Sen. Ernie Chambers is Suing God...

Lincoln, Neb. The defendant in a state senator's lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He's everywhere.

State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he's trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody.

Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants."

He's seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty.

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Can you say "drama"???

1857 scandal laid to rest.

It might be one of the most bizarre relationships - and murders - in New York City history. And it took only a mere 150 years for it to come full circle.

The victim and the alleged killer in the bizarre case that captivated New Yorkers in the mid-19th century will finally receive headstones today on their unmarked graves at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.

During a crim wave in the winter of 1857, Harvey Burdell, a prominent dentist who lived at 31 Bond St. in Greenwich Village, was found in his office strangled and stabbed 15 times.

Suspicion soon fell on his mistress, Emma Cunningham, a 36-year-old widow who Burdell had taken into his home along with her five children.

"She needed a wealthy new husband willing to take on five children," said Benjamin Feldman, author of "Butchery on Bond Street" a new book about the case. "And she made a bad choice."

Burdell, according to Feldman, "took ruthless advantage" of Cunningham, routinely raping her, impregnating her two times, and twice performing an abortion on her.

Still, she needed the money and respectability a husband would bring, and so, when Burdell refused to do right by her, she hired an imposter to stand in for him at a wedding ceremony. When this ruse failed, she took to voilence.

"I never in my life have heard a story that incorporated so much dysfunction and sociopathic behavior between a man and woman," Feldman said.

It got worse. After the 46-year-old dentist's death, Cunningham maintained that she was entitled to his fortune because she was carrying his child. She stuffed pillows under her petticoats to make herself look pregnant but was eventually caught when she sent a friend to "borrow" a newborn from Bellevue Hospital to pretend it was her own. Cunninghamd was acquitted at trial, moved to California for 25 years but eventually settled back in New York, where she died in 1887.

Their graves went unmarked, hers because of destitution and his because of greed - that of his family, which squabbled over his estate.

i know!
It's really...insane. Suing the Lord! And that whole dentist + mistress story--wow. I extend my congratulations for their new headstones.
» Candace on 2007-09-18 08:53:09

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