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Saints Row IV: Re- Elected Review. Share. Same as The Old Boss. By Mikel Reparaz. When IGN reviewed Saints Row IV in 2. Xbox 3. 60, Play. Station 3, and PC, we awarded it a score of 7. Here’s what we said then: With its recycled map and wildly overpowered abilities, playing Saints Row IV feels a lot like enabling god- like cheat codes in Saints Row The Third and going nuts. Its ridiculous story, goofy characters, self- aware humor, and amazing character editor make it all work, especially for those of us who’ve played the previous games and can appreciate its in- jokes. But its appeal is shortened by the ludicrous speed at which we can zip across it and grow tired of its lack of challenge. It's just as much fun in Saints Row IV: Re- Elected for Xbox One and Play. Station 4, which repackages the old- gen original with all of its DLC and a strangely paced but creative new standalone adventure, Gat Out of Hell. Visually, Re- Elected offers a small but noticeable improvement over the Xbox 3. Play. Station 3 versions of Saints Row IV. Obviously it’s higher resolution, the lighting's a bit nicer, character models are slightly more detailed, and everything moves a little more smoothly as you glide past at high speeds. It's not a huge bump, though, and it's still not quite as good- looking as the PC version was in 2. Also, Re- Elected's only new gameplay features are a spate of neat- but- superfluous voice commands – which save you the trouble of using the d- pad to switch powers, or the pause menu to summon AI partners – and the option to use the PS4's touchpad during quick- time events, so there’s no real replay value if you played the original. ![]() Luke Plunkett. Luke Plunkett is a Contributing Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs. Then again, Saints Row IV was never notable as a technical marvel. Its appeal comes more from bounding through its familiar, bland city of Steelport – now with an alien, intentionally glitchy- looking makeover – with upgradable superpowers that make its highly customizable vehicles completely obsolete after just a couple of hours. Its weapons are bizarre (and occasionally obscene), its character- customization options are wildly varied, and its map is littered with destructively fun things to do. And while its story missions annoyingly strip you of your powers, they compensate with unique and unexpected experiences that range from quasi- 2. D beat- 'em- ups to narrated text adventures. In these respects, Re- Elected still holds up beautifully. It also piles on content, including two short expansions: Enter the Dominatrix, the deliberately unfinished DLC that Saints Row IV grew out of; and How the Saints Save Christmas, a cheesy adventure that involves mowing down malevolent gingerbread men in a bid to free Santa from alien captivity. The centerpiece, however, is Gat Out of Hell, a fun, four- to six- hour single- player or co- op adventure that sees Kinzie and Johnny Gat diving into Hell to rescue the President. Using Lucifer's stolen halo, the pair can use familiar superpowers to explore the underworld – which, despite being completely new, feels strangely like a smaller Steelport with an infernal re- skinning. However, being able to explore Hell by actually flying feels even more liberating than SRIV's jumping and gliding, and it makes hoovering up collectible power- up orbs even more enjoyable. And the new weapons, including a minigun- equipped armchair and the Ark of the Covenant – which uses enemies as ammo – are a blast for mowing down guardian demons. Interestingly, Gat Out of Hell doesn't really feature traditional story missions. Instead, it tasks you with completing handfuls of side activities for its condemned supporting characters, and triggers cutscenes once you've finished a certain number of them. It's an odd, somewhat repetitive approach, although making side tasks key to story progression does make them feel a lot more worthwhile. Especially because said story – which involves dead historical figures, fourth wall- breaking cameos, and a Disney- esque musical number - - is one of the more entertaining to come out of the series since, well, Saints Row IV itself. It's just a shame that Gat doesn't stand up quite as well as Re- Elected, performance- wise; not only does it look similarly last- gen, but at one point it bugged out badly on Play. Station 4, stuttering and halting until I reset it. It's also worth noting that while Gat comes on the Xbox One version's disc, playing it on PS4 requires a 7. GB download using an included voucher. Saints Row IV: Re- Elected & Gat Out of Hell. Saints Row IV: Re- Elected is the inaugural entry in this psychotic open- world action series for new- gen consoles. This package gives players the entire Saints Row IV experience, plus includes the standalone expansion Saints Row IV: Gat Out of Hell. The Verdict. Saints Row IV is just as much silly, largely challenge- free fun in Re- Elected as it was originally, even if it doesn't look as impressive as other recent remasters. Gat out of Hell’s short but fun demonic adventure doesn’t really justify re- buying the whole thing, but the Re- Elected package is the best way to experience Saints Row IV’s power trip for the first time.
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It’s hot out and you wish you could be in nothing but your underwear, but you have to be around people and look professional. These are the essential things you should know when picking out your summer wardrobe. Quality clothes last longer for the money you spend, they’re more comfortable, and they make you…Read more Pick the Right Fabrics. Fabrics are the most important aspect to consider when you want to look hawt when it’s hot. You want the fabrics you wear to be made of natural fibers, constructed with breathable weaves, and feel lightweight. Natural fibers wick away sweat and tend to dry faster; breathable weaves allow air to flow to your skin and cool you off; and lightweight materials keep you from being too insulated. No matter what you’re wearing, you’ll want it to be made of these fabrics: Cotton (poplin, seersucker, madras)Linen. 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The numbers of dead vary according to the source. Here at the Archives we believe there have been at least 1. Juarez since 1. 99. Of these, most have been killed by pimps, drug dealers, husbands and boyfriends. However, at least a third of the deaths seem to be unexplained and possibly the tally of one or more serial killers. Possible Colombian Child Killer (5. Authorities in Colombia, fearing they might have a serial child killer on the loose, have created a special task force to hunt down the suspected maniac. In the past five years fifty- five bodies have been discovered, many of them in mass graves, some showing signs of torture and mutilation. We fear that there could be a serial killer, or a group of murderers on the loose," said General Rosso Jose Serrano, Colombia's police chief. The bodies of the children are all similarly mutilated, they were buried with hands tied and have organs missing." The killings first caught the public attention last November, when a total of 2. Pereira, 1. 10 miles from the capital, Bogota. Victims have also been discovered in 1. Hundreds more young boys have been reported missing by their families in the past couple of years. The most popular theory among Colombians is that the children were the victims of a Satanic sect. ![]() Satanism is said to be widely practised in the Pereira region, and the police have long suspected that children were being snatched off the street to be used in rituals. The police are also exploring suggestions that the children could be the victims of an organ smuggling or a group of pedophiles. Some believe the police themselves are responsible for the killings. It has been known that policemen to take part in paramilitary groups that kidnap and kill homeless people, prostitutes and street children. The first and least despicable trope in the unholy trinity of villainous objectives, Utopia Justifies the Means is where the goal of the Big Bad is the.
Many of the victims were living on the streets and making money by begging. The Green River Killer" (4. ![]() The most prolific unidentified killer of the Archives. The Green River Killer tallied forty- nine kills between 1. Seattle- Tacoma area. It's believed that the killer is a white, middle- aged male. During his two year rampage he enjoyed leaving his victims near the banks of the Green River outside Seattle, thus explaining his moniker. All his victims have been women. He prefers prostitutes, but will kill a runaway or a hitchhiker in a pinch. Some believe that the killer might have died, moved away, was incarcerated, institutionalized, or perhaps just retired. As of August 1. 98. San Diego where he has already bagged ten more women.. Twin Cities Killer" (3. No one wants to admit it but evidence points to the existence of one or several serial killers working the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. From 1. 98. Twin Cities. Most of them were prostitutes in their twenties and thirties. Several were mutilated, dismembered, and sometimes even decapitated. Three scenarios have been posited to explain the growing list of dead. One: there is a number of serial killers preying on prostitues and drug users. Two: there is one or more serial killers and several murderers who have killed once or twice. Three: there is a number of nonserial killers hunting Twin Cities prostitutes. Whatever the case, 3. The I- 4. 5 Killer(s) (3. Over that last three decades the FBI has chronicled at least 3. Interstate 4. 5 along the 5. Houston and Galveston in Texas. The latest victim was discoveredin early 1. The dog came up with a bone, and then the boy saw a skull. Nearby, the police later would find earrings, shreds of clothing and a belt tied around a tree. Investigators believe the killer used it to bind the young woman while she was sexually assaulted. Now, for the first time since the first victim's corpse was discovered in 1. But early indications are not good for those who hoped it could be brought to an end by finding one serial killer who could be captured and put behind bars. It appears that there may be multiple serial killers," said Don K. Clark, special agent in charge of the FBI's Houston division. If that suspicion proves true- -and investigators caution that they remain far from bringing charges in these crimes- -then the bizarre pattern of killings along I- 4. Police now worry that for nearly three decades this stretch of coastal plain has served as a hunting ground for any number of murderers . Over time, it appears to police, the killers have come and gone but shared in common the site they selected to find their victims- -or to dump the bodies of people killed elsewhere. In fact, the bayous lined with longleaf pine, beech and live oaks appear to have served as a dumping ground not only for local killers but also for Houston's predators. The refineries and ports draw transients. The small towns and country roads have proved easy places to hunt victims. The patchwork of jurisdictions makes it easy to cloak activities simply by crossing the city limits. The victims in the I- 4. The investigation took an important turn after several particularly horrific and well- publicized crimes in 1. First, Laura Smither, 1. Jessica Lee Cain, 1. I- 4. 5. Smither's decapitated body was found in a pond almost three weeks after her disappearance. Cain is still missing. Before Laura Smither and Jessica Cain, each one of us was in his own little world, investigating our own individual cases, and we would have no way of knowing that some fellow we wanted to question in one murder, and had been a top suspect, had already been questioned in a very similar murder just a few miles down the highway," said Lt. Tommy Hansen of the Galveston County Sheriff's Department. Some evidence pointed to a serial killer long ago. Two girls disappeared from the same convenience store in the 1. Four bodies were found between 1. More subtle patterns now are emerging from a computer analysis of the evidence. The victims seem to cluster according to physical type, such that it appears one killer has a preference for short, slim, brown- haired women. Another killer seems to have demonstrated distinctive habits in the way he disposes of bodies, investigators said. Stark similarities in several early cases suggest that a serial killer was active in the area in the 1. Further complicating matters, Henry Lee Lucas roamed the Gulf Coast when some of the early I- 4. Police have been closely following a suspect who remains at large on the I- 4. We know a guy, we know him very well, a guy who has killed before and who had some kind of contact with five of the girls, but all the evidence is circumstantial," said police Lt. Gary D. Ratliff of League City, a town of 5. The unnamed suspect suffered physical injuries in an automobile accident a few years ago and appears to have gone "dormant" since then, Ratliff said. While that is good news in one sense, his lack of activity makes it less likely he might commit a mistake that would allow him to be caught. March 1. 7, 2. 00. Houston investigators believe there are a least a dozen serial killers living in or around the city, or passing through it on a regular basis. One killer is believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least two girls ages 9 and 1. Another cluster of killings involves at least four women in their late teens and early twenties who dissapeared around the southern Houston and Galvenston area. Between April 1. 99. July 1. 99. 5 three killings in the Houston area have been linked to a serial killer who likes young Hispanic females and becomes anxious if his victims are not discovered quickly. Over a six- year period four other women have been found within a mile of each other in a field off Calder Road in Galveston County. In the mid- to late '8. Houston's Montrose area. In the early '7. 0s a number of young girls were abducted and murdered. In all ther are about 2. Houston and the surrounding areas since 1. Lusaka Serial Killer (3. Police in Zambia are searching for a serial killer suspected of committing as many as thirty murders, mostly in family groups. His latest victims were an elderly couple, whose heads were crushed with a hoe. Police said the man they're searching for was tried in 1. Monze, southern Zambia. He was sent to an asylum in Lusaka, but escaped within a few days. On February 7, 1. Zambian authorities announced that a task force charged with tracking down the Lusaka serial killer was assembled. When your father is the BTK serial killer, forgiveness is not tidy. The FBI man knocked on Kerri Rawson’s door 1. Feb. 2. 5. She looked out from her tiny apartment near Detroit. He was holding an FBI badge. She almost didn’t answer. Her father, a code compliance officer in the Wichita suburb of Park City, had taught her to be wary of strangers, and this one had sat in his car next to her trash dumpster for an hour. She’d called her husband. But after the FBI guy knocked, she let him into her kitchen, where she’d made chocolate bundt cake. From now on, the smell of chocolate cake would make her queasy. He asked whether she knew who BTK was. Yes. BTK – Bind. Torture. Kill. – was the serial killer who scared her mom decades ago. The FBI guy was her dad’s age – late 5. She was a substitute teacher taking a day off, still wearing mint- green pajamas, though it was past noon. Her dad had been arrested as a BTK suspect, the man said. He needed to swab her cheek for DNA. More about BTK | Photos: Growing up with BTKDennis Rader's testimony | Four boys who grew up to catch a monster. Lunch waiting. At that moment in Park City, shortly after 1. Kerri’s mother, Paula Rader, sat down to lunch at home, waiting for her husband. Cops rushed in, guns drawn. A week later, Paula’s lunch still sat uneaten in the house she had lived in with her husband, Dennis, since the early ’7. She would never sleep at that house again. Other cops had just arrested Dennis Rader as he was driving home for lunch, pinning him on the pavement as they cuffed him. Around Wichita, officers were picking up Rader’s family and friends for questioning. At the police station, Paula defended her husband. Had she ever noticed anything unusual? No. A daughter’s disbelief. Back in Detroit, Kerri yelled at the FBI guy. The last time she had seen Dad was weeks before, in Park City at Christmastime. He looked sad. She remembered his bear hug, how he smelled, his brown code- compliance uniform.“See you in a while,” he’d said. This could not be true, she told the FBI agent. Dad had called last night, asking whether she’d checked the oil in her car. Now, with the FBI guy, she did something she would do many times over the next seven days – defend and then doubt her father’s innocence. She told the him about Marine Hedge. Hedge, 5. 3, had been a grandmother, with a silky Southern accent, 5 feet tall, weighing no more than 1. Raders. Kerri’s dad had waved to her driving to church. She disappeared in 1. Kerri was 6, her body found in a ditch. Paula had worried about safety.“Don’t worry,” Dad said. We’re safe.”But now Kerri remembered that when Hedge had disappeared, Dad was not home. It was stormy, and I didn’t want to sleep by myself. My mom let me in her bed – that’s how I know he was gone.”Kerri’s husband, Darian, hurried into the apartment that day, asked to see the FBI guy’s badge, excused himself to go into the bathroom and called the Detroit FBI office. Yes, they said. The guy is a real agent. Kerri stared at walls, talked in circles. One moment she’d be furious about the arrest. Then she’d stare. After the FBI guy left, she took down a picture of her father that was hanging in a hallway and stuck it in a closet. She Googled “BTK” for proof that her dad was innocent, but she told Darian she was matching her memories to BTK’s murder timeline and now had doubts. If this were true, then her whole life might be a lie. Dad might have used her and her family as a cover story for murder. Few people are the sons or daughters of serial killers. But psychologists say all of us suffer trauma in life. How we respond defines us. Some of us turn bitter. Others find a way to live in peace. One key, as Kerri’s psychologist said later, is who we have in our lives and how good they are at guiding us. Another key, as Kerri herself would say someday, is whether we can forgive the seemingly unforgivable. Felt violated. The next day, police and politicians gathered in Wichita’s City Hall to announce an arrest. CNN carried it live. Kerri and Darian did not have cable, but friends from Houston stuck their phone close to their television.“BTK is arrested,” Police Chief Norman Williams announced. Over the phone, Kerri heard cheering. The cops made her mad, and she got mad again when she learned why they had wanted her DNA. To link her dad to BTK, they’d obtained one of Kerri’s Pap smears from years before at Kansas State University’s health clinic. They’d used that to confirm that the Rader family DNA closely matched DNA in the semen sample BTK left at the scene of a quadruple homicide in 1. So the FBI guy was double- checking her DNA. She felt violated. Memories colored. Kerri and Darian did not feel safe; Kerri slept on the couch, Darian on the floor. They slept as if one of them needed to be on watch. Darian heard her repeat things, sometimes 2. TV crews knocked on their door, camped in their parking lot.“Go away,” Darian called through the door. When Darian drove to work, TV crews followed; he did U- turns to escape. Kerri read news from Wichita every day. Ten murders? How many more will he be accused of?”She again Googled the BTK timeline. Mom was pregnant with her in 1. BTK murdered Nancy Fox. After the media showed up demanding to talk to BTK’s daughter, Darian watched his wife change. Athletic and nearly 5- feet- 1. Darian loved that. She could walk for days with him, carrying a wilderness backpack. She always put her needs second to others. But now she was BTK’s daughter. She even looked like her dad – same dark hair, same eyes. She shared his middle name, Lynn. She felt as if she’d done something wrong. Kerri searched her memories. The night of Hedge’s murder, Dad had taken Brian, her 9- year- old brother, on a Scout campout. Had it been an alibi so he could sneak out of the campout and murder Hedge? In 2. 00. 4 near Christmastime, after BTK had threatened to kill again, Dad had driven her to the airport to pick up her brother. Dad wandered off. Was he mailing something? Watching the news? She minutely analyzed her whole life. People said in news stories that Dennis Rader obsessed about little things. Kerri remembered how Dad spoke sharply if she sat in his chair or failed to put shoes away. Cops said BTK made strange marks in his communications. She remembered weird marks Dad made on newspaper stories. Code,” he called it. Dad’s confession“I still seek the ‘whys.’”– Dennis Rader, Jan. The Eagle from prison. In Wichita, Kerri’s uncle Jeff Rader got fed up with reporters from CNN and Fox News driving by. He stepped outside his mother’s home and said she was 7. Now she was taking crank calls. There are sick people out there,” he told reporters. The sort who want to kick someone when they are down.”Kerri flew into Wichita three days after Dad’s arrest. On the plane, she escaped by reading “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” But on her layover, she saw Dad’s face filling the Dallas airport’s TV screens. Kansas' Markieff Morris, left watches as Marcus Morris shoots during practice for a Southwest regional second- round NCAA tournament college basketball game Thursday, March 1. Tulsa, Okla. Kansas plays Boston University on Friday. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) AP Mike Clark, the family’s pastor, visited Dennis Rader in jail a week after his arrest. Clark called Paula afterward. Kerri watched her mother take the call, with a yellow legal pad in her hand. Paula wrote “he’s confessing” and underlined it as she talked. So it was all true. BTK had operated for 3. Kerri was born. BTK had murdered the Oteros – a mom, a dad and two children, ages 1. BTK had tortured victims, sexually defiled several. He had taken Hedge’s body inside Christ Lutheran Church, where he was congregation president. In church, he posed her body, strapped high heels to her cold feet and took photos. That confession did it for Paula. Kerri’s mother never saw, wrote or spoke to Dennis again. Everybody assumed BTK was some sort of sadistic genius. The real BTK was an ordinary, inarticulate doofus, Darian thought. And a good dad, Kerri told him. He did not hit. Did not abuse. With Mom, Dad taught godliness. Kerri had two college degrees; Brian, her older brother, had been an Eagle Scout and was training to serve on U. S. Navy nuclear submarines.‘Just did bad things’“I write not to ‘toot’ my horn .. Father’s love for each other, torn by senseless and horrid attacks on people.”– Dennis Rader, Jan. The Eagle from the El Dorado Correctional Facility. Dennis, in jail, couldn’t understand why no family visited. |
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