The story of Joe Gliniewicz, a disgraced cop who staged a murder that was actually a suicide (and his colleagues knew it from day one) continues, with a $1 million payout to his widow. It’s called a pension settlement, but I think it was “go away money.”
Probably. His clinic was in northern Georgia, and many of the kids ended up in Tennessee.
Nitpick: Burke and Hare.
As in
I am going go to the store.
Or
Would you like play Monopoly with us?
Yes, those are closer literally to “m’a tuer”; the problem is, they are the sorts of things non-native speakers of English say. “Should of” is different in meaning, but closer in spirit, as it is a sound-based, orthographic mistake that native speakers tend to make.
Oh! I read a book about that right after it happened. That was another one like the Casey Anthony Case where a lot of the “evidence” was that she didn’t act like people’s idea of a bereaved mother.
Which isn’t to say she’s not guilty-- just saying that when and where and how much she cries isn’t evidence.
1970? I didn’t realize she was that old-- she’s 55 now, three years younger than I am.
Is she still on death row? if so, she’s been there 29 years.
Me too. That was a doozy of a caper.
Here is a really great in-depth article on the event.
WARNING: That whole site can be a dangerous time-sink. You may never escape once you start reading.
Very nice.
It’s really impressive that the perpetrator not only made such a complex bomb but it actually worked, given that most would-be bombers struggle to make even simple bombs without either blowing themselves up or making duds.
He had the advantage of taking a lot of time, and he had a fairly large space to work in. A lot of bomb-makers don’t have that luxury.
It’s also not clear to me whether it “worked” in the sense that it successfully self-triggered when the Feds tried to explosively dismantle it, or whether it only worked in the sense that the Fed’s small charge inadvertently set off the bomb’s far larger charge. The outcome is the same, but the former would be a real tribute to quality bomb-making and the latter would be a demerit to the bomb disposal squad’s tradecraft.
But yeah; for plot ambition this guy takes the cake. Bomb making, ransom delivering, etc. Lotta lotta planning that was almost well-executed enough.
That case (the Harvey’s Resort Hotel and Casino bomb) is also described on the FBI website.
As @Der_Trihs said & cited when he first brought this caper to the thread.
[rant on]
I hate it when posters put inline cites in sentences. Most readers won’t notice they are links since in most of our themes the color is almost the same as plain text. He fooled you, and you almost fooled me.
Rather than this:
I much prefer to read something like:
That case is also described by the FBI itself. See Harvey’s Casino Bomb — FBI.
Now it’s real obvious that’s a link no matter what theme or device type the reader is using. And the logical flow of the sentence runs like “Here’s some text introducing a link. BIG OBVIOUS LINK.”
[rant off]
Okay- was Lizzie Borden really guilty? She was acquitted.
Excellent and well-written article. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this before.
And I already spent the better part of an hour on that website…
She was guilty. Not sure how she did it, but it would’ve been impossible for anyone else to do it.
I had read the article about the bomb caper before. It is very nicely written with a bit of tongue in cheek at times. I especially like the part when the FBI went back into the casino after the explosion:
“Back in Lake Tahoe, FBI agents and members of the bomb squad strapped on air filtration masks and protective gear and crossed the field of glass fragments to enter the wounded casino tower. It looked as if a bomb had gone off.”
The argument with the auto parts clerk was also quite funny. It’s amazing that the sons were the pathway to a conviction and not the two poor bastards who were duped into delivering the bomb. Seven years, each. They should have dropped a dime the minute they heard about the explosion.
Fun Fact: I worked in that building a couple years after it was rebuilt and reopened. There was some seriously crazy shit/Winchester Mystery House stuff down in the bowels out of site.
That entire site is written in that style. There’s always some wry deadpan humor that I just love.
The bad news about that site is they don’t write new articles nearly as often as they used to. The good news is they have a very deep archive. The terrible news is if you’re anything like me you’ll be tempted to read the site from cover to cover at one sitting.
I have to get some sleep, but can elaborate tomorrow.
Short answer:
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Temperature and rigor were the only ways of estimating when someone died, and Lizzie wanted to be damned sure the police knew that Abby died first, so Abby did not inherit from Andrew, cutting her stepdaughters out.
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Lizzie knew about temperature & rigor but not how accurately a doctor could pinpoint the time of a death, and she waited too long to kill her father, creating the puzzling scenario that pointed to her.
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There was no place to incarcerate her but the jail, and she had deteriorated badly there, just being held for trial. Hanging a woman and seeing her skirts and petticoats billow up was just too horrible to think about. So she was acquitted. She had no parents left nor living grandparents nor inlaws, and was unlikely to do it again.
That sounds suspiciously like the defense of somebody who killed their parents then begs for mercy since they’re an orphan.
One hell of a lot of murders are committed by family members on family members. Most of those perps are unlikely to be a threat to the public at large. And yet they get convicted and incarcerated along with the rest.
Not complaining about your interpretation, just about the thought process that let her go.
I’m just saying that it was probably what jurors said to themselves when they chose not to for the county to build a prison just to incarcerate her for life. Women’s prisons at the time were a cross between almshouses and psych wards.