A 48-year-old divorced massage therapist who had recently moved to Los Angeles and was living with her much-younger transgender romantic partner was shot multiple times and killed in their Beverly Grove home last weekend, in what police described as a “domestic dispute.”

Carla Maribel Rodriguez was found shot inside the $2.4 million house shortly before 8:30 a.m. last Sunday after police were called with reports of gunfire.

Rodriguez died after being rushed to the hospital.

Her beloved dog, Prince, was also shot and killed.

Los Angeles police arrested 27-year-old Emily Emerald Vogdt at the residence.

Vogdt, who identifies as a trans man and uses her middle name “Emerald,” is being held at the Century Regional Detention Center, an all-female jail in Lynwood, on $3.075 million bail, which was increased from an initial $2 million due to the severity of the charges.

The alleged murderer appeared in court on Thursday, but the arraignment was postponed until April 29.

Investigators told Rodriguez’s family that Vogdt had been “very possessive and obsessed” with the victim and that the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute.

Family members believe Rodriguez may have been planning to leave the relationship.

Rodriguez’s brother, Joshua Vasquez, 39, confirmed to the New York Post that authorities described Vogdt as transitioning to become a man.

The family and friends had assumed Rodriguez was dating a biological male.

Rodriguez had boasted about Vogdt on Facebook, calling her “the peanut butter to my jelly” and saying that she was “in love.”

The victim’s close friend, Jacqueline Dobson, 64, told the Post that she never met Vogdt but recalled Rodriguez calling her “wonderful.”

Dobson admitted she had grown suspicious about how the couple afforded their extravagant lifestyle, which included luxury trips to Aspen and Solvang for Christmas and New Year’s, a February getaway to Mammoth, and a three-day stay at the five-star Ritz-Carlton in Dana Point overlooking the cliffs.

The couple also drove a black Lamborghini Urus valued at around $250,000. Detectives removed a rifle case from the vehicle during the investigation.

Rodriguez’s aunt, Marcella Garcia, 59, said no one in the family had ever met Vogdt.

Garcia noted that Rodriguez had told her she was “trying something different” but provided no further details about her lover being transgender.

After seeing photos online, Garcia described the suspect as “a little strange and weird looking.”

The Post reports:

Records show Vogdt stood to inherit a family trust valued at approximately $2.9 million, tied to a commercial property on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks.

The trust was established by Vogdt’s grandmother, Paula Vogdt, and passed to her daughter, Anita Vogdt, in 2013.

Anita died in 2022, leaving Vogdt as the sole heir. Despite this, Rodriguez had told her mother she was paying $1,000 per month to live in the Airbnb property the couple shared.

A dog sitter confirmed the couple’s odd relationship, saying the pair lived in separate bedrooms. She also said she had been unaware Vogdt was biologically female.

This incident comes amid a wave of high-profile shootings involving transgender individuals in recent months.

In February, Jesse Van Rootselaar, who identified as transgender, carried out a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, killing eight people, including students and a teacher, before dying by suicide.

That same month, Robert Dorgan, who also identified as transgender, gunned down family members at a high school hockey game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, killing three before taking his own life.

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A resurfaced 2024 MSNBC interview clip shows Sen. Chris Murphy telling host Chris Hayes that decades of Democratic immigration strategy have “failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,” and the video is now going viral online.

The segment, reposted this week by the conservative account End Wokeness and amplified by outlets such as Fox News and AOL, is being used as a reminder that Democrats openly prioritize undocumented immigrants over U.S. citizens as Democrats continue to fight against funding ICE.

On X, Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno blasted the remarks as evidence that Senate Democrats are willing to use “260,000 American workers” as “political pawns” to “protect criminal aliens that invaded our nation,” calling the situation “sick stuff,” while Elon Musk labeled the clip “treachery.”

The official House Republicans account, Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne, and other conservative figures have shared the video while accusing Democrats of caring more about “illegal aliens” than American citizens and warning voters to “believe them” when they say so.

Murphy’s critics have also connected the clip to President Trump’s recent State of the Union moment in which he asked lawmakers to stand in support of the principle that the government’s first duty is to protect American citizens, not illegal immigrants, a line that drew standing applause from Republicans while most Democrats stayed seated.

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In classic “calumniate, calumniate, something will always stick” fashion, the far-left French newspaper Libération dropped a sleazy hit piece titled “The Men of Rue du Bac,” hurling grotesque pedocriminality accusations at intellectual figures from the 1970s and 1980s.

The star of this disgusting posthumous hit job? None other than Jean-François Revel — the brilliant French philosopher, essayist, former socialist turned pro-American, fierce anti-totalitarian, and author of masterpieces like Why Philosophers?, Neither Marx Nor Jesus, The Totalitarian Temptation, How Democracies Perish, and The Anti-American Obsession.

Revel, who died in 2006, has been dragged through the mud as some kind of masked sadistic predator in a supposed elite pedophile ring operating out of an apartment at 97 rue du Bac in Paris. This is tabloid-level character assassination of a dead man who can’t defend himself. And as usual with the legacy media left, it’s built on vapor.

No Evidence, No Problem: The “Sweaty Corpulent Man” Identification

The entire case against Revel rests on one single testimony — that of Inès Chatin, born in 1973, the adoptive daughter of Dr. Jean-François Lemaire, a self-confessed pedophile who has admitted to some of the horrors. Chatin claims she endured collective sexual torture and rapes from ages 4 to 7 (1977-1980), including being violated with metal objects by masked men. How does she “identify” the late academician Revel among these masked monsters? His “corpulence.” His strong body odor/smell of sweat.

That’s it. No name uttered. No face seen. No voice recognized. Just the foggy recollection of a small child — decades later — of a “fat, sweaty guy.” Even masked, apparently, Revel’s BO was so legendary it betrayed him. Did Revel have a monopoly on sweating in 1970s Paris? There is zero material evidence against him:

No photos
No videos
No letters
No recordings
No DNA
No agenda entries place him at the apartment during the alleged crimes
No witness corroboration

Even the audio recordings where Dr. Lemaire (now deceased) admits to some abuses and implicates others… never mention Revel once. Revel’s own agendas, preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, show no contact with Lemaire before June 21, 1983 — three years after the period Chatin accuses him of participating in the collective abuses. That day, he and his wife, Claude Sarraute, attended a lunch at Lemaire’s place and signed the narcissistic doctor’s “golden book.” His family and collaborators confirm no personal ties existed before then. A book by Revel found at Lemaire’s? That’s the smoking gun? Please.

Dig up a corpse to beat it

From Franco’s Spain to Revel’s France, the pattern is the same: the left loves exhuming and beating the bodies of those who opposed them. Revel’s children expressed “immense shock” at the accusations, noting they completely contradict everything they knew of their father. They called for the justice system to establish the facts. Outlets like Le Figaro, Commentaire, and Valeurs Actuelles have shredded the dossier as riddled with sloppy chronology, wild associations, and zero hard evidence. It’s a textbook post-mortem hatchet job.

Bottom Line: Innocent Until Proven Guilty — Even After Death

Jean-François Revel is not here to defend himself. But basic epistemology and justice demand evidence before destroying a man’s legacy with the worst possible accusations. There is none. This is a 21st-century witch trial and grotesque posthumous defamation orchestrated by the very circles that once cheered “liberatory” pedophilia: in 1977, *Libération* published a petition calling for the legalization of pedophilia.

The Revel family is reportedly considering legal action. They should. The corpse-defilers need to be held accountable.

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