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Con artist admits posing as abused 14yo

Serial con artist and compulsive liar Samantha Azzopardi will spend at least six weeks in prison after admitting she pretended to be an abused French teenager living in Sydney, prompting a multi-agency nine-hour search. The 33-year-old was arrested on Monday after a canny case worker recognised elements of a previous Azzopardi con in the story the offender had given to police and a religious…

You left me here like a chalk outline On the sidewalk waiting for the rain to wash away

— Anthony F. Barbaro (September 9, 1957 — November 1, 1975)

During Christmas break on December 30th, 1974, a 17-year-old honor roll student broke into his highschool armed with two rifles (.30-06 and .22), a twelve gauge shotgun, a smoke bomb and a Molotov cocktail. He was an expert marksman on the school's rifle team so his guns were something he took a lot of pride in and even outfitted them with telescopic sights. The .30-06 was initially designed for the military, but became popular with big game hunters in the 70s. The bullets used were strictly military issued.

No students were present—only Principal Louis Nicol, secretaries, business office, maintenance and custodians were at Olean High school the time of Anthony setting off the Molotov inside the school. He was unable to break into the student council room and shot the lock off the door. Alerted by the fire alarm, Earl Metcalf went to investigate and was killed.

The student council room was where Anthony orchestrated the main attack while the staff members hid in the boiler room. He fired 31 shots, killing 2 more people and wounding 11 others. During this, the New York state police arrived and began trying to smoke Anthony out. They were finally joined by State Troopers and the National Guard who came to collect the injured. Barbaro was found unconscious, wearing a defective gas mask.

The victims whose lives were lost were Earl Metcalf, Neal Pilon, and Carmen Wright Drayton, who was six months pregnant. Columbia Gas Co. employee Neal Pilon, was shot while crossing the street outside of the school. Carmen Wright, was shot in the head inside her car while driving by the school. Both Pilon and Wright were pronounced "dead on arrival" at Olean General Hospital. Seven people survived the shooting with gunshot wounds, while four others sustained injuries from flying glass fragments. Eight of the wounded victims were Olean city firemen responding to what they thought was just a fire alarm.

petri gerdt had been active in junior basketball clubs as far back as 1997 and joined rekola athletes in the fall of 2000. he was considered to be a conscientious trainee, regularly attended practice sessions at various school halls in vantaa, and always reported absences when unavailable.

a few coaches who were questioned after the bombing described gerdt as a very quiet and withdrawn individual, with conversations often being one-sided, and interpreted his silence as shyness. despite these personality traits, he was regarded as a valuable team player with a lot of potential and was noted as dutiful. even in the heat of a game, he never displayed any sort of emotional turmoil or outburst.

there were plans for the future to join a ymca in the summer of 2002. a coach had last talked to him on thursday, october 10, at a training session in the evening between 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. they had an ordinary discussion together about the next match coming up on sunday, october 13.

the coach stated:

I said that I would call him with more details about where we would meet and where he would be picked up for a game trip to Lauttasaari. Petri said ok, let's call about it in more detail. As we always make sure we get the team together, we asked everyone if they could come and Petri said he was coming to Sunday's game. There was nothing unclear about that. I tried to call him on Saturday, but the phone was closed.

not one of gerdt's teammates knew about his interest in chemistry and explosives.