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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.
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.
Tags: bat, batman, bros., chris, dark, director, joker, knight, man, movie
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Comment by Aaron on March 20, 2009 at 10:48pm - I thought that was Jonathan. But still man, what the fuck, Nolan?
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Comment by doctorwaffle on March 20, 2009 at 10:28pm - sounds like a Tim Dorsey book.
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Comment by MadDecent on March 20, 2009 at 10:21pm - ALL CAPS
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Comment by SpillGamerMike on March 20, 2009 at 10:11pm - Wow, the Oscars pissed him off that much! LOL!
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Comment by David on March 20, 2009 at 9:51pm - Who hasn't been arrested for kidnapping and murder charges at one point in their life?
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Comment by craigyboi on March 20, 2009 at 9:03pm -
hopefully they can write this shit into the new batman.....
art imitating life anyone?
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Comment by Mike on March 20, 2009 at 9:02pm - I think that picture expresses any feeling that I had about this article better than words could.
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Comment by Rolland on March 20, 2009 at 8:38pm - Hope they don't turn it into a "guilt by assosiaction" thing for Chris Nolan!
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Comment by Orbital Drop Shock Trooper on March 20, 2009 at 8:35pm -
-.O
HOLY FUCK
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Comment by Brendan on March 20, 2009 at 8:34pm -
Holy shit, the details on that story are insane! No wonder Chris and Jonathan Nolan are so good at making crime thrillers.
I actually never knew they had a third brother. I guess everyone has that one sibling in their family that no one ever likes to talk about. I know I do, but jeeze.
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