People You’ll See In Hell

While they may be hell-bound, you can be sure at least a few of them will have fun playing poker before they get there.

While looking through our e-mail inbox this morning, we found an interesting message from a friend of ours over at DuplicatePoker.com. While we really, really, really suck at all forms of gambling, we do know that there are quite a few people out there who haven’t realized that they suck yet and are willing to spend large sums of money trying to prove that they don’t suck at poker, blackjack and UNO.

Things have been interesting in Omaha of late.

There’s a desperate push by the Mayor to spend 120 million dollars or so on a baseball stadium that will be used four weeks out of the year.

Shootings are going on all over the place, if you consider North Omaha all over the place. On the bright side, drive-by shootings are down because of gas hitting $3.50. The downside of that is that the high price of gas just means Omaha is getting more walk-by or jog-by shootings.

This is 31-year-old William Rettew.

William Rettew here is wearing the inmate clothing that he just might be wearing for the rest of his life.

William Rettew was, most recently, a receptionist at Joy Junction, which bills itself as both “the largest emergency homeless shelter in New Mexico” and “the intersection of despair and hope.”

As someone who knew how to say the right things and someone whose family was one step ahead of homelessness on a regular basis, William Rettew regularly sought employment or some other kind of connection with homeless shelters whenever he moved to a new area.

And William Rettew moved his family a great deal, living in about 14 states since 2002. While this might seem excessive to the average family, that just goes to show you how little we’ve been exposed to different cultures and ideas. After all, according to wikipedia, there are somewhere between 30 and 40 million nomads in the world, and what’s 6 more, really?

This is 75-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt. She likes to buy life insurance, and happened to be one of the subjects of this really funny conversation two detectives had this one time.

So in early 2006, during a conversation about weird cases, one detective says to the other detective how weird it is that two women were the beneficiaries of huge life insurance policies that they had taken out on a hit-and-run victim, 50-year-old Kenneth McDavid.

“That’s odd,” says the other detective. “I had a case just like that in 1999, only this guy’s name was Paul Vados and he was 73.”

Live by the Del Taco, die by the Del Taco, Mr. Robert Echeverria.

32-year-old Robert Echeverria is a Southern Californian gang member and petty criminal who loves his Del Taco.

You would imagine that it would cost a lot of money and take a lot of food to satisfy Robert Echeverria, who stands 6′5″ and weighs 500 pounds.

Considering that Robert Echeverria worked most recently at a Stater Brothers, he might not have made enough money at that supermarket job to fully satisfy the craving for hot greasy food to stuff into his pie-hole.

This was 55-year-old Wilson Sullivan.

While dying in the middle of your trial will undoubtedly save you from spending much time in prison, it won’t save you from the hordes of People You’ll See In Hell readers who are clamoring for your blood.

Wilson Sullivan and his 50-year-old wife, Brenda Sullivan, adopted a 7-year-old boy back in 1995, when the Sullivans were living in Ohio. In 1995, when the boy was turned over to Wilson and Brenda Sullivan, he weighed 49 pounds. This is small for a 7-year-old, but not unheard of.