What is it with these freaky ministers? White shoes, wigs, rubber suits! Why did it take an autopsy to find two rubber suits?

A Montgomery minister found in his home this summer died with his hands and feet bound behind his back and dressed in two rubberized suits, an offical autopsy showed.

The Montgomery Advertiser obtained a copy of the 13-page report on Friday, one day after District Attorney Ellen Brooks authorized its release.

The Rev. Gary Michael Aldridge was found dead June 24. Police ruled the 51-year-old pastor of Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone at the time of his death and that there was no foul play involved.

The autopsy, prepared by Senior State Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Boudreau of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, lists “accidental mechanical asphyxia” as the cause of death. It gave a one-paragraph description of what the examiner saw when he conducted the autopsy on June 25.

A toxicology report showed no signs of drugs in Aldridge’s system, but did find traces of ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol. Boudreau explained that a body that is decomposing creates ethyl alcohol. Aldridge’s death has been the subject of rumors since the church asked the community to “refrain from speculation” until police completed their investigation.

Brooks said Friday that her office gets hundreds of cases requiring autopsy reports every year.

“I don’t know anything about any speculation,” she said. “I’m a prosecutor. I have no case to prosecute. It is not a criminal matter at this point. If you’re asking about idle curiosity, I’m not going to comment on that.”

Capt. Huey Thornton, a police spokesman, said Montgomery Police used an out-of-state agency during its investigation, but he would not name the agency. He said the agency corroborated MPD’s finding that Aldridge was alone when he died.

The Montgomery Advertiser requested a copy of the autopsy in a July 11 letter to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. On July 12, the department replied that “… the report(s) cannot be released to the public at this time because the District Attorney has determined that the case is still under investigation. …”

After police reported on Wednesday they had completed their investigation, the Advertiser made another request for the autopsy report.

Rod Kennette, deputy director of the state Department of Forensic Sciences, said he received Brooks’ authorization to release the report shortly before 5 p.m. on Thursday.

The medical examiner who conducted Aldridge’s autopsy said Friday the long wait for the autopsy findings was not unusual.

“These things happen,” Boudreau said. “We see probably two of these a year. If you’re not used to seeing that sort of thing, it’s probably unusual.”

Here’s the full autopsy report on The Smoking Gun.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A 13-year-old choked and beat his 8-year-old brother to death because the younger boy ate a dessert and the older one worried he would be blamed, authorities said Wednesday . . . Demetrius Key initially said he hit his brother with a metal shelf support, investigators said. After investigators searched the house, he said he used a broom handle, the sheriff’s office said. He then told the detective he punched the boy, choked him and banged his head on the floor, according to an affidavit. The sheriff’s office would not say what the dessert was.

Don’t fuck with my shrubs, mister.

It’s always in the name. The guy w/the leg is named “Wood,” and his mother, “Peg Steele.” This unfriendly neighbor? Mrs. Spriggs!

sprig (sprg)
n.
1. a. A small shoot or twig of a plant.

A landscaping dispute on a quiet Anaheim Hills street turned violent Sunday afternoon when a 65-year-old woman shot her neighbor in the shoulder and then barricaded herself in her house before surrendering, authorities said.

Police said the argument began about 3 p.m. when Anita Spriggs apparently started trimming a hedge she shares with her next-door neighbor, 64-year-old Gary Hall.

“Spriggs then grabbed a handgun and shot the victim in the shoulder,” said Sgt. Rick Martinez of the Anaheim Police Department. “We’re not sure where she got the gun.”

“Neighborhood disputes are not unusual,” Martinez said. “But for it to elevate to this, especially on a quiet Sunday afternoon in a quiet neighborhood, is rare.”

Hall was taken to Western Medical Center-Santa Ana with non-life-threatening injuries. Hall’s wife, Raylene, said Sunday’s altercation was not the first her husband had had with Spriggs.

“This has happened many, many times before,” she said.

Raylene Hall said Monday morning that her husband was still in the hospital.

“The bullet went through his shoulder and shattered it,” she said.

After the shooting, Spriggs went back into her house. About a dozen officers blocked off the street and evacuated neighbors on East Greensboro Lane. During the next 90 minutes, police tried with a bullhorn and by phone to persuade Spriggs to come out.

She surrendered just before a SWAT team arrived.

Spriggs was booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder.

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