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This just in from the Broward Sheriff's Office:

At 6:41 a.m. on May 5, "a man who orchestrated a murder on Interstate 95 'pocket dialed' 911 just before [a] fatal shooting. On a recorded line, Scott Simon can be heard telling someone else that he's going to follow the victim home and kill him. Minutes later, 33-year-old Nicholas Walker was shot and killed while driving his car onto the highway."

The killing occurred at the on-ramp to I-95 at Commercial Boulevard in Oakland Park, near Fort Lauderdale.

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Shirley Ann Duncan was given over $1,000 in donations, including housewares, clothes and furniture, thanks to the selfless generosity of a Port Charlotte church when she told them that her four sons were killed in combat overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The church even held a memorial service for the fallen heroes.

Also, she only actually has two sons.

Also, none of her sons were actually dead.

Because she lied.

One of them is in the Army, though. That part is true. So it wasn't all complete bullshit.

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The mother of a 13-year old student at Lauderhill Middle School is suing the School Board of Broward County after a teacher at the school engaged in sexual activity with the boy when he was a student in her 8th grade class.

In 2009, teacher Kristin Sullivan began engaging in sexual activities with the boy, who was 13 at the time. The inappropriate relationship included kissing, oral sex and sexual intercourse.

Sullivan entered a no contest plea to aggravated child abuse charges in 2011, when the relationship was exposed by the boy's girlfriend.

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An exotic dancer is recovering after suffering through a horrible series of events at the hands of a Boynton Beach man, police say.

Thomas R. Fitzsimmons, 50, is accused of sexually assaulting the 39-year old stripper -- whose name is being withheld -- at gunpoint, while psychologically torturing her with bizarre death threats during the ordeal, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

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"It didn't go the way it was supposed to." That was the news from a clearly-disappointed Gary Karp about his trip last week to the Bahamas. After spending a decade squeezing out every tiny scrap of information possible in the still-unsolved murder of his daughter, Karp was hoping a Hail Mary swing through the island would produce new evidence. Unfortunately, Karp says he didn't get much cooperation from authorities in-country.

See also:
- Marissa Karp Murder: A Decade of Investigation Pays Off

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Earlier this week, trial began for a Broward couple who allegedly imprisoned wayward and young women, drugged them, and then forced them to work as prostitutes -- under the constant threat of beatings.

The accused 34-year-old ringleader, Mackenley Desire, who prosecutors say directed his 20-year-old wife, Genet Rembert, to beat down temperamental women, was also fairly creative with nicknames.

For example, he called Rembert "Fire," and he liked to be called "Daddy."

But on Facebook, Daddy had only one name: Mack Deal.

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Two South Florida identity thieves the feds have been trying to nab were caught after one of them couldn't resist Instagraming a picture of his food at Morton's the Steakhouse in Fort Lauderdale.

Nathaniel Troy Maye, 44, who claims to have stolen 700,000 identities, and his lady friend, Tiwanna Tenise Thomason, 39, are facing up to 12 years in prison after Maye just had to take a picture of his food and share it with people on the internet.

That'll learn ya, food-porn-loving people!

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Gary Karp again is taking over the reins. As he has countless times in the decade since his teenaged daughter, Marissa, was found dead in the Everglades, yesterday the Broward man held a news conference, reminding South Florida about the unsolved case. The recent occasion was Karp's trip this week to the Bahamas. Before hopping a plane Monday, Karp spoke briefly with the news media at the Fort Lauderdale airport.

See also:
- Marissa Karp Murder: A Decade of Investigation Pays Off
- Almanto Coakley, Key Witness in the Marissa Karp Case, Murdered in the Bahamas

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After weeks of anticipation, it looks like John Goodman is going to get another trial. The "polo mogul" -- which, if you translate that into middle-class English, means rich dude with nothing better to do all day -- wasn't given a fair shake in his original courtroom appearance, a Palm Beach County judge determined today.

It's all thanks to Dennis DeMartin, the 69-year-old Goodman trial juror who failed to tell attorneys that his own wife had a previous DUI. Today a judge ruled that the missing information was enough to call for a redo. Incidentally, DeMartin is quite a character. He self-published a book about the trial and conducted vodka experiments.

To recap, a boozed-up Goodman wrecked his Bentley in February 2010, killing 23-year-old Scott Wilson.

On a sultry evening in early March, Robert Cournoyer met a beautiful mysterious woman at an upscale restaurant in Fort Lauderdale.

She was exotic, possibly Hispanic, in her late 20s, and very much into him. She said her name was Crystal.

Cournoyer would invite Crystal to his home to continue the torrid evening in private.

The very next day, Cournoyer would find himself waking up on the floor, his head spinning from a drug-induced stupor.

He would also awake with $6,000 in cash and four $100,000 watches missing from his home and no sign of the beautiful woman he had met and had drinks with the previous night.

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