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Where was this hat in Sylvia Plath's day? A 22-year-old designer has created a cute little knit cap that literally stabs you in the skull until you smile. It's like Stepford Wife-chic! The claim is that "Through repeated use of this conditioning device you can train your brain to smile all the time." Goodbye sad affect, hello manufactured happiness! See creepy video after the jump. [via Pat's Papers]

A 17-year-old Staten Island resident is being held on $250,000 after allegedly stabbing her 14-year-old brother. The Advance describes, "According to a law enforcement source, the two fought nearly every day, and Sunday morning was no different -- Rodney had overslept, and Miss Tyler went to wake him up. That sparked an argument, the source said, which escalated into violence. Miss Tyler grabbed a butcher knife and a steak knife." Although their mother tried to intervene and Tyler dropped the butcher knife, she "held onto the steak knife, raised it over her head, and reached over her mother's shoulder," allegedly plunging it her brother's chest and then pulling it out.

Two families are reacting to the apparent suicide of the man suspected of fatally stabbing another person in Midtown. Army veteran Sir'mone McCaulla, found dead in a Philadelphia apartment yesterday, left a suicide note trying to explain his tragic altercation with Christopher Gutierrez.

The man suspected of fatally stabbing a man who bumped into him outside the James Farley Post office was found dead in a Philadelphia apartment yesterday—and he left a suicide note on MySpace: "I started to get defensive I told the man keep it moving no problems but if u leap I’m gonna fuck you up not gonna lie didn’t mean to kill him just wanted to stop the threat."

Yesterday, police released photographs of the man suspected of a fatal stabbing on the steps of the James Farley Post Office on Sunday. The broad daylight incident in a busy stretch of 8th Avenue—across from Madison Square Garden and Penn Station—was witnessed by a number of people, including a German tourist who took the photographs. And now it seems another police officer recognizes the suspect.

Late yesterday afternoon, a man was killed in midtown Manhattan, outside the James Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue at 33rd Street—which is also across the street from Penn Station and Madison Garden. According to police, he had bumped into another man who fatally stabbed him.

A housekeeping manager at the Essex House has confessed to the stabbing murder of Sara Bejjani after investigators say he attempted to rape the woman who had been residing inside the luxury hotel along Central Park South. 29-year-old Derrick Praileau had worked at the hotel since he was 17 and is described as being known for having a "flash temper." He told police that he showed up drunk before his 6 a.m. shift Saturday, used his key to get into Bejjani's 10th floor apartment and then admits, "I just lost it."

A businesswoman from Dubai was found yesterday inside a condo at the Essex House, disrobed, with her throat slashed and a jumprope around her neck. 44-year-old Andree (Sara) Bejjani, president of Royal Investments, LLC, a real estate investment firm based in Dubai, had been staying at the luxury hotel on Central Park South since August. This morning cops arrested an Essex House employee, Derrick Praileau, but have not yet charged him.

Relatives, friends, teachers, and students gathered last night to mourn the tragic death of Glen Wright, who was stabbed to death outside his grandmother's East Village building because gang members mistook him for someone else. (We noted this devastating story yesterday, and like many, we're still profoundly saddened.) Wright, who died at age 21, was taking a break from helping his grandmother wash windows at the Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side when a group of men approached him. Suspect Joel Herrera, 20, is accused of stabbing Wright repeatedly in the neck; he told detectives he confused Wright with someone who assaulted one of his friends. Cops are searching for the other assailants.

Devastating: Police have told the family of a 21-year-old East Harlem man that he was fatally stabbed in the neck Saturday evening at the Lower East Side Baruch Houses because of mistaken identity. Glen Wright, who by all accounts was a beloved young man enrolled at Borough of Manhattan Community College, was there helping his grandmother clean her windows. He was getting a breath of fresh air when a gang looking for revenge for an earlier attack approached from behind, and one man plunged a knife into the back of his neck. His grandmother, Lummie Wright, tells the Daily News, "He was running for his life. He made it all the way to the front door and they chased him [and] they stabbed him once more."

Both tabloids detail the "deadly love triangle" where one man killed another over Catalina Hernandez. The Daily News spoke to the 24-year-old (with dramatic photo) reports that "Michael Lebron walked from his shelter to her Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment at 10:30 p.m. Saturday and screamed for her on-again, off-again boyfriend to show himself," yelling, "I ain't no p---y I'm going to kill you; we're going to finish this tonight." And Pedro Marquez, 46, who has a two-month old with Hernandez, yelled back, "Let's see who's going to die tonight!" and emerged from the building with kitchen knife, stabbing Lebron numerous times. Hernandez told the Post that Marquez was disappointing—"We were arguing, and he wasn't working, and I was doing everything alone"—while Lebron, who was 40, "knew how to treat a woman. He wasn't trying to have sex all the time. He just showed me attention emotionally." (But it turns out that Lebron had a fiancee, who visited her yesterday.) Marquez, who was charged with murder, wrote in a note to Hernandez, "Please forgive me. It was not my intention to do this. I've been depressed. I feel sorry for what happened but that's life."

A teenager in The Bronx yesterday was arrested after stabbing his three younger siblings because he was "seeing demons" and was "zombielike." 17-year-old Nelson Santos was at home in his family's Claremont apartment when he picked up a butcher knife and attacked his two brothers Miguel and James, ages 13 and 6, and his 9-year-old sister Ashley. Santos's mother and a neighbor fetched by one of the brothers eventually wrestled the teenager down and took the knife from him before cops arrested him and took him into psychiatric care. Neighbors told the Daily News that Santos practiced black magic and John Flores, the 19-year-old man who intervened, told reporters, "He said the world was going to end so he had to kill his brothers and sister." Ashley Santos only suffered superficial wounds and 13-year-old Miguel is in stable condition after being stabbed in the chest five times. The youngest brother, James, is in critical condition at Columbia-Pres after being stabbed in the back.

There was a violent altercation in Cypress Hills earlier this morning, near the J train's Crescent Avenue station. According to 1010WINS, "Apparently two groups of men ranging in age from 18 to 40-years-old, began arguing on Crescent Avenue and Fulton Street, police said. The arguing lead to violence when knives were pulled and six of the men were stabbed on the streets, and another man being chased down into" the subway station, where he was stabbed. Subway service was suspended. One of the victims was stabbed in the face; WABC reports that the seven victims were taken to area hospitals. The cops are looking for suspects.

The man who is suing the NYPD for $220 million after alleging that cops at the Prospect Park subway station sodomized him with a police baton has been involved in another altercation that left him with a knife wound in his left arm. 24-year-old tattoo artist Michael Mineo was stabbed in Downtown Brooklyn yesterday after telling the suspect to leave Mineo's girlfriend alone. A witness told the News, "The girl let it be known she was bumped and upset. The guy she was with wanted to be chivalrous and went back and forth with the first guy." 41-year-old ex-con Alejandro George was allegedly drunk when he took out a knife and took a swipe at Mineo's kidney but ended up stabbing him in the left forearm. George was arrested and charged with assault. A lawyer for Mineo suggested that George indicated he knew who Mineo was and "threw a couple of epithets" during the altercation. Mineo was treated and released from Kings County Hospital.

Hoping to back up her brother's claim that he killed a motivational speaker to help him commit suicide, Kenneth Minor's sister Susan tells the Daily News, "This man, Locker, came to Harlem looking for a person to take him out. This man was asking everyone in Harlem to kill him."

A 26-year-old mother of two young boys and several months pregnant with her third child was found stabbed to death inside her Sunset Park apartment. Police spent several hours talking to Yorceli Flores's 22-year-old boyfriend who made the grisly discovery that Flores had been stabbed several times in the chest at 4 a.m. yesterday. Flores had moved to Brooklyn from Mexico at age 16 and had an order of protection against her previous boyfriend that led to his deportation—he is the father of her two children. Police have recovered a knife at the murder scene, but no arrests have been made. A neighbor in the 58th Street building Flores had lived in told NY1, "She was stabbed and it's terrible because to live around here you don't know what to expect anymore. It's just terrible and it's sad because she was so young."

Yesterday, police arrested Juan Reyes, 19, in the killing of 13-year-old Miguel Saavedra. Miguel (pictured) was fatally stabbed with a screwdriver on Wednesday night in Sheepshead Bay around 7:30 p.m. According to police, "Mr. Reyes and two of his friends had argued with Miguel at a park earlier Wednesday... Mr. Reyes and Miguel, who both lived nearby, had also argued two days earlier." The nature of the dispute was not disclosed, but the Daily News reports "it apparently stemmed from a beef between the suspects and Miguel's brother." Witnesses tell the NY Times they saw a man on a bike chasing Miguel and another boy: "They initially thought that the bicyclist was punching Miguel. By the time [Vernon] Wade realized there was a long screwdriver in the attacker’s hand, he said, it was too late." Another witness who ran to help Miguel and started to call for help says the boy told him, "No police, no police. They were chasing us. They stabbed me. I have to go," before managing to walk half a block and collapsing. Reyes has a 2006 arrest for cocaine and knife possession.

A 16-year-old Bronx teen was arrested and charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. Kevin Santiago apparently became upset when he saw ex Alma DeJesus, 16, with Michael Silva, also 16, in DeJesus's apartment building hallway on Sunday. The Daily News reports, "Santiago chased DeJesus down the hallway until DeJesus ducked and hid inside her mother's apartment...After Santiago banged on DeJesus' door, screaming for her to come out, Silva approached and ordered the ex-lover to leave." Santiago, who screamed, "Who the f--- are you?", then "turned his knife on Silva, stabbing him once in the chest." Neighbors says that Santiago had been stalking DeJesus for weeks and believe that he intended to kill her. Santiago and DeJesus (pictured) have a 7-month-old baby together.

Rapper Tru Life has been arrested for last week's stabbing death of a teenager in Manhattan. The Daily News reports that the rapper—whose real name is Roberto Guzman Rosado Jr.—surrendered to police Wednesday night along with his brother, who also faces murder charges. Police say the pair were looking to avenge a drug dealer's death when they chased the victim into an East 26th Street apartment lobby before fatally stabbing him in the face and chest on June 15; another man, Jason Black, was also stabbed but survived. Sources say that the fatal shooting of a drug dealer just hours before the stabbing may have been due to an ongoing dispute between Black and Tru-Life's brother. Tru Life had been recently working on an album for release this year under Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records label. He also appeared in 2003's film Beef, a documentary of hip-hop rivalries that included Tru Life's feuds with other New York rappers.

Last night, the body of a man who had been stabbed to death was discovered in his Forest Hills apartment in what WABC 7 says was a "very, very bloody scene." Friends and co-workers of the victim, who was in 30s, were alarmed when he hadn't shown up for work for a few days. So they asked his building super to check his apartment. The super, from the fire escape, peered in the man's apartment and saw the body in the 6th floor apartment. An 85-year-old neighbor told WCBS 2, "I feel sick, I feel sick. He was such a nice young fellow. Clean. And you should have seen the apartment, how he fixed it, with everything new," and added to the Daily News, "He was like a son to me." The News reports that the building's fire escapes are being investigated for clues.

Yesterday morning, two men were stabbed in the lobby of an apartment building on East 26th Street near Second Avenue in Manhattan. According to the Daily News, it's believed the suspects were "Gang members looking to avenge the shooting of a drug dealer... Investigators believe five men were waiting in parked cars outside the... building and jumped their victims when they stepped into the lobby just before 9:30 a.m." An 18-year-old died while a 30-year-old survived his stab wounds—both were stabbed repeatedly in the face and chest. The incident that spurred that stabbing is apparently a 4 a.m. shooting that occurred outside Pacha on West 46th Street; suspected drug dealer Michael Slater is in stable condition at Bellevue, which is just a few blocks away from the apartment building. A 21-year-old newcomer to the neighborhood told the News, "I moved here from Missouri yesterday. I didn't expect to step outside on my first morning here and see someone almost dead."

The Post rounds out more facets of the Saturday afternoon murder of a 63-year-old man in his West 71st Street apartment. While Walter Walker's roommate Frederick Zappulla confessed, the Post reports that the violence was precipitated when Walker "confronted him about smoking crack in the apartment...The two roommates argued in the kitchen, where Zappulla smashed Walker over the head with a frying pan and then reached for a knife and repeatedly stabbed him." Zappulla called his brother to say he killed Walker and then left for the Yonkers Raceway, where "he began blathering to an EMS technician who eventually persuaded him to talk to Yonkers police." Walker, who operated a cleaning service, had rented out the room to Zappulla in February; a former roommate told the Post that Walker suffered from Parkinson's Disease, "I warned Walter [Zappulla] was no good. I thought he would stiff Walter for the rent." Update: The West Side Spirit reports, "Zappulla was Walker’s romantic partner, according to interviews with residents of the West 71st Street building. The two had lived in Walker’s one-bedroom apartment for more than a year."

A quarrel between two roommates on the Upper West Side left one dead yesterday, stabbed several times inside his apartment. Police responded to a 911 call around 12:30 p.m. yesterday and discovered the body of the 51-year-old victim already deceased when they arrived on the sixth floor of 145 W 71st Street. West Side Spirit reports that elevators were shut down and the SWAT team called in as part of the initial response. Eventually police tracked down the roommate, 51-year-old Frederick Zappulla, in Yonkers after he had allegedly confessed to the crime to his brother. Zappulla was charged with second-degree murder after police interrogated him for several hours. The Post says that the victim worked as a cleaner and had lived in the building for over thirty years.

Yesterday morning, a man wielding a knife with a 13-inch blade slashed a man just outside the 109th Precinct in Flushing, Queens. Construction worker Armando Ferreira was slashed in the back and in the arm and then ran into the station, only to be followed by attacker Armando Torres who also tried to slash Ferreira's friend.

According the wires, a man walked into the 109th Precinct on Union Street in Queens and stabbed a person. (The Post says the stabbing victim is a woman; 1010 WINS says it's unclear if the victim is a civilian or police officer). The suspect then walked towards police officers, who shot him three times in the chest. The suspect and stabbing victim were taken to the hospital, as were at least two other officers. The 109th Precinct, which covers "downtown Flushing, East Flushing, Queensboro Hill, College Point, Malba, Whitestone, Beechhurst and Bay Terrace," is closed—all arrests are being sent to the 111th Precinct.

Last night, a man was stabbed at the South Ferry terminal after a dispute. According to the NY Post, victim Josh Davis, 21, apparently got into an argument on the subway: Davis had been "telling a female pal about how the suspect had threatened to pull a knife on him aboard the number 1 train, accusing him of looking at his girlfriend, according to Davis's friend Chantae Rivas. As he told the story just before midnight, the suspect and his girlfriend walked up and started threatening the victim again." Davis told the man, "What's your problem, I'm not trying to talk to your little girlfriend." Apparently that set the man off and he stabbed a knife into Davis. The suspect left the scene; Davis is in critical condition at Bellevue.

An unidentified man was stabbed in the neck at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street just after 4:40 a.m this morning, ABC 7 reports. The stabee is now at St. Vincent's in stable condition. Two suspects were witnessed fleeing the scene; one wearing a black shirt and another in a... grey shirt. So give those two a wide berth if you spot them! Last Thursday a Buffalo man was hospitalized after an alleged late-night gay-bashing assault in the Village, and on Sunday another man was stabbed in the back and arm during a heated pre-dawn argument. Some local residents are complaining that their quaint neighborhood is becoming sketchy, and NYPD stats support those anecdotal reports, at least in the category of violent assaults, which are up about 40% over last year thus far. Robbery, burglary, and grand larcenies are all down, though, so try not to panic—but do check back often for updates on this alarming crime wave!

Greenwich Village residents are calling for increased police presence after a Sunday morning stabbing left their sidewalks stained with blood for the second time in three days. But unlike the unprovoked Thursday morning beating that hospitalized Buffalo resident Allen Williams, this second attack does not appear to be gay-bashing. Police sources tell the Post that the victim, 41-year-old Derek Brown, has a record of 23 arrests. It's believed he was stabbed in the back and arm during a heated argument with an unidentified man at West Fourth and Grove streets about 5:45 a.m. The fight occurred remarkably close to Thursday morning's near-fatal assault, which police are investigating as a hate crime. When cops found Brown collapsed a half a block away, he refused to identify his assailant or answer questions; he's currently in stable condition at St. Vincent's. A reader tells us that on Sunday morning there were "TONS of blood in front of Gristedes on West 4th Street," and another resident tells the Post, "There are shady guys out at night dealing drugs and having heated arguments even outside my window. I'm honestly considering moving. This is the worst it's been in years."

A longstanding family feud left one man dead after being stabbed yesterday afternoon in Jamaica. 42-year-old Michael Thompson was arrested for manslaughter after allegedly stabbing Adeyimi King in the chest while trying to protect his sister, King's girlfriend. A fourteen-year-old neighbor told the Daily News that the two had been at odds for some time including and incident where King "yanked (Thompson's) dreads from his head." The 40-year-old King died at Jamaica Hospital after the fight and stabbing around 1:30 p.m. left him lying in blood on Liverpool Street. A neighbor who refused to give her name to the News told the paper, "Life is so important, and people just don't value life anymore."

The man accused of the stabbing murder of a Bronx woman he was AIM chat buddies with admitted to having an altercation with victim Nizmay Aponte and her friend, but stopped short of offering a full confession. After taking a swing at the friend, suspected killer Raymond Dennis told police, "I got into a fight with Nimzay. I smacked her on her ass and told her to stop lying to me. I said, 'That's what you get for playing with my emotions.'" Dennis was known online as "Mike" and was tracked down after Aponte whispered on her deathbed, "MIke did it." The News reports that he has a violent history with women, once having an order of protection taken out against by an ex-wife he had threatened he would "take off this earth" and pleaded guilty last year to hitting a woman in the face so hard she spat blood. Dennis told police that he drank two beers and smoked a blunt before going to the Mott Haven park where the murder took place and did not remember having a knife on him when he returned home.