Cobain murdered by CIA

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"Church organist 'befriended then sexually abused two young girls over ten years'

A church organist repeatedly sexually abused two young girls over a 10-year period, a court heard today.

Married Nigel Parkin, 56, befriended the girls and warned them they would not be believed if they told anyone what had happened, Taunton Crown Court heard.

Parkin, who played the organ at St Andrews’ Church in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, is accused of assaulting one girl over two years from when she was 11 and of assaulting and raping another from the age of nine to 16.

'He had taught her piano,' prosecutor Sarah Regan said of Parkin's first alleged victim. 'During those lessons she felt that his behaviour towards her was inappropriate.

'She describes him brushing very closely across her chest and putting his hand on her thigh as she played.'

The defendant is also said to have chased after her and enveloped her in a bear hug before pushing ice down her dress and touching her chest.

It is claimed that he touched her on top of her clothes on a different occasion in 2001, when she was aged between 12 and 13.

Neither of the girls told anyone about the alleged abuse at the time, which they claim took place in Parkin’s car and at his house.

Parkin, who is also a former presenter on the community radio station 10 Radio, denies eight charges of rape, five of indecent assault and four of sexual assault, alleged to have been committed between August 1998 and October 2009.

Police were alerted when the younger girl - now aged 19 - confided in her head teacher in August 2010.

'The younger girl says she was raped on about 10 occasions and indecently assaulted on about 10 occasions,' said Miss Regan.

'So much in fact she couldn’t remember every time.

'She didn’t tell anyone until she was 17 and that was in the school holidays in August 2010.

'The reason she told her headmaster was that she knew things in her life would not get better if she kept the abuse to herself.'

The older girl, who is now aged 24, eventually confided in a university tutor.

'It was in that way gradually what had happened to her over the years at the hands of Nigel Parkin came out,' Miss Regan said.

The prosecutor told the court Parkin denied all the allegations, accused the two girls of lying and said they were both suffering from mental health problems.

Later, the jury watched a two-hour recorded interview the younger girl gave to police in September 2010, during which she frequently broke down in tears.

She told officers that she had received hospital treatment after taking an overdose and had self-harmed.

Describing the alleged attacks to an officer, the girl said: 'I just didn’t understand what was going on. I didn’t know how I felt.

'I was just scared and so ashamed. I was trying to move, to get him off me but he put my arms behind my back.

'I tried to kick him but I couldn’t move the top half of my body.

'It seemed to be a very, very long time but I don’t think it was.'

The girl later told the officer why she had decided to confide in her teacher.

'I was just so ashamed. I just knew things would not get better if I just kept it to myself,' she said.

'It was an important year and I couldn’t just mess around. I just had to tell someone.'

The trial continues."

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Gary Heidnik's house with the 'United Church of the Ministers of God' sign attached to it.

The Heidnik case parallels the Jim Jones 'People's Temple' in some ways.

Heidnik had links to the military , as did the Jonestown camp in Guyana formed by Jim Jones' 'Peoples Temple' church.

Gary Heidnik and Jim Jones both used their own self-styled churches to obtain victims.

Gary Heidnik and Jim Jones both targeted mentally handicapped black women.

Both cases involved the imprisonment/enslavement and eventual murder of victims.

An interesting facet is that Jeffrey Dahmer had possible or probable links to World Vision through the Sinthasomphone brothers (the two Laotian boys whom he victimized were likely from a World Vision refugee camp in Thailland), while Dahmer had possible or probable links to Heidnik, in that both
Heidnik and Dahmer were trained as army medics in Landstuhl military hospital
near the U.S. military base in Baumholder, Germany.
Jim Jones' 'Jonestown' camp is said to have had close ties to the CIA's 'World Vision' refugee relief operations.
So Jim Jones, Gary Heidnik, and Jeffrey Dahmer are all possibly tied into this same weird milieu of torture and slavery connected to false front religions
and the military.

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HEIDNIK kinda looks like DAVID KORESH. Maybe some common DNA? I wouldnt wonder.

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Pictured in court: Soccer mom-of-four accused of making millions from Manhattan brothel used by rich and famous - as police hunt for 'matchmaker'

Anna Gristina boasted about making millions in her 15 years running the brothel from an Upper East Side apartment
Claimed she had police connections who would tip her off
Husband said he is 'heartbroken'
Authorities searching for other woman who they suspect is involved

The Manhattan madam accused of running a multimillion dollar prostitution empire from an Upper East Side apartment has been remanded in custody after a court heard her network of wealthy clients made her a 'significant flight risk'.

Anna Gristina will remain in prison because a judge agreed that the 'high-worth individuals' she allegedly serviced might help her try to flee the United States to a safe haven.

Gristina’s ‘black book’ of clients, stretching back 15 years, contains the names of powerful figures in politics, law enforcement, law, banking and entertainment, as well as several ‘ultra-wealthy’ Europeans, say prosecutors.

Prosecutors suggested they would be likely attempt to stop embarrassing revelations about themselves coming to light, rather let justice run its course.

The court also heard that British-born Gristina, known in the industry as 'Anna Scotland', had a fund specially set up to help her flee justice.

The 44-year-old, who appeared wearing handcuffs, managed only a weak smile to her husband in the gallery as she made a ten-minute appearance in Manhattan’s Supreme Court today, and blew him a kiss as she was led back to the cells.

She also appeared anxious and tried to hide her face from photographers, according to DNAInfo.

Wearing a herringbone pattern black and white jacket and black trousers, her blonde hair was unkempt and she looked more like a librarian than a wealthy vice madam.

An indictment was also handed down today on the mother-of-four.

She has pleaded not guilty to one count of prostitution in the third degree and will now face a trial.

Husband of ten years Kelvin Gorr told the New York Daily News as he left court today: 'We are just a great family... and my wife means everything to me. I feel heartbroken.'

It was also revealed today that authorities are investigating links between Gristina and a woman who worked as a recruiter for a high-end matchmaking service that pairs wealthy men with polished women, according to DNAInfo.

Jaynie Mae Baker, 30, from Brooklyn, who works for dating service VIP Life, is wanted by police for questioning. They believe she is an associate of Gristina.

Her Facebook page says she co-hosted a fundraiser for a Texas-based animal shelter called Shelby Shelter with Gristina last year at a West Village night club.

The 30-year-old acts as a contractor who refers men to VIP Life, for which she receives a finder's fee. The agency only lists men who are serious about long-term relationships and shuns women who are only interested in men for their money.

Founder of VIP Life Lisa Clampitt told DNAInfo Baker was a 'sweet young woman' who would never be involved in anything illegal.

Vincent Parco, an investigator working for her legal team who was in court, said Gristina 'was running a marketing website and was meeting investors but it did not work out. Her husband is looking after the children and they are OK.'

During the hearing Gristina’s lawyer Richard Siracusa sought to have the $3million she would have to post if she wanted bail - $1million in cash and a $2million surety - lowered in exchange for her wearing an ankle bracelet.

So far she has not posted the huge sum and is being held in the notorious Riker’s Island prison in New York.

Mr Siracusa said: 'My client has extremely high bail. She has no record, she has four children...she has a home for rescued animals.

'For someone who came into court charged with one count of criminal prostitution this is far in excess of what would be necessary to keep her coming back to court.

'The District Attorney has her passport...The $1m to $2m bail puts her in a special category as some one who is a heinous criminal and that carried over when she goes into the jails.

'It is not an easy existence there.'

Charles Linehan, prosecuting for the Manhattan District Attorney, told the court that 'the risk of flight is very high here' and that nothing had changed from Gristina’s last court appearance in February.

He said: 'She has high-worth individuals she counts among her friends and clients that we believe have an interest in not having this case go forward and are in a position to help her flee the jurisdiction.

'We have evidence she has money squirreled away so that in the event of this happening she could use to flee the jurisdiction. The risk of flight is very high here.'

He added that during a previous police investigation - apparently a reference to the 2008 prostitution bust which snared former New York governor Eliot Spitzer - she had fled to Montreal where she has an apartment.

Kristin Davis, a New York madam who supplied Spitzer with prostitutes, has alleged it was the former governor himself who tipped off someone working for Gristina’s business, Fleur d’Elite, about a sting on escort agencies – prompting the British woman to flee temporarily to Canada.

Linehan explained it was thought she would do the same ‘at the moment’ she was discovered, although she had been arrested before being able to do so.

Judge Juan Merhcan agreed there was a 'significant' risk of her fleeing and ordered she remain in custody.

He said: 'It seems that $2million bail and $1million cash is appropriate given the risk of flight so I am not going to modify the bail.'

Gristina, a suburban soccer mom who moved to New York 20 years ago from her native Edinburgh, was arrested after a five-year investigation during which undercover police taped more than 100 hours of audio where she bragged about her high-end clients, how she had contacts in law enforcement who would tip her off and even how she used underage girls for some of the trysts, according to explosive court documents.

The divorcee lives in suburban Monroe, north of New York City, with her children and a number of rescue animals.

The five-year-long investigation was run by a Manhattan district attorney's office unit that pursues cases against police and other uniformed city workers, according to a transcript of her February 23 arraignment.

A co-defendant has yet to be arrested and has not been identified.

During hundreds of hours of surveillance, Gristina was heard saying that 'she has connections in law enforcement who are poised to help her out, to let her know if there is trouble on the front that she needs to be concerned about', District Attorney Charles Linehan said, according to the court transcript.

Neighbours say a steady stream of young women - usually of Eastern European descent - would come and go from the second-floor apartment, as did a number of suited business men.

Gristina boasted she had 'business contacts world-wide' which are thought to include powerful politicians, top-law enforcement, influential lawyers, bankers, entertainment execs and Fortune 500 businessmen, according to the New York Post.

The DA also said Gristina had not reported any income to the government in a number of years so she will likely be charged with tax evasion as well.

When she was arrested on February 22, she was meeting with an unnamed investment banker at his Morgan Stanley office for a meeting to try to raise money to finance what prosecutors believe may be an online start-up that would match prostitutes with wealthy men.

Investigator Parco claimed she had been trying to set up a legitimate dating website aimed at rich clients.

Morgan Stanley representatives did not immediately respond to an email on Monday evening.

Prosecutors have up to 100 hours of video and audio recordings in the case, which they cultivated through informants and undercover operations, Linehan told the judge last month.

Minors were involved in some of the encounters Gristina arranged, the prosecutor said. He cited information from at least one eyewitness account - a confidential informant who was one of Gristina’s prostitutes. Defence lawyers dismissed reports that she had provided underage girls as ‘disgusting’.

According to the Daily News, the escort service offered clients a three-tiered pricing system.

Costs ranged from $1,000 for the 'Dream Model girls', $1,500 for 'Calendar Girls, fashion models and budding actors', and $2,000 and up for the 'Ultimate Elite Model' category.

Mohammed Azad, 32, who owns a restaurant in the building where Gristina allegedly operated her brothel, told the Post: 'I see people in and out coming over here, sometimes many in one day. I always see young fashionable women, always under 30. They don’t live here.'

When police arrived at her upscale suburban home, no one was at home but a number of animals including pigs, pit bulls and wild boars were roaming around the property.

On her Facebook page, she has many pictures of her pigs and often posts about them on other pig-lover's walls.

In August last year, she wrote to one friend: 'I hate going to the city. I have had an apartment for 15 years and I only visit like once a month.'

Her ex-husband Dario Gristina, a Conservative Republican Candidate for NYS Assembly, told the Daily News: 'We divorced a long time ago, I am surprised.'

Italian-born Gristina married second wife Teresa ten years ago. He has six children but it is unclear how many of them are shared with his first wife."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lebrities.html

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"Police pull body from canal in search for missing former Eastenders actress

Fears are growing for the safety of a former EastEnders actress who went missing last week, after a body was pulled from a canal yesterday.

Police searching for 29-year-old Gemma McCluskie have so far established no link to the find.

A Metropolitan spokesman said: 'A body was found in Regents Canal near Broadway Market in East London at 2:40pm.

'Enquiries are underway to establish the identity of the deceased. A post-mortem will be scheduled to ascertain the cause of death.

'Pending that post mortem we will be treating the death as unexplained.'

Friends and relatives of Miss McCluskie have launched a frantic search around London’s East End for the petite brunette, who appeared in more than 30 episodes of the flagship BBC soap as Kerry Skinner in 2001.

Now former EastEnders stars including Martine McCutcheon and Brooke Kinsella have begun assisting the search on Twitter.

More than 100 people carried out a search around the local area, placing posters in shops and pubs and handing out leaflets last night, after Miss McCluskie was last seen at her home in Bethnal Green last Thursday.

Her 33-year-old brother Danny said: 'We are all going out of our mind with worry.

'Her phone has been switched off since Thursday afternoon. We’ve not heard from her.'

Police said they were 'increasingly concerned' for Ms McCluskie’s welfare.

Ms Kinsella tweeted: 'Please get in touch if you have seen her.'

Her other brother Tony said her disappearance is 'completely' out of character and that she had never been missing before.

He added: 'We are going out of our mind with worry. She is a bubbly, outgoing, strong and independent woman.'

Mr McCluskie said he last saw his sister at home last Thursday afternoon.

She was wearing blue leggings, Ugg boots and large sunglasses, he added. She is also believed to have had her small Louis Vuitton handbag with her.

Detective Inspector Des McHugh, from Tower Hamlets borough, said: 'We are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of Gemma McCluskie who went missing from her home in Bethnal Green on Thursday March 1.

'Officers and her family are conducting inquires to trace her whereabouts, but so far without success.

'Her disappearance without being in contact with her family or friends is out of character.

'Gemma, 29, is well-known locally as she appeared in episodes of EastEnders during 2001.

'She is described as 5ft 1ins with straight black hair. At the time she went missing, she was wearing a cream-coloured top, blue leggings, and sandy coloured Ugg boots.' "

[emerald]

"Missing Michigan Family: Couple With 4-Month-Old Baby Disappear

Authorities and family members are searching for clues in the disappearance of a Michigan couple and their child.

Timothy Medsker, 33, and Sabrina Medsker, 34, vanished with their 4-month-old son Joshua without any warning. They were last seen at a birthday party for their niece and their last phone call was placed on Feb. 16.

The young couple has a successful cleaning business with strong ties to the small Michigan town of Petoskey.

Despite attempts to track them down the family and police haven't heard from them at all. "This is 100 percent out of character and very concerning," said Kelly Manthei, Timothy Medsker's sister.

Police searched the home a second time this week and took computers and personal papers to for clues about what happened to the family but so far there have been no leads.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. They even talked about attending a baby shower this weekend.

"All of their personal belongings were there including clothing, computers, food, paperwork – it looked like something spooked them," said Petoskey Detective David Schultz.

Police said right now there's no reason to suspect foul play.

"Anytime we have a missing person or someone who can't be contacted usually in a small town like this a few phone calls and we know where there at, but obviously now almost going on three weeks this is not the case," said Schultz.

The family worries that there's something more to this story.

Police believe they left by choice and likely traveling in their silver 2010 Ford f-150 pickup.

Timothy Medsker's mother Laura Medsker, offered this message if the couple is watching.

"We are so worried about you and Sabrina and Joshua we love you. Please just let somebody know that you're ok," she said."

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BING CROSBY, troops&"friends". Sounds like mind controlled slaves/sex kittens' work:

"Twin sisters, 73, found dead together in CA home

When they were young, Patricia and Joan Miller sang and danced for Bing Crosby, troops and their friends.

But as the identical twins grew older, they became less interested in socializing. When people called, the sisters came up with excuses to get off the phone. Without explanation, they stopped sending birthday cards to a childhood friend. And on the rare occasion when they left their home, the two women didn't chat up the neighbors.

Never married and without children or pets, the Miller sisters withdrew into their four-bedroom home in California's South Lake Tahoe, where they were found dead last week at the age of 73. One was in a downstairs bedroom and the other was in the hallway just outside.

It was as if the two sisters, long each other's only companion, could not live without each other, said Detective Matt Harwood with the El Dorado County sheriff's office.

"My perception is one died and the other couldn't handle it," said Harwood, who has been unable to identify any close friends or family members to inform of the sisters' deaths. "It appears purely natural, but we are still trying to piece it all together."

Police don't usually release the names of the dead without first informing their relatives, but the sisters' shrouded lives made that impossible, Harwood said.

"The circumstance surrounding their death is somewhat of an enigma," he said. "These two only ever had each other, and we would like, at least for their sake, to notify their family."

The deaths have confused some residents in the resort town of South Lake Tahoe, where homeowners tend to be close-knit and the sisters' reclusiveness had long inspired questions and concern. Police and neighbors alike are struggling to understand why or how two beautiful women with show business experience shut themselves up in the same home for nearly 40 years and then seemingly died within hours of each other.

In the past year, there were hints that something was amiss at the Miller home. A neighbor spotted an ambulance at the house a year ago and assumed they had fallen ill. Someone asked police to check regularly on the house. When someone arrived Feb. 25 for a routine check, no one answered the door. The next day, police forced their way in and found the bodies.

There was no blood, no signs of struggle. Nothing indicated that the women had persistent health troubles. Their longtime home was not disheveled or unkempt, potential signs of mental or physical illness. Autopsy reports were pending.

Harwood said he called a nearby senior center to see if the sisters were visitors, but no one there had heard of them. He checked with Meals on Wheels volunteers, but it didn't seem that the sisters had received their services. The only relative he found in his preliminary searches was the sisters' deceased mother.

As news of the deaths spread, former South Lake Tahoe residents called police to report that they had lived near the sisters for decades in some cases, and had hardly seen them. One sent in a postcard that claimed the sisters were the only remaining members of their family after their mother's death and their brother died at war.

Calls Tuesday to several longtime residents and social groups in the area turned up little, as many community leaders said they had never heard of the sisters.

Joan Miller was a senior accounting clerk in the payroll department at the Lake Tahoe Unified School District from 1979 to 1984. Patricia Miller, who drove a white convertible with red upholstery, worked in the El Dorado County's social services office during that same time.

"I never heard of anyone else being in either of their lives," said Betty Mitchell, 89, who supervised Patricia Miller in the social services office and saw the twins around town. "They were inseparable and really identical."

The sisters were friendly and often told stories of their singing adventures. They told Mitchell they had performed at Yosemite National Park and when their mother came to visit from Oregon, they all dined at Mitchell's home.

But the sisters were also guarded. When Mitchell urged them to join a community choir, they declined. They never discussed their social lives.

"They kept things to themselves," Mitchell said. "I don't even know if they had siblings."

The sisters grew up in Portland, Ore., before moving to the San Francisco area, where Joan Miller attended college, Harwood learned. The women briefly appeared on a 1950s television show called the "The Hoffman Hayride" and posed for a picture with Crosby as children. The twins also entertained troops at military bases, a childhood friend told Harwood.

The sisters never seemed interested in dating or expanding their social spheres. They listed each other as their next of kin, Harwood said.

"All they had was each other and that's actually the way they wanted it," he said.

Joyce Peterson of the International Twins Association, a social group based in Oklahoma, said she once heard of 100-year-old twins who died within days of each other.

"As a twin, you've got this bond, you're close — almost like a married couple," said Peterson, of Minnesota, who serves as co-vice president of the group with her identical sister. "It's a bond no one else can understand."

The Miller twins appeared in poor health recently and possibly had been treated a year ago for dehydration or malnutrition, Harwood said.

Their childhood friend told Harwood that the sisters stopped sending annual birthday cards last year, and when the friend called to inquire about the missing card, the sisters seem disinterested in continuing the relationship.

Neighbors would call and the sisters would say, "Let me call you right back," and then wouldn't.

"They weren't taking care of themselves as they should or could have," Harwood said."

[hunkahunka]

Originally Posted by emerald

[SIZE="3"]BING CROSBY, troops&"friends". Sounds like mind controlled slaves/sex kittens' work:

I saw that story on Drudge this morning and you are right, it never occurred to me to suspect foul play but this is strange, isn't it?
Both of them suddenly dead at the same time, with no apparent cause of death. TWINS linked to the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby military mind control circuit.

[emerald]

Got more on that, Hunka. This story stinks and its more to it than meets the eye. And its puzzling me like hell. Really glad u paid attention to it. Perhaps intense trauma led to their almost total isolation from the world...

"APNewsBreak: Police find family of dead twins

It took 11 days and the help of dozens of strangers, but police have finally been able to locate the family of a pair of reclusive twin sisters who were found dead in their California home last month.

Patricia and Joan Miller lived for nearly 40 years in South Lake Tahoe but often shunned their neighbors. Their shared life ended in a mysterious double-death. Police found one sister in a bedroom, and the other in a hallway during a routine welfare check on Feb. 26. They were 73.

Police usually do not release the names of the dead without first informing their relatives, but the sisters' shrouded lives made that impossible, said Detective Matt Harwood with the El Dorado County sheriff's office. With little information about the twins' personal lives to work from, investigators issued a public plea this week asking for help in notifying the sisters' next of kin.

The response was overwhelming. Emails and phone calls poured in and with the help of amateur genealogists who read media accounts of the sisters' deaths, investigators tracked down a first cousin and two second cousins late Wednesday.

The cousins hadn't heard from the sisters in years.

"They confirmed pretty much what everyone else told me," Harwood said. "They were pretty reclusive and no one really knows why."

Harwood said the cousins told him they had lost touch with the sisters through the years as other family members passed away.

"They were just sort of the twins that no one had heard from in a long time," he said.

The cousins don't share the sisters' last name, which might be why police had such a hard time finding them. They were tracked down by at-home sleuths, who passed on the family members' contact information to police. In one case, someone called one of the cousins to confirm their blood line before giving the name to Harwood.

Harwood said the sisters deserved to have their family know about their death, and he was pleased to complete that mission with help from "people from across the country, just your Average Joe wanting to try their hand on genealogy," he said.

"There's no way we could have done it without you guys in the press and literally hundreds of people just calling to help put the pieces together," Harwood said.

One of the second cousins lives in the San Francisco Bay area, and the two other cousins live in Portland, Ore., where the twins grew up.

Harwood said he has yet to find a will, but plans to give some of the twins' personal items, including their mother's furniture and family photo albums, to the cousins.

The discovery of next of kin provides some answers to the twins' mysterious end, but their puzzle is far from solved.

Medical investigators have not been able to determine how or when the women died, but their decomposed bodies suggest they had been dead for at least several weeks when they were found, Harwood said. Toxicology reports likely won't be available for at least two more months.

There was no blood or signs of struggle. The sisters' longtime home was not unkempt, a likely sign of mental or physical illness, and they didn't have a history of severe health problems, Harwood said.

"My perception is one died and the other couldn't handle it," he said this week. "It appears purely natural, but we are still trying to piece it all together."

Investigators hope to soon narrow down when the sisters died. It's unlikely their killer was carbon monoxide poisoning, a common danger in the winter, because a window had been left open and the house was well ventilated.

A neighbor spotted an ambulance at their house about a year ago and assumed the sisters had fallen ill. Someone asked police to check regularly on the house. When officers arrived Feb. 25 for a routine check, no one answered the door. The next day, police forced their way in and found the bodies.

The twins were the daughters of Fay Lang and Elmon Gordon Miller, who went by the name "Bud" and was born in 1895 in Bremen, Ky., Harwood said. Their father was a dairy salesman in Oakland, Calif., at one point, Harwood said.

The sisters were never married and didn't have children or pets. They seemed to prefer only each other's company. They purchased their four-bedroom home together in 1976 and may have been each other's only close friend.

Joan Miller was a senior accounting clerk in the payroll department at the Lake Tahoe Unified School District from 1979 to 1984. Patricia Miller, who drove a white convertible with red upholstery, worked in the El Dorado County's social services office during that same time.

When people called, the sisters came up with excuses to get off the phone. Without explanation, they stopped sending birthday cards to a childhood friend about a year ago. And on the rare occasion when they left their home, the two women didn't chat up the neighbors.

As news of the deaths spread, former South Lake Tahoe residents called police to report that they had lived near the sisters for decades in some cases, and had hardly seen them. One sent in a postcard that claimed the sisters were the only remaining members of their family after their mother's death and their brother died at war.

Their secluded lives in their final years stand in contrast to a youth full of glamour and entertainment.

When the twins did talk to outsiders, they often spoke of the singing career they had shared in their younger years. The women briefly appeared on a 1950s television show called the "The Hoffman Hayride" and posed for a picture with Bing Crosby as children. The twins also entertained troops at military bases, a childhood friend told Harwood.

They appear young, beautiful and elegant in matching off-the-shoulder gowns in a picture released by police.

But the twins never seemed interested in dating or expanding their social spheres. They listed each other as their next of kin, Harwood said."

A couple of simple logical questions arise:
*Who did their grocery shopping and purchased other necessities for them?
*Where'd the money come from to pay their bills, mortgage, food, gas and medicine?

[emerald]

Sick, just sick, nothing else left to say:

"Dance Moms "Showgirls" Burlesque Routine: Crossing the Line?"

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/20...sing-the-line/

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"New Twist in Decade-Old Murder Mystery - Man convicted of killing millionaire Ted Ammon reveals new information in jail"

Interesting, his wife's lover name was DANIEL PELOSI. Related to scummy NANCY PELOSI perhaps?

http://gma.yahoo.com/video/news-2679...-28537125.html

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"Charity says it will refuse donations from Jeffrey Dahmer tour in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE - A business offering walking tours of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's haunts in Milwaukee has offered to donate some proceeds to a charity that supports the parents of murder victims, but that group said Tuesday it wants no part of it.

Nancy Ruhe, executive director of the National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that even though the economic downturn has led to a drop in donations, the organization would never accept money from a group that profits from someone else's murderous acts.

"I cannot believe we can't let these people rest in peace," she said Tuesday. "It's unbelievable that someone has come up with a moneymaker off those who have been murdered."

Ruhe said she planned to send an email alert to the organization's 200,000 members nationwide Tuesday about the tours.

Amanda Morden, a spokeswoman for tour organizer, Bam Marketing and Media, said Tuesday the agency believes strongly in the organization of parents and still plans to make an anonymous donation.

She said she spent Tuesday responding to emails from the organization's members, explaining their intent is purely informational and they hope to learn from the past. She said she is also making it clear that they are not glorifying Dahmer or condoning his actions.

"We need to understand the dark side of history to learn from it," Morden said.

The tour highlights Dahmer's methodology in picking up victims, including spiking their drinks and ways he could have been caught earlier, she said.

"This organization is probably the one that ties the most into the information provided on this tour," Morden said.

She has said the size of the donation would depend on the success of the tours. She said she suspected it could amount up to 20 per cent of annual profits from the Dahmer tours.

The new walking tour of places where Dahmer trawled for victims drew attention after criticism prompted online deal-maker Groupon to take down a promotion for discounted tickets last week. But Bam Media said it would not cancel what it calls a legitimate exploration of criminal history.

Dahmer, a chocolate factory worker, spent years frequenting gay bars in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighbourhood. He was arrested in 1991 and admitted to killing 17 young men, some of whom he mutilated and cannibalized. He was serving life prison sentences when a fellow inmate beat him to death in 1994.

The apartment building where Dahmer stored body parts eventually was razed. The tours are taking place in Walker's Point, which is being revitalized, with new restaurants and bars in remodelled buildings that once housed the bars where Dahmer went.

Janie Hagen's brother, 25-year-old Richard Guerrero, disappeared in 1988 and was one of the first young men Dahmer is known to have murdered. She said she thought donating the money to a charity was a "cop-out" to try to convince people who take the tour that they are doing something positive. She said she's been seeing a therapist for 20 years to deal with her nightmares and other issues related to Dahmer. If any money is donated, it should go to the families, she said.

"If they want to donate this money they should donate it to pay for my psychological doctor bill," said Hagen, 49. "I'm sure a lot of other families are seeing therapists. It screws everybody up, when you have such a horrific tragedy like that."

Morden said Bam Media has been unable to find one charity that represents the families.

Hagen was one of the 20 or so people who protested as the first tour took place on Saturday. She said she and other family members plan to show up every Saturday to protest until the tours are halted.

Morden said she respects Hagen's right to peacefully protest, but that it's imperative for the tour group to continue to tell people about Dahmer's crimes and learn from them so they are not repeated."

[emerald]

"Two dead, including gunman, in shooting at Pittsburgh hospital

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Two people were killed and seven people were wounded in a shooting on Thursday at a psychiatric institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and one of the dead was the gunman who walked into the clinic's lobby armed with two semi-automatic handguns, authorities said.

The identities of the gunman and the victims were not immediately released, and authorities at a media briefing did not reveal any details of what the gunman's motive may have been.

The gunman entered the lobby of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at UPMC shortly before 1 p.m. with two semi-automatic handguns and began firing, according to police and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl.

University and Pittsburgh City police who arrived on the scene shot back, the mayor said. "Police did engage in gunfire," he said. "It is too early to say what gun killed the two deceased."

Seven people, all of them adults, were wounded. Five of them were being treated at UPMC Presbyterian, where two of them were in intensive care, said Dr. Donald Yealy, chief of emergency medicine at UPMC.

All of the wounded were expected to survive, Yealy said. Two other victims were treated at the hospital and released.

The three men and two women still treated at the hospital for gun shot wounds ranged in age from 35 to 64. Of them, two were in serious condition and three were listed as fair, the hospital said in a statement.

Authorities also said a UPMC police officer was grazed in the leg by a bullet.

Of the wounded, at least five were Western Psychiatric employees and one was believed to be a visitor, authorities said.

Western Psychiatric Institute treats more than 25,000 children, adolescents and adults a year for a range of disorders including Alzheimer's disease, depression, schizophrenia and substance abuse, according to its website.

In response to the shooting, UPMC said in a statement that it would review all security procedures in the coming days.

None of its 289 patients were evacuated following the shooting, hospital officials said.

Earlier reports of a second gunman were inaccurate, authorities said.

"It appears at this point that he acted alone," Ravenstahl said.

"This is a tragic day, a sad day, a senseless day in many ways," the mayor added."

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[emerald]

"Colorado Mom Who Doesn't Remember Abandoning Kids Reports More Memory Loss

The Colorado mom who says she doesn't remember abandoning her two young sons in a van and walking for 12 miles has reported another case of amnesia to police in which she says she unknowingly sold treasured family heirlooms to a local pawn shop.

The statement by Sarah Hatfield comes as she pled not guilty in court today on two charges of misdemeanor child abuse related to the Jan. 28 incident in which she left her two young sons, ages 2 and 4, at a Thornton, Colo., gas station.

Hatfield, 26, claims her last memory from that day is sitting in her van with her sons at the gas station. Nearly 12 hours later, around midnight, she arrived outside the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, appearing disoriented as she asked a security guard to use a phone to call home, according to police.

Police found the two boys, as well as Hatfield's wallet, cell phone and keys in her abandoned van in the gas station parking lot after responding to a call. They say her husband, Matthew, also reported a handgun missing from the family's home.

The couple reported to police this week that a local pawn shop notified them that a loan was due related to two necklaces and a ring that the shop says Sarah Hatfield pawned two weeks before the van incident. The store has surveillance video showing Hatfield in the store on Jan. 10 but her husband says she has no memory of being there.

"When Sarah walked into the pawn shop [to question the loan] she said that she had no recollection of ever being in there before and she believed it was the first time she'd been in there," Matthew Hatfield told ABCNews.com.

"They [the pawn shop] wouldn't tell us any information so we called the police and the shop released the information and the video to the police," he said. "It certainly appeared to be her on the surveillance video."

Matthew Hatfield says the incident builds his wife's case that she did not knowingly abandon the couple's children and rules out the idea floated by doctors after the Jan. 28 incident that a condition known as "transient global amnesia" could be the cause of his wife's memory loss.

"It does speak to the fact that her inability to recall events has happened more than once," he said. "We're still waiting for follow up with neurologists. She's also going to be undergoing an in-depth psychological evaluation."

The psychological evaluation, Matthew Hatfield said, comes at the request of Child Protection Services which has ordered his wife to not be left alone unsupervised with the couple's children.

Hatfield says the family is now looking more closely at withdrawal from the insomnia medication, Ambien, as a possible cause for his wife's memory loss. The otherwise healthy Hatfield has a history of insomnia and debilitating migraines, the latter of which she's being treated for.

"Sarah had been taking Ambien for about two months and she stopped taking it in mid-January when her prescription ran out," Matthew Hatfield said. "The effect of Ambien withdrawal can also describe what she experienced and, based on our research, can also last for months."

"Ambien is a drug you're supposed to step down from and she didn't do that," he said. "If you step off it properly you're supposed to minimize those withdrawal side effects but she didn't so we believe that may be a cause because the timeline fits and the symptoms fit as well."

Hatfield's trial date is set for June 14. She could face up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Thornton, Colo., police are not commenting on the case, saying it is still an active investigation."

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one thing that really amazes me about all this mind control discussions all over the internet is that NO ONE seems to acknowledge the devastating part wireless electronic devices such as cell phones and wifi plays in destroying minds everywhere.

i mean, it's disgusting. sometimes i think if someone uses that shit then they have pretty much no right to complain about being mind controlled though the media or else where, since that person is inderictly killing him/herself off with their own ignorance...oh the irony!


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[emerald]

"Killing of 4 youths horrifies central Mexico city

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The slayings of four youths whose bodies were cut to pieces and left in plastic bags has horrified the central Mexico city of Cuernavaca, calling up memories of a similar crime a year ago that spurred the creation of a national crime victims' movement.

Prosecutors in Morelos state said the victims, ranging in age from 14 to 21, were found Thursday in plastic bags on a Cuernavaca street along with a threatening note from a drug gang. Photos from the scene showed a handless arm lying near the handwritten note.

The youths had apparently been strangled or asphyxiated before being dismembered, according to the prosecutors' statement.

Prosecutors said the four were students at local schools, though the mother of the youngest victim, 14-year-old Brandon Contreras Gutierrez, said the boy had left home 1½ weeks before "and had been hanging out with others, driving around on minibikes" in one of the city's rougher neighborhoods.

It was not clear if he had any relationship with gang members who frequently use mini-motorcycles to distribute drugs or transport gunmen.

Morelos state Interior Secretary Oscar Hernandez Benitez said in a statement that he had ordered stepped-up patrols in the city following the killings and he called on the public "to form a united front against violence, for peace and tranquility in our state."

Local media said two high schools in the victims' neighborhood were briefly closed and evacuated after the bodies were found. The education department did not respond to requests to confirm that.

Cuernavaca, nicknamed "The City of Eternal Spring," was once known mainly as a balmy resort area for tourists and as a weekend retreat for wealthy residents of Mexico City, just 40 miles (65 kilometers) away.

However, it has become the scene of drug cartel turf battles in recent years, and the city was shocked when the son of poet Javier Sicilia and six friends were found dead, their bodies stuffed into a car on March 28, 2011. A half dozen alleged drug gang members have been indicted in connection with those killings and are facing trial.

Sicilia went on to found a nationwide movement advocating an end to Mexico's drug violence, which saw at least 47,515 people killed between December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against drug cartels, through September 2011, the latest figures made available by the government. Thousands more are thought to have disappeared.

On Friday, Sicilia said the new slayings prove that little or nothing has changed in the year since his son died and that the government continues to fail to prevent or investigate such crimes.

"Unfortunately, we are seeing the same story over and over again," said Sicilia, "These crimes in Morelos, along with the crimes throughout the nation, are proof of the government's lack of effectiveness and its distance from the people."

"The clearest proof of that is that we continue to have 98 percent of crimes that go unpunished."

To address such concerns, Calderon unveiled the headquarters of what his government calls its "scientific police division," a wing of the federal police that will use specialized forensics and crime-scene techniques to boost investigations that in the past have been marked by clumsiness and poorly preserved evidence.

Calderon acknowledged the weaknesses of the past, saying police were "not very professional and in many cases incapable of fulfilling their primary mission of ensuring citizens' safety and, in some cases, they even allied themselves with criminals."

The new, 700-million-peso ($55 million) facility will have DNA, ballistics and fingerprint labs as well as a cyber-crime unit.

Calderon said that Mexico has made progress in detaining top drug traffickers, but that street-level violence between lower-ranking gang members hcontinues.

This week's killings in Cuernavaca bore the hallmarks of gang-on-gang violence, as do many of the killings in Cuernavaca, where victims' bodies have been hung from overpasses and left with hand-lettered signs.

In Guadalajara, officials said drug criminals set 25 city buses and other vehicles on fire in 16 different places, spreading fear Friday afternoon throughout Mexico's second-largest city.

The burning road blockades came after an army operation in a Guadalajara suburb that the military later said resulted in the capture of the leader of the New Generation drug gang, which is believed allied with Mexico's most wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

The army said its soldiers came under fire while arresting Erick Valencia Salazar, the presumed leader of New Generation, and a lieutenant whose name was not released.

Guadalajara has become a new front in the war between the country's two main drug cartels, Guzman's Sinaloa gang and the Zetas. In November the bodies of 26 young men were found stuffed in two vans and a pickup truck abandoned on an expressway in the city, an attack officials have attributed to the Zetas."

[emerald]

"Judge stabbed, deputy shot at Washington state courthouse

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker stabbed a judge and shot a sheriff's deputy with the officer's own gun in a county courthouse in Washington state on Friday, prompting a lockdown of schools and government buildings as police and SWAT teams searched for the attacker.

The assailant, described as relatively well dressed and carrying a briefcase, confronted the deputy inside the main entrance of the Grays Harbor County Courthouse in Montesano, County Undersheriff Rick Scott told a news conference.

The suspect stabbed the deputy, then grabbed her gun and shot her, Scott said.

The judge, who saw the commotion from the third floor of the courthouse and ran down to intervene, was stabbed in the neck and torso during the altercation, Scott said.

Both Superior Court Judge Dave Edwards and Deputy Polly Davin were taken to Grays Harbor Community Hospital in nearby Aberdeen, where they were released after several hours of treatment, hospital spokesman David Quigg said.

Edwards, a former prosecuting attorney appointed to the bench in 2007, was part of a lawsuit filed by the Superior Court against the county in December that alleged poor courthouse security due to inadequate funding.

The lawsuit said that over the past two years, attorneys were physically assaulted at court, a defendant charged at a judge and a man came to the courthouse armed with a knife.

"Anyone can enter the courthouse carrying weapons," the lawsuit said of the courthouse.

Scott said the courthouse lacks metal detectors.

"We just had a discussion about courthouse security less than a week ago," Scott said. "The need for that is certainly illustrated by what happened here today."

SUSPECT REMAINS AT LARGE

Authorities searched a wide area for the suspect, identified as Michael Thomas, but had not arrested him as of late afternoon.

Another man also identified as Michael Thomas was taken into custody on an unrelated warrant at mid-afternoon in the community of Tumwater, some 40 miles away, a spokeswoman for the Tumwater Police Department said.

Authorities later said he was not the gunman and only shared the same name as the suspect.

"The man in custody is not the alleged shooter," Scott said.

The gunman was described as being in his early 20s and possibly armed with a handgun and a knife. Scott said it was not clear what business he had at the courthouse.

A Grays Harbor County Sheriff's spokesman said that government buildings in Montesano, a community of about 4,000 people, had been temporarily placed on lockdown following the incident. A Montesano School District spokeswoman said schools had also been placed on lockdown.

Josh Bachtell, the owner of Savory Faire bakery in Montesano, said he had locked the doors of his business after the husband of one of his employees said he had seen a gunman running from the courthouse.

"Right after it happened, he came in and told us there was an armed gunman on the loose, so we've locked the doors," Bachtell said. "It looks like there's still a lot of police activity out there."

The courthouse assault came two days after a gunman fired a flurry of shots into the air and then traded gunfire with police outside a courthouse in Oklahoma on Wednesday, wounding a sheriff's deputy and a bystander, Tulsa authorities said.

It also followed a spate of recent high profile gun violence including a shooting at a psychiatric institute in Pittsburgh on Thursday in which a gunman shot dead one person before he was killed, and a shooting last week at an Ohio school in which three students died."

[emerald]

"How could a Scottish housewife become New York's most infamous madam? Story of how a mother of four is accused of running a $10million vice ring for the rich and famous...

To her friends and neighbours, she was simply a homely American housewife and mother of four, with a soft spot for animals. Pigs, in particular, were her passion and at her suburban home outside New York she housed any number that were unwanted and kept them as pets.

She explained, when asked by her friends and the family she had long left behind in Scotland, that she worked in internet marketing and had a sideline as an estate agent.

In truth, say prosecutors, she was the madam of a high-end brothel in Manhattan that netted her $10 million (£6.4 million) over 15 years.

New York is, quite simply, astonished at the continuing revelations about 44-year-old Anna Gristina, a petite blonde whose international clientele is said to include powerful figures in politics, law enforcement, finance and entertainment — not to mention several ‘ultra-wealthy’ Europeans.

According to one of the brothel’s former ‘girls’, a woman in her 20s who calls herself Lizzie, clients also numbered sports club owners, chief executives, members of the boards of hospitals and art institutions, and even royalty.

And those movers and shakers may not just have been in New York. According to sources aware of what was happening, Gristina allegedly worked with a London-based partner matching beautiful girls with rich men on both sides of the Atlantic, who could use an online catalogue to select their partners.

Kristin Davis, a former Manhattan madam who also ran a string of prostitutes for influential clients, claimed her rival had a reputation for offering local customers a rotating selection of girls from Britain and Europe.

‘Dutch girls and London girls come here for a month, work, then go back home,’ she said. ‘She was known for having more of these “transient” girls.’

If it is true that Gristina operated a British line of business, she could face further charges in addition to the one that has already landed her in the grim surroundings of Rikers Island prison in New York.

Though she firmly denies providing prostitutes, prosecutors say Gristina ran 50 women — many of them Eastern Europeans — from a brothel above an Indian restaurant in a modest street in Manhattan’s expensive Upper East Side.

Neighbours reported black chauffeur-driven limos disgorging besuited clients at all times of the day and night. The girls, reportedly including many Playboy and Penthouse models, were screened carefully.

They had to be the sorts of women that clients could take out to dinner with friends without fear of embarrassment.

They did not come cheap. Prices ranged from £500 to £1,300 an hour and went up to £16,000 for a weekend in which they accompanied the client in Europe or Asia. Lizzie revealed how she once went ‘mansion-shopping’ through Europe with a client who, being the perfect gentleman, asked her approval before making his final choice.

If the tales are to be believed, the extent of the glitz and glamour involved is breathtaking. Yet, despite leaving her homeland as a teenager, Gristina, it seems, was very much the canny Scot in business.

Hookers would store their bundles of cash in the microwave oven at the brothel. Pictures of the one-bedroom flat for which Gristina allegedly pays just £380 a month revealed a distinctly spartan interior, with a portable TV propped up on a chest of drawers and a DVD selection that included Casablanca, The Seven Year Itch and Sex And The City.

Former prostitutes claim that she vetted each client herself after background research, but never met them. She was choosy about her girls, turning away drug users and sending an assistant to check they passed muster with their clothes off. In return, she allegedly kept only 40 per cent of what her ‘girls’ earned — 10 per cent less, apparently, than the standard rate.

By all accounts, she was a good boss — as long as you were attractive enough to get on her books. Prosecutors say she had an associate in the operation, Jaynie Mae Baker, a glamorous 30-year-old whose day job was to work for a match-making service, who is currently on the run.

Gristina faces up to seven years in prison and, damningly, prosecutors allege she used an under-age prostitute on at least one occasion.

So, who will be revealed in the pages of Gristina’s ‘black book’ of punters? And if it turns out she was also operating in London, the identification of British clients will prove just as intriguing.

Just four years ago, the shocking downfall of the famously self–righteous Democratic Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, in a prostitution scandal suggested that just about anyone was capable of using call girls.

The belief that this case might eventually reveal even bigger names was strengthened this week when a judge refused to lower Gristina’s £1.3 million bail after hearing her ‘high worth’ clients might try to spirit her out of the country before she exposed them.

Interviewed in prison this week, Gristina claimed prosecutors had been pressing her for details of ten of her most high-profile alleged clients, including politicians, property moguls and investment bankers. But she insisted: ‘I’d bite my tongue off before I’d tell them anything.’

Anna Gristina came to public attention two weeks ago when she was arrested after visiting a ‘close friend’ in the offices of Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley to discuss financing an internet expansion of her business.

The friend, David Walker, a 47-year-old wealth management specialist, later peeped coyly around his front door when reporters tracked him down, and asked them what all the fuss was about. Gristina, he sighed, was ‘the mom next door’, a generous and loving lady. His bosses have since placed him on administrative leave.

Gristina’s visit to a Morgan Stanley office that normally deals with millionaires — she was supposed to be a struggling mum on £19,000 a year — was a rare slip-up for a woman who appeared to run her business with extraordinary care.

For as new details emerge daily of the scale of Gristina’s alleged operation, the question on everyone’s lips is: how did she get away with it for so long?

The simple answer may be that she ‘knew people’. In conversations secretly recorded during a five-year investigation and obtained by the New York Daily News, she allegedly bragged about her friends in the New York Police Department, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and even the local District Attorney’s office.

‘My guy in the FBI called my partner in my land management business and said: “You’d better tell your Scottish friend it’s time to leave the country. And for quite a while,”’ Gristina said of a 2008 phone call. ‘I had 15 minutes to pack my bags and grab my dog and get out of town.’

On that occasion, she fled to Canada, where she is believed to have a home, and stayed until police attention had died down. The alarm may have been connected to Eliot Spitzer, whose scandal broke the same year. In another tapped call, a woman said to be Gristina described how she once called in some help to intimidate a rival, the self-proclaimed ‘king of all pimps’, Jason Itzler.

‘My guys sent some people over to (Itzler’s) office to have a little talk with him,’ she said. ‘The guys, I think, made him nervous. He never bothered me again.’

Her ‘best friend’ was friends with the ‘chief director of the FBI for the entire country’, she boasted. ‘I can have him shut down. Revenge is a dish best served cold.’

The hard language, straight out of The Sopranos, is not surprisingly a million miles away from her lovey-dovey gushing about sweet little pigs on her Facebook page.

But if the charges are proved, then her ability to keep up a double life so effectively must help explain why she has only now been charged after 15 years in a notoriously risky business.

That apparent split personality was made clear in the two pictures of her that circulated last week — one during her court appearance, peering out sheepishly from glasses in a matronly tweed jacket, the other of her semi-naked and pouting for the camera in the arms of her muscle-bound third husband.

As her lawyer has been quick to point out, Gristina’s story — even if it ends in a prison cell and then deportation — is classic American Dream stuff: the European immigrant who fled misery and poverty to start a new and affluent life in the New World.

Raised by John Tennant, a nursery gardener, and his maid wife Annie in Kirkliston — a small village on the edge of Edinburgh — she was one of six children and the family struggled financially. In turn, Gristina struggled with the knowledge that she was adopted.

A rebellious child who school friends remember liking punk music and hanging out with skinheads, she ran away from home at least once.

Her beloved father’s death from cancer when she was 15 devastated her and, a couple of years later, without so much as a farewell to her family, she followed her older sister and moved to America.

As her New York lawyer Peter Gleason put it, ‘she’s a kid who came from Scotland with just the clothes on her back and made her way in this country’. She quickly married American Fernando Pak and had two daughters, but they divorced when she was 24. Her next husband, an Italian immigrant named Dario Gristina, inherited his father’s engineering business. A friend who knew the couple recalled Gristina as sweet but manipulative.

Relatives who met the rich, well-connected businessman when Gristina took him back to Scotland thought she had, as one put it, ‘fallen on her feet’. The couple had a son, Stephano, but the marriage fell apart in a few years and they divorced in 1998.

By then, according to prosecutors, Gristina would have been a year into her brothel-keeping business. Mr Gristina, who has since remarried and is now running as a Republican for the New York State Assembly, has refused to comment on his ex-wife’s predicament, except to express his total surprise.

Gristina met her current husband, Kelvin Gorr, on the dancefloor of a nightclub in New York state’s Catskills Mountains.

Seven years her junior, he was drifting between jobs as an estate agent and a life coach. They married in Las Vegas ten years ago with a speed that baffled his friends, and soon had a son, Nicolas, now nine. In Monroe, a working-class small town half-an-hour’s drive from New York city, the couple live up a dirt track in a sprawling but modest ranch-style house in the woods.

It couldn’t be less what you would associate with a top-end Manhattan madam — and that’s before you factor in the pigs. Gristina has six of them, as well as pit bull terriers and hens.

The pot-bellied pigs sleep on beds in the house, if pictures on her Facebook page are anything to go by. She probably loves the pigs as much as she claims, but the rest of her unassuming lifestyle appears to have been carefully cultivated. With Gristina claiming she is too poor even to afford a lawyer, prosecutors say they are having trouble finding her assets, apparently hidden in multiple bank accounts.

‘I’m not stupid. I don’t have a $2 million home and then claim $30,000 a year to the IRS (the U.S. tax authority). I don’t take trips to Tahiti,’ she can allegedly be heard saying in one of the leaked covert recordings.

Given the precautions she seems to have taken, it is little wonder the investigation into her activities took five years.

Money was never put in U.S. banks but was pushed into foreign bank accounts. Cash was used as much as possible and clients always had to pay with it.

Gristina boasted that everything she owned, including her car, was in different names and she made sure her signature stayed off any compromising documents.

It goes without saying that doing business on the phone was avoided and the internet Skype system was preferred because it isn’t traceable. Investigators say she ran her prostitution ring largely via her computer from home, fitting it in between school runs and shopping, and venturing into Manhattan as little as possible.

Former madam Kristin Davis described alleged brothel keeper Gristina as ‘sort of old school, keeping a low-key profile’ but thought it rather odd she should run the enterprise for so long.

‘To be in business for ten, 15 years means: one, you’ve got somebody tipping you off; two, you’re a bit delusional. This isn’t a profession, it’s quick money.’

But £6.4 million over 15 years suggests Gristina was doing rather well at it.

Her alter ego certainly fooled the neighbours and her fellow pig fanciers, who seem as shocked by the allegations as those she left behind in Scotland.

‘If it’s true, she has fooled everyone, even her closest friends,’ said one who has known Gristina since school in Scotland and recalled how the ‘proud Scot’ would always ring on Hogmanay.

‘Working very hard. Building an empire,’ she wrote recently on Facebook. But despite such New York bravado, it seems the Scotch mist still occasionally descended on her happiness.

‘Every time the doorbell rings, I think they’re finally here for me,’ she told a friend in one of the recorded conversations. ‘I don’t know, maybe we’re all just paranoid.’ "