Add Gauteng, South Africa to our list of places to not be caught dead. A strike among mortuary workers has caused a backlog of some 65 bodies waiting for post mortems. The city’s mortuary workers, who first went on strike in June 2017, have called the current work stoppage over what they call the “unfulfilled promises” made when last year’s strike was settled. The government has declared the strike unlawful and is demanding the strikers return to work or lose their jobs.
From our “Dumber Indemnity” file comes the story of two young men charged with killing a woman insurance broker. Needing 5000 rupees ($77.00) to pay for his mother-in-law’s funeral, Sagar Mukhi decided to rob Sujata Moahapatra, an insurance broker who sold him a policy (which lapsed when he couldn’t afford those payments, either). He assumed she’d have the cash on hand at the end of the day. Assuming she would be able to ID him, he asked Bhole Mukhi (the story is unclear on their relation) along to kill her. The Mukhis, as you might imagine, disagree, with a lawyer, Dhirendra Prasad Das, claiming the police account can’t be relied upon because their attempting to shield the murder’s “mastermind,”
The murder of eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz has been big news in Spain ever since the boy went missing February 27th; thousands attended his funeral. It attracted attention not just for the age of the victim, but the savagery of the killing. And the murderer has been found,: his father’s girlfriend, Ana Julia Quezada. It ends up she has a shady past, and in the days following the boy’s disappearance, she acted suspiciously, over-reacting and changing moods, miming worry for Gabriel whenever the TV cameras were on. She confessed to the killing less than 12 hours after her arrest, but claimed it was self-defense. Gabriel, who never warmed up to her, attacked her with a hatchet. The only way this grown woman could defend herself was to knock him unconscious with the blunt side of an ax. Panicked at the prospect of knocking the boy out, she decided to finish the job, and strangled him. Then she undressed him, and buried him in a shallow grave. (We doubt she this was because she believed in green burial). Police, reportedly, are disgusted by her behavior.
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