Tag Archives: desperation

Facing Foreclosure? Be Stupid and Burn The House Down Instead.

Well at least that’s some are thinking of doing and it’s got the insurance industry on edge. Allstate insurance says they’ve already seen an increase nationally in arsons among homes in foreclosure. In California, the state’s insurance division reports that the number of questionable residential fires in 2007 increased 76 percent over 2006. The logic [...]

Sunday, 9:30 PM, Christian Kills Wife Because of Debts

On Sunday September 28, 2008, twenty floors up in a Boston apartment, Christian Mogensen, logged on to his website, updated his web page, and then put a bullet into the head of his wife of many years. Not long latter Christian turned the gun on himself. The webpage update that Christian made was a death [...]