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Sticking with the classics: Accused of numerous violent crimes (including bank robberies, carjacking, shooting at a police officer, and soliciting the murder of witnesses), Andre Henry was confronted by prosecutors at his February trial in Philadelphia with a recording of what seemed to be his confession to a cellmate who’d been wearing a wire. Unfazed, he testified that the speaker was actually his twin brother, with whom he’d earlier switched cells. (Henry, who according to prosecutors has no twin brother, was convicted on 27 counts.)
In an attempt to boost daytime traffic, the Pascha, a brothel in Cologne, Germany, introduced an early-bird special in March: patrons aged 66 and over get half off on all services rendered between noon and 5 PM.
After Clarence Horner of Lincoln, Nebraska, died last year at age 54, his family discovered a storage locker he’d rented containing 47 gravestones. According to a February Associated Press article, police guessed he’d been stealing them for years and had so far matched two with the graves they came from.
Least Competent Criminals
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belshwender.
