14 May 2026
S.H.I.T. - More intentional bad behavior
Yes, we are back to S.H.I.T., now that I’m squeezing in writing news stories throughout the week instead of trying to do it all on Wednesdays. Also because, despite trying to come up with some good news, most of it this week has just been awful. As you’ll find, the theme of stupidity continues…
Murdered NC woman likely tortured for months
This is such a horrifying story that I was hesitant to post it, but then I noticed that it followed the recent trend of exceptionally stupid criminals…
When Thomaz Kenon Hamilton (age 24) realized, at around 3:30 a.m. on May 1st, that his live-in girlfriend had stopped breathing, he called 911. For whatever reason, it doesn’t seem to have occurred to him that the condition of her body would be incriminating (although, interestingly, he had responding officers meet him first at a nearby gas station). He claimed he thought she’d had a heart attack while they were having sex.
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In the apartment, first responders found Isabella Alexandria Stroupe (age 19), deceased, tied to a bed with a tow strap. A Mecklenburg County medical examiner discovered that she had “multiple injuries including broken and fractured bones and stab wounds.” Although the details are (mercifully) thin, investigators came to the conclusion that she had been tortured “over a period of several months.”
Hamilton, who reportedly has been arrested 10 times since 2020, was taken into custody last week. In addition to being charged with first-degree murder, he is also being charged with first-degree rape, due to the medical examiner’s assessment that Stroupe would have been physically unable to consent to sex.
Hikers die in Indonesia after ignoring warnings
Mount Dukono, on Halmahera Island in Indonesia, is an active volcano. Back in April, an eruption nearly took out a group of hikers who had ignored warnings to stay away. But last week, a group of 20 hikers decided that they, too, would enter the prohibited area, apparently seeking online fame.
They were less lucky than the previous group: three died, and another five were injured when the volcano erupted again last Friday morning. The survivors had to be rescued, but the bodies were not immediately recovered, due to “ongoing eruptions and difficult terrain.” Two of the dead victims were men from Singapore, while the third was a local Indonesian woman. Her body was recovered on Saturday. The men were found on Sunday, underneath “densely packed volcanic material,” and also recovered. One of the men, Timothy Heng (age 30), appears to have been the owner and operator of the company (called “The Outside”) that organized the expedition, which was “rated beginner-friendly.”
Utah Supreme Court justice resigns after affair allegations
Justice Diana Hagen, who was appointed by Gov. Spencer Cox (R) in 2022, resigned from the Utah Supreme Court last week after it became clear that the investigation into allegations of impropriety was being resumed after initially being dismissed. In her resignation, she wrote:
I also understand that public officials are rightly held to a higher standard and must accept a greater degree of public scrutiny and diminished privacy. But my family and friends did not choose public life. They do not deserve to have intensely personal details surrounding the painful dissolution of my thirty-year marriage subjected to public scrutiny.
The impropriety at issue is less a question of adultery (which she firmly denies) and more a matter of the person she is alleged to have a relationship with: David Reymann, an attorney who was doing the legal work for the Progressive effort that ultimately led to the creation of a Democrat-friendly Congressional district in Utah. Although Hagen initially claimed that she had not “reconnected” with Reymann until March 2025, she admitted that she and her then-husband (from whom she separated in April 2025) had attended a party at his house in November 2024, just two weeks after she wrote the ruling against Amendment D, which made it possible for the redistricting to proceed. It was not until May 2025 that she recused herself from all cases involving Reymann.
It was not Hagen’s husband who brought the allegations before the Judicial Conduct Commission—he actually disapproved of the complaint being filed, but “acknowledged its accuracy”—but rather another attorney, Michael Worley, with whom he had shared his concerns about inappropriate text messages between his wife and Reymann, which he had discovered in February 2025. Worley said he filed the complaint because he “felt his role as an attorney of the bar required him to disclose the information.”
Although Hagen, who previous served on the Utah Court of Appeals (from 2017-2022), is designated “Non-partisan” on Ballotpedia, she grew up in Ogden and attended the University of Utah, including for law school, all of which screams “Democrat” to those of us who grew up in Utah.
Trespasser struck by jet at Denver airport
In an event that will likely cause lasting horror for those who saw it happen, a person—now identified as Michael Mott (age 41)—was struck by an airplane that was about to take off at the Denver International Airport on Friday night. Frontier Flight 4345 was traveling at about 139 mph when Mott (described by some news agencies, bafflingly, as a “pedestrian”), who had intentionally walked onto the runway, was struck and sucked “at least partially” into one of the engines, resulting in an engine fire. Take-off was obviously aborted.
Thermal imaging from surveillance cameras shows Mott scaling a barbed-wire perimeter fence (later confirmed to be intact) and entering the runway over the course of just two minutes, apparently defeating the “security teams and Denver Police” who “regularly patrol the perimeter of the airport.” As can be seen from the video below, he was not struck by the front of the plane (the video cuts off before the moment of impact), so it is not clear whether he was intentionally trying to get sucked into the engine instead of just run over. His death is now being considered a suicide, although, as of yet, no suicide note has been found.
Mott, a native of Colorado, had been in trouble with the law since the age of 17, including attempted murder (pleaded down to second-degree assault) in 2005, for which he spent less than six years in prison. He had since been charged with several other assaults, including assault on a police officer in 2020 (charges that were dropped completely by the Montezuma County District Attorney’s Office). Other arrest records include robbery, DUI, hit-and run, trespassing, domestic violence, and an attempt to escape from prison. He had been arrested in April for felony trespassing in Colorado Springs, but does not appear to have been held in jail, despite being homeless at the time.
The passengers on the plane were reportedly terrified when Mott’s impact with the engine caused “a big explosion.” Within less than a minute, smoke from the engine fire entered the cabin, resulting in the passengers and crew evacuating on the inflatable slides. But of the 224 passengers, only 12 reported minor injuries; ultimately only 5 were transported to the hospital.
Yet another known murderous criminal was free to attack
Tyler Brown (age 46) of Boston was arrested back in 2020 after firing 13 rounds at police officers when he was already on probation for a previous stabbing and witness intimidation. Despite the D.A.’s request for a sentence of 10-12 years, he was sentenced by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders to only 5-6 years, concurrent with his sentence for probation violation. He was also supposed to “undergo a mental health evaluation and treatment.” He was released by the parole board in May 2025, after only three and a half years in prison, despite being considered at “medium risk to re-offend.”
Based on more detailed information from his parole officer, Brown seems to have been spiraling downward. Although it isn’t clear when he entered McLean Hospital (a noted psychiatric facility), he was released last Friday. A roommate at his rooming house reported that he was “drinking and getting high” on Sunday night. On Monday morning, Brown missed a meeting with his parole officer, who reported to police that Brown had relapsed on crack cocaine and was suicidal. Then Brown made a Facetime call to the parole officer:
On that call, the parole officer said he could see Brown in a kitchen waving a semi-automatic rifle, according to the report. Brown allegedly told his parole officer that “these people are gonna f---ing pay” and gave the impression that he was under the influence of drugs.
Brown, who had a drug screen test scheduled for later that day, allegedly said, “I’m not going back to prison” and claimed he’d committed other murders in the past, “some that he did not get caught for,” according to the report. How Brown got the gun he used Monday, and whether his parole officer knew he had it prior to that day, was unclear.
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At some point, the report says, Brown called the parole officer again and said he was “no longer being Tyler Brown,” and was “now repping his ‘shooter name.’”
A police bulletin went out shortly before Brown began firing at vehicles on Memorial Drive near Harvard University around 1:30 p.m. Police had traced his cell phone to the area, but were not able to prevent what followed.
Video sourced from Mrgunsandgear on TwiX.
Brown is estimated to have fired 50-60 rounds. Two men—a 34-year-old DoorDash driver and a 62-year-old MBTA handicapped-van driver—suffered “life-threatening injuries” during the incident, although both are now expected to recover. A state trooper and a civilian who is reported to be a former marine managed to shoot Brown, putting a stop to his rampage and landing him in the hospital, although he was hit only “in his extremities” and is expected to recover. He has been charged with armed assault with intent to murder, carrying a firearm without a license, and possessing a large-capacity firearm.
Murdaugh to get new trial due to clerk’s misbehavior
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered a new murder trial for Alex Murdaugh, a prominent attorney who was convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife and youngest son on their estate in 2021. The court agreed that the behavior of the Colleton County Clerk of Court, Mary Rebecca “Becky” Hill, denied him a fair trial.
Hill, who pleaded guilty in December 2025 to charges of obstruction of justice, perjury, and misconduct in office, apparently made comments intended to cast doubt on Murdaugh’s believability that were overheard by jurors during the murder trial. Murdaugh’s lawyers also alleged that Hill—believing that a guilty verdict would boost sales of the book she was writing about the trial—pressured jurors to reach a guilty verdict quickly and used misrepresentation to attempt to have a juror removed because she thought that juror favored the defense. The perjury charge reflects Hill lying on the stand, during a previous hearing, about having shown a reporter “sealed court evidence.”
Murdaugh remains in prison, due to his conviction on both state and federal charges connected with the theft of $11 million from “extremely vulnerable” clients and his law partners over the course of nearly 20 years. Whether he is ever convicted again for murder or not, he is still under a state sentence of 27 years and a federal sentence of 40 years.
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I’m going to add to the list Nick Kristof of the NYT for his exposé on the bestial rape perpetrated by Israeli soldiers on the innocents of Hamas. Many have come forward to say it didn’t and couldn’t happen, given canine reproductive behavior. Leave it to the NYT to stoke the ugly antisemitism raging through this country. Are Israeli soldiers perfect? Absolutely not. But Kristof, the Walter Duranty of the 21st Century, took the word of his Hamas sources as gospel. Funny that the story dropped simultaneously with the Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children.
There's a spate of white women getting very very hurt by black men in the news. The salient story for the Dog is the young white women who were attacked by a black male and then refused to press charges because they didn't want to put another black man in prison. So he was free to push an elderly white man down the subway stairs to his death.
When I lost my mind during the "great awokening" it was for this very reason. It ought to have been obvious to anyone that the 'defund the police,' censoring the reality of crime stats / demographics, and white people apologizing for being white would enable all manner of chaos, anti-white criminality in particular.
Cut to my friend in Chicago. He's in his early 60s, has three kids in junior high and high schools in Chicago. His kids are mixed -- Burmese Chin and he somehow managed to be 100 percent German-American. He says that the kids are obsessed with race, and that they're getting it at school. They are constantly berating their father for being white. They're pulling one daughter out of a 95% black school (I was surprised they entered her in this school, because they went to great lengths to put their son in a more diverse school to avoid being bullied by black kids for being "Chinese.")
The other day a chronically late student asked me when is the final exam. All of the information was written on the board. Regardless I told him that the exam would be held on Wednesday, and reminded him that when he's late he misses the lesson and announcements. He then said, But I'm sleeping in the library!
So yesterday everyone was assembled to begin the exam. One student (also from Africa) asked if he could retrieve his sleeping compatriot from the library...