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A Los Angeles-based freelance model was found dead in her refrigerator with her ankles and wrists bound last month, a new report revealed. An autopsy report released Friday indicated Maleesa Mooney, 31, was found severely beaten, bound and gagged, FOX 11 Los Angeles reported.  Mooney, who also worked as a real estate agent, was found dead in her apartment on Sept. 12. She was last seen alive on surveillance footage in the apartment complex on Sept. 6, per a medical examiner report reviewed by FOX 11. An unidentified man was reportedly seen using her key fob to activate the building’s elevator and carrying plastic bags into her apartment.  REAL ESTATE AGENT FOUND MURDERED AFTER SUSPICIOUS PHONE ACTIVITY Mooney’s family called on the Los Angeles Police Department to perform a welfare check on Sept. 10 after they were uncharacteristically unable to reach her for more than 24 hours.  Although an officer did respond to her residence at the Bunker Hill Towers Apartments, officers could not make contact with her and “left a card at her door,” sister Jourdin Pauline told Fox News Digital. That day, previously blue iPhone text messages from Mooney’s phone suddenly turned green, Pauline said, indicating that a thief may have changed her phone settings.  When building management let police into her apartment on Sept. 12, she was found “wedged inside a refrigerator” with blood outside it, FOX 11 reported. A gag made of clothing was reportedly stuffed into her mouth and other items covered her head. Electrical cords and clothing were used to bind her extremities, ABC 7 reported.  The night before the family lost contact with Mooney, Pauline said, she was having friends over at her new apartment, where she had just moved a month earlier. LOS ANGELES MODEL FOUND DEAD IN APARTMENT DIED FROM ‘HOMICIDAL VIOLENCE,’ MEDICAL EXAMINER RULES Mooney died from blunt force trauma, per the report, evidenced by abrasions, lacerations and contusions concentrated around her head and emanating to her body and extremities. Additionally, one of her ribs was fractured.  Though none of her injuries “are generally considered acutely life-threatening on their own,” the examiner wrote that “based on the circumstances of how Ms. Mooney was found… she was likely involved in [a] violent physical altercation prior to her death.” Suffocation may have played a role in her death, per the report, and the role of drugs is “uncertain” – cocaine was reportedly found in her system post-mortem. No direct marks from strangulation were observed on Mooney’s body, per the report.  Mooney’s manner of death was listed as “homicidal violence.” But no arrests have been made and no suspects in Mooney’s death have been publicly identified.  SAN FRANCISCO MAN ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTS PARISHONER AT CHURCH, TOSSES ‘IMPROVISED DEVICE’ AT POLICE DURING CHASE Fox News Digital could not reach the LAPD at press time for further details.  Pauline described Mooney as the “most amazing girl ever.” “She loved to cook, she was very nice, very sweet genuine person,” she said on Friday. “She would ask a stranger how their day was going – just a very sweet, open-hearted person. She was very funny, very goofy. She could make a whole room laugh. And smart, and was very, very smart.” Although she dabbled in freelance modeling, Mooney primarily worked as a real estate agent with Nest Seekers International.  “She was showing million-dollar homes and was in the process of closing a few,” Pauline said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP In an Instagram post featuring the hashtag #JUSTICEFORMALEESA, Pauline pleaded for answers and mourned her beloved sister.  “Never in a million years did I think I’d have to make this post and get justice for my one & only sister… my heart is crushed I can’t believe you won’t be here with us anymore,” she wrote. “This is so sick I can’t believe my big baby sister is gone… we will get justice for you my sister I promise you won’t be gone in vain!”



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Chicago police said at least 15 people were injured, two of them critically, after a gunman fired shots into a crowd at a Halloween party early Sunday. The shooting happened around 1 a.m. at a gathering on the city’s West Side, police said. The gunman allegedly fled, but authorities took him into custody nearby. A handgun was also recovered. SHOOTING IN ILLINOIS NEIGHBORHOOD INJURES 5, 2 CRITICALLY CHICAGO HOMICIDE SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER STATE TROOPER SHOT IN LEG No charges have been filed yet. The two people severely injured, a 26-year-old woman and 48-year-old man, were taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. CHICAGO AREA MAN, WHO THREATENED TO SHOOT MUSLIM MEN, CHARGED WITH HATE CRIMES The other 13 victims ranged in age from 26 to 53. Police said six women and nine men were shot. They were all listed in good condition at various local hospitals, according to police.



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Dorothy Parker’s ghost spooked guests at New York City’s landmark Algonquin Hotel for more than 50 years — then suddenly went silent in 2020.  Local historians suggest the literary icon’s restless spirit desperately called in agony from the beyond, until her dishonored earthly remains were buried with respect beside her family in the Bronx. Among other indignities, Parker’s ashes reportedly spent 17 years stuffed in the filing cabinet of a law office in downtown Manhattan. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO CONJURED UP “LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW”: WASHINGTON IRVING, FIRST US CELEBRITY AUTHOR “You can certainly make the clam that, since Parker’s ashes have returned to New York City, she doesn’t haunt the Algonquin anymore,” Greg Young, host and producer of the “Bowery Boys” podcast, a popular chronicle of Gotham history, told Fox News Digital.  News of her spirit’s sudden silence came as a shock to Kevin Fitzpatrick, founder of the Dorothy Parker Society.  “Oh wow. That’s incredible,” Fitzpatrick said Saturday, after being informed by Fox News Digital that Parker’s ghost appears to have left the Algonquin after more than half a century of alleged hauntings.  Fitzpatrick personally delivered the author’s ashes to Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx for a long overdue proper burial beside her parents and grandparents in August 2020.  Parker was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a collection of early 20th-century literary luminaries who gathered at the historic Midtown Manhattan hotel, which opened in 1902.  Harpo Marx, along with Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright George S. Kaufman and essayist and Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Benchley — perhaps best known today as the grandfather of “Jaws” author Peter Benchley — were all members of the what they dubbed “the Vicious Circle.” Parker carved out a place in literature with withering wit. “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue,” she said in one of her many oft-repeated quotes. ODDEST HOMES IN AMERICA INCLUDE THE ‘SMURF HOUSE’ AND ONE THAT’S ‘LEGALLY’ HAUNTED Parker died of a heart attack in 1967. Reports that her ghost was haunting guests followed soon after her death and continued for decades.  Many other spirits reportedly still haunt the hotel, too.  Fitzpatrick spent several hours in the hotel’s sub-sub-basement with paranormal investigator Doug McMillan in 2016, in response to decades of ghostly reports. “Investigators found all kinds of paranormal activity at the Algonquin,” Fitzpatrick said. “It was spook central.” Added ghost hunter McMillian, “There were definitely some unresolved issues manifesting themselves down there.”  A portrait of Algonquin Round Table members hangs over the hotel’s lobby restaurant. Children reported that the “mean woman” in the painting — Parker — told them to hush if they were being loud or unruly.  Reporter Kelly Conaboy of Gawker spent a night at the hotel in 2015 armed with an electromagnetic field reader, Ouija board and crystal pendulum to communicate with the dead. She asked the 30 late members of the Algonquin Round Table if they were present.  Eight of them, Conaboy reported, said yes. The reporter determined only that Parker “may be” present. Elle Decor named the Algonquin one of 30 “most haunted hotels in the world” in 2018, singling out Parker’s spirit.  “When renovations were made to the hotel’s attic, unexplained noises were reported coming from the empty space,” the outlet reported, “and a photograph of Parker even flew off the wall, shattering.” MOM’S CREEPY-COOL TAYLOR SWIFT HALLOWEEN DISPLAY GOES VIRAL ON TIKTOK Parker’s outcries, observers now believe, were a call by the author’s restless spirit to be reunited with her family. Parker was a celebrity of American letters. She was among the first contributors to The New Yorker, helping to turn it into one of the nation’s leading periodicals of literature; she wrote the lyrics to Bing Crosby’s hit “I Wished on the Moon”; and she left an imprint on Hollywood, too. Parker was one of the screenwriters behind “A Star is Born.” Her version appeared on the silver screen in 1937 and has been remade several times.  She was also famous for her appetite for alcohol and for a lascivious lifestyle.  “I like to have a martini. Two at the very most,” she wrote in one famous ode. “After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host.” Her clever quotes are often cited in toasts today. And she’s the namesake of Dorothy Parker Gin from New York Distilling Co., a popular spirit in the Big Apple.  “Regularly seated at the famed Algonquin Round Table, she occupied the city’s cultural and intellectual center stage,” the distiller proudly points out on its website. But Parker died childless of a heart attack on June 7, 1967.  Despite her celebrity in life, her fate in death was that of a pauper. She willed her assets to Martin Luther King Jr. — a man she said she never met but admired. The Civil Rights leader was assassinated just 10 months after Parker died.  Upon his death, according to her will, her assets were transferred to the NAACP. CONNECTICUT MOMS PROWL NEIGHBORHOOD AS ZOMBIES TO RAISE MONEY FOR BREAST CANCER RESEARCH Parker’s ashes, after nearly two decades of anonymity in a filing cabinet, were placed in 1988 in a modest memorial next to a parking lot on the grounds of NAACP headquarters in a Baltimore office park — a city where she had no affiliation, said Fitzpatrick.  He and members of the Dorothy Parker Society raised funds to have the ashes disinterred and returned to New York City. “We put the urn in a pine box and took the Amtrak back from Baltimore to Penn Station,” the Manhattan resident said.  “I had a gin and tonic on the train in her honor.” Fitzpatrick founded the Dorothy Parker Society merely as a fan in 1998. Given his scant connection to the author, “It was an out-of-body experience having her box next to me knowing it was Dorothy Parker’s last ride.” Parker, he said, then took an Uber uptown “and hung out with me and my family for a few days watching Netflix.”  Parker was finally buried beside her parents and grandparents in Woodlawn Cemetery on what would have been her 127th birthday — Aug. 22, 2020.  CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Fitzpatrick and a representative of the NAACP hosted a simple ceremony attended by only 10 people at the height of COVID-19 restrictions.  Fitzpatrick and society members raised additional funds to place a memorial over Parker’s resting place in a slightly larger more celebratory ceremony in Aug. 2021. The Algonquin Hotel remains haunted by other spirits, according to various reports and legends.  But no longer by Parker. “These ghost stories become real because people retell them and believe them,” said Young of the “Bowery Boys” podcast.  He said he is skeptical of the Algonquin Hotel’s haunted history. But “it’s definitely a coincidence that reports of Dorothy haunting the hotel” have ended since she returned home to her family, he admitted.  For more Lifestyle articles, visit foxnews.com/lifestyle.



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Boxer Muhammad Ali was declared the heavyweight champion of the world after he defeated George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle” on this day in history, Oct. 30, 1974. The “Rumble in the Jungle” took place in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) — and featured 32-year-old Ali and 25-year-old Foreman. Ali was previously the heavyweight champion, but he lost his title in 1967 after he refused to join the military.  After publicly announcing he’d joined the Nation of Islam in 1964, he tried unsuccessfully in 1965 to apply as a conscientious objector. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, OCTOBER 29, 1964, GEMS ARE STOLEN DURING THE ‘JEWEL HEIST OF THE CENTURY’ Ali was convicted of draft evasion in the U.S. Armed Forces and was sentenced to five years in prison, but his sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court. His boxing license and world championship were, however, suspended in the meantime. Ali returned to boxing in October 1970 — and in 1971 he lost to Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the Century.”  Ali later defeated Frazier, which meant he could compete against then-champion George Foreman.  The “Rumble in the Jungle” was staged by the country of Zaire, according to the History Channel’s website.  In a move to boost the country’s tourism industry, Zaire’s president Mobutu Sese Seko personally paid Ali and Foreman $5 million before the fight, the same source noted.  For Ali, the fight was about more than personal glory.  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, FEB. 25, 1964, A YOUNG MUHAMMAD ALI KNOCKS OUT SONNY LISTON TO WIN FIRST WORLD TITLE “I wanted to establish a relationship between American blacks and Africans,” he later said. “The fight was about racial problems, Vietnam. All of that,” he said. He added, “‘The Rumble in the Jungle’ was a fight that made the whole country more conscious.” The fight started at 4:30 a.m. local time, so it could be broadcast live to American television viewers during primetime hours.  Even with the pre-dawn start, 60,000 people came to the outdoor Stade du Mai 20 to watch the two boxing legends fight, said the History Channel.  Millions around the world watched the broadcast of the fight. Going into the match, Foreman was undefeated — and seven years Ali’s junior, he was the heavy favorite.  Betting lines were set at Ali 4:1, notes Encyclopedia Britannica.  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, APRIL 28, 1967, MUHAMMAD ALI REFUSES TO SERVE MILITARY AT HEIGHT OF VIETNAM WAR Ahead of the fight, underdog Ali was not shy in boasting that he would defeat Foreman. Speaking at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, Ali recited a poem about his fighting prowess.  “I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, and throw thunder in jail,” said Ali. “You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.” He also adapted his trademark “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” catchphrase to include a jab at Foreman. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see. Now you see me, now you don’t. George thinks he will, but I know he won’t,” said Ali ahead of the bout.  Early on in the “Rumble in the Jungle,” things did not seem as if they were going in Ali’s favor.  During the first few rounds, Ali pretended he was stuck on the ropes of the boxing ring; Foreman then effectively tired himself out by taking repeated punches at Ali. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Ali’s trainers called this the “rope-a-dope” strategy because Ali was a “dope” for even trying it, said the History Channel.  Ali’s novel “rope-a-dope” tactic proved successful — and the risky endeavor paid off.  Foreman’s punches began to become less and less intense as the fight went on, and by the fifth round of the fight, he was visibly fading. During the eighth round, Ali seized the opportunity and “went on the attack,” said Encyclopedia Britannica — and knocked out Foreman.  With just two seconds left in the eighth round, Ali was declared the winner.  With the victory, Ali was once again the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.  He would reign until Feb. 15, 1978, when he lost to Leon Spinks. Ali retired from boxing in 1981, shortly before his 40th birthday.  His final record was 56 wins, 5 losses.  He died on June 3, 2016, at the age of 74, at a Phoenix hospital.  He was buried in his native Louisville, Kentucky.  A spokesperson said Ali died of septic shock “due to unspecified natural causes.” The boxing legend spent the last hour of his life surrounded by his family. For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.



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A dream-come-true for a Michigan family, a dream so real that the wife was unsure whether she was still asleep after her husband shared the news. “I usually play Powerball every drawing,” 78-year-old Charles Wolthuis said in a news release. “I called the winning numbers hotline and wrote down the winning Powerball numbers right when I woke up the morning after the drawing.  To double-check his discovery, Wolthuis checked in with his daughter.  65,000 STAYED ON FOOD STAMP ROLLS DESPITE WINNING BIG IN LOTTERY, GOVERNMENT DATA SHOW “I checked my ticket and saw I’d matched five numbers, but I wasn’t sure what I’d won,” he continued. “I called my daughter and asked her to check and see what the prize is for matching five numbers. It was quiet for a minute, and then she said: ‘Dad, you won $1 million!’” No one was more surprised with Wolthuis’s news that he won $1 million after matching the five white balls in the October 2 Powerball drawing than his wife, Jean. DETROIT CASINO WORKERS PICKET IN MICHIGAN’S LATEST LABOR UNION STRIKE “I woke up my wife and told her we won $1 million, but she thought I was kidding and went back to bed,” he added. “When she woke up, she told me she had a dream that we won the Lottery. I said: ‘We did! That wasn’t a dream, we won $1 million!’” Wolthuis said he plans to buy a new truck with his winnings.  According to a news release, Wolthuis bought the winning ticket at Purk’s, located at 875 East Lincoln in Ionia, Michigan. 



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