Canada geese may want to travel in gaggles, after another seven of their feathered friends were discovered savagely cut up and left for dead on a Naperville roadside Tuesday.

The murdered fowl, discovered at North Aurora and Enterprise Roads, bring to 11 the number of victims taken by a serial goose hunter still at large. The killing spree began late Monday, when a resident called police to report four geese carcasses left in the parkway in the 1200 block of Langley Circle.

“It appears somebody is hunting the birds for the meat,” said Sgt. Gregg Bell of Naperville Police, after viewing gruesome photographs of the crime scene.

Canada geese, which neared extinction in the late 1950s, are
protected by federal and state laws. An aggressive nationwide
restoration effort has brought back the population considerably, but
hunting the birds is still prohibited, authorities said.

“It’s never hunting season for those geese,” Bell said.

Naperville animal-control
officers arrived at the Langley Circle Tuesday morning to remove the
dead birds discovered the night before, but the carcasses were missing.

Soon after, an employee at a business reported the second
cluster of goose carcasses about five miles away. Authorities were able
to photograph and clean up that site, Bell said.

Because the
incisions to the geese’s chest cavities were clean and similar, police
do not believe a wild animal is behind the killings. Naperville police
has turned the investigation over to the Department of Natural
Resources, which would be the agency to press charges if a suspect is
caught.

But there were no suspects as of Tuesday afternoon, police said.

“If you’re a goose, you might have to watch your back,” Bell said.

– Vikki Ortiz Healy

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Working to maintain a healthier lifestyle, Amy Winehouse was spotted leaving a Central London fitness center last night (November 24).

The troubled “Rehab” songstress looked to be in good spirits as she encountered a few fans, signing autographs and posing for pictures before going on her way.

In related news, it seems that Amy is really getting into the holiday spirit, as she spent over $30,000 on Christmas decorations during a six-hour shopping spree at Selfridges.

An eyewitness told press, “Amy ended up blowing nearly £20,000 on musical lights, dancing Santas and moving reindeer. She even paid for it all to be installed in her house after experts told her she could seriously hurt herself if she wired it all up wrong.”

“Amy walked around the store for six hours going up and down the five floors about four times each. She was in the shop so long she had to stop to buy lunch and dinner. The only thing she didn’t buy was a Christmas tree.”

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The following celebrities were born on November 18:

Fabolous is 30.
Brenda Vaccaro is 70.
Linda Evans is 67.
Susan Sullivan is 67.
Jacky Ward is 63.
Jameson Parker is 62.
Andrea Marcovicci is 61.
Graham Parker is 59.
Kevin Nealon is 56.
Oscar Nunez (”The Office”) is 51.
Kim Wilde is 49.
Elizabeth Perkins is 49.
Kirk Hammett of Metallica is 47.
Tim DeLaughter of Polyphonic Spree (and Tripping Daisy) is 44.
Owen Wilson (”The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Zoolander”) is 41.
Duncan Sheik is 40.
Mike Epps is 39.
Peta Wilson (”La Femme Nikita”) is 39.
Chloe Sevigny (”Boys Don’t Cry”) is 35.
Mike Jones is 29.
Nathan Cress (”iCarly”) is 17.

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A 37-year-old man is in custody and faces strong-armed robbery charges after he robbed four different people on the North Side over a 90 minute period on Tuesday evening, police said.

The man, who has not been identified, is currently under medical attention after he told police that he had swolled drugs, said Rogers Park District Lt. John Franklin.

“He ran up and snatched purses and wallets,” said Franklin. “The total
value lost was about $2 total. He just went nuts and decided to go on a
spree.”
The robberies happened on the 1300 block of West Lunt Avenue; the 6700
block of North Glenwood Avenue; the 6600 block of North Newgard Avenue;
and the 7200 block of North Ashland. No one was hurt in the robberies, Franklin said.

The robberies occurred between about 9 p.m. and about 10:51 p.m. and
his spree ended when he was arrested after the husband of a woman who
was about to have her purse snatched on the 1300 block of West Lunt
Avenue pointed him out to police, Franklin said.

The last victim was walking up the stairs to her home when the man ran
up behind her and tried to take the woman’s purse, Franklin said. The
woman managed to bang on the door and summon her husband.

The man fled on foot but not before police were notified and the
husband was able to give police the description of the man. The
description, including the fact that he was wearing a distinctive orange
jacket, matched that of the man for which police were searching in
connection with the other robberies, Franklin said.

The man was caught on the 1500 block of West Lunt Avenue after he
jumped over a fence. All four of his victims identified the man as the
person who robbed them or attempted to rob them, Franklin said. None of the people were injured.

“I don’t think he said much of any thing, he just came up and started grabbing their stuff,” said Franklin said.

– Carlos Sadovi

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For three weeks in 2002 Washington, D.C., was paralyzed in fear as a sniper randomly took the lives of 10 people and wounded three others. When it was all over, Gulf War veteran John Muhammad and his 17-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested for the killing spree. And no one was more shocked than Muhammad’s ex-wife, Mildred.

n Mildred’s new book “Scared Silent,” (read an excerpt here) she chronicles her mentally and emotionally abusive relationship with John, the man who would become the D.C. Sniper, and says that she was the intended target of his bloody rampage.

When I met John, he was very charming and thoughtful. He would give you the shirt off your back. He was that kind of person, before he went to the Gulf War. When he returned in 1991 he was a different man.

The Changes Begin
Whatever happened to him there shook the foundation of his life. When he came back he was not the same person. He didn’t laugh anymore. He made sure that everything that he did he had control over.

He was not debriefed or counseled when he returned. His change in behavior was gradual, but he got more and more obsessive and abusive. It got to a point where he said, “It’s a question of mind over matter — I don’t mind because you don’t matter.” When I went to my community they didn’t believe me. They asked me what I did to provoke him.

I spent a long time believing what he said. When someone you hold dearest to you tells you that you’re nothing, you tend to believe them. He was able to blame me and caused me to be ashamed. He would isolate and control me.

“You Have Become My Enemy, and As My Enemy I Will Kill You”
After 12 years of marriage I was finally able to break free, but it was not easy. He was angry that I divorced him. He felt that I was abandoning him. He said, “You have become my enemy, and as my enemy I will kill you.” I was forced to move into a transitional home, and was granted a restraining order for life against him.

Out of revenge, he fled the country and took the kids with him. I had no idea where they were. He settled with them in Antigua, which is where he met [sniper accomplice] Lee Boyd Malvo. Lee took on a sort of “big brother” role with the kids. (Source)

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JARRATT, Virginia (AP) – John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday night as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington metro area for three weeks in October 2002.

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