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On this, the first anniversary of the death of Heath Ledger, news of a decapitation, Mason County deaths, and the movie industry's recognition of The Joker are hitting the media. Exactly one year ago today, on January 22nd, Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in The Dark Knight , was found dead in his fourth-floor apartment at 421 Broome Street, between Crosby and Lafayette Streets in SoHo, New York City, on the day of the Full Moon. The link between the Joker and decapitations has already been made on this blog, often. Last night, the horror of a decapitation merged with a familiar location in school violence history. Wednesday, January 21, 2009, police reported a woman was slain on the Virginia Tech campus and decapitated, according to wire services including AP and Fox News. Xin Yang, 22, was killed Wednesday night after arriving at the campus from Beijing on Jan. 8 to begin studying accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said. The first 911 call came into polic...

During the last year, coulrophobic reality was in evidence through events that actually did occur. Here are my top choices for the most sinister of synchromystic clown news items of 2008. (1.) The Joker Is Dead. There is no bigger symbolic story for the year than the death of Heath Ledger on January 22, 2008. The actor would appear in The Dark Knight , which opened 07.18.08, in the most significant and iconic evil clown role of the year, The Joker . (2.) Jokawild Is Decapitated. On July 30, 2008, Tim McLean, who called himself Jokawild , was beheaded on a Greyhound bus in Alberta, allegedly by Vince Weiguang Li, 40. The MySpace head shot of the victim McLean is below. This is where he told about how he called himself "Jokawild," had three tattoos, owned an iguana and loved loud music and motorcycles. Todd Campbell writing of McLean at Through the Looking Glass revealed the victim was a big fan of Insane Clown Posse. Most fans of Insane Clown Posse call themselves "Ju...