I don’t think much will happen to her. She got a ticket for failure to yield, but this was truly an accident. I’m upset that a man is dead, but my heart breaks for her, too.
Yes! And I posted a whole threat about it, “My Surgeon Committed a Murder”.
Such a shame, he really seemed like such a wonderful human being in every other way. Really looked up to him, not just because he gave me the ability to walk again, but because he genuinely seemed like a smart, hard-working individual who wanted to make the world a better place.
I hope she gets her pardon, this is a case MADE for batter women/trauma victim-survivor defense please let me know?
It took me a while to remember this, but my cousin’s husband. She was a Christian, and had saved and reformed him from his life of sin, which was apparently a lot of drinking and drugs. But he seemed nice and level headed and had a boyish charm. He seemed totally fine.
Well apparently a few years later he fell off the wagon, and got in a scuffle with some drinking buddies, and ran them over on purpose with his truck. One died instantly, the other was critically hurt. Although charged with first degree murder, he was eventually only convicted of manslaughter and got out after only 6 years.
Back in my “previous life” my then-boyfriend had a bunch of friends over and a friend-of-a-friend was there. He was a black guy and I knew him to say hi but not as a good friend or anything. Really nice guy and I would enjoy chatting with him at the bus terminal or whatever. One day I saw him and he had flowers for his grandmother. Anyway our black cat jumped on the table and when he saw her he said “Hey! You’re black like me!” and petted her, lol.
A few years after that there was a triple murder at a house and then a cab driver was murdered not long after. I was walking home one night and paused to read the headlines of a newspaper: this black guy I knew had been arrested for the 4 murders.
We also knew a man who would later be known for having the longest trial in Canadian history. He’d drop by for coffee with my then-boyfriend and he and his wife would come over and watch movies with us. He was the one who drove us over to pick up our cat (not the black one previously mentioned, but we had her at the same time) and he actually named her. This was many years before the murder took place.
So I joke that my black cat had been petted by not one, but two later convicted murderers.
I posted about 2 years ago:
And never responded to this question:
It was a strange one. First, she pled no contest. Then claimed self defense, saying her father was abusive and she was afraid to tell him she was pregnant. I believe she cited battered child syndrome. She was convicted, obviously.
Edmund Kemper was a sometime customer at an Uncle’s service station in Santa Cruz, CA; I had several conversations with him but can’t claim to have “known” him. Edmund Kemper - Wikipedia
I had a friend in Florida many years ago; call him “Guy#1” Guy #1 had a wife whose sister was married to “Guy#2” "Guy #2’s wife disappeared and Guy#2 was thought by local police to have murdered her and disposed of her body. A couple of years after the disappearance Guy#1 and I were at a dog race track where we encountered Guy#2; we went to a neighborhood bar after the races where Guy#2 became drunk and maudlin and “admitted” to murdering the missing wife. Two days later Guy #2 showed up where Guy#1 and I worked and made a big deal out of denying he had murdered his wife; he claimed he had just been talking BS when he said he killed her but Guy #1 believed he had done just that. Guy #2 later committed suicide; Guy #1 has died of natural causes. So I spent a couple of hours drinking with a guy who was widely believed to have been a murderer—Was he? I don’t really know. Nor do I want to.
When i was 10 my dad had a guy over that he just met. They played cards and were talking about things. i was there with them. Then i just remember that he started talking about how he was a hitman and that he stabbed a guy in the chest and saw his heart beating, watched him die… just to find out it wasnt the guy he was supposed to kill. My 10 year old mind is trying to process this. guy looked like he was in a motorcycle gang. He was big, huge mustache. Then later on that night he loses his temper, throws his chair across the room, nearly hitting me with it (not intentionally). i just went in my room and went to bed, said fuck that… Never saw him again.
Someone in my family does have some strange ties. A couple of people who really pissed him off have been found dead. No convictions.
Yes, but the crime was still years away when I knew him. An neighbor of my family when I was very small abused her son, who was ten or so years older than me, and my parents occasionally looked after him when things were bad. She was a real piece of work in other ways too. Anyway, when the son was in his late teens he stabbed her to death with a screwdriver.