Alice Ope

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MOST SOUGHT-AFTER CRIMINALS 2023 (SERIES 1)
Don't miss out on the latest crime stories…Read carefully because there is a minimum reward of $100,000 if you can provide information that leads to the arrest of any of these criminals. Arnoldo Jimenez, May 12, 2012. Burbank, Illinois. There's love in the air at Chicago's City Hall. After just a few hours of marriage, Estrella Carrera was stabbed and dumped in a bathtub still wearing her silver sequined cocktail dress. Murdering one's spouse is not new, it's been going on for centuries, but this murder after just a few hours of marriage is incredibly rare. What kind of maniac would do such a thing? There were early signs that Arnoldo Jimenez could be capable of murder. He was said to be possessive of Estrella Carrera and at six feet tall and over 200 pounds, he towered over her. The two had a two-year-old son and an eight-year-old daughter from another relationship - a straight-A student at her school in Chicago's Southwest Side. According to one of Estrella's friends, the reason for the rushed and lowkey wedding was that Jimenez had been threatening to take both kids from her. “She was really scared,” the friend told the press. “And that was the last time I talked to her." The couple was last seen around 4 am. At some point, Jimenez called his sister and told her he’d had a “bad fight” with his new wife. That fight led to him becoming the 522nd fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted list since 1950. Carrera’s body was found sometime later, lying the bathtub of her apartment, her pretty dress bloodied and her body showing stab wounds. Soon police were saying the suspect, Jimenez, was last seen driving a 2006 Maserati with the Illinois license plate L641441. The background check showed he’d once been arrested for domestic violence, but in another state with another woman. Investigators aren’t sure where he went after that, but it’s possible he fled to Durango in Mexico, possibly to the area of Santiago Papasquiaro. Jimenez may also have gone to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in Mexico. We know that his phone was tracked to Chicago and then to Tennessee, and later to Arkansas. It was last used in Hidalgo, Texas near the Mexican border, but that was back in 2012. Cook County charges Jimenez with first-degree murder as well as federal accusations of unauthorized flight to evade prosecution. As with all of the individuals you'll learn about today, if you can assist, call 1-800-CALL-FBI or, if you're not in the US, get in touch with the American consulate in your area.
By Alice Ope3 years ago in Criminal
CHOCOLATE LIE!
Let's face it, chocolate is a lie I mean not everything we call chocolate is real chocolate. There are regulations that can help understand what you're eating so it can either be chocolate or compound chocolate which tastes great too. By the way, the main thing about real chocolate is that it's made of cocoa mass and cocoa butter. If the packaging reads cocoa powder and vegetable fat sorry it's only compound chocolate. The real one should contain at least 35% cocoa solid and about 18% cocoa butter so if you have these two variations and try them at the same time, you'll probably find the compound one a bit tastier as it has various flavorings and no wonder compound chocolate seems to be way more popular than the real type. First off, it's cheaper also it's easier to store as it tends not to melt at room temperature. Oh right so what about white chocolate, is it real or compound? Actually it's neither; it's not even related to chocolate while compound chocolate has cocoa particles, white chocolate has zero. Yep, it has cocoa butter but it's a bit different. The cocoa butter doesn't give it its signature flavor; also real chocolate contains certain compounds that trigger our brains making us happy. As you might have guessed, white chocolate can't do the same. Any Nutella fans in here? We all know it's hazelnut cocoa spread but have you ever wondered how many nuts each jar contains the company once provided official info on it stating that each jar contains about 50 hazelnuts that that may seem a lot but it only makes up about 13 of the whole content sugar and palm oil take first place making up 50 of all the content of Nutella fun fact here the original recipe was way more nutty Nutella was inspired by yandu Young the traditional Piedmont recipe it was changed several times over the last couple of centuries at the end of 18th century it was a blend of chocolate with 30 percent hazelnut paste ah and it had several interpretations this early Nutella prototype could be used as a filling for chocolates or even eaten in the form of bars the mid-20th century interpretation had a whopping 71.5 percent of hazelnuts and only about 19.5 percent of chocolate now moving on to another global commodity I'm talking about coffee first things first let's debunk one myth there's no 100 decaffeinated coffee any coffee that has at least 97 caffeine removed is already considered to be decaf by the way there are a couple of different ways of removing caffeine the first method involves a special solvent the coffee beans are washed in it and once the caffeine is removed the solvent gets washed off The second method called The Swiss water process involves carbon dioxide or a charcoal filter now here's a fun fact your morning coffee is stewed fruit coffee beans are a berry pit so it's basically a drink made of berries now for a bit of heartbreaking math imagine that you have a bag of nachos or chips and it costs you ten dollars do you know how much you've paid for your snack only about 1.40 where are the eight dollars and sixty cents then and paid for the air in the back research revealed that there's a brand selling mostly air and very few chips don't worry not all the bags are that air packed but still there's always way more air than snacks. Instant noodles may not have any hidden lies, but they do have a pretty cool story. Let's kick off with myth debunking; they say instant noodles were invented in Japan, but it's not so. The modern variation is for sure Japanese, but the very first ancient prototype was invented in China. Those were noodles that were fried and then served in soup; there's a legend telling that a chef put the already cooked noodles to boil again to rescue them, and took them out of the pan and fried them in hot oil. The modern Japanese version was invented to prolong its food shelf life after several unsuccessful attempts. Momofukuando the inventor came up with a method of preserving noodles; they were processed in various ways, including steaming, dehydrating, frying in hot oil, and seasoning. Instant noodles were considered to be a luxurious product since they cost way more than the fresh noodles everyone was used to back then. We all love lemonade, and there are many variations of this drink today: pink lemonade has that nice color because of grape juice or added colorants, respectively.
By Alice Ope3 years ago in Education