The lawyer for an accused Florida murderer convinced the state to pay $125/day for a makeup artist to cover his client's Nazi tattoos, lest the jury unfairly judge him for the wrong terrible choice from his past. [NYT, via naugahydeinplainsight]

Future U.S. President Sarah Palin shot and killed a majestic caribou right there on her reality teevee show last night. Of course, this was necessary to sustain her family through the harsh Alaskan winter. Take a good look, America.

Police thought they had a break last week in the mysterious murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, when a suspect in the case shot and killed himself. Actually, no. That would be too easy.

Just last week, a man was found murdered inside his condo in the creepy Disney town, Celebration, Florida. Then early this morning, after shooting at deputies and barricading himself inside his Disney condo, 52-year-old Craig Foushee killed himself. Damn.

You'll always remember your first. Celebration, FL, the creepy town built by Disney in the '90s, has long been a place of eerie, forced quaintness. Well, no longer. They've had their first-ever homicide, just in time for the holidays.

As police went to serve a warrant on a man described as a suspect in the case of murdered Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, he shot himself dead. Meanwhile, a retired investigator says she was killed by an "expert marksman."

An early leaked version of the coroner's report on the mysterious shooting death of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen revealed that she was shot with at least one hollow point bullet. That's only one of today's conspiracy theory-inducing new crumbs.

Michael Brea, a Brooklyn resident and former bit player on Ugly Betty, gave a crazy interview to the Daily News in which he says he stabbed his mother to death with a sword because she was possessed. What the heck?

As soon as news broke last week that veteran Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen had been gunned down in her car in Beverly Hills for no apparent reason, the conspiracy theories began. Finally, Page Six has said hell, let's print some.

Veteran Hollywood PR woman Ronni Chasen was shot five times while driving her Mercedes in Beverly Hills early yesterday morning. She crashed, and died. The circumstances are tragic, sensational, and bizarre. Here's what we know so far.

Former Survivor and Pimp My Ride producer Bruce Beresford-Redman was arrested by U.S. Marshals last night outside his California home in connection to the April murder of his wife, Monica Beresford-Redman, in Cancun, Mexico. He denies the charge. [Hollywood Reporter]

RadarOnline's reporting that Ronni Chasen—a 64 year-old Hollywood PR woman who started her own firm after stints at Rogers & Cowan and MGM—was shot five times and killed while driving in Beverly Hills this morning. An uncommon crime.

James Fowler, a 77 year-old white former state trooper in Alabama, has pleaded guilty and received six months in prison for the 1965 killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson—whose shooting death inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marches. [Montgomery Advertiser]

Mississippi man Thomas Steven Sanders was arrested in Mississippi on Sunday in the kidnapping and murder of Las Vegas 12-year-old Lexis Roberts. Which must have come as a surprise to his family, who declared him dead in 1994.

The suspect in the Manhattan diner murder, Earle Barranco, was arrested in a VIP booth at a Charlotte Bobcats game.

Police suspect Steven Spader, 18, in a gruesome New Hampshire machete murder. Partly because they found a wallet connected to the victims in a bag with a sweatshirt bearing the writing "This is Steve's sweatshirt. Steve who is awesome." [AP]

The alternate juror in the death-penalty trial of the man convicting of slaughtering a family in Connecticut may have spoiled the proceedings by passing a note to the bailiff: "Sunday 5 p.m. Side Street Grille." She was asking him out.

A mistrial has been declared in the murder trial of John Katehis, the 18 year-old who confessed to killing veteran newsman George Weber after answering Weber's sex-seeking Craigslist ad. Katehis claims self-defense. [Previously:: Katehis' online photos, profiles]

Police say that Gareth Williams, the British spy found dead in a locked gym bag in a bathtub with "no obvious injuries," had no drugs or poison in his system. So then how did...what...it's just such a god damn mystery.

Florida mother Alexandra Tobias has pleaded guilty to killing her infant son after shaking him for crying while she was playing FarmVille on Facebook. She shook him, "smoked a cigarette to compose herself," and then shook him again. Yeesh.