Mo. woman shot boyfriend in leg during argument, police say

In Florissant, a woman is accused of shooting her boyfriend in the leg, the Post-Dispatch reports. It allegedly happened after she got mad that he wasn't paying enough attention to her, and he tried to wrestle her gun away from her.

Breaking up is hard to do, especially if the police get involved

Some breakups are worse than others. If your old girlfriend allegedly gets her new lovah to stalk you while wearing a ski mask and then tells police that you sexually assaulted her, you have sadly landed in the "worse than others" category. From the Iowa City Press-Citizen:

However, police later learned McDonald made up the story in an attempt to get retribution at her ex-boyfriend for things he said to her on the phone. McDonald admitted to wanting to "give him a jolt" in retaliation for those comments, police said.

Girlfriend chased, gunned down on E. St Louis highway

Boyfriend then shot and killed himself, in front of his 7-year-old daughter -- and many, many other cars stalled on the highway.

"She was running to cars saying 'Please help me! Please help me!" said Scott Cross, 38, of East St. Louis. "We were going to help until we saw that gun."

| Sara Shepherd

Hat tip: Thank you, Pat!

It Came From The Police Blotter!

From the Shawnee police blotter on June 1:

Subject was battered by her boyfriend's fiance.

Hat Tip: Many thanks, Richard!

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin ...

A Wisconsin woman is accused of feeding Tylenol-laced treats to her ex-lovah's dog, cutting the crotches out of his pants and hiding his watch in a ceiling light, the Journal-Sentinel reports.

"He must not have taken it as a joke," she said.

Guilty: 16-year-old who killed girl that rejected her advances

Sad/disturbing story from Florida, where a 16-year-old section leader in the marching band shot and killed her 15-year-old friend.

In the days leading up to Collette's death, Wimberly had been sending her friend text messages declaring her love. Collette, a star dancer on the school's hip-hop dance squad, rejected the advances.

Wimberly told police that she shot her friend "so she would feel pain too."

| Sara Shepherd

A woman scorned

The latest in a great murder story from LA -- a 23-year-old cold case, a love triangle, a DNA-laden bite-mark and a police detective as the suspect:

Stephanie Lazarus, the Los Angeles Police Department detective accused of murdering the wife of a love interest, pined for the man and grew deeply upset when he did not return her affection, according to court testimony Tuesday.

Prosecutors allege that Lazarus, a 25-year LAPD veteran, beat and shot Sherri Rae Rasmussen to death in February 1986, three months after the woman married John Ruetten, whom Lazarus had dated shortly before.

| Sara Shepherd

It's time to let him go, sister

A Salt Lake woman held on to the passenger door when her boyfriend tried to leave. As he peeled out and drove away, "the girlfriend kept hold of the handle." He dragged the woman 25 to 30 feet before he heard his girlfriend hit the side of the truck, according to police. She suffered head injuries and road rash.

|Meredith Rodriguez

Boyfriend gets revenge after lover's spat

A Florida man decided to dump his girlfriend's car into a river after an argument. Smooth.

Not necessarily crime-related -- divorce fairs

At the first ever Divorce, Separation and Bereavement fair in Paris, visitors could find everything they needed to ease the pain of separation, from legal and financial advice to life coaching, seduction tips or even cellulite removal.

Singletons or soon-to-be singletons could also hire the services of a private detective agency to uncover evidence of infidelity or hidden financial assets.

| Sara Shepherd

Update on 'space love triangle'

The latest in the case of the astronaut accused of driving nearly 900 miles from Houston to Orlando -- wearing NASA diapers to cut down on the number of stops she needed to make -- and donning a disguise before following her nemesis from baggage claim to a parking lot.

| Sara Shepherd

"Alcoholic nymphomaniac" clashes with police

I don't know where to start. It's not so much a "hot mess" as it is several "hot messes" situated in proximity to each other. A "hot landfill" maybe? Here's the crucial paragraph, courtesy of nwfdailynews.com:

The 23-year-old woman also told them she was a nymphomaniac and an alcoholic and that her estranged husband had been staying with her for a week, ever since she asked him over to have sex and he never left.

After further questioning, she said, "You know what? Just take me to jail."

How bad is the dating scene in North Dakota?

Two North Dakota men are accused of driving to Kentucky to pick up a 14-year-old so she could come back to North Dakota and marry one man's 14-year-old son.

Will you kill my ex? I'll give you a pool.

The woman wanted a hit-man to murder an ex-boyfriend who wanted custody of one of her children. Before offering her above-ground pool she tried via text message to get an undercover FBI agent to off her ex in exchange for "happyness," knowing he would be protecting children.

Ross Rice, the FBI spokesman in Chicago, said he believed it was the first murder-for-hire case that began with text messages -- and without a doubt the first time a pool had been offered as payment.

| Sara Shepherd

Hat tip: Thanks to Keith G!

Woman shot her French lover 4 times as he wore a head-to-toe latex suit

Gentlemen: Suggesting that your special lady friend is a $1 million prostitute is not the compliment you think it is.

Florida teens tried to have sex while driving, police say

The officer originally pulled them over because they were driving "erratically" and he wanted to see if they needed help.

Update: Former astronaut drops insanity as defense

Remember Lisa Nowak, the former astronaut accused of driving from Houston to Orlando to try to kidnap her romantic rival in February 2007? Well, her defense team won't be using insanity as her defense after all.

Hat tip to Mikeybackwards

| Bob Cronkleton

Can this relationship be saved?

Anytime your ex-lovah smears dog poop on your front door, I'd say the relationship is damaged beyond hope of repair. Story is from Memphis.

Sea pirates = eligible bachelors

So what if they murder, pillage and terrorize sea-farers?

The large sums of ransom money being paid out to pirates, one former Navy SEAL says, is leading some Somali women to venture to the port town of Bosaso in hopes of marrying these newly-rich men.

| Sara Shepherd

A Kenyan plain clothes police officer, right, escorts six of the seven suspected Somali pirates today at the Mombasa Law courts, Kenya, where they denied charges of attempting to hijack a cargo ship within the deep seas of the Somali Coast waters while armed with dangerous weapons. (AP Photo)

Love, murder and McDonald's

In Kentucky, a former Mickey D staffer has admitted that he tried to put rat poison on a chicken sandwich intended for his undercover lovah's husband. (Except another employee caught him.)

I'm kind of amazed they printed this one

The Madison paper has a story about an assault that followed, well, a foursome between two couples that hooked up at a bar one night.

Lede of the day

From NWFdailynews.com ...

A woman angry that her boyfriend was seeing someone else, went to the woman's house and pulled a handful of hair out of her head.

We're just taking him to lunch...

Sujinda Yahatta stands accused of coercing a 78-year-old man with dementia into marrying her so she could get into his bank account.

She and a co-defendant -- who acted as her translator during the wedding ceremony -- allegedly told staff at the man's nursing center they were taking him out to lunch but high-tailed it to the courthouse instead. Their next stop was the bank, where suspicious employees foiled .

| Sara Shepherd

Man from Lebanon, MO stuffs wife in toolbox

He shot her, stuffed her in a toolbox and encased her in concerete, according to a probable cause statement from the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Hunters found the container in the woods of southern Missouri.

|Meredith Rodriguez

A stadium bathroom affair

Handicap stall at the Metrodome. Two sets of feet. Two sets of underwear dropped to the ground.

A group of 15 onlookers were gawking at the scene by the time officers broke the couple up...the woman, 38, was turned over to her husband. The man, 26, was turned over to his girlfriend.

| Sara Shepherd