Decidedly Grim

Today’s Calculated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

A few weeks before she was expected to deliver a girl, Rosemary Newman held on to hope that she eventually would reconcile with her estranged boyfriend. But on the Saturday night that Newman drove to a south suburban restaurant to work things out with Deandre Minkens, the father of her unborn child, he had a plan to kill her. Minkens, 20, of Calumet City, and Shante Thomas, 19, of Chicago, a longtime couple who worked together at a fast-food restaurant, appeared in a Markham, Illinois courtroom Friday (April 29, 2011) on charges of first-degree murder and intentional homicide of an unborn child. The couple are accused of conspiring for weeks to kill Newman, 18, of Alsip, so Minkens wouldn’t become a father. “They put together a plan that was as cold as you want to hear,” said Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart. On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Minkens drove to meet Newman for dinner in Crestwood as Thomas hid in the trunk. As Minkens and Newman, left the restaurant in his car, Minkens played a song titled “I Hate You” on the stereo. Then he turned up the volume, signaling to Thomas to crawl out of the trunk. Thomas choked Newman with a cell phone cord and Minkens hit and punched Newman. When they arrived at a forest preserve near Calumet City, the couple beat and choked Newman until she died, then they left her in the woods and went to a nightclub. On Sunday morning, a jogger found Newman’s body. She was nine months’ pregnant. “This was very cold-blooded. Very calculated. Very, very tragic,” Dart said.

Culled from: Chicago Tribune

So what would YOUR murder cue song be? “Die Die My Darling” by Misfits comes to mind immediately, but that might be too obvious… “Kill You” by Eminem, perhaps?

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