Remember in the Mission: Impossible movies, when Tom Cruise is given messages that self-destruct into a puff of smoke after he memorizes them? Normal text messages should have that feature. This ill-fated Snohomish County couple is likely to agree with Seattlest: the P-I reports that during a homicide investigation, police investigators checked out the twosome's text message histories and found incriminating evidence that led to first-degree murder charges against them. The idea of someone......

"Bail Bonds Neon" by Flickr contributor spike55151.Further proving there really is a Flickr group for everything, we found this in the Flickr Bail Bonds Group. Seems to be a big day for bail bonds and crime stories, and little else, in Seattle today. First comes the story of Tammy Gibson, who attacked a new neighbor with a baseball bat last week. The new neighbor? A 7-foot-3-inch registered sex offender. After the assault, both Gibson and......

The death of a 49-year-old-woman Tuesday at the Frye Hotel marks the third murder at 223 Yesler Way in less than six months. Initially regarded as "the finest hotel in Seattle," the Frye has ironically degenerated into a portrait of violence and despair. The Frye, converted into low-income housing in the 1970s, accounts for a disproportionately high percentage of Seattle’s recent homicides. Compared to the 29 reported murders in 2006, the Frye alone accounts......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too,......

Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up. -Chicagoist had fall on their mind as they made squash and fudge, read "House of Leaves" and ">tried to figure out what's next for the Cubs. Not fall related, but still of utmost concern, the whole skinny black pants thing. -Torontoist fought off an evil scourge of raccoons and went to go see who would......

-The Blue House, otherwise known as the scene of the Capitol Hill Massacre, otherwise known as the Huff House is available for rent. We've been holding this post on "How to sell a homocide-challenged home" forever so here it is. -Some Mariner fans are ready to admit that dinosaurs did not, in fact, exist. -Is the Post Intelligencer pinning its existance on a perpetual hunt for elusive documents? That could work. -For the thousandth......

Guy's name is Barry, camel's name not recorded. Location is across from San Juan Vineyards. One theory of how camel got there explained by Culinary Fool in a blog entry over the summer. --Remember the UW professor who died tragically? No, not the one who was eaten by a crocodile. That was Richard Root. This one got wiped out by logs falling off a truck on Hwy. 101. His name was Anthony Qumar, and......

-The two high school kids who were killed by a train this week in Pierce County were apparently listening to a boom box when they were struck in the back. Man, that thing must go to eleven... -A pair of white-power-type fugitives were picked up near Renton Municipal Airport this morning. They're wanted for a North Carolina homicide. -The AT&T Wireless brand may make a comeback but the 30,000 Redmond jobs that died with it......

We're currently toning our TV watching muscles for the fall and we're extra excited about the new Seattle-based legal drama set to premiere as a part of Q13's Sunday lineup. King County Cold Case (or "K3C" as we'll immediately start calling it) is the story of a local crime lab headed by a hard-nosed prosecuting attorney played by Tom Skerritt. Hillary Swank will costar as a lawyer recruited by the department from the most-dangerous-offender project.......

Yesterday Kevin Shaw failed to make headlines again. The man arrrested and indicted for his murder, despite phone records and DNA evidence linking him to the crime, pleaded innocent yesterday. To date no news article we've been able to track down has mentioned what seems to be the obvious possibility that Kevin Shaw was gay, and his murder was a hate crime. The following article by special guest Mario Paduano wonders why. When you're murdered,......