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Other oddities you may have missed in the Jackson news tsunami

Continuing on my Michael Jackson-free theme, here's some oddities you may have missed.

Two Mexican Midget Wrestlers Killed by Fake Prostitutes

Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers.

Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, one of whom went by the name "La Parkita" — or "Little Death" — and wore a skeleton costume in the ring. The other was known as "Espectrito Jr."

Authorities say two women were seen leaving the men's hotel room before the bodies were discovered.

Prosecutor Miguel Angel Mancera said Wednesday that gangs of female robbers are experienced at using drugs to knock men out and rob them, but they may have used too strong a dose.

That may have been because of the wrestlers' small stature, although larger men have also died in similar crimes.

via Gateway Pundit

Woman lay dead in her flat for 5 years before anyone noticed.

It is thought nobody noticed Miss Purves was missing as her pension was paid directly into a bank account and bills were paid by direct debit.

Funeral descends into violence as family members brawl with snooker cues in row over dead man's property

Only hours earlier they had stood alongside one other at the local church to pay their respects.

But no sooner had Harry Gaughan, 69, been cremated than his relatives began fighting over who owned what.

It ended in a brawl involving a snooker cue as one family member attempted to measure the size of the back garden.

German cemetery nixes sexualized tombstone for sex worker/advocate's grave.

The 77-year-old artist Tomi Ungerer's parting gift to his friend Domenica Niehoff was to be a gravestone featuring two ample pink marble boulders in homage to her famously top-heavy figure. But those responsible for the Garden of Women cemetery, resting place of Hamburg's most famous women, turned his design down, the paper reported...