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Mark Spotz, at his trial in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, in September, denying that he killed his brother: “He didn’t die until he got to the hospital. In my mind killing someone is taking a life willfully. I didn’t do that. I shot my brother and he died. I didn’t kill him.”
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In September Baltimore police concluded that Saladin Ishmael Taylor, 34, had murdered a woman whose body was found in a row house with a one-inch piece of tongue nearby. Apparently the woman had bitten it off while struggling with her attacker. Taylor, a tenant in the house, denied any knowledge of the murder, even though a one-inch portion of his own tongue was missing. He claimed that he recently lost a part of his tongue in an accident on the street but had no idea how it could have been transported inside the house.
The Independent in London reported in October that a division of Sony Corporation, Extra-Sensory Perception Excitation Research, claims it has proved the existence of ESP and has developed a working diagnostic machine based on use of the spiritual energy ki to identify health problems by measuring the pulse. So far 400 leading businessmen and politicians in Japan have been hooked up to the machine, and Sony claims a 20 percent to 30 percent success rate in diagnosing serious diseases such as liver cancer.
