Elyse Sewell

Elyse Sewell, (born June 10, 1982) is an American fashion model based in Hong Kong. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sewell obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico, majoring in biology and Spanish. Her start in modeling came when she entered a reality television modeling competition on the first season of America's Next Top Model, airing at the time on UPN. Sewell was known on the show as the "edgy pre-med student". In 2005, one of her "confessional" clips from the show earned her 16th place on E!'s Most Outrageous TV Moments.^{[citation needed]}

Sewell is a top model in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's Cover Magazine named her the face of 2005. She has appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, Women's Wear Daily, Steppin' Out and Sisters Magazine. Sewell has also appeared in other magazines including Esquire, HIM, 3 Weekly, WWD magazine, Jessica CODE, Taxi magazine, Stuff, Cosmo Bride, Tea Magazine, Cover and Talkies. She is also the regular model for the Mingpao Newspaper, Apple Daily and Oriental Daily clothing spreads. Her Hong Kong modeling credits include Staccato (LVMH), Fendi, Chanel, Vidal Sassoon, Motorola, Logitech, Chow Sang Sang Jewelery, DTC Diamonds, Just Jewelery, Giordano, Crown Casino Hotel Macao, I.S.O., Dao, iMaroon, Flair by Joc brand, Paule Ka, Maevon makeup, Azona, Nail Nail, and Sa Sa Cosmetics.

Sewell dated Martin Crandall of The Shins until January 2008, when he allegedly assaulted her in a Sacramento hotel.^[1] Both Crandall and Sewell were charged with felony domestic assault. ^[2]

Sewell's first book,^[3] based in part on her LiveJournal weblog, was published in China in 2006. She appeared in multiple book signings across China.

George McGovern

George Stanley McGovern, (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to incumbent Richard Nixon.

McGovern, a World War II combat veteran, was most noted for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He is currently serving as the United Nations global ambassador on hunger.

Tanya Haden

Tanya Haden (born October 11, 1971) is an American cellist and singer. Born in New York City, she was a member of several bands, including Let's Go Sailing, and is the creator of the Imaginary Bear puppet show. She has contributed to recordings of a number of Los Angeles musicians, including vocals and cello on Paul Avion's futuristic EP, Pop Music United. She is the daughter of the jazz double bassist Charlie Haden; the triplet sister of bassist Rachel Haden and violinist Petra Haden, with whom she has performed as The Haden Triplets; and the sister of bassist-singer Josh Haden, formerly leader of the group Spain.

Haden married actor Jack Black on March 14, 2006,in Big Sur, California.^[1] She gave birth to their first child, a boy named Samuel Jason Haden Black on June 10, 2006 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.^[2] Haden met Jack Black when they were students at Crossroads School, a private high school in Santa Monica. Although the two attended the private high school together, they did not begin dating until spring 2005. Black proposed marriage around Christmas time 2005 with a $50,000 Neil Lane ring. In January 2008, Black announced that Haden is currently expecting their second child.^[3]

Strait of Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz (Arabic: مضيق هرمز - Madīq Hurmuz, Persian: تنگه هرمز - Tangeh-ye Hormoz) is a narrow, strategically important waterway between the Gulf of Oman in the southeast and the Persian Gulf in the southwest. On the north coast is Iran (Persia) and on the south coast is the United Arab Emirates and Musandam, an exclave of Oman.

The strait at its narrowest is 21 miles wide.^[1] It is the only sea passage to the open ocean for large areas of the petroleum-exporting Persian Gulf States. Some 20 percent of the world's oil supply passes through the strait, making it one of the world's strategically important chokepoints.^[2][3]

John And Irene Bryant

Guide Note:John and Irene Bryant disappeared in the woods in North Carolina in October 2007. Irene was later found dead; John is still missing. Police are investigating a suspected link between their case and that of Meredith Emerson in Georgia.

Fast Facts:

1. Lost in Pisgah National Forest
2. Irene, 84
3. John, 80
4. Man in yellow jacket similar to that worn by Gary Michael Hilton was seen using their ATM card

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jana shearer

Police Discover Gruesome Cannibalistic Scene at Texas Home

Monday, January 07, 2008

AP

Jan. 6: Christopher Lee McCuin

TYLER, Texas — Deputies responding to a 911 call in this East Texas town found a gruesome scene: a human ear boiling in a pot on a stovetop and a hunk of flesh impaled on a fork sitting atop a plate on the kitchen table.

Authorities believe that the man arrested in the death of his 21-year-old girlfriend cooked parts of her body and may have tried to eat them — actions they said he described to them in the emergency call that led them to the grisly discovery.

Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, was scheduled to be arraigned Monday on a capital murder charge. He was in solitary confinement at a jail on a $2 million bond Sunday night and did not have an attorney, officials said.

Authorities say it is unclear whether McCuin consumed any part of the woman's body.

"We cannot prove that he did," Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith said Sunday. "He was either going to, had been or led us to think that he was doing it."

McCuin is also the suspect in the early Saturday morning stabbing of a man described as his estranged wife's boyfriend, Smith said.

McCuin has a criminal record that includes driving while intoxicated and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges. When he was arrested, McCuin had an outstanding felony retaliation warrant.

Smith said McCuin was known to authorities and had "a history of violence," including assaulting his estranged wife, his girlfriend and his sister.

Officials believe the horrific chain of events began when Jana Shearer, McCuin's girlfriend, was taken by McCuin from her home late Friday night and killed.

Smith said McCuin then drove to his estranged wife's home, where he stabbed his wife's boyfriend, William Veasley, 42. Veasley was in intensive care Sunday night.

McCuin was still in that home when deputies arrived, but he jumped into his car and escaped after a short chase, Smith said. "We did not know at the time that he had murdered anyone," Smith said. "We thought it was a disturbance or an assault."

McCuin wasn't seen again until Saturday morning, when he arrived at the home he shared with his mother and called her into the garage so she could "come see what he had done," Smith said.

His mother and her boyfriend saw the remains of Shearer, authorities said. McCuin's mother and her boyfriend fled the home and flagged down a police officer. McCuin dialed 911 after they left and told an emergency dispatcher he had killed Shearer and was boiling her body parts, Smith said.

When sheriff deputies arrived, McCuin barricaded himself in the home for a short time before coming out. After he emerged, a tactical team entered and found Shearer's body, Sgt. Gary Middleton said. They also found the grisly scene in the kitchen.

After McCuin was arrested and placed in the back of a patrol car, he kicked out the vehicle's side window before being put in additional restraints, Middleton said.

Shearer appeared to have died from blunt trauma to her head, Smith said. She may have been kidnapped Friday night, when her mother saw her get into McCuin's truck.

Detectives were trying to determine where the killing happened. They think McCuin drove to his mother's home with the dead woman in the back seat of his extended-cab pickup, Smith said.