Headless Body In Topless Bar

http://gothamist.com/2010/02/22/headless_body_in_topless_bar_killer.php

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Back in 1983, the Post penned its most famous headline of all time, "Headless Body in Topless Bar," but to this day the man incarcerated for the humorously described crime claims innocence. For the third time in his 27 years behind bars, Charles Dingle asked for parole, claiming he wasn't responsible for the blood bath in a Queens strip club, where one man was decapitated, a stripper was raped, and several women were robbed and held hostage. For the third time he was denied. "They expect you to come in and plead guilty and take responsibility for the crime," he said of the parole board. "I can't do it because I didn't do it." A gruesome flashback follows the break.

 

At 23, Dingle shot the owner of the strip joint and held four women hostage—raping one and robbing others—all the while drinking heavily and snorting coke, reported the Post. While going through the club manager's purse, he found a business card that identified her as a mortician. The card led him to his next brilliant idea: demanding that she cut off the dead man's head with a steak knife and dig out the bullet. When the deed was done, he hijacked a gypsy cab taking two of the strippers and the severed head to Manhattan where he blacked out at the wheel. His hostages ran for it, and alerted the police, after which Dingle was arrested, tried and sentenced to 25 years to life.

 

Still, the convicted murderer/rapist says "Everything is not as it appears," vaguely claiming that one of the witnesses in his case was disreputable. He's spent some of his prison time studying law and plans to continue his crusade. "Don't think I don't have hope," he said. "The board might let me go one day, but until then, I'm gonna fight. That's all I can do."

drinking, coking and hookers.

i like.

you kinda gotta feel bad for the guy.. just kidding

thug lyfe

Basically that headline is a tabloids wet dream.

  On 2/23/2010 at 7:54 PM, acidphakist said:

drinking, coking and hookers.

 

i like.

nothing wrong with those three...

it's the rape and beheading that I, frankly speaking, simply cannot condone.

  On 2/23/2010 at 9:56 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 2/23/2010 at 7:54 PM, acidphakist said:

drinking, coking and hookers.

 

i like.

 

nothing wrong with those three...

 

it's the rape and beheading that I, frankly speaking, simply cannot condone.

Not just beheading - he had her fucking dig the bullet out of the victim's skull!

I used to work in post-conviction law, and it's exceedingly hard for anyone who commits any sort of violent crime to get out on parole (even 60 year old grannies who fought back against ritualized domestic violence). Basically this guy is never getting out.

He should have figured out by now that the parole board will stamp a big NO if he looks like he's denying responsibility. They want to see you admit what you did and then show your extreme remorse and rehabilitation. Ergo, this dude is a fucknut moron.

Cut off his head and dig out the bullet.

FUCKING GENIUS!

  On 2/23/2010 at 10:55 PM, baph said:

Ergo, this dude is a fucknut moron.

I think that was proven conclusively when he took the head with him and then passed out while making his getaway, allowing his two hostages the opportunity to escape. Oh and the bit about the rape and beheading too.lol

  On 2/24/2010 at 6:41 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 2/23/2010 at 10:55 PM, baph said:

Ergo, this dude is a fucknut moron.

I think that was proven conclusively when he took the head with him and then passed out while making his getaway, allowing his two hostages the opportunity to escape. Oh and the bit about the rape and beheading too.lol

lol, that too.

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