(NEWSER) - The gruesome beheading of a wife in upstate New York by her Muslim husband has been blasted as a retaliatory "honor killing" against a spouse seeking divorce, reports the Buffalo News. “This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women’s subordination to men,” said the president of the state's National Organization for Women. More»

$5K being asked for shots of woman posing with gruesome find

(NEWSER) - A photo agency that usually sells paparazzi shots is trying to sell photos of the severed head found near the Hollywood sign earlier this week. One of the dogwalkers who found the head posed for photos with it and is smiling in at least one of them, reports Gawker , which declined to pay the agency $5,000 for the pictures and, after calling around, found that RadarOnline, the Smoking Gun, and the New York Post weren't interested either. More»

Iraqi immigrant felt daughter had become too Westernized

(NEWSER) - An Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because he felt she had become too Westernized has been found guilty of her murder. Faleh Almaleki ran over his daughter and her fiance's mother in a parking lot in a Phoenix suburb in 2009 and then fled the scene, leaving both women with serious injuries. His daughter died in hospital 2 weeks later. He was acquitted of first-degree murder and attempted murder charges, reports CNN. More»

Fortune teller calls for human sacrifice

(NEWSER) - A Bangladeshi man was beheaded in a bizarre ritual to improve a local brick business. When owners became concerned that bricks in a northern village were losing their sought-after reddish hue, a fortune teller encouraged a human sacrifice. Four laborers, following owners' orders, killed a 26-year-old fellow worker and baked his head in a kiln in an effort to redden the bricks. The workers have been busted and police are searching for the owners and fortune teller, reports the Telegraph . More»

(NEWSER) - A 16-year-old girl was buried alive in a Turkish village as punishment for talking to boys. Police discovered her body after a tipoff. She was found sitting up, with her hands tied and soil in her lungs, buried in a hole behind her family's home in Kahta in southeastern Turkey. Her father and grandfather are being held by police, but it's not clear if they have been charged with a crime, reports the Guardian . The horrifying death has reopened national debate about so-called "honor killings," which account for half of all murders in Turkey. More»