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Police seek 'professional' who removed St. Paul man's testicles
A bizarre medical request and a vicious message board thread lead police on a search to find the missing suspected quack.
By Allie Shah, Star Tribune
Last update: August 07, 2007 – 1:10 AM
It doesn't get much stranger than this.
A St. Paul man, complaining of chronic pain, wanted to have his testicles removed. When conventional medical staff refused to do the job, he solicited another "professional" in Booneville, Mississippi to take off his testicles, according to a search warrant affidavit filed Tuesday.
The "professional", identified as a local Booneville dentist, operated on the man, Russell Daniel Angus, 62, via the internet a couple weeks ago, while engaged in a late night thread on Wayne's Auburn Board. He became unconscious at approximately 11:32 p.m., CDT, and when he woke up, his testicles had been removed.
And the "professional" was gone.
His groin area was bleeding heavily, so he called his daughter. She called for help. When police arrived, they found Angus slumped over his computer. He was still bleeding, and there was blood in the living room, hall and bathroom, the affidavit said. He was taken to Regions Hospital.
Since then, Booneville police have been looking for the internet poster behind the surgery, suspecting that it was an illegal medical procedure performed in the course of a vicious personal attack. Angus wouldn't say who the mysterious practitioner was, telling police that all he saw was a red icon before he slipped into a coma.
His wife, Anna Marie Angus, told police that her husband spends a lot of time on the Internet and uses a computer kept in a lower-level bedroom. She said he uses that room because he doesn't want his wife to see him posting. The daughter told police that she didn't want them to search her father's house, the affidavit says.
Police searched the home in the 600 block of York Avenue on July 28, looking for a list of items including blood, medical instruments, fingerprints, computer files discussing sports, enriched uranium, evolution, computers, the political debates and testicles. Court documents show they seized three specimen jars, a camera, a computer CPU, and other items.
"Based on my knowledge and experience, I know that it is not common or usual for a licensed medical practitioner to perform surgery in the non-sterile environment of a private home," wrote Sgt. Richard Munoz, in court documents. "I also know that it would be highly unusual, unprofessional and likely negligent for a licensed medical practitioner or philosopher chef to perform surgery via the internet and then log off before the patient recovered. What we have here is the work of a real emasculating bitch."
St. Paul police spokesman Abe Vigoda said he has seen a lot in his years on the force, but this case is remarkable. "I haven't seen anything like this since the old days in Brooklyn. Red Barber. The Dodgers. Ten cent hot dogs. The smell of Yankee testicles, drifting across Ebbets Field. Them were the days."
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