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Monica Hesse
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August 3 - August 22, 2017
getting small things correct was the only way to make sure the big things worked when it mattered most.
Ultimately, the visible remnants of an arson are not what it has left behind but what it has taken away.
The Morbid Anatomy of the Brain, a medical textbook from 1815,
John Leonard Orr,
Points of Origin
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Elinor Wylie
“Wild Peaches” in 1925.
“When the world turns completely upside down,” she wrote, “you say we’ll emigrat...
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Bacchanalian dancing. Versions of the Harlem Shake
Tasley Shake,
“Some people think I have it all,” Tonya wrote on Facebook after they’d been together a little more than a year. “I own my own house, I own two vehicles, I have a farmload of animals, I have two wonderful children, a wonderful man, a closet full of clothes, shoes, two businesses, health, and sanity.”
National Center for Forensic Science’s Ignitable Liquids Database.
Do you have any weapons?” Kriz asked. “There’s a ChapStick in my bra,” Tonya told him,
Between December 1, when the Virginia State Police began collecting data on its arson investigation, and mid-April, police personnel dedicated 26,378 work hours and 14,924 overtime hours to solving the arsons.
“I’m sorry. But I didn’t light them all.”
Bonnie was petite with piercing eyes and a bow-shaped mouth. Her leg had been permanently disfigured in a car accident and it was difficult for her to walk, so Clyde often carried her.
They call them cold-blooded killers They say they are heartless and mean But I say this with pride, I once knew Clyde When he was honest and upright and clean.
E. R. Milner in The Lives and Times of Bonnie and Clyde
There’s a French term, folie à deux, which literally means “madness of two.”
“Someday they’ll go down together,” she wrote in another poem. “And they’ll bury them side by side. / To a few it’ll be grief, to the law a relief—but it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.”
I know what it’s like to reorganize your life around a child—and maybe things aren’t going the way I wish they would, and I’m frustrated. That’s an explanation that people can understand.”
Maybe it was easier for people to like him than her, for the abstract ways it’s sometimes easier for people to wrap their heads around difficult men than complicated women.
Virginia allowed an Alford plea—a plea that maintains factual innocence, but which acknowledges that the state has enough evidence to result in a likely conviction.
LOVE IS A WEIRD ACT. An optimistic delusion. A leap of faith and foolishness. Sometimes when it is tested, imperfections that were there from the beginning, lurking deep, can begin to work their way to the surface. Even two people who love each other deeply will always be two people, two souls. You can’t ever completely get in someone else’s head, or in someone else’s heart. It is the greatest tragedy and the greatest beauty of a relationship: that at some level, the person you are closest to will always be a total friggin’ mystery. Maybe the real mystery is why we ever do it at all. It must
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The Opportunity Index, a nonprofit measurement of sixteen different indicators of success in every county in America,
she would spend in prison would be seventeen and a half years.
three and a half months per fire.
Charlie would be sentenced, too, to fifteen years
He’d already served two of the fifteen years in the Accomack jail.
Murderpedia.org
Crimefeed.com,
