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Albany Police Investigating City's First Homicide of 2004 (Gay Lover Alert!)
WTEN ^ | January 19, 2004

Posted on 01/20/2004 6:22:14 AM PST by NYer

(updated: January 19th, 6:45pm) An Albany man's body is found in the closet of his apartment; now police say his roommate has admitted to the murder. NEWS10 has learned the romantic relationship was also an abusive one. Our First Response Team was there shortly after noon today, as police began their investigation.

The victim is identified by friends as Mike Yanus and he is said to have been in his 50's. NEWS10's Tanisha Mallett was told that he was involved in an abusive relationship with his partner John Wagner - the man police say has admitted to the killing.

Yanus' friend Bob Dvelis says Wagner told him over the weekend that Yanus was found dead in Washington Park and that his body was at Albany Medical Center. So he says he was in disbelief when he learned that Yanus was actually found dead in the closet of his Dana Avenue home.

Another source close to the investigation tells NEWS10 the two recently moved to their current apartment at 143 Dana Avenue from just up the street at 110 Dana Avenue. That source also tells us the two were violent towards one another. Dvelis says he often tried to get Yanus to leave.

NEWS10 is still awaiting official word from police on how Yanus was killed and what the circumstances of his death were. We have heard from neighbors and friends they were abusive so it is still unclear if his death is the result of a fight.

Sources say a cat named Madison was removed from the 143 Dana Avenue apartment this afternoon as well.

Stay tuned with NEWS10 and wten.com for all of the latest on this breaking story, as we will share any new information with you as it becomes available to us.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gay; homicide; homosexual; homosexualagenda; lovers; prisoners
UPDATE - Man's body found in apartment
1 posted on 01/20/2004 6:22:15 AM PST by NYer
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To: little jeremiah
Ping!
2 posted on 01/20/2004 6:22:38 AM PST by NYer ("One person and God make an army." - St. Teresa of Avila)
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To: NYer
Mikey Anus? WHat kinda name is THAT?
3 posted on 01/20/2004 6:26:47 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (What am I rebelling against? Well, what do ya got?)
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To: NYer
See, the police came in and dragged this homosexual out of the closet and...

Talk about irony.
4 posted on 01/20/2004 6:27:55 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: George W. Bush
Lol!
5 posted on 01/20/2004 6:50:38 AM PST by NYer ("One person and God make an army." - St. Teresa of Avila)
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To: NYer
Undoubtedly caused by our repressive society's refusal to let them marry...NOT!
6 posted on 01/20/2004 7:03:38 AM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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To: NYer
In related news:

Taipei - A Taiwan health official on Tuesday warned islanders against unprotected sex after disclosing that 28 people in a 92-strong gay orgy proved to be HIV-positive.

"Among the 92 young men who took part in the home party last Saturday, 14 admitted they were hospital-registered Aids patients or HIV carriers. Another 14 also tested positive to HIV, so there are 28 Aids patients or HIV carriers," Ling Ding, deputy director of the Centre for Disease Control, told a news conference.

"Test results also showed that 46 participants, including 14 HIV carriers, are infected with syphilis," he said. full story

A party Mike Yanus was sorry to miss, I suppose.

7 posted on 01/20/2004 8:08:48 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Greek, of course.
8 posted on 01/20/2004 8:49:48 AM PST by CARTOUCHE (The pen is mightier than the sword and so much easier to conceal.)
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To: mountaineer
Ling Ding, deputy director of the Centre for Disease Control

There's a punchline there somewhere...
9 posted on 01/20/2004 8:51:32 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
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To: NYer
...apartment at 143 Dana Avenue from just up the street at 110 Dana Avenue.

Wait, did they check sources thoroughly? How do they know 143 isn't down the street from 110?

Sources say a cat named Madison was removed from the 143 Dana Avenue apartment this afternoon as well.

Ahh, the high level of reporting in Smallbany.

10 posted on 01/20/2004 9:26:55 AM PST by 70times7 (An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
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To: NYer
Stay tuned with NEWS10 and wten.com for all of the latest on this breaking story, as we will share any new information with you as it becomes available to us.

This just in... sources close to this investigation have revealed that 115 Dana Avenue is located somewhere between 110 and 143 Dana Avenue. Stay tuned with NEWS10 and wten.com for all of the latest on this breaking story, as we will share any new information with you as it becomes available to us.

11 posted on 01/20/2004 9:39:07 AM PST by 70times7 (An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
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To: *Homosexual Agenda; EdReform; scripter; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; ...
Homosexual Agenda ping list - If anyone wants either on or off this list, let me know.

Interesting in light of the fact that Taoist yoga and Vedic yoga philosophy states that same sex acts promote aggression, anger, violence and mental imbalance.
12 posted on 01/20/2004 9:56:40 AM PST by little jeremiah
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To: NYer
...the romantic relationship was also an abusive one.

Romantic?

Just what, pray tell, is romantic about shoving one's pee-pee into another's rectum?

What is romantic about ingestation of fecal matter?

When one contemplates just what it is that homosexuals are doing "in the privacy of their bedrooms" it makes one want to regurgitate.

13 posted on 01/23/2004 3:37:33 AM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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To: NYer
... a cat named Madison...

Was Madison homosexual or normal?

14 posted on 01/23/2004 3:39:08 AM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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