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Not a lot in my town specifically it's mainly just petty crime, but I believe there was a murder here about 20 or so years ago, but before I moved here. The biggest crime I remember was auto theft, they actually caught one of the crooks in my back yard.
....however, the state (Connecticut) does have some infamous crimes. Sandy Hook took place about 20 minutes from me, the Cheshire home invasion was about 30 minutes from me, and this new case of the missing mom is in the same county
Not a lot in my town specifically it's mainly just petty crime, but I believe there was a murder here about 20 or so years ago, but before I moved here. The biggest crime I remember was auto theft, they actually caught one of the crooks in my back yard.
....however, the state (Connecticut) does have some infamous crimes. Sandy Hook took place about 20 minutes from me, the Cheshire home invasion was about 30 minutes from me, and this new case of the missing mom is in the same county
I believe that became the first episode of Forensic Files, how the envelope in her pocket was able to pass through the chipper unharmed and be discovered and traced back to him is quite a happening
got me hooked from the start
1978: "ROCKFORD, Ill.--A 46-year-old father was charged Saturday with "silently and methodically" stabbing and beating his six sleeping children to death with a hunting knife and rubber-handed mallet."
This one haunts me. Barbaric what those thugs did to that young couple. It's still shocking that they didn't get the special "hate crime" label attached. The female has already come up for parole once. Luckily, it was denied.
Another case was that of Sister Maureen Murphy, who, in the spring of '76, was found unconscious and bleeding profusely in her room at a convent in a suburb of Rochester, NY.
She was transported to the hospital where, upon examination and after passage of the placenta, it was determined that she'd recently given birth. Hospital staff asked the sisters who'd accompanied her to return to the convent and look for a newborn. They did so, and found a dead baby boy stuffed in a wastebasket, with a wad of clothing in his mouth, in Sr. Maureen's room.
She later stated that she was "innocent," had no recollection of giving birth to the baby (full-term, and found to have been born alive), or of having had intercourse--though it was revealed in her '77 bench trial (she waived a jury trial) that Sister Maureen, the director of a local Montessori school, had attended an out-of-state seminar in the summer of '75.
Ultumately, in what was a tough case for the prosecution--and judge--the defense conceded that she gave birth and killed the baby, but that she wasn't legally responsible because she'd lost so much blood and wasn't aware of what she was doing.
The judge found her not guilty on each of the manslaughter charges.
This one haunts me. Barbaric what those thugs did to that young couple. It's still shocking that they didn't get the special "hate crime" label attached. The female has already come up for parole once. Luckily, it was denied.
The national news never covered it (of course), and the judge was a pain pill addict so it all got thrown out when that came to light, and they all got new trials.
All these years later it still haunts most Knoxvillians.
I recall that sickening case. That is the sort of case that keeps the death penalty alive in our country. It's extremely difficult to convince most people that the "people" who murdered them should not be killed for what they did.
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