Unsolved

John Gotti, the former Gambino crime family boss, is under question to discover the last body that has been hidden or destroyed. The missing man is John Favara who ran over the boss's twelve year old son. He was later shot and his body disposed of, and the police are trying to find it. A man named Charles Carneglia who is also on trial for the murder of five other people has been fingered and said to have dissolved the body in a vat of acid in his basement. Government officials have dug under the Queen's bridge for the body, and they have looked at Sheepshead Bay where it was rumored that the mans body had been put in cement and dropped to the bottom of the bay.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28562971/

I wasn't supposed to do a blog until next week, but I saw this one and knew that I couldn't pass it up. Now I know crime is very wrong and immoral, especially murdering someone. But I think organized crime is really cool, and this is the stuff of movies, but in real life. It's probably just my teen boy attitude, but putting a body in flesh-eating acid to erase the body is sick and awesome. I can't imagine how John Favara felt when he hit and killed the mob bosses son. I would leave town, knowing that justice would be swift. Any normal person would press charges on this guy and get him in jail for manslaughter, but not a crime family. How unlucky can you get?! I'm probably taking a bad stance on this story, but I think that organized crime is interesting, and possibly essential.

35 Years

A man was shot in the back 35 years ago and just recently had complications with the wound causing multiple organs to fail, and he died. The legal system is calling his death a homicide after all this time. His wife said that he hasn't really experienced any complications health related up to this point in time, so she was very surprised when it was ruled a homicide. He was seventeen at the time. He had been gambling with some of his peers while on a trip to pick up his girlfriend. He won money and refused to return, and was then shot in the back. His future wife only heard pieces of the story, saying that he had put it behind him. And apparently he ran into the guy later in life and told him to forget about it. The prosecutors are having a hard time turning up any credible evidence.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28537290/

I think this is a little ridiculous and extremely far fetched. The odds of them turning up a legit man as the shooter is very unlikely after all this time. Maybe they should get the crew from Cold Case on the scene. Otherwise, let it go. His wife said that he had forgiven the man, which takes a lot of heart to do after being shot. I think they should just let it go because the man that shot is probably like 60 now and totally regrets this incident. I also doubt that his organ problems were solely because of his wound, it seems like this would have happened earlier in his life when the wound was more recent. A blog by Holea B. has an 11 year old boy shooting an 18 year old man. http://holeab.blogspot.com/. I think these two stories are similar, both happened a long time ago and both criminals probably just want to be left alone because they regret what they've done, but the media can't let stories like these go.

Gift Wrapped...Bombs

Four bombs were discovered in Aspen, CO. Two were found in a Wells Fargo Bank and another nearby bank, Vectra Bank. The other two were discovered abandoned in an alley. A note was found that said there was a fifth bomb in a popular "watering hole". All of the bars were searched and no bomb was found. New Years Eve celebrators were forced to evacuate and abandon the festivities. The man accused was found dead in his Jeep. Notes were found with the bombs that said that many people would die if he wasn't paid $60,000. The attack was against the elitists that had taken over the town. James Chester Blanning, the accused, had grown up in the town and watched it change from a silver mining town to a place for the rich to hang out. Earlier in his life he had threatened to take his own life for a similar reason. Most people knew him to be pretty eccentric. 16 blocks were cleared around the area, and the bombs were detonated. People were allowed to return at 4 a.m.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28458836/
Now I'm not saying I agree with this threat, because I believe that people have every right to become as wealthy as they want, but it would be sad to see a loved town lost to these rich people. It takes away the feeling of home when its always being invaded by wealthy tourists who sometimes end up staying there to live. I think that the man must have second guessed his plan when he ditched the remaining two bombs in an alley. And it seems like he never really planned to set off the bombs because he left notes in them saying why he had placed them. And then he goes off and kills himself. He didn't seem to have very much confidence in his scheme, even though it was more to make a point than about the money. Some people who knew the man said that he couldn't adapt to the change, and that must have sparked his mistrust for the wealthy who were converting his hometown.