{"id":252,"date":"2007-05-11T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=252"},"modified":"2007-05-11T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T07:50:12","slug":"curiositykillsandrobsbankstoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/curiositykillsandrobsbankstoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity kills, and robs banks too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days ago outside the Australian city of Perth, two 16 year-old girls strangled a third girl with speaker wire, burying the body under the house.  As if the facts themselves weren&#8217;t disturbing in themselves, the motive for the killing seems to be no more than curiosity.  Saying that killing their victim Eliza Jane Davis, &#8220;felt right,&#8221; the two confessed killers apparently wanted to find out whether they would feel guilty.  The answer?  They don&#8217;t.  They&#8217;ve both been sentenced to life sentences by the Australian court, more at &#8220;the BBC&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/6639027.stm.\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/6639027.stm.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/SunglassRobbers.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn a less violent but just as strange note, two months ago in an affluent suburb of Atlanta, two 19 year-old women (pictured above) robbed a Bank of America branch.  The pair is alleged to have threatened to the teller with a note and then taken their ill-gotten gains on a shopping spree.  I found this story through a &#8220;personal blog&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/janabean.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/how-did-i-miss-hearing-about-this.html\">http:\/\/janabean.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/how-did-i-miss-hearing-about-this.html<\/a>  but would love to know if there is any more evidence of this or other &#8220;Girls Gone Wild, in a Criminal Way&#8221; stories out there.  Comment if you know anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days ago outside the Australian city of Perth, two 16 year-old girls strangled a third girl with speaker wire, burying the body under the house. As if the facts themselves weren&#8217;t disturbing in themselves, the motive for the killing seems to be no more than curiosity. Saying that killing their victim Eliza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}