LAPD creates Facebook page to help identify missing woman

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Bad News Brown Dies...

Bad News Allen (Brown)

From Slam Wrestling:

Former Olympic judo bronze medalist Allen Coage -- better known to wrestling fans as Bad News Allen and Bad News Brown -- has died suddenly. He was 63.

Coage died early Tuesday morning in Calgary at Rockyview Hospital, having been rushed to the hospital, complaining of chest pains.

Three weeks ago, Coage underwent hip replacement surgery and had been making progress on his recovery. Monday night, he was home alone and called longtime friend Gerry Morrow, complaining of chest pains. Morrow got him to the hospital.

Coage broke into professional wrestling through the New Japan Pro Wrestling organization, training in Japan and spending the first few years after the 1976 Montreal Olympics in Japan. He was known as Buffalo Coage there.

In the Calgary Stampede promotion, he was a star as Bad News Allen, having bloody feuds with the likes of The Dynamite Kid, Archie 'The Stomper' Gouldie, Bret Hart and others.

"Bad News Allen was one of those four or five wrestlers who I considered to be the hardest men in wrestling," Tom 'Dynamite Kid' Billington wrote in his autobiography. "He was definitely bad news. Don't get me wrong, he was a good friend, but once he got you in the ring, it was as if he didn't know you. I've had a lot of hard matches in my career, most of them in Japan, because that's how they like their wrestling, but the matches I had with Bad News were something else."

In the WWF of the late 1980s, he was known as Bad News Brown, and feuded with Bret Hart, Jake Roberts, Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper.

Coage often complained about his WWF run, which followed the closure of Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling promotion. "I made a lot of money up here with Stu. He enjoyed me because I put asses in the seats," Coage recalled in July 2006, leading into a typical straightforward explanation on his WWF days. "They handcuffed me. They pretty much didn't let me do what I should have done.

"They really held me down ... you've got your head guys, and Randy [Savage] called all the shots, so he was the one. I figured the object is to make money, and if this guy can make some money for you, you let him go, let him do his thing. I guess there was a lot of jealousy there, or whatever. I don't know his reason or whatever, but he was the one because he called all the shots."

Jake Roberts recalled Bad News. "He was good, very good," said The Snake. Was Coage hard to work with "No, he was f***ing easy." Even the judo stuff? "I had no problem at all working with him. We had a great time."

He had been working the last number of years as a security guard at a mall; "Teenagers are a pain in the ass. You always have to run them off," he said in July 2006. Apparently they didn't know who they were messing with. "It don’t matter to them, they're tough."

Coage is survived by his wife Helen and their children.

Too bad. I always felt that he was another guy who never got his shot in the WWE.

RIP Mr. Brown.

 

[King_Ash]

That really sucks, I never really saw alot of this guys stuff but its never good to see a wrestler go down.

 

[Soulpower]

Another guy held back by the likes of Savage and Hogan. And the fact is he was a talented guy. Like the report said he won a bronze medal in the 76 Olympics and wrestled pretty much all over the world... I remember him using a rat to counteract Jake Roberts' snake during their feud.

Yet another wrestler who passes away... This sucks.

 

[This Guy]

I read this earlier today. It sucks. He was on my short list for going to the Hall of Fame sooner rather then later.

 

[Wrestling Station]

:rip_1: Mr Brown

 

[Kairi]

When authorities look for suspects responsible for multiple robberies, they often give the perp a nickname based on the quirks of their crime, like the Geezer Bandit or the All Ears Bandit. And when a loved one goes missing these days, friends and family often turn to a site like Facebook, where they can centralize information related to the case. Those two worlds have collided in the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department, who've set up a page for "The Body Recycler," in an attempt to identify a Jane Doe whose body was dumped last year in DTLA.


Authorities came to the case on September 10, 2010, when the badly decomposed female body was discovered among the refuse at the L.A. Recycling Center in Downtown. The remains were found by workmen following an afternoon drop-off. To date, the LAPD have not been able to identify the body, or determine the circumstances surrounding her death.
According to an autopsy, "the woman was white or Hispanic and was 40 to 70 years old. She had a recent dental crown and wore a silver ring set with a blue stone and two cubic zirconias," reports CBS2. "She was probably a woman of means because her crown was exquisitely done, and it was done within two weeks of her death," said LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon, according to ABC7.


The coroner was able to determine the victim was killed, but the method remains unclear, as does the motive. Today the LAPD released a sketch of the woman, and a $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to a solution to the case. The sketch has been added to the Facebook page, joining several shots of the woman's ring, in the hopes someone can identify her.



But..."The Body Recycler"? Come on, LAPD. That's a little low-budget horror film for a Facebook page about a victim.

 

[NotReallyaGoodUN]

Idiots.