Runners-Up for Top Story for June
Runners-up for top story of the month: Jaime Plascencia, husband of give-Wendy's-a-finger-woman Anna Ayala, who purchased the finger that ultimately found its way into the chili from an otherwise uninvolved Nevada man who lost it in an industrial accident. Plascencia, who was charged along with his wife with conspiracy to commit fraud in her attempted grand larceny, was already in jail on unrelated charges of identity theft. Jeremy Brian Jones, 32, aka John Paul Chapman, indicted by an Alabama grand jury in the slaying of 45-year-old Lisa Nichols, who was found raped, shot and burned in September 2004, now suspected in a string of rape-murders. Neighbors described him as a "volatile, paranoid man who was often glassy-eyed from using methamphetamine"(meth ...
