Monthly Archives: August 2007

Some suicides require coverage, but always with sensitivity

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

Update 2018 07 26: To add links to related articles on media bias “Some suicides require coverage, but always with sensitivity” [by implication, others do not – F4L].  So says Jim Slusher, Daily Herald Columnist. During the last little while, a considerable number of years, decades, in fact, murder-suicides by women were rarely reported (for one thing, the female suicide part of those incidents was most often a token attempt), and female-perpetrated murders were, if ever, shown with a couple or so paragraphs on the back pages in our newspapers. That, as also shown in the article indicated here, has seen a dramatic reversal during the past few days. Jim Slusher, … Continue reading →

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Swedish fathers rights groups slug it out

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

Swedish fathers rights groups Daddy-Child (Pappa-Barn) and “PappaRättsGruppen” disagree. News from Sweden The foundation Daddy-Child (Pappa-Barn) says that The Father Rights Group “PappaRättsGruppen” is extremist. Last Friday, The Father Rights Group from Växjö proclaimed a manifesto outside the lower court of Växjö. They had plaques stating that they are “sperm machines”. You can´t fight extremists with extreme methods, says Kim Möller, co-ordinater for south of Sweden in the foundation Pappa-Barn (Daddy-Child). I get scared when I visit their homepage.  Their way to success is to co-operate with women’s shelters. PappaRättsGruppen tend to focus on dads and not on children, says Kim. The statements above will be published in the newspaper … Continue reading →

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Deadly fight over girl

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

The headline, Deadly fight over girl, is apparently unrelated to what actually had happened.  Quoted from the second article indicated in the following: “Kamysz [the mother how did the killing] had been in a legal dispute over visitation rights with Sydney’s father at the time of the murder-suicide, but attorneys for both sides said the fight was not unusually bitter or contested.” Chicago Sun-Times Deadly fight over girl CRYSTAL LAKE | Mom apparently kills 7-year-old, walks in front of train August 30, 2007 BY DAN ROZEK AND LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporters/drozek@suntimes.com ldonovan@suntimes.com A young Crystal Lake mother apparently suffocated her 7-year-old daughter, then killed herself by stepping in front of … Continue reading →

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A father’s staggering loss

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

Chicago Tribune, 27 August 2007 A father’s staggering loss — Two weeks after his children and wife were killed in a Naperville fire, Anand Tiwari exists somewhere between the past, present. By Sara Olkon, Tribune staff reporter For Anand Tiwari, time stopped on Aug. 11. That Saturday afternoon, police would later tell him, his wife murdered their two young children and killed herself by igniting a fire that engulfed the three in flames inside the family’s Naperville home. (Full Story) Note by F4L: Apparently it does not happen very often that a mother kills her children and then herself.  More often it happens that the mother appears to pretend to … Continue reading →

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Suspect: Stabbing of wife was self-defense

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

Suspect: Stabbing of wife was self-defense — Strauss called police on spouse in 2005; she reported threats. but he did get sentenced to 25 years. By Christine Reid (Contact) Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Homicide suspect Alfred Michael Strauss listens during his bond hearing Tuesday at the Boulder County Jail. A Boulder man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his former wife Monday told police he was acting in self defense. Alfred Michael Strauss, 45, is facing a possible charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of 36-year-old Laura Swan, who went by the name Laura Strauss when the two were married. In 2005, Strauss called police to report Swan was … Continue reading →

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Ceremonial knives — instruments designed for killing

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

Ceremonial knives — instruments designed for killing, deserve more attention.  They are vastly underrated as tools used for homicide and need to be put into perspective. The Associated Press, Posted August 29, 2007 Wausau-area man used ceremonial knife to kill wife, self WAUSAU — A 31-year-old man fatally stabbed his 25-year-old wife and hours later killed himself with a 12-inch ceremonial knife as he fled from a sheriff’s deputy, police said today. (Full Story That link is broken, but here is a working link to another version of the article.) Ceremonial knives are frequently mentioned in stories of mayhem and murder. An Internet search for “ceremonial knife” produces 895,000 results. The search … Continue reading →

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Elkhart County murder suicide – Reaction

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

Updated 2019 02 18: Added links to related articles and expanded on the comments in the footnote. Reaction to Elkhart County murder suicide — Two young girls in Elkhart County said goodbye Tuesday to their mother and father. Police say their mother, 33 year-old Karla Fernandez, was shot and killed by their father, 31 year-old Omar Fernandez, who later shot himself in the head….(Full Story) _____________ Notice that the story is by the YWCA and that the views of the fathers are not mentioned, namely: “Newscenter 16 had a chance to talk to some of Karla’s friends both on the scene and over the phone.” Objective reporting would have included the … Continue reading →

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Paternity Fraud Report

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

Update 2019 02 18: Added links to related articles. The Innocent Third Party: Victims of Paternity Fraud (110 kB PDF file) BY RONALD K. HENRY; Family Law Quarterly, Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2006 This is the best overview yet written by anyone I saw on the scope and nature of paternity fraud and related issues. — WHS From the article: The bottom line in the drive to find some man, any man, to drive up the paternity establishment rate is that “fairness was not a high concern.”…. In Los Angeles County, eighty percent of paternity establishments are entered by default judgment, whereas for the State of California as a … Continue reading →

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Alberta Maintenance Enforcement Program Client Survey

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

The survey report, Final Report — Alberta Maintenance Enforcement Program 2006 Client Survey was prepared by Burke & Associates Inc., November 28, 2006, based on a client survey undertaken in June 2006.The results of the survey were published via the website of the Maintenance Enforcement Program (MEP) of Alberta Justice. The Alberta MEP 2006 Client Survey was prominently mentioned on the Alberta MEP home page, with Alberta MEP implying thereby that they not only fully endorse what the survey report contains, but that they will base forthcoming changes to MEP policies and work processes relating to its interactions with it clients (a.k.a. “creditors” and “debtors”) on the recommendations made in the … Continue reading →

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Men and energy, the foundation of modern civilization

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Walter H. Schneider

Update 2019 01 16: Added links to related articles. Men and energy are the foundation of modern civilization. The latter would not have come to exist without men, not be modern without plenty, generally accessible and cheap, affordable energy. Men invented ever more ways by which energy is used to make people’s lives easier. That began with men using animal muscles instead those of humans to get necessary work done.  It progressed to having incredible amounts of work done through the generation of energy and applying it to move mountains, to bore through and under them, to go around, under and over them, by flying far above them, even into … Continue reading →

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