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| Thread ID: 75810 | 2007-01-11 03:38:00 | Drug dealing PC World Editor killed in home invasion | netchicken (4843) | PC World Chat |
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| 514818 | 2007-01-11 03:38:00 | Who would believe it . . . . (In other news the iPhone has been released!!!) (does this mean that pcworld articles are really written by crack heads) :) :) Four masked men burst into a Pittsburg home, pistol-whipped a woman and fatally shot her husband -- a senior editor for PC World magazine -- in what police believe was a targeted attack because they said the victims had been involved in drug activity . Rex Farrance, 59, senior technical editor at PC World in San Francisco, was shot in the chest and killed shortly after the assailants forced their way into his home on Argosy Court about 9 p . m . Tuesday, authorities said today . Farrance's wife, Lenore Vantosh-Farrance, 56, was pistol-whipped in the head during the home-invasion robbery, authorities said . She called 911, but the assailants fled on foot before police arrived . No arrests have been made in Pittsburg's first homicide of 2007, police Inspector John Conaty said . The couple were apparently targeted because they had been involved in the drug trade, Conaty said . "We have substantial reason to believe that the victim and his wife were involved in the possession and, potentially, the distribution of illegal narcotics," said Conaty, who declined to specify what type of drug . Police also would not say whether the killers had taken anything from the house . Farrance turned 59 on Sunday . His wife has been a registered nurse in California since 1983 . Neither one has ever been arrested in California, public records show . Co-workers described Farrance as a fitness enthusiast and rock-music aficionado who enjoyed covering technology . . com/cgi-bin/article . cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/10/BAG7SNGB5V59 . DTL" target="_blank">sfgate . com |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 514819 | 2007-01-11 04:30:00 | Im not about to say Bill Gates is involved... ...But ya bad mouth vista, ya sleep with the fishies. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 514820 | 2007-01-11 05:10:00 | Maybe this Rex Farrance was stealing the cd-s in the magazine and was selling them on the black market...did you get one last month? | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 514821 | 2007-01-11 07:06:00 | Just went to PCWorld's site (which you just have to view in IE tab) to see if there was any news about their staff caught with their fingers in the drug cabinet... none.... but my God- what an abortion of a site, more ads and flashing thingies than singles night at the RSA :waughh: :waughh: | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 514822 | 2007-01-11 08:01:00 | Who would believe it . . . . No arrests have been made in Pittsburg's first homicide of 2007, police Inspector John Conaty said . Pittsburg sound allot more peacful than NZ cities . Only one murder for 2007 . . |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 514823 | 2007-01-11 09:26:00 | Well wouldn't you need that little something to get you through the day, if you wrote about technology all day :lol: | dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 514824 | 2007-01-12 04:35:00 | Rex Farrance remembered (blogs.pcworld.co.nz) quote: It now appears the unfortunate 'Police believe editor at PC World was involved in illegal narcotics trade' San Francisco Chronicle headline so widely emailed was based on scant information, and another example of the internet helping to fuel a bogus story. (Farrance's son is now quoted on Time magazine's website as saying the only narcotics connection was that he - the son - was growing prescription-legal medicinal marajiuana. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 514825 | 2007-01-12 06:06:00 | Jen, have no fear, I'm sure we all agree that none of the illustrious PC World staff anywhere in the world would ever be involved with anything as dastardly as illicit drugs like marijuana, I never thought the story had any substance to it, not even for a moment. Look, they can't even spell the word. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 514826 | 2007-01-12 08:38:00 | Me too- blasplegmy :yuck: | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
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