In this interview with Aaron Swartz from three years ago, we get a glimpse of the talent, energy and commitment to Truth that drove this pioneer of Internet freedom and civil liberties.
Society's Child
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Robert Mackey, right, is accused of murdering Lorraine Hatzakorzian and dumping her head in the Everglades. He is flanked by defense lawyers John George (to his right) and Louis C. Pironti (to his left, partly visible).
Robert Mackey, right, is accused of murdering Lorraine Hatzakorzian and dumping her head in the Everglades. He is flanked by defense lawyers John George (to his right) and Louis C. Pironti (to his left, partly visible).
The witnesses, former roommates of the suspects during their 2007 stay in Volusia County, said Mackey and Trucchio each confessed to murdering Lorraine Hatzakorzian, 41, dismembering her, and tossing her head into an Everglades canal, where it was discovered near a boat ramp in western Broward County on April 28, 2007.
The head was the only part of the victim's body that was ever found, and even though no one knows where the victim met her demise, the location of her head resulted in a murder trial in Broward.
Mackey, 44, faces life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder or 30 years if convicted of being an accessory after-the-fact. He cannot be convicted of both crimes. Trucchio was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading no contest to the murder charge a year ago.
Prosecutors say Mackey and Trucchio beat Hatzakorzian to death when she tried to get away from them, then used their tree-trimming tools to cut her head off. Witnesses Doug Stine and Louis Caroleo, who roomed with Mackey and Trucchio in Port Orange from May to July 2007, each said they heard the men confess to the crime and discuss how they could get away with it.
Horrific: An 18-month-old girl was chopped up by her drunk uncle
Andrey Gadzhiev's sister Elena Titova, 29, had left him caring for the toddler for 15 minutes while she visited a neighbour.
When she returned there was no sign of the child and her intoxicated brother could not explain what had happened to her.
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She disappeared from the Almeida family home in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 and was never found despite an extensive and thorough search.
The family assumed she must have escaped through the front door, after builders who were working on the house at the time had left it open.
It was only after their father Leonel died earlier this month that the family started tidying and sorting his locked store room and made the discovery.
Leandro, Leonel's son, was clearing out boxes from his father's locked second-floor store room, and was throwing out what he thought was just a box with an old record player, when a neighbour pointed out the tortoise.
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Oscar Lefosse is a former cop who served from 1986 to 1996. His gun licence expired a year ago.
Oscar Lefosse is a former cop who served from 1986 to 1996. His gun licence expired a year ago.
Thanks to an alleged shootout with muggers, the superhero has been charged with carrying an unlicensed gun, police said.
The man who called himself Menganno - Spanish for Joe Blow - and became famous in Argentine media is actually Oscar Lefosse, 43, a former cop who served from 1986 to 1996. It turns out his gun licence expired a year ago.
On Tuesday, Lefosse told police that three petty criminals opened fire on his car as he drove with his wife. He returned fire with his Glock pistol.
On his Facebook page, "Menganno" - 33,000 followers - posted a photo of what he said was his bullet-ridden car.
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People at a rally in Kolkata, India light candles to honor a 23-year old gang rape victim.
People at a rally in Kolkata, India light candles to honor a 23-year old gang rape victim.
There is, however, a pattern of violence against women that's broad and deep and horrific and incessantly overlooked. Occasionally, a case involving a celebrity or lurid details in a particular case get a lot of attention in the media, but such cases are treated as anomalies, while the abundance of incidental news items about violence against women in this country, in other countries, on every continent including Antarctica, constitute a kind of background wallpaper for the news.
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Dozens of soldiers in the Wachbataillon unit - which performs close drill displays at official events - are said to be stricken with a condition which stimulates male mammary glands.
Experts say the repeated slapping of the soldiers' heavy rifles in the same spot on the left side of their chests during drills has stimulated the glands to produce hormones, causing boobs to sprout on one side only.
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But there was something unusual about the destination: It was the Salem Police Department.
The CCTV footage shows Amine Ahnini being restrained after returning the food he had stolen
A teenage asylum seeker has said he feared he was going to die after he was pinned to the ground, grabbed around the neck and restrained by five people in a Sainsbury's supermarket after he stole a sandwich.
Amine Ahnini, from Algeria, who was 18 at the time of the incident in May last year, was challenged by a security guard as he left the Canterbury store with a sandwich and a few other food items. He admitted he had not paid for them, saying he was starving and had no money.
While there are no official figures, Data is not routinely collected but there is anecdotal evidence from charities and police forces that there has been a rise in thefts linked to hunger.
Ahnini agreed to go back into the store with the guard and return the items. CCTV footage shows that after he had put the food down the guard grabbed him and pushed him to the ground. Other employees and a member of the public helped the guard restrain him. The guard said he acted because he feared the 18-year-old was going to assault him.
According to an affidavit, federal agents with the Bureau of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) raided the home of Richard Lawrence Sandberg in Jefferson County on Thursday after he provided an undercover agent with homemade bombs.
After receiving a tip from a Denver Police Department detective, ATF Special Agent Shane Abraham contacted Sandberg and told him he needed an explosive device to protect a building. Sandberg, who claimed to be "former Special Ops Recon SS Marine Corps," allegedly said that he was in possession of "incendiary" or "napalm" explosives, but the devices were wrong for the job. The suspect then recommended a "frag" - or fragmentation device - and suggested that he could provide something that was also waterproof.
