A sausage factory owner was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing three meat inspectors nearly five years ago. Stuart Alexander, 43, the self-proclaimed "sausage king," was convicted in October of three counts of first-degree murder for the 2000 shooting deaths of two federal inspectors and one state inspector at his factory in San Leandro.
See also Robert Pickton.
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Yeah, but it doesn't specify if the inspectors became sausage themselves.
I think that part of the story is just understood.
They were not, running down the street waving a gun gets attention, and he was busted before the blood was dry.
"Prosecutors argued that Alexander hatched a "diabolical plan" to kill the inspectors, get away with it by pleading insanity, then write a book or movie to profit and gain notoriety from the crime."
Sounds like that was what he was planning :)
"and chased a fourth inspector for several blocks from the Santos Linguisa Factory."
c'mere dammit!
we got a LUNCH DATE! haw haw haw
i'm glad i'm a vegetarian...
Our time was wasted with the Peterson case when we had stuff like this going on!
"Nibble the vein...nibble the vein...now say the name...say the name..."
Eeeurgh.
That cuddly fellow is Odin Quincannon, a character in Garth Ennis's amazing comic book "Preacher" (compilation #7, "Salvation".)
"You're Abe Frohman, the sausage king of Chicago?"
I would gladly buy that shirt, if not for the fact that there is no H in "Froman":
/jl,Glenbrook North '92
I have always wondered whether the movie was referencing a real Abe Froman, but now it's far too late to tell. There's even a band called "Abe Froman and the Sausage Kings."
So if he killed these guys five years ago, and the trial has been going on for five months, and one of the guys got away, what the hell took so long?
I know! I remember when this broke in the news, ages ago when I actually lived in the east bay! I always thought it sounded pretty open & shut - can't believe it takes so long.
You had to drop the Abe reference, I can see you in the sweater with the snooty guy already Jamie.
<obligatory Sweeney Todd reference<
My name is Stuart Alexander (no really it's true). You're all going to be ausage meat for laughing about this (however this isn't).
*ph34rs Stu*
*grin*
I just read that Preacher issue yesterday :D