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The story of the Park Slope man who dressed like his dead mother for six years to cash her Social Security checks and collect other benefits has captivated the world, with Google showing the Thomas Prusik-Parkin Psycho tale popping up as far afield as Turkey and Russia. Perhaps there's something about the story that resonates with humanity's deep-seated Oedipal urges—or maybe Prusik-Parkin has just tapped into our universal fantasy to live on the dole without our moms' nagging us to get a job. Either way, it gets creepier: The Daily News reports today that Prusik-Parkin kept a casket in his living room.

Yesterday, police announced that they arrested Jamarr Brown on Sunday night, a day after he stabbed in 2-year-old son in the head. Brown had allegedly been trying to aim for his son Jaden's mother, but hit his son instead and then fled as the paramedics were called. The Post reports that an anonymous tip led the cops to Brown, who was in Bed-Stuy at Pulaski Street and Marcy Avenue: "To their surprise, Brown was decked out in women's clothing -- a disguise to avoid being arrested... A clean-shaven Brown, who was charged with attempted murder and assault, was wearing a black, shoulder-length wig, a brown coat with fur on the collar and wrists and jeans." A police source told the Daily News, "He was trying for the Tina Turner look but it didn't work." Jaden is in serious but stable condition; his uncle (and Brown's brother) said, "He's doing all right" and that other family members were glad Brown was arrested.

Guido Salvador Carabajo-Jara had turned 26 years old on Tuesday, but when he was crossing an Queens street on Wednesday morning, he was struck by a SUV and then dragged 20 miles into Brooklyn by a van. His sister, who lived with him and had seen TV news reports of a man being dragged from their neighborhood but didn't realize her brother was the victim, and cousin went to the morgue. Cousin Felix Jara said, "Then I saw the body; he looked like he was sleeping then I start crying."