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You are interested in: Nikki catsouras autopsy photos wallpapers. (Here are selected photos on this topic, but full relevance is not guaranteed.) If you find that some photos violates copyright or have unacceptable properties, please inform us about it. Braunstein's site never posted the crime scene photos from Nikki Catsouras' death, but he has posted other accident photos. With thousands of sites like Braunstein's, there is no shortage of places to find disturbing images. The family of an 18-year-old girl who died in a car accident nearly six years ago in Orange County continues to be haunted by gruesome photos of the crash that were posted online. Nikki Catsouras was killed on Oct. 31, 2006 after speeding 100 miles per hour in her father's Porsche and clipping another car on the 241 Toll Road. Nikki Castagneto Death / Nikki Castagneto Photographer Dead – Obituary – According to a press report, a popular photographer, Nikki Castagneto died on December, 2019, Nikki Catsouras was pronounced dead following a tragic accident. Catsouras' Death Photographs Are Leaked According to an article on Newsweek, due to Catsouras' extremely gruesome accident, the family was not allowed to identify her body. Of course, like any other fatal traffic accident, California Highway Patrol officers are required to take photographs of the scene.
OCT 31 2006 LAKE FOREST, CA — Nikki Catsouras, 18, crashed her dad's black Porsche Carerra 911 into a toll booth structure after clipping a Honda Civic on California State Route 241 near the Alton Parkway exit at a speed of over 100 mph. The impact instantly killed Nicole while her father — unable to locate her — was calling 9-1-1 for police assistance in getting the vehicle stopped. Nicole had sped off with the car without permission after an argument with her father over 'teenage stuff.' Nikki and her dad argued the day before about Nikki sneaking a cigarette smoke in the house.
Map of the accident scene where Nikki Casouras 'Porche Girl'lost her life … View larger MAP/SAT of the accident.
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Black Porsche Carerra 911 aftermath of Nikki Catsouras accident. Recovery workers had to upright the car before Nikki's body was removed.
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The Honda Civic Nikki 'clipped' sits on the median of the Foothill Trans Corridor (Route 241) with deployed air bag, destroyed right-rear wheel, destroyed right-rear fender, and a busted out rear window.
Gruesome photos of the accident scene have appeared on the Internet. The photos are apparently investigative photos that were somehow leaked out from the California Highway Patrol office in Orange County. Then cruelty began as anonymous people sent pictures back to Nikki's family in e-mails. Nikki's father — in the real estate business — even got an e-mail that masqueraded as a lead from Homegain.com. Inside the e-mail were graphic photos of Nikki's body — mangled and decapitated. Text said 'Dead girl walking' and 'Oooh Daddy I'm alive.'
Nikki Catsouras Death Real Photographs
A full cyber-assault occurred with messages like:
'Her face broked [sic]'
'What a waste of a Porche [sic]'
Over 1,600 websites eventually posted pictures of the gruesome pictures of Nikki Catsouras as they ‘viraled' out of control. A fake Myspace profile re-directed people to the gruesome photos. Michael Fertik, Chief Executive Officer of ReputationDefender™ was hired to help find out who is exploiting the photos and is getting them taken down — one-by-one. Euro truck simulator 2 map booster download for mac.
Even locally at school, Nikki's sisters were threatened that paper pictures would be posted on their lockers.
Nikki's family is proceeding with a lawsuit, which will get a jury trial to determine if the California Highway Patrol must take responsibility for its employees' conduct of releasing the graphic photos outside the agency — CHP has admitted to the Catsouras family that its dispatchers violated department policy by releasing the photos. Thomas O'Donnell is one of the dispatchers that allegedly released the photos. He claims he only e-mailed them to his own house.
Rex Paris (Dispatcher O'Donnell's attorney): 'They [law enforcement] have been distributing these photos to the public for over 70 years … I don't know if ‘scared' is the word you want to use [to have people view the photos and be scared to drive recklessly]. I think perhaps it's to make certain you understand the catastrophic consequences of not driving responsibly.'
Nikki's father, Cristos: 'It's not about how stupid and irresponsible Nikki was; it's more about how stupid and irresponsible the California Highway Patrol were.'
The issues here?
Why are people so cruel to invade the grieving family with an assault of messages and the gruesome pictures?
Are they jealous of the wealth represented by the California family with a Porsche and 'a spoiled brat that's ‘not so pretty anymore.' (as some cruel trolls wrote)' There are people that are insensitive who followed their urge to assault and taunt a family while it was down … grieving.
The pictures struck a nerve to satisfy a dark side where Nikki became a star — 'the Porsche girl' in the underworld.
There are a group of people that believe the pictures serve a purpose to show the reality of the consequences of irresponsible driving — a deterrence.
No doubt, some people are angry that such a reckless act with a car can occur. It magnifies the threat to safety that many people witness regularly on roads across countries all over the world.
If Nikki would have killed an innocent family — or just one innocent person — on her last drive, there would be more talk about how selfish and irresponsible she was. And if she lived after she killed someone else, she would be facing jail. Just consider the story of Jeanette Sliwinski, a former model and exotic dancer, who slammed her car into another car in Niles, Illinois in July 2005. Although she claimed to be trying to attempt suicide, she killed three musicians in the car she hit: dead were John Glick, 35, Douglas Meis, 29 and Michael Dahlquist, 39. Police estimate Sliwinski was driving 87 miles per hour. She was charged by prosecutors with three counts of murder and faced life in prison. But on Monday, November 26 she was found guilty on reckless homicide charges with an 8-year prison sentence by Cook County Circuit Judge Garritt Howard in a Skokie, Illinois courtroom.
More information:
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The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole 'Nikki' Catsouras (March 4, 1988 - October 31, 2006), who died at the age of 18 in a high speed car crash after losing control of a Porsche 911 Carrera, which belonged to her father, and colliding with a toll booth in Lake Forest, California. Photographs of Catsouras' badly disfigured body were published on the internet, leading her family to take legal action due to the distress this caused.
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Background
Circumstances of the accident
On the date of the accident, October 31, 2006, Catsouras and her parents ate lunch together at the family home in Ladera Ranch. After lunch, her father Christos Catsouras left for work while her mother remained at home. Around 10 minutes later, her mother heard a door shut along with footsteps out the back door. As she walked toward the garage, she was able to see Catsouras reversing out of the driveway in her father's Porsche 911 Carrera -- a car she was not allowed to drive. Her mother called her father, who began driving around trying to find his daughter. While doing so, he called 9-1-1 for assistance, apparently minutes before the accident, and was put on hold. When he was taken off hold, the dispatcher informed him of the accident.
Accident
Catsouras was traveling on the 241 Toll Road in Lake Forest at approximately 1:38 pm, when she clipped a Honda Civic that she was attempting to pass on the right at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). The Porsche crossed the road's broad median (which lacks a physical barrier on that segment) and crashed into an unmanned concrete toll booth near the Alton Parkway interchange; the Porsche was destroyed. Catsouras was killed on impact. Toxicological tests revealed traces of cocaine in Catsouras's body, but no alcohol.
Leaked photographs
According to Newsweek, the Catsouras 'accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents to identify their daughter's body.' However, photographs of the scene of Catsouras' death were taken by California Highway Patrol officers as part of standard fatal traffic collision procedures. These photographs were then forwarded to colleagues, and were leaked onto the Internet.
Two CHP employees, Aaron Reich and Thomas O'Donnell, admitted to releasing the photographs in violation of CHP policy. O'Donnell later stated in interviews that he only sent the photos to his own e-mail account for viewing at a later time, while Reich stated that he had forwarded the pictures to four other people. Catsouras' parents soon discovered the photographs posted online. The pictures had gained much attention, including a fake MySpace tribute website that actually contained links to the photographs. People also anonymously e-mailed copies of the photos to the Catsouras family with misleading subject headers, in one case captioning the photo sent to the father with the words 'Woohoo Daddy! Hey daddy, I'm still alive.' This led the Catsouras family to withdraw from Internet use and, concerned that their youngest daughter might be taunted with the photographs, to begin homeschooling her.
The online harassment aspects of the case were covered by Werner Herzog in his 2016 documentary Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World.
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Legal action by the family
The Catsouras family sued the California Highway Patrol and the two dispatch supervisors allegedly responsible for leaking the photographs in the Superior Court of California for Orange County. Initially, a judge ruled that it would be appropriate to move forward with the family's legal case against the CHP for leaking the photographs.
An internal investigation led the CHP to issue a formal apology and took action to prevent similar occurrences in the future, after discovering that departmental policy had been violated by the two dispatch supervisors responsible for the leakage of the photographs. O'Donnell was suspended for 25 days without pay, and Reich quit soon after, 'for unrelated reasons,' according to his lawyer. However, when the defendants moved for summary judgment, Judge Steven L. Perk dismissed the case against the Department of the California Highway Patrol after both Reich and O'Donnell were removed as defendants. Judge Perk ruled that the two were not under any responsibility for protecting the privacy of the Catsouras family, effectively ending the basis for the case. The superior court judge who dismissed the Catsouras' case ruled in March 2008 that while the dispatchers' conduct was 'utterly reprehensible,' there was no law that allowed it to be punishable.
The CHP sent websites 'cease and desist' notices in an effort to get the photos off the Internet. The Catsouras family hired ReputationDefender to help remove the photos, but they continue to spread. ReputationDefender estimates that it has persuaded websites to remove 2,500 of the photos, but accepts that removing them from the Internet completely is impossible. Attorney and blogger Ted Frank wrote that even though the media were sympathetic to the parents' plight, 'the Streisand effect has resulted in far more dissemination of the gruesome photos.'
A full cyber-assault occurred with messages like:
'Her face broked [sic]'
'What a waste of a Porche [sic]'
Over 1,600 websites eventually posted pictures of the gruesome pictures of Nikki Catsouras as they ‘viraled' out of control. A fake Myspace profile re-directed people to the gruesome photos. Michael Fertik, Chief Executive Officer of ReputationDefender™ was hired to help find out who is exploiting the photos and is getting them taken down — one-by-one. Euro truck simulator 2 map booster download for mac.
Even locally at school, Nikki's sisters were threatened that paper pictures would be posted on their lockers.
Nikki's family is proceeding with a lawsuit, which will get a jury trial to determine if the California Highway Patrol must take responsibility for its employees' conduct of releasing the graphic photos outside the agency — CHP has admitted to the Catsouras family that its dispatchers violated department policy by releasing the photos. Thomas O'Donnell is one of the dispatchers that allegedly released the photos. He claims he only e-mailed them to his own house.
Rex Paris (Dispatcher O'Donnell's attorney): 'They [law enforcement] have been distributing these photos to the public for over 70 years … I don't know if ‘scared' is the word you want to use [to have people view the photos and be scared to drive recklessly]. I think perhaps it's to make certain you understand the catastrophic consequences of not driving responsibly.'
Nikki's father, Cristos: 'It's not about how stupid and irresponsible Nikki was; it's more about how stupid and irresponsible the California Highway Patrol were.'
The issues here?
Why are people so cruel to invade the grieving family with an assault of messages and the gruesome pictures?
Are they jealous of the wealth represented by the California family with a Porsche and 'a spoiled brat that's ‘not so pretty anymore.' (as some cruel trolls wrote)' There are people that are insensitive who followed their urge to assault and taunt a family while it was down … grieving.
The pictures struck a nerve to satisfy a dark side where Nikki became a star — 'the Porsche girl' in the underworld.
There are a group of people that believe the pictures serve a purpose to show the reality of the consequences of irresponsible driving — a deterrence.
No doubt, some people are angry that such a reckless act with a car can occur. It magnifies the threat to safety that many people witness regularly on roads across countries all over the world.
If Nikki would have killed an innocent family — or just one innocent person — on her last drive, there would be more talk about how selfish and irresponsible she was. And if she lived after she killed someone else, she would be facing jail. Just consider the story of Jeanette Sliwinski, a former model and exotic dancer, who slammed her car into another car in Niles, Illinois in July 2005. Although she claimed to be trying to attempt suicide, she killed three musicians in the car she hit: dead were John Glick, 35, Douglas Meis, 29 and Michael Dahlquist, 39. Police estimate Sliwinski was driving 87 miles per hour. She was charged by prosecutors with three counts of murder and faced life in prison. But on Monday, November 26 she was found guilty on reckless homicide charges with an 8-year prison sentence by Cook County Circuit Judge Garritt Howard in a Skokie, Illinois courtroom.
More information:
ReputationDefender.com
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The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole 'Nikki' Catsouras (March 4, 1988 - October 31, 2006), who died at the age of 18 in a high speed car crash after losing control of a Porsche 911 Carrera, which belonged to her father, and colliding with a toll booth in Lake Forest, California. Photographs of Catsouras' badly disfigured body were published on the internet, leading her family to take legal action due to the distress this caused.
Porsche Girls Car Accident
Video Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy
Background
Circumstances of the accident
On the date of the accident, October 31, 2006, Catsouras and her parents ate lunch together at the family home in Ladera Ranch. After lunch, her father Christos Catsouras left for work while her mother remained at home. Around 10 minutes later, her mother heard a door shut along with footsteps out the back door. As she walked toward the garage, she was able to see Catsouras reversing out of the driveway in her father's Porsche 911 Carrera -- a car she was not allowed to drive. Her mother called her father, who began driving around trying to find his daughter. While doing so, he called 9-1-1 for assistance, apparently minutes before the accident, and was put on hold. When he was taken off hold, the dispatcher informed him of the accident.
Accident
Catsouras was traveling on the 241 Toll Road in Lake Forest at approximately 1:38 pm, when she clipped a Honda Civic that she was attempting to pass on the right at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). The Porsche crossed the road's broad median (which lacks a physical barrier on that segment) and crashed into an unmanned concrete toll booth near the Alton Parkway interchange; the Porsche was destroyed. Catsouras was killed on impact. Toxicological tests revealed traces of cocaine in Catsouras's body, but no alcohol.
Leaked photographs
According to Newsweek, the Catsouras 'accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents to identify their daughter's body.' However, photographs of the scene of Catsouras' death were taken by California Highway Patrol officers as part of standard fatal traffic collision procedures. These photographs were then forwarded to colleagues, and were leaked onto the Internet.
Two CHP employees, Aaron Reich and Thomas O'Donnell, admitted to releasing the photographs in violation of CHP policy. O'Donnell later stated in interviews that he only sent the photos to his own e-mail account for viewing at a later time, while Reich stated that he had forwarded the pictures to four other people. Catsouras' parents soon discovered the photographs posted online. The pictures had gained much attention, including a fake MySpace tribute website that actually contained links to the photographs. People also anonymously e-mailed copies of the photos to the Catsouras family with misleading subject headers, in one case captioning the photo sent to the father with the words 'Woohoo Daddy! Hey daddy, I'm still alive.' This led the Catsouras family to withdraw from Internet use and, concerned that their youngest daughter might be taunted with the photographs, to begin homeschooling her.
The online harassment aspects of the case were covered by Werner Herzog in his 2016 documentary Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World.
Maps Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy
Nikki Catsouras Death Photographs Up Children
Legal action by the family
The Catsouras family sued the California Highway Patrol and the two dispatch supervisors allegedly responsible for leaking the photographs in the Superior Court of California for Orange County. Initially, a judge ruled that it would be appropriate to move forward with the family's legal case against the CHP for leaking the photographs.
An internal investigation led the CHP to issue a formal apology and took action to prevent similar occurrences in the future, after discovering that departmental policy had been violated by the two dispatch supervisors responsible for the leakage of the photographs. O'Donnell was suspended for 25 days without pay, and Reich quit soon after, 'for unrelated reasons,' according to his lawyer. However, when the defendants moved for summary judgment, Judge Steven L. Perk dismissed the case against the Department of the California Highway Patrol after both Reich and O'Donnell were removed as defendants. Judge Perk ruled that the two were not under any responsibility for protecting the privacy of the Catsouras family, effectively ending the basis for the case. The superior court judge who dismissed the Catsouras' case ruled in March 2008 that while the dispatchers' conduct was 'utterly reprehensible,' there was no law that allowed it to be punishable.
The CHP sent websites 'cease and desist' notices in an effort to get the photos off the Internet. The Catsouras family hired ReputationDefender to help remove the photos, but they continue to spread. ReputationDefender estimates that it has persuaded websites to remove 2,500 of the photos, but accepts that removing them from the Internet completely is impossible. Attorney and blogger Ted Frank wrote that even though the media were sympathetic to the parents' plight, 'the Streisand effect has resulted in far more dissemination of the gruesome photos.'
On February 1, 2010, it was reported that the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District had reversed Judge Perk's grant of summary judgment, and instead ruled that the Catsouras family did have the right to sue the defendants for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Calling the actions of O'Donnell and Reich 'vulgar' and 'morally deficient,' the court stated:
'We rely upon the CHP to protect and serve the public. It is antithetical to that expectation for the CHP to inflict harm upon us by making the ravaged remains of our loved ones the subject of Internet sensationalism.. O'Donnell and Reich owed the plaintiffs a duty not to exploit CHP-acquired evidence in such a manner as to place them at foreseeable risk of grave emotional distress.'
On May 25, 2011, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District ruled that Aaron Reich failed to prove that e-mailing the photographs is covered by the First Amendment. Reich claimed that he e-mailed the photographs as a caution about the dangers of drunk driving because he e-mailed the pictures with an anti-drunk driving message, despite Catsouras' postmortem examination revealing a blood alcohol content of zero. The three-justice panel which reviewed Reich's appeal wrote, 'Any editorial comments that Reich may have made with respect to the photographs are not before us. In short, there is no evidence at this point that the e-mails were sent to communicate on the topic of drunk driving.' The justices questioned whether the recipients still retained the e-mails, but Reich's attorney conceded that they had not investigated this.
On January 30, 2012, the CHP reached a settlement with the Catsouras family, under which the family received around $2.37 million in damages. CHP spokeswoman Fran Clader commented: 'No amount of money can compensate for the pain the Catsouras family has suffered. We have reached a resolution with the family to save substantial costs of continued litigation and a jury trial. It is our hope that with this legal issue resolved, the Catsouras family can receive some closure.'
References
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External links
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