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BOSTON - Denied!

Transgendered killer Michelle Kosilek's request for state-funded electrolysis treatments was shot down by a federal judge last week.

U.S. District Judge Mark said that the pretty-in-pink jailbird failed to prove "irreparable harm" or a "serious medical need" for a hairless body in prison.

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BOSTON - Convicted killer Michelle Kosilek has hairy legs and wants you to pay for the electrolysis treatments needed to make them as smooth as a baby's behind.

Born as Robert Kosilek, Michelle Kosilek has been waiting for years for a judge in Boston to rule on a request for a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation in order to complete the prisoner's transformation into a woman.

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BOSTON (CBS/AP) - For now, a Boston federal judge has denied a convicted killer's request to continue hair removal treatments, but the jury is still out on whether Massachusetts taxpayers will foot the bill for the convict's requested sex-change operation.

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BOSTON - Hair ye, hair ye! A convicted killer who wants a sex change operation will settle for more hair removal treatments for the time being – if a judge will allow it.

Michelle Kosilek, who was born as Robert, has been waiting for years for a judge in Boston to rule on a request for a sex-change operation, and is now asking for electrolysis.

Kosilek has been living as a woman in an all-male prison in Norfolk, Mass., after being sentenced to life for the murder of his wife, Cheryl, in 1990.

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NEW YORK - After uncovering a ventilation shaft trickling of blood, police discovered the body of a woman bound, gagged and taped with a gold crucifix to her mouth.

The body hadn't been identified, but police presumed it was that of Dominican-born Eridania Rodriguez, who hasn't been seen since her work shift Tuesday at the 26-story Manhattan tower. Rodriguez' street clothes and other belongings were found in her locker, and video surveillance didn't show her leaving the building.

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PARIS Diamonds are a cross-dressing thief's best friend.

French police have arrested 25 suspects in an €85 million ($118 million) heist of jewels last year on one of Paris' most fashionable streets and have recovered some of the loot.

A gang of armed thieves - some of them men dressed as women - swiped rings, necklaces and luxury watches at the Harry Winston store near the Champs-Elysees.

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Video Courtesy of New York Daily News

NEW YORK - Seventy-seven-year-old Irene Prusik died in 2003. But earlier this year, surveillance video caught her walking into a New York Department of Motor Vehicles office to renew her driver's license.

The elderly woman, wearing a red cardigan and lipstick, was in fact her 49-year-old-son, Thomas Prusik-Parkin, impersonating her as part of a daring fraud scheme that netted $117,000 in social security payments and rent subsidies, according to Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes.

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