Apparent Murder/Suicide In West Hills – Donna and Craig Edwards
This older couple was found by coworkers of the wife deceased in their home on Monday. It happened in West Hills, but still I think relevant to the blog. Daily News writes:
WEST HILLS – A 66-year-old woman and her 62-year-old husband were discovered dead in their home in a murder suicide, police said Tuesday.Donna Edwards was found shot to death at 10 a.m. Monday in the master bedroom of their home in the 7900 block of McLaren Avenue by colleagues who became concerned when she failed to show up for work, said Los Angeles Police Department officials.
Craig Edwards was discovered dead on the kitchen floor. His cause for death is being determined by the Los Angeles County Coroner. Police said there were no obvious signs for his death.
Authorities are still determining a motive for the slaying and have recovered several weapons from the home.
Police ask anyone with information on the deaths to call LAPD’s Topanga division homicide detectives Foster Rains and Ammon Williams at 756-4820. After hour calls can be directed to 1-877-527-3247.
A comment left by Larry of North Hills makes some good points about sad incidents like this:
Well, either way, I wouldn’t rush to judgement on this. Life, as you know, is crazy and very unfair. Just look around you. We have a 13% unemployment rate, we have the highest tax rates in the country, the union and government workers getting bloated salaries and pensions for doing basically nothing to improve our own infrastracture and they could retire early,… I could go on and on. We were never asked to suffer this way, never.
Maybe the couple’s house was about to be foreclosed on or that their savings were blown away by the greedy Wall Street executives or both, who knows.
Now I don’t wanna hear statements like “Suicide, a permanent solution to a temporary problem” or “Suicide has no salvation in God’s Kingdom” or what have you. I don’t wanna hear that crap. I want someone to step forward from “Profiles of Courage” and rescue us.
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Comment From Topix Post In Defense of Damien Michaels
Kellee posts a comment on Topix.com in defense of murdered porn star Michael Conoscenti A/K/A Damien Michaels:
I knew Damien pretty well. Although we had our fair share of problems and fights, he did have a good heart and was a caring man , especially for those he loved. And when he loved, he really loved,…..the only way he knew how. I realize he didn’t always make good choices, and had a talent for pissing people off. He didn’t exactly have the best reputation, and he always had a good line of shit to per sway others in his favor. He was just a man that wanted to do big things , but the easy way. A man trying to get by in life in hopes of making it big some how some way. Was he a bit of a con man? Yes. Did he deserve to be robbed of a future? No. My heart goes out to his girlfriend. It brings me great joy to know that Damien was loved, and I am sure he loved her too. He was one of the most talented men I have ever known when it came to his music. And those words will live on forever. As for him being abusive and getting people hooked on crack,… first I think that people need to take responsibility for their own choices in life and not blame others. I know that he was there for me when I really needed support and he kept me sober for a long time, and without his support , friendship, love and understanding I would not have made the way I did. I am just sorry I wasn’t ever able to tell him this myself.
COURTNEY: DON’T LET OTHERS VIEWS TARNISH WHAT YOU SAW IN HIM AND KNOW TO BE TRUE. I AM SURE IT WAS EXACTLY HOW YOU FELT IT WS BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU. YOU WILL BE IN MY PRAYERS ALONG WITH DAMIEN, MAY HE REST IN PEACE. HE IS IN A BETTER PLACE AND YOU TWO WILL BE TOGETHER AGAIN. KNOW IN YOUR HEART THAT WHAT GOES AROUND DOES IN FACT COME AROUND AND WHOEVER DID THIS WILL GET WHAT THEY DESERVE AS WELL. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE THE LIFE FROM ANYONE. STAY STRONG N KEEP HIS MEMORY ALIVE.
I hear violins playing. I wonder who got Kellee hooked on drugs in the first place? Hmmmm.
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Murdered Porn Star Interview From YouTube
This video is surprisingly humanizing. This is the same video that is used in portions of the MyFoxLA report. This video has plenty of profanity and is not safe for work or the ears of infants or small dogs.
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Porn Star Stabbing Victim Damien Michaels Much More Popular In Death Than In Life
Google Trends This Morning, Damien Michaels
Damien Michaels: Volcanic
In doing some digging this morning on this story, I came across some interesting finds in Google. That being that Damien Michaels was the #1 search term at the moment. There have probably been more searches for this guys name in the last few hours than in his entire life. Is that mean?
Oh, and when asked to confirm or disconfirm that Damien Michaels had ever won an American Music Award, it replied, “Uh, no” – as the only results returned were that of the crack-fueled ramblings of his special lady friend.
"Uh, no, Mr. Girard."
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Degenerate Porn Star Stabbed to Death at Comfort Inn in Woodland Hills
On Tuesday a 53 year old on-again-off-again “porn star” Damien Michaels (real name Michael Conoscenti) was found dead apparently of multiple stab wounds in a room at the Comfort Inn at 20157 Ventura Blvd. I had begun hearing about this story on Friday, but held off on publishing it as LA Weekly was the only site carrying it and I don’t consider them a reliable source for homicide news. Plus, the only thing in their posts identifying the victim were the comments added by a clearly rambling drug addicted degenerate chick who must be the female companion of Consoscenti’s mentioned in the Fox 11 News video.
I was pretty surprised that this hadn’t been covered at all in the real media, which is why I was skeptical that it was totally a hoax. Fox 11 News wrote:
Woodland Hills (myFOXla.com) – There was a lot of mystery surrounding an early morning murder in Woodland Hills earlier this week. It happened right across from Taft High School on Ventura Boulevard.
Investigators did not release the victim’s name and there was nothing in the news.
Chris Blatchford has the bizarre story of a porn actor’s death in this video report.
I was able to talk to a friend of mine who works in the adult movie business and get his take on this Damien Michaels character. He tells me:
Damien Michaels was a completely worthless degenerate scumbag and a hustler. The guy has been addicted to crystal meth since he was about four years old, and was really never even slightly successful as either a porn star, or as a pimp. He was so drug riddled that he had lost most of his teeth, and I’ve heard a story once from some girl that was having lunch with him that one of his teeth fell out in his hamburger.
This guy was a total loser, and you can bet he was probably killed by one of his drug addicted friends.
The incoherent ramblings of a friend of the stabbing victim were posted on the two articles linked to at the end of this post (Topix/LA Weekly), and included in this message after the jump.
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