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-Short Attention Span Theater-
FL man burns ex-girlfriend to death over possible pregnancy
2006-03-06
A 20-year-old man in Ocoee, Fla., was charged with murder after he confessed to pouring gasoline over his ex-girlfriend and then setting her on fire because she may have been pregnant, police told Local 6 News.
Normally, I'm against abortion, but given this alternative...
Winter Garden police officers investigating a report of a car fire noticed a small fire on the east side of County Road 545 on Feb. 25. When officers extinguished the flames, they found the body of Amelia Sookdeo, 17, burned beyond recognition. Sookdeo was reported missing by her mother earlier the same day after she left her home through a window without her parents' knowledge.

An investigation into the homicide led to Sookdeo's ex-boyfriend, Dane Abdool, 20, who at first denied any involvement in the crime, according to the report. However, when police confronted him with inconsistencies in his story and presented a set of tire marks from his car photographed at the scene, Abdool confessed to the crime, Local 6 News reported. "He admitted that he had met his former girlfriend that night, she sneaked out and he picked her up and went to his apartment in Ocoee," Winter Garden Police Chief George Brennan said. "From there they left and had an argument and he took her down County Road 545, forced her out of the car. He poured gasoline on her and ignited it."

Abdool told police that he was arguing with Sookdeo over her possible pregnancy and he was just trying to scare her, Local 6 News reported. "The medical examiner found no evidence that she was having a baby," Local 6 reporter Mike DeForest said.

Duct tape was found at the scene, along with gloves to which Abdool would have had access to at his work, police said. Abdool was charged with first-degree murder late Thursday.
Posted by:lotp

#9  :> There's alwayz one.
Posted by: 6   2006-03-06 14:24  

#8  fingerprints?

Relating the Wonders of the Invisible World in Preternatural Occurrences
Posted by: Thaumatographia Pneumatica   2006-03-06 14:23  

#7  Hardly, I see the fingerprints of a Congregationalist! My patience is gettin like a single strand of gossemer spider silk.

/Silky Mather
Posted by: 6   2006-03-06 14:17  

#6  #3 RC - I was thinking the same thing.

Lutheran, maybe? Or possibly Amish?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-03-06 12:36  

#5  
Abdool told police that he was arguing with Sookdeo over her possible pregnancy and he was just trying to scare her, Local 6 News reported. "The medical examiner found no evidence that she was having a baby," Local 6 reporter Mike DeForest said.

Jumped to conclusions and someone's dead now.

Sookdeo was reported missing by her mother earlier the same day after she left her home through a window without her parents' knowledge.

*sighs*
Posted by: Ptah   2006-03-06 12:29  

#4  Brings the wickerman to mind.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-06 12:27  

#3  Any bets on which day of the week he practices the religion of his choice?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-03-06 08:03  

#2  I think Sookdeo is Sri Lankan and/or South Indian. I assume Abdool is same.
Posted by: ed   2006-03-06 01:19  

#1  

Dane Abdool
Posted by: RD   2006-03-06 01:10  

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