The Haunted Palace

They’re known as “People Embarrassing the Tidewater Area”, and this is why: http://tinyurl.com/64k8gg #

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Message I just left on her findagrave.com memorial page:

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Reason No. 545981945 I’m glad we’re moving: Results for registered offenders, searching by address:

Our current house = 577 Offenders, 105 Non-Mappable Offenders Our new home = 2 Offenders, 0 Non-Mappable Offenders

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Twenty-four days after she disappeared, nine-year-old Shannon Matthews has been found alive. The thirty-nine-year-old who lived at the house where she was discovered is in custody.

That’s stellar police work, and the Dewesbury force should feel very proud. These policemen eschewed the common understanding that people who are missing for longer than x period of time [...]

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In 2007, Dr Patrick Barnes, the prosecution’s star medical witness, reversed his opinion. He concluded that death could have been caused by an old injury, as argued by the defense. In a scientific paper he states: “The science we have today could, in fact, have exonerated Louise. There is certainly, in retrospect, reasonable doubt.” Dr. Barnes’ [...]

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February 7, 2008:

…a man stabbed his estranged wife in front of her class at an Ohio school before fleeing the scene, stabbing another woman, and later shooting himself after a stand-off with police. (BBC)

February 8, 2008:

A nursing student has killed two fellow female students in their US classroom before turning the gun on herself. The 23-year-old [...]

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CourtTV.com:

A judge sentenced polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs to five years to life Tuesday for his role in the arranged marriage between a 14-year-old follower and her 19-year-old cousin.

More information, including photographs and background

courttv.com/trials/jeffs

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For my sweet friend, Dianne (#):

literature

definitive book on the case: Devil’s Knot * Mara Leveritt Almost Home: My Life Story * Damien Echols Excellent collection of essays—money goes toward the defense fund: The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis [...]

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