I was looking at List of unusual deaths, a pathetic thing even for Wikipedia (define "unusual death" for the rest of us please)........

....and stumbled into Chante Jawan Mallard.
She's in prison, and so cannot do anything about what Wikipedia thinks of her.
But the best/worst part is on the talkpage:

Shadows of Cristal Gail Mangum...nothing ever changes at Wikipedia, even the dominant color of penis pictures, which remains staunchly white.

Racist, Wikipedia? No, what makes you think that?

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Said statement comes directly from the police affidavit.



Either the cop is lying or the suspect started this rumor herself.

If it was in the police report, why use the language "is rumored"?

Judging by the sentence structure, I'd guess this uncertainty was deliberately added by a passerby, to blur a sentence previously more faithful to Officer Owings' affidavit.

I could understand challenging the sex detail on the basis of relevance, but downgrading it to "rumor" seems a bit dishonest.

Well, as I read it, it's not something that the woman said to the officer. It's not a signed confession, but a second-hand account of something that somebody named "Maranda" (a slightly ironic name, given the circumstances) SAID the accused woman had told HER, at a party, months later. So, as hearsay, it is rather like a rumor. It wouldn't be admissible in court under most circumstances. It might be used to convince a judge of a need to a search warrant or to issue a warrent to arrest the accused directly for questioning (they're alway free to take the 5th but some don't). But as is, it's not worth much unless confirmed by first-hand confessions or physical evidence. My guess is that the two men who helped move the body were "leaned on" with a plea bargain to provide the direct confessions needed for the conviction, along with whatever physical evidence was still obtainable from the garage and repair of the car (as I remember, there was some of both). What the accused had been doing with her boyfriend while the man slowly died in the garage, should have played no part at all in her sentence, unless her boyfriend confirmed it. You can't get this kind of thing as hearsay.

Obviously the woman is a psychopath. Ecstasy is not a drug that makes people do things like this. If anything, the opposite. Actually there isn't any drug you can blame behavior like this on. Fortunately. If such an "anti-empathy" drug existed, it would be the most dangerous substance in the world. It would be as bad as marine-training.

Relevance, like I said.

An accident's an accident, but what they chose to do instead of seeking medical attention for Mr. Biggs, be it having sex or watching re-runs of American Gladiator, is irrelevant regardless of who confirms what to whom.

Perhaps, but this still is not a subject for WP editors to speculate on......

Why not?

It is a correct P.O.V.

So, they will not be blocked.