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Post by catherine on Apr 21, 2024 14:54:10 GMT -5
This article was posted 9 years ago and says they were working on The Wrath of the Gods. Was this film ever made? The 1973 Wicker Man was great but in my opinion, The Wicker Tree was on a par with the 2006 Wicker Man remake with Nicolas Cage. Robin Hardy died in 2016. No one else has said anything about a trilogy and The Wicker Tree was such a dud that I doubt anyone else is interested in a third film.
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Post by catherine on Apr 20, 2024 22:14:11 GMT -5
Isn't Bridgend the place where there were all those suicides a few years ago?
Yes, it's the same place. If you lived in a place covered in council estates and dog crap, you'd probably contemplate suicide, too. One of the things I find strange about the British is that they never seen to go anywhere. I've encountered some of them online and there'll be a fantastic old castle or other historic site within walking distance of where they live, but they've never been there. I know a lot of it has to do with people today never looking up from their cellphones or beyond their dog's ass, but most Brits today just don't seem to have any sense of adventure.
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Post by catherine on Apr 18, 2024 0:32:15 GMT -5
I don't believe the stories about Black-Eyed Children coming to people's doors and all that nonsense, but I'd like to know more about the murders committed by this man. I like reading about British murders of the past, before there were TV cameras and those vile council estates all over the place, and the entire UK wasn't covered in dog crap. These murders and the Moors Murders would make excellent "Today in History" articles.
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Post by catherine on Apr 18, 2024 0:27:47 GMT -5
This is true. You can learn the basics, but students should know the basics before they get to college. People today think that creative writing, or creativity in general, is something they can learn. The truth is that talent is innate: you either have it or you don't, and most people don't.
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Post by catherine on Apr 16, 2024 3:00:52 GMT -5
Sorry I couldn't find a better photo. This is 3031 Ella Lee Lane, Houston, Texas. On April 16, 1997, 27 years ago today, Doris Angleton, 46, was found dead in her home. Her husband, rich bookie Robert "Bob" Angleton, was coaching their twin girls' softball game when someone entered the home and shot his wife 13 times in the chest and face. Roger Angleton, Bob's brother, was the prime suspect, and even though he committed suicide and left a note saying Bob had nothing to do with the murder, no one believed it, because investigators found a contract in which Bob had agreed to pay Roger $100,000 per year for 10 years to kill his wife.
Bob was tried for the murder in state court, but he was acquitted. The federal government then charged him with running an illegal sports betting operation, tax evasion and passport fraud. He was convicted and served 12 years in prison, and when he was released on January 27, 2012, the feds again indicted him for the murder of his wife, but before he was brought to trial, he disappeared.
The house is in the River Oaks section of Houston, a little less than a mile from 1561 Kirby Drive, the former home of Joan Robinson Hill, a well-known equestrian, who was murdered by her husband, Dr. John Hill, in 1968. Joan died in the hospital, but on September 24, 1972, Dr. Hill was shot to death in the foyer of the mansion. For a full account of the Hill case, see "March 19, 1968: Money and Murder in Texas": whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/3468/march-1969-money-murder-texas
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Post by catherine on Apr 15, 2024 17:29:35 GMT -5
I read something once about Manson and his Family either going to Death Valley, or planning on going to Death Valley, but I don't know if they ever lived there. When Manson's family members were in jail, some of them told cellmates, etc., that the reason Charlie took them to the Barker Ranch in Death Valley was because he knew of an underground city. Susan Atkins and some of the others said Charlie told them there was fresh water, the walls glowed with light, and it wasn't too hot or too cold. Vincent Bugliosi also said that Charlie claimed there was a tree that had 12 different kinds of fruit. Manson had apparently read Death Valley Men, published in 1932, or heard others talk about the lost city. He claimed to be the only one who knew the entrance, but if he did, why didn't he take his followers there where they would never be found?
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Post by catherine on Apr 8, 2024 0:49:15 GMT -5
It's hard to believe that an educated man like Arthur Conan Doyle was so easily taken in by spiritualists, and that he believed the Cottingley fairy photos were real. I think that like most people, he believed what he wanted to believe. According to the article, he seemed to dismiss the findings of the Kodak expert who examined the fairy photos, but accepted the second expert's conclusion that the photos were genuine.
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Post by catherine on Apr 2, 2024 10:49:37 GMT -5
Is this witch still on death row or did some bleeding heart get her sentence commuted? The needle is too easy for a woman who would shut a child in a suitcase and give another anti-freeze and tie him to a broom. I've heard that death by anti-freeze is very painful. She appealed but her appeals weren't successful and she's still on Death Row. There are 5 women on Alabama's Death Row, and they're all there for killing children. The victims were young children except for the 20 year old daughter of Lisa Carpenter Graham who was killed by a man hired by her mother.
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Post by catherine on Mar 28, 2024 18:03:00 GMT -5
Some of the most learned men of the 17th century were taken in by the witch madness and actually believed in spectral evidence. As a result, 19 people were hanged, one was pressed to death and dozens of others were held in jail when they had committed no crimes. Things haven't changed much: some of the most learned men and women of today have no better sense than to let killers and other violent criminals walk free, see nothing wrong with hiring unqualified people as long as they're the right color or nationality, and don't realize the consequences of allowing millions of interlopers to swarm across the border.
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Post by catherine on Mar 16, 2024 16:31:56 GMT -5
Michelle was scared of you. She asked my fiance at the time, who was an HPD cop, of he'd go with her back to her old apartment to get the rest of her things. I don't remember why now, but he never did. I remember you calling her work that evening asling for Michelle. When I told you she wasn't in yet and must be running late, you said, "I bet she won't show up." Thank you for posting. Do most people who knew Jackie Graham believe Joseph Leal killed her? Also, since you were dating a cop, do you know if the police thought he was the killer?
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Post by catherine on Mar 13, 2024 12:44:10 GMT -5
This is 623 Fairways Circle, Creve Coeur, Missouri. On July 22, 2020, Robert P. Daus Jr., a member of the fire department, called to report Grace Holland, his 35-year-old girlfriend, had shot herself. Although she was right-handed, she shot herself in the left frontal lobe (which isn't as difficult as her family insinuates in their wrongful death suit). She had four children, one of whom was very young, but Daus wasn't the father of any of them. She also had suffered a recent miscarriage, and Daus claimed she had been depressed about it. Why would a woman who already had four children want another?! In January 2024, another girlfriend, Sarah Sweeney, 39, a podiatrist, died of a drug overdose in the home of Robert Daus. This has led the police to take another look at Holland's death.
At the time Grace Holland died, there was a Thin Red & Blue Line Flag honoring firemen and police officers hanging from the eaves of the house.
"Amazing Grace," is a popular hymn often played on bagpipes at the funerals of police officers and firemen.
Holland is known for its windmills.
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Post by catherine on Mar 9, 2024 12:00:40 GMT -5
I don't know a whole lot about police investigations, but if they have the murder weapon and the bullet that killed him, wouldn't they be able to match it? I agree. The prosecutor's claim seems fishy to me. He said the rifle in question was the same caliber as the one that killed Ballard, but if the bullet was a match, he would be crowing about it, not making obfuscating comments.
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Post by catherine on Mar 6, 2024 16:23:27 GMT -5
I wish someone would do an article on the Moors Murders.
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Post by catherine on Mar 6, 2024 16:20:52 GMT -5
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Post by catherine on Mar 6, 2024 0:02:32 GMT -5
I looked up these frauds and they're still capitalizing on the Moors Murders. So-called paranormal investigators are even worse than gypsy fortunetellers and other con-artists because they have deluded themselves into believing they are actually picking up messages from the dead through EVP and other nonsense.
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