7.
‘Too Pretty’ For Prison
Lauren Cutshaw was pulled over in August of 2018 for speeding.
The officer who pulled her over claimed that Cutshaw was absolutely belligerently drunk.
However, Cutshaw claimed that she only had two glasses of wine that entire evening.
The story is pretty standard so far; someone gets pulled over and tries to talk their way
out of getting a ticket or getting arrested.
The dashcam footage however, revealed an interesting take - Cutshaw trying to talk her way out
of possible jail time by claiming that she was ‘too pretty’ to be arrested.
The 34-year old former cheerleader and real estate agent told the arresting officer that
she was a ‘clean, thoroughbred, white girl.’
Her blood alcohol levels were found to be 0.18 percent and she was escorted back to
the squad car in handcuffs.
While being led to the car, Cutshaw made repeated claims that her partner was also an officer,
that she belonged to a good neighborhood, how she used to be a cheerleader and was in
a sorority, and how she should not be taken into custody because she was too pretty to
be in prison.
The officer responded to her claims with, ‘what does that have to do with anything?’
To which Cutshaw replied, ‘you’re a cop, you know what it means.’
Implying that she would be treated poorly by fellow prisoners because of her attractive
features.
Somehow, Lauren Cutshaw managed to get away with a $187 fine and court-ordered Alcohol
counseling.
The dashcam footage of her claiming she was too pretty for prison went viral shortly ahead
of her trial.
6.
Cannibal Walks Free Issei Sagawa was born into a wealthy family.
He was from Japan, but had moved to Paris for school.
In June of 1981, the unthinkable happened.
One night he invited his classmate, Renee Hartevelt, back to his apartment to study
and to help him translate some poetry.
Sagawa was a short, meek man compared to Hartevelt.
While Hartevelt was sitting at a desk in his apartment with her back towards him, Sagawa
shot her in the back of the head, killing her.
Hartevelt died immediately, and Sagawa claims that he fainted from the shock of what he
had just done.
When he regained consciousness moments later, he carried out his original plan: to have
intercourse with her corpse, dismember her, and then devour her!
In his confession, Sagawa claimed that he believed he could ‘absorb’ Hartevelt’s
energy if he ate her.
But let’s go back to that horrible night.
Sagawa’s teeth were not sharp enough to bite through Hartevelt’s skin and resorted
to using a butcher knife to slice into her.
He chopped her body up into small pieces, threw some of those pieces in a plastic bag
and stored it in the fridge.
According to Sagawa’s confession, he saved the ‘fattest’ parts to eat later.
Sagwa was caught when he tried to dump Hartevelt’s body, that he stuffed in a suitcase, nearby
at a public lake.
Reportedly, a suspicious person walking by came up to him and demanded to know what he
was carrying in his suitcase, call it a hunch?
This is where the case gets even more interesting: Not only did Sagawa confess, he provided detailed
descriptions of what he wanted to do with the remaining parts of Hartevelt’s body
had he not been caught.
Sagawa also had a previous criminal charge of attempted sexual battery in Japan.
However, after serving less than ten months in prison, Sagawa was released on the grounds
of insanity and his original trial was deemed a mistrial because of unlawful psychological
evaluation.
The Japanese trust fund kid was deported back to Japan where he began to live the life of
a sensationalized celebrity.
Because the charges in France had been dropped, the court documents were sealed and could
not be released to Japanese authorities.
Therefore, the Japanese had no case against Sagawa and no choice but to let him go.
Sagawa became popular in his country as the man who had killed a woman and then ate her
body.
What is he up to today?
Today, Issei Sagawa walks the streets of Tokyo, free to do as he pleases.
5.
The Menendez Brothers
Joseph Lyle and Eric Galen Menendez are siblings born in 1968 and 1970, respectively.
Their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez were quite wealthy and moved to the States from
their hometown in Havana, Cuba.
The couple maintained their lavish lifestyle in their new location.
The family originally moved to New Jersey before settling in Beverly Hills, California.
Both brothers received their education from Beverly Hills High.
On the surface, everything seemed to be going fine in the Menendez household; everyone had
everything they could ever hope for and then some.
However, something sinister was going on behind closed doors.
Their father, Jose, had been sexually, physically, and emotionally abusing his sons for years.
Jose would routinely threaten the boys if they ever exposed him.
Kitty was allegedly an unwitting accomplice to Jose’s crimes against the boys.
On the evening of August 20 in 1987, Eric and Lyle came home to find their parents sleeping
on the couch.
The brothers first shot and killed their father, Jose with a single gunshot.
Kitty woke up from the commotion and tried to escape.
The boys shot her multiple times, leaving her body unrecognizable.
They shot both of their parents in the knees to make the murders look mob related.
The brothers then called 911 and told them that their parents had just been killed.
The police immediately considered the young men suspects, but had no leads, so the police
had no choice but to believe that mob leaders really were involved in the deaths of Jose
and Kitty.
It wasn’t until Eric broke down and confessed in front of his therapist and he subsequently
revealed the confession to his mistress that the brothers were arrested.
The two brothers reportedly spent close to 1 million dollars in the months following
their parents murder; they spent money on a dual condo, several luxury cars, tennis
lessons, and other extravagant purchases.
While the brothers and witnesses gave evidence of sexual abuse being committed, a jury eventually
found both of them guilty.
Eric and Lyle Menendez were both sentenced to life in prison without the possibility
of parole for the first-degree murder of their parents.
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Do you think it’s fair that Joseph and Eric got life in prison after the trauma their
parents put them through?
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4.
Getting Away with Murder, Again
Seymor Durst is known as the inventor of the National Debt Clock, for being one of the
wealthiest men of his time, and for starting a real-estate empire.
His son, Robert Durst, is known for being a serial killer who got away with three murders;
his wife’s, his neighbor’s, as well one of his friend’s.
Durst was born in April of 1943 as the eldest of the Durst children.
Robert was in line to become the heir of the Durst Organization, originally founded in
1927 by his grandfather.
As a child, his therapist noticed several odd behavioral ticks in the boy; sibling rivalry,
narcissism, and isolation.
All of which he received regular therapy sessions for.
Durst was reportedly never interested in taking over the Durst Organization, and instead started
a food and wellness store in the 1970’s.
His father eventually called him back to New York to take over the real-estate empire,
but had to withdraw from his decision when he noted Robert acting inappropriately on
more than one occasion.
The empire was then given to his brother, Douglas, and Robert was bought out of the
family share of the empire for 7 million dollars.
Robert has been connected to three murders - all three began as disappearances; Katherine
McCormack, Susan Berman, and Morris Black.
Robert had met McCormack in 1971 while he was running his health and wellness store
in Vermont.
The two were married by 1973.
The marriage was turbulent, to say the least.
McCormack reportedly asked Durst for a divorce several times, but Durst would always blackmail
her back into the relationship.
In 1982, McCormack went missing after attending a party at a friend's home.
She was never found.
Long time friend, Susan Berman, was found murdered in her home execution style in December
of 2000.
Although Durst was the last person to have allegedly met with Berman before her body
was found, there was no case against him.
It wasn’t until Durst’s neighbor, Morris Black, was dismembered in 2001 that police
began looking into Durst as a possible serial killer.
The trial began and there was substantial evidence against him - however, all of it
was deemed as inadmissible in court.
The only conviction Durst received was for the murder of Susan Berman.
Durst had been presented in court on multiple occasions; 2003, 2005, 2015, and 2020.
The last of which got him a conviction of First degree murder, tampering with evidence,
bail jumping, illegally possessing a firearm, and misdemeanor criminal mischief.
For decades, Durst was a free man.
Now, finally, at 78-years-old, he is currently serving time in California State Prison for
his crimes.
3.
A Murderer and a Philanthropist
John Du Pont was born into a wealthy family and inherited a large chunk of land from his
maternal grandfather.
He studied science, excelled in his field, and made smart investments.
In 1987, it was reported that du Pont was worth $200 million.
To date, he’s the only man from the Forbes 400 list to have been charged with murder.
Du Pont developed a 400 acre wrestling facility for amateur wrestlers at Liseter Hall Farm
in Newtown Square, Maryland.
The private group was known as ‘Team Foxcatcher.’
The state of the art facility was equipped with pools, gyms, and everything necessary
for training.
Dave Schultz was an Olympian freestyle training wrestler living at du Pont’s estate.
Schultz was just one of many freestyle wrestlers living at the wealthy philanthropists’ estate
in the 1990’s.
du Pont made it a point to have Olympians come live under his wing and train alongside
some of the greatest trainers in the world.
Although not a wrestler himself, du Pont was simply obsessed with the sport.
In January of 1996, du Pont shot at Dave Schultz three times.
The crime was witnessed by his wife and his head of security.
Reportedly, du Pont acted as if nothing had really happened and just sat back in the car
after committing the murder.
The trail was sensationalized for several reasons; du Pont’s wealth, his philanthropy,
his erratic behaviour leading up to the murder, and the fact that he refused to incriminate
himself even with two eye witnesses to the crime.
He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity at trial in February of 1997.
A court eventually ruled that he was guilty, but mentally ill.
For the murder of Dave Schultz, du Pont received 13 to 30 years in prison.
He would have been a free man in 2026, but died in prison in 2010 at the age of 72.
2.
Cameron Douglas’ Side Career As A Drug Kingpin
You’re probably familiar with the celebrity Micheal Douglas who has several Academy awards
and accolades to his name.
He’s received a hefty number of nominations and awards for his contributions in Film and
Media throughout his career.
However, his son, Cameron Douglas, received none of the fame and all of the notoriety.
Cameron was training to be an actor and had several small roles in film before his arrest
in 2011.
He got busted in 1999 when he was found to be in possession of cocaine and was charged
with a misdemeanor and the possession of a controlled substance.
10 years later in 2009, Cameron was arrested after it was discovered that he was involved
in a serious drug trafficking ring.
The DEA had been working a sting on the case for three years before arresting Cameron in
Manhattan.
He had been caught distributing several pounds of methamphetamine out of a Manhattan hotel.
Although Cameron Douglas should have gone to jail, he was placed on house arrest, probably
because of who his father was.
In 2010, he was found in violation of the terms of the arrest when his girlfriend was
found smuggling drugs to him.
Douglas was then sent to a maximum security prison.
The next year in 2011, he was busted once again when it was found out that he had been
receiving drugs through prison routes!
From 2012 to 2014, Cameron Douglas was placed in solitary confinement due to his erratic
behavior and the prison facility’s claims that they could not handle the prisoners drug
use anymore.
While Douglas was set to serve a longer prison sentence, he was eventually released in 2016.
Cameron Douglas was released to a halfway house in August of 2016 after having spent
seven years behind bars and two years in segregated housing.
Today, the once aspiring actor lives quietly with his long-term partner and two children.
But is he really just living a simple life?
Perhaps, but it remains to be seen whether he’s truly turned over a new leaf.
1.
Hanks Payout
In California in August of 2015, Chester Marlon Hanks was reportedly driving while under the
influence and collided with Terry Moogan’s vehicle.
While both drivers were unscathed by the accident and the damages were repairable, Moogan decided
he wanted to pursue a legal claim against Chester and his parents, Tom Hanks and Rita
Wilson.
Moogan stated the grounds for his case against the Hanks family was because Chester was no
stranger to making bad decisions.
A self-proclaimed ‘black sheep,’ Chester had been arrested and fined in 1999 in Britain
for the possession of illegal substances, and his ex-girlfriend was awarded a restraining
order against him for verbal and physical abuse.
Despite this, Moogan’s claim alleges that the Hanks family facilitated Chester’s behavior
by allowing him to drive a vehicle knowing he was capable of inflicting harm.
Moogan tried suing the Hanks family for well over a million dollars, although nothing has
come of the case yet.
To us, this just sounds like a bitter person coming after the son of a celebrity because
they believe they’ll get a big payout.
What do you think?
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