Detroit Strip Clubs: 36 texts identified in slain stripper case
October 20, 2009 at 7:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDETROIT, Oct. 20 (UPI) — Thirty-six text messages sent on city-issued pagers may be relevant to the 2003 case of a slain Detroit stripper, federal magistrates say.
The two magistrates filed a court report Monday saying their methodical, 19-month review of more than 625,000 texts sent on city pages turned up 36 that could be considered for evidence in a lawsuit sparked by the shooting death of dancer Tamara Greene, The Detroit Free Press reported.
Magistrates Steven Whalen and Judge Michael Hluchaniuk told the U.S. District Court in Detroit that sifting through the messages — which were collected by prosecutors for a corruption case of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and other city officials — was like looking for needles in a haystack, since the vast majority of the texts were “idle chatter.”
Detroit Escorts: Nancy Sinatra knows that you only live once, and she’s not giving up
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Detroit Strip Clubs: WITH PDF OF ORDER 36 text messages may be relevant in dancer slaying
October 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsA lawyer for the family of slain stripper Tamara Greene may get to review 36 of more than 600,000 text messages sent on city of Detroit-issued pagers to determine whether they will shed light on her 2003 killing.
A pair of federal magistrates filed an order today in U.S. District Court in Detroit that the 19-month review of the messages is completed.
We have painstakingly reviewed 626,638 text messages, wrote Magistrates Steven Whalen and Judge Michael Hluchaniuk.
They wrote that most of the texts involved idle chatter.
A significant number of the texts center around the romantic adventures and misadventures of city employees and others, the magistrates wrote. None of these has any relevance to the issues in this case.
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Kilpatrick, police officials and lawyers for the mayor and city all have denied there was ever a stripper party at the mayoral mansion and also have denied any effort to derail a probe of Greene’s death.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Needles in a haystack: 19-month review yields 36 text messages relevant to …
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Needles in a haystack: 19-month review yields 36 text messages relevant to Tamara ‘Strawberry’ Greene lawsuit
October 20, 2009, 7:14AM
File PhotoTamara Greene
Two federal magistrates spent 19 months reviewing more than 625,000 text messages sent or received by City of Detroit employees during a two-year period.
They said Monday 36 of those texts are relevant to the lawsuit filed against the city by the family of Tamara “Strawberry” Greene, a stripper who was murdered in 2003 and was rumored to have previously danced during a party thrown at the Manoogian mansion by former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
That means 17,404 of every 17,405 text messages was irrelevant, but they were probably entertaining (like the movie!).
Most of the texts were “idle chatter” and “romantic adventures” of city employees, magistrates Steven Whalen and Judge Michael Hluchaniuk wrote, per the Detroit Free Press.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: 36 texts may shed light on killing
October 20, 2009 at 8:12 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsSlain stripper’s family gets to see
BY BEN SCHMITTFREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A lawyer for the family of slain stripper Tamara Greene may get to review 36 of the more than 600,000 text messages sent on City of Detroit-issued pagers to determine whether they will shed light on her 2003 killing.
Two federal magistrates filed an order Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit announcing that their 19-month review of the texts was over.
“We have painstakingly reviewed 626,638 text messages,” wrote magistrates Steven Whalen and Judge Michael Hluchaniuk.
They wrote that most of the texts involved “idle chatter.”
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Kilpatrick, police officials and lawyers for the mayor and city all have denied there was ever a stripper party at the mayoral mansion and have denied any effort to derail a probe of Greene’s death.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Manoogian could be a real moneymaker
October 20, 2009 at 8:12 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThere is a move afoot to convince Detroit Mayor Dave Bing to move into the 15-room Manoogian Mansion, which was donated to the city in 1966 and had mayoral residents until last year.
If Bing is re-elected and wants to live there, he’s as entitled to the riverfront mansion as the previous mayors were.
But if he’d rather stay in his 3,800-square-foot Shorepointe Village condo, which is right down the street from the Manoogian and overlooks the Detroit River, then the last thing we should believe is that the mansion will sit idle as the city pays $160,000 a year to maintain it.
Bing’s staff wants to install the mayor in the mansion to restore the home’s good name and make people forget the alleged urban legend that the former mayor held an alleged party with a stripper alleged to have been clobbered by the former mayor’s wife.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Texts probed in stripper’s slaying
October 20, 2009 at 2:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsTuesday, October 20, 2009
Texts probed in stripper’s slaying
Lawyer for family may soon review 36 messages from city-issued pagers in ‘03 case
Mark Hicks / The Detroit News
Detroit — Three-dozen of more than 600,000 text messages sent on city pagers could soon be reviewed by the attorney for the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene — a move that could yield more clues in her long unsolved murder.
“I’m encouraged that the magistrates found the few dozen needles in the several thousand haystacks,” Norman Yatooma said Monday. “I can only hope that it will lead us to relevant evidence.”
In an order filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, magistrate judges Steven Whalen and Michael Hluchaniuk said they had “painstakingly” completed a lengthy review of more than 626,600 text messages sent or received by city employees during a nearly two-year period.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Leads are to be revisited in hit man case
October 20, 2009 at 2:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe claim has never been proved, and none of the people who allegedly hired Smothers have been charged.
“The Kentucky drug dealer is the individual who had bragged about knowing former Mayor Kilpatrick,” Detroit police spokesman John Roach said. “That was the time at which the officers felt the investigation got shut down because they weren’t allowed to go to Kentucky to talk to the drug dealer.”
Roach said Todd’s suit led Police Chief Warren Evans to call for the Violent Crimes Task Force to take a harder look at both the Smothers and Greene cases.
Greene, a stripper known as Strawberry and rumored to have danced at a never-proven Manoogian Mansion party, was shot in a drive-by killing April 30, 2003, while parked in a Buick Skylark at West Outer Drive and Roselawn.
Detroit Escorts: Sports digest: Oct. 20
October 20, 2009 at 1:48 am | In Detroit escorts | No Commentsn Watford defender Jay DeMerit has had surgery to replace his left cornea. The team captain has not played for the League Championship club since Aug. 29. Watford said dust or grit became stuck under his contact lens before the Sept. 15 match at Plymouth. The eye became infected.
n ESPN’s World Cup coverage will have a British accent, as Martin Tyler, one of the top soccer announcers in the United Kingdom, will be the lead play-by-play voice for ESPN’s English-language broadcasts in the U.S. during next year’s tournament from South Africa.
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n Swedish police say two tennis players are suspected of soliciting prostitutes before the Stockholm Open. The two men were identified only as foreign citizens. Investigation leader Jonas Trolle told The Associated Press that they were detained as they entered a hotel in Stockholm early Sunday with their escorts. He said both players were set to compete in the tournament, which started Monday.
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