Santa Monica Daily Press, January 28, 2002

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Page 6 Monday, January 28, 2002 Santa Monica Daily Press

COMICS Natural Selection® By Russ Wallace

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Reality Check® By Dave Whammond

By Dave Coverly

NEWS OF THE WEIRD by Chuck Shepard

‘Pig pen’ son tries to take mom for $100,000 Brian D. Beaudoin, 42, who was charged in August in Providence, R.I., with embezzling more than $100,000 from his mother in an investment scheme, first aroused suspicions when the mother and her two daughters entered Beaudoin's private bedroom to search for papers and discovered what the Providence Journal called a "stomach-churning, garbage-strewn mess," including "moldy food and soiled clothes" and "bottles and jars of thick liquid with unusual substances floating in them." Beaudoin later admitted that he sometimes urinated in bottles because he was too lazy to go to the toilet, which was in the next room. The sisters told reporters they suspected Beaudoin was storing strange liquids in order to poison their mother for insurance money.

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