"San Bruno, CA man killed after online dating...."?
SAN BRUNO, Calif. (Oct. 31) - The lonely, divorced carpenter thought he was going to Brazil to make wedding plans. Instead, he was drugged and held captive for six days at his fiancee's home while she and another man emptied his bank accounts, according to Brazilian authorities. Then they drove the 56-year-old victim to a vacant lot, where they strangled him with copper wire, doused his body with fuel, and set it on fire, investigators say. Authorities found Raymond Merrill's charred body in April. Now, the woman he believed was his betrothed is under arrest, along with a man suspected of helping to kill him. "He would talk to me about ideal relationships and pure love," said Merrill's best friend, Bill Rauch. "With age doesn't necessarily come wisdom. He was used to doing things his way and, in the end, it did him in." For months, his family knew nothing of his horrifying end. It was only after a bungled robbery in Brazil that investigators even learned of Merrill's fate. Merrill met Regina Filomena Rachid last year through an online dating service. At the time, he was lonely and depressed, having been dumped by a Las Vegas woman for whom he had bought expensive gifts, according to Merrill's best friend. Merrill and Rachid exchanged dozens of calls, e-mails and photographs, often enlisting Rachid's 18-year-old daughter as a translator. Rachid was 41, from an upper-middle-class family that was in the real estate business. "I thought, `This is going a little fast,' but I didn't want to sound critical," said Merrill's sister, Marcia Sanchez Loebick. The warning signs were obvious to Merrill's friend of nearly 30 years. Merrill gave Rachid $10,000 to start a skin care clinic and bought her a $20,000 sport utility vehicle. She complained it wasn't a fancier, more expensive model, Rauch said. "This from a man who was tightfisted," Rauch said. "Ray and I would go out and I'd have to buy all the beers. All of a sudden, he's lavishing all these gifts and money on a relationship he's not even close to consummating. "I said, `Ray, these are so many red flags. I can't believe you're pursuing this,"' Rauch said. "He would just slough it off. He'd say, `She's just a passionate and emotional Latina.' What do you say to a guy like that?" Merrill visited Rachid twice in Sao Jose dos Campos, an industrial city about 60 miles from Sao Paulo. Both times he stayed a week longer than planned. Both times he notified Rauch, who then drove to Merrill's home in San Bruno to water the plants and collect the mail. On the third trip, Merrill again overstayed his return, but this time he didn't call Rauch to let him know. Loebick, who lives in Cleveland, said she sent her brother repeated e-mails warning him that their 86-year-old father was dying, but got no response. She and Rauch's best friend called police in California to report him missing. What happened to Merrill was more awful than either could have imagined. Sometime after he arrived on March 21, Rachid and her real boyfriend, Nelson Siqueira Neves, drugged Merrill, kept him in a room in Rachid's house, and drained his bank accounts, stealing about $200,000 in all, according to Merrill's sister and Brazilian authorities. Then, on April 1 - the day he was scheduled to return to California - they hired Evandro Celso Augusto Ribeiro for $5,600 to help kill him and set fire to the corpse, according to investigators. Authorities found the scorched remains but could not identify the victim, and buried the body in a pauper's grave. But then Rachid - to raise money to pay off the hit man - took part in the holdup of a black-market money changer, and accidentally left her purse behind, investigators say. The money changer went to police and turned over the purse, which contained Merrill's credit card. Hours later, Rachid showed up at the same police station to report her purse stolen. Police arrested her on the spot. The alleged hit man soon told authorities what happened to Merrill, investigators said. Rachid and Ribeiro are in custody, charged with armed robbery followed by death. Rachid's boyfriend was questioned by police in early October but was released under a Brazilian law that says no one can be arrested in the days immediately before and after an election, investigators said. Now he cannot be found. "I feel a really terrible sense of loss," said Merrill's best friend. "You expect to lose your parents. But you don't expect one of your best friends to die." Kim Curtis reported from San Bruno, Calif., and Stan Lehman reported from Sao Paulo, Brazil. 10/31/06 13:29 EST This obviously is not a question. It was posted after I received a request for the info via email. I hope this helps all of us online users make smart decisions when it comes to the questions on the safety of online dating. Take care!
Singles & Dating - 4 Answers
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Thats why I stick to American Chicks
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that's so horrible. i cant believe the things some people will do for money. it is crazy. such a senseless act.
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I know of a guy who flew his Russian wife here. and her family. Spent 7 years married while she cheated on him. To this day she pulles his strings and pushes his buttons. I don't get it. Another guy spent $5,000 on a trip to Russia, he had been talking daily to a woman and they fell in love (ugh) When he met her she was a bossy bitch and NO romance let alone sex. He switched hotels to escape her. He spent two weeks hidding from her in Russia. Then when he got home, she phoned him and asked him to mail her money so she could move to California. Broke his heart and his pocket book. Warning to all guys........stick to local gals.
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Somebody take the Russian hookers off our backs.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Sunday, July 14, 2013
help please with geography homework!?
help please with geography homework!?
EXODUS- an eco-tourism expedition company. You are a representative from Exodus Travel Company. You have just started operating in Brazil and have put together a number of eco-tourism expeditions in the Amazon rainforest. Your costumers are mainly for Western Europe and the USA and all your trips are designed to minimise the impact of the forest and its wildlife. You employ over 100 local people as guides and helpers and some of the money you make is used in projects designed to preserve and protect the rainforest enviroment. Your viewpoint is that you provide a sustainable and money-making alternative to many of the other economic activities in the forest that you see destroying the rare rainforest enviroment. please help thank you
Homework Help - 1 Answers
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What's the question? You just presented a scenario lol
EXODUS- an eco-tourism expedition company. You are a representative from Exodus Travel Company. You have just started operating in Brazil and have put together a number of eco-tourism expeditions in the Amazon rainforest. Your costumers are mainly for Western Europe and the USA and all your trips are designed to minimise the impact of the forest and its wildlife. You employ over 100 local people as guides and helpers and some of the money you make is used in projects designed to preserve and protect the rainforest enviroment. Your viewpoint is that you provide a sustainable and money-making alternative to many of the other economic activities in the forest that you see destroying the rare rainforest enviroment. please help thank you
Homework Help - 1 Answers
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What's the question? You just presented a scenario lol
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Which City In Asia has the best gay scene?
Which City In Asia has the best gay scene?
My heterosexual friend wants to go to Asia and mack on some chicks.. but I am gay and I want to go to a city that has a fun gay scene (think Sao Paulo Brazil). My friend is suggesting Manila, Bangkok, and Tokyo. My online research makes Tokyo and Manila seem kind of lame. Bangkok sounds more fun but still not that great (I am not into money boys and paying for sex).. So the question is what is the best gay city in Asia?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered - 5 Answers
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you'd be surprised what goes on the other side of that "Great Wall"
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None. They're totally homophobic.
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How is Tokyo lame? The fashion, the pop culture, the yaoi fans?
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All China city's....with the multiple decades law of 'ONE CHILD' the men out number the women like 5-to-1 so the entire country is closeted gay / bi / and 'sharing'.
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beijing
My heterosexual friend wants to go to Asia and mack on some chicks.. but I am gay and I want to go to a city that has a fun gay scene (think Sao Paulo Brazil). My friend is suggesting Manila, Bangkok, and Tokyo. My online research makes Tokyo and Manila seem kind of lame. Bangkok sounds more fun but still not that great (I am not into money boys and paying for sex).. So the question is what is the best gay city in Asia?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered - 5 Answers
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you'd be surprised what goes on the other side of that "Great Wall"
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None. They're totally homophobic.
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How is Tokyo lame? The fashion, the pop culture, the yaoi fans?
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All China city's....with the multiple decades law of 'ONE CHILD' the men out number the women like 5-to-1 so the entire country is closeted gay / bi / and 'sharing'.
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beijing
Monday, July 1, 2013
I have a made up drug trafficking story and I need to know the consequences if it were true?
I have a made up drug trafficking story and I need to know the consequences if it were true?
Let's say I was at some night club in Miami and some guy came up to me and said, "Hey you wanna make some money?" He would tell me that I'd get 50 grand for delivering cocaine from Brazil back to Miami. He'd also give me 10 grand extra in advance so I can have fun for a few days in Brazil. So let's say I'm in Brazil, I've had my fun with money that isn't mine for a few days, but now the real reason I was there is becoming very really. I'm taken by men and given drugs. They tell me exactly what I have to do and they don't treat me nice anymore. I tie the cocaine to my body and I'm off to the airport. Instead of saying, "Okay, I have to do this. I have to get through security", I go to the police in the airport and tell them I have to talk in private. I'd say I was forced to put these drugs on my body. I'd show them the drugs and tell them I was just a tourist, but was held hostage and had to do this and was held hostage and told I would be killed if I didn't listen. What would happen to me? What the police still consider me a drug trafficker, even though I willingly gave my self up and said this to them?
Law Enforcement & Police - 3 Answers
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Lol. Did this really happen? Your screwed from both sides then.
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You certainly would be a drug trafficker in this scenario, but the police, prosecutors and courts might be willing to let you off if you were able to provide information that helped them catch and convict the people who hired you. By the way, you're being overpaid in this story. There's a whole lot of drug trafficking where I live (on the U.S./Mexico border), and the drug gangs pay the "mules" who carry the drugs a few hundred dollars per trip, or a couple of thousand at most.
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THe police would be the least of your worries.You just took monies out of the Hands of a drug cartel. They do not take this well .This answer I am going to give is not a made up senerio.Depending on which Group of individuals you chose to piss off.They will kill you, your, family, even your family pet.Why you would think of this is beyound me.
Let's say I was at some night club in Miami and some guy came up to me and said, "Hey you wanna make some money?" He would tell me that I'd get 50 grand for delivering cocaine from Brazil back to Miami. He'd also give me 10 grand extra in advance so I can have fun for a few days in Brazil. So let's say I'm in Brazil, I've had my fun with money that isn't mine for a few days, but now the real reason I was there is becoming very really. I'm taken by men and given drugs. They tell me exactly what I have to do and they don't treat me nice anymore. I tie the cocaine to my body and I'm off to the airport. Instead of saying, "Okay, I have to do this. I have to get through security", I go to the police in the airport and tell them I have to talk in private. I'd say I was forced to put these drugs on my body. I'd show them the drugs and tell them I was just a tourist, but was held hostage and had to do this and was held hostage and told I would be killed if I didn't listen. What would happen to me? What the police still consider me a drug trafficker, even though I willingly gave my self up and said this to them?
Law Enforcement & Police - 3 Answers
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Lol. Did this really happen? Your screwed from both sides then.
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You certainly would be a drug trafficker in this scenario, but the police, prosecutors and courts might be willing to let you off if you were able to provide information that helped them catch and convict the people who hired you. By the way, you're being overpaid in this story. There's a whole lot of drug trafficking where I live (on the U.S./Mexico border), and the drug gangs pay the "mules" who carry the drugs a few hundred dollars per trip, or a couple of thousand at most.
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THe police would be the least of your worries.You just took monies out of the Hands of a drug cartel. They do not take this well .This answer I am going to give is not a made up senerio.Depending on which Group of individuals you chose to piss off.They will kill you, your, family, even your family pet.Why you would think of this is beyound me.
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