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CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S BROTHER ARRESTED FOR MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dark Knight Director's Brother Arrested for Murder

Source - E! Online

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Holy headline-making, Batbro!

Matthew Francis Nolan, the older brother of Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, has been arrested by the FBI in his hometown of Chicago and is now awaiting extradition to Costa Rica to face murder and kidnapping charges.

According to the the bureau's Windy City office, the Violent Crimes Task Force apprehended the 40-year-old Nolan without incident as he was leaving a bankruptcy court hearing yesterday.

Nolan has been wanted in Costa Rica since 2006, when local authorities charged him with the kidnapping and murder of a Florida businessman a year earlier.

According to the FBI complaint, the elder Nolan concocted a Joker-worthy plot to lure the victim, Robert Cohen, to a hotel by pretending to be a multimillionaire jewel merchant hoping to do a business deal. Instead, Nolan intended to recoup $7 million Cohen owed another Florida man. Nolan and an accomplice, Douglas Mejia, allegedly held Cohen ransom in hopes of extracting the money, but when the family failed to meet their demands, they killed him, per the complaint.

Mejia was convicted of kidnapping and murder and is now in prison.

Nolan was collared just as police were probing his role in a separate $700,000 bank-fraud scheme. He's been ordered held without bond until extradition proceedings are completed.

Nolan's 38-year-old sibling, Christopher, broke into Hollywood with the mind-bending thriller Memento and has since gone on to reinvent the Caped Crusader in 2005's Batman Begins and 2008's The Dark Knight. The latter—cowritten by their younger brother, Jonathan—has since become the second-highest grossing film of all time.


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Stephanie Comment by Stephanie on March 22, 2009 at 11:20pm
what the shit? what the hell is going on? damn.
AtomicComicNerd Comment by AtomicComicNerd on March 22, 2009 at 8:29pm

HOLY SH*T!!!!!! wha...how can he.....holy god.



The Dark Knight curse has stiked again NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Batman Comment by Batman on March 22, 2009 at 1:56pm
I sent a letter to a friend of mine about this. He was really upset.

Eden Comment by Eden on March 22, 2009 at 1:48pm
What!!!!!!
Batman Comment by Batman on March 22, 2009 at 1:45pm
I just told a couple of friends of mine. They were fucking SHOCKED.

japajew Comment by japajew on March 22, 2009 at 1:39pm
@M-gizzle: It's the superman curse. Everyone that plays superman has a major accident, kills themself, etc. Batman doesn't have a curse.
Palmer Comment by Palmer on March 22, 2009 at 1:25pm
M-Gizzle, what Batman curse?
Jay Comment by Jay on March 22, 2009 at 4:30am
Holy inappropriate distastful puns, gratuitous media!

Indeed, how sad.
Ravenblood Comment by Ravenblood on March 21, 2009 at 11:11pm
That's a shame.

On the flip side, that picture is hilarious.
And Ivan is right, it was the Joker. Matt was framed.
legend26 Comment by legend26 on March 21, 2009 at 10:19pm
this thing was serious and then i saw that pic

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