In 2016, Lauren Jeska, a UK national champion in women's fell running, tried to stab to death Ralph Knibbs, a prominent official with UK Athletics - and slashed several colleagues who came to Knibbs' aid during the attack - after Jeska's eligibility for female events had been called into question following revelations that Jeska is male.
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Security footage of an Alien that broke into a coffee shop in off hours. The Alien did not eat any food, but drank the Ammonia used for toilette cleaning.
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RunRagged wrote:
In 2016, Lauren Jeska, a UK national champion in women's fell running, tried to stab to death Ralph Knibbs, a prominent official with UK Athletics - and slashed several colleagues who came to Knibbs' aid during the attack - after Jeska's eligibility for female events had been called into question following revelations that Jeska is male.
I'm going to bring this link up in the next trans threads where they claim we are the ones "attacking" trans people. Yikes for the head of Athletics UK for getting stabbed in the neck just because he told Jeska there is a testosterone levels requirement.
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Mollie Tibetts was killed while out on a run in Iowa. I believe this is the case where a security camera captured the killer driving slowly behind her as she ran. Creepy stuff.
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Runners who turn to a life of crime should pick a crime they would be good at like pickpocket or purse snatcher.
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This one from New Zealand is pretty egregious when you use your vehicle to incapacitate first.
Remember, these events are statistically rare.
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There was an attempted kidnapping of then-hs steeplechase national record holder Lindsay Ferguson from the school parking lot after practices in the mid 2000s. It was a dateline episode.
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One of those guys was on the CC team for Middleton.
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world class miler Larry Murphy was convicted 1st degree murder, sent to Folsom...
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428 lbs marathon runner arrest for shoplifting a pastry 🥮 from Handymart
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No murders here, but a laundry list of crimes committed by James Hogue. Just search that name if you're not familiar. Off the top of my head: he was a great high school runner in Kansas in the 70s who then ran a year at the U. of Wyoming, helping the team get third at XC nats. He dropped out, kicked around a bit, then stole an identity and entered high school in California claiming to be 16 years old when he was really 26. Joined the HS XC team and won an invitational but was quickly outed as an impostor. Got jailed for theft (I think) for a short time after that, then when he got out he made up a new 18-year-old identity, got his fake self admitted to Princeton, and ran for the XC/track team. That fraud lasted 2 years before a girl from the California high school happened to be at an Ivy League track meet and recognized him! He then spent more time in jail for various thefts, and finally ended up in Aspen, Colorado, where he sort of established himself as a seemingly legit resident, but was secretly stealing thousands of dollars worth of stuff from the cabins and chalets. He even built a secret hidden cabin up in the mountains to store all his loot. When the police found the cabin, he escaped and got as far as Arizona, I believe, but finally got nabbed. That takes us to 2006, and I think he got about 10 years in prison for the Aspen thefts. God knows what he's done since then, probably more of the same.
There's a book "The Runner" and a documentary "Con Man" about his crazy life. If the project is "crimes committed by runners," James Hogue has to be included.
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They have still not caught this guy, and in fact have given up. Surprised that the LetsRun forum couldn't establish who he was.
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Saratoga Starz wrote:
There was an attempted kidnapping of then-hs steeplechase national record holder Lindsay Ferguson from the school parking lot after practices in the mid 2000s. It was a dateline episode.
I forgot all about that.
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Seeing some of these stories reminds of Chet Smithers who ran on the distance program for the Razorbacks back when a milkshake cost you 5 cents and the school dance was an STI-free zone.
Anyway it musta been a May night and Chet had been drinking for hours when he found out Jenny was over on Chapel and 4th Street fooling around with the colored boys. Chet was always strong in the last 800 of a race and had just got 2nd at conference but he had an awful temper. He waited in the bushes until the boys had cleared out then once he was sure she was alone he launched his attack. By the time he was finished there wasn't an inch of that house that wasn't covered in TP. I ended up testifying at the trial and still worry sometimes about the day he gets out. Anyone here do time with him at Leavenworth? Would be good to hear that age has mellowed him, you'd be helping an old man sleep a little easier.
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