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...welfare mother with three children and another on the way, had moved away from Hanover Park, a drug-infested Chicago suburb frequented by Ward, to try to rebuild her life in middle-class Addison. A few hours later, Ward, along with his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, 28, and her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, turned up at Evans' apartment at 675 Swift St. According to relatives, Ward was high on crack. Evans let them in, and a brief argument ensued. Prosecutors charge that Caffey then shot Evans in the head with a small-caliber handgun and stabbed her repeatedly with a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIPPED FROM THE WOMB | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Around 2 a.m. on the night of the murders, Evans' live-in boyfriend, James Edwards, returned home from his factory job to be greeted at the front door by a crying, blood-splattered but unharmed Jordan. Inside, he found Evans' body beneath a blanket and Samantha in a rear bedroom. Late Friday night, police tracked down Williams and Caffey, who had Elijah with them. Since July, say prosecutors, Williams had been feigning pregnancy and a delivery date that coincided with Evans'. "[Williams' family] had a baby shower for her, and she never was pregnant," recalls Ward's friend. Williams told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIPPED FROM THE WOMB | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Take the case of Susan, recently featured on Montel Williams as an example of a woman being stalked by her ex-boyfriend. Turns out Susan is also stalking the boyfriend and--here's the sexual frisson--has slept with him only days ago. In fact Susan is neck deep in trouble without any help from the boyfriend: she's serving a yearlong stretch of home incarceration for assaulting another woman, and home is the tiny trailer she shares with her nine-year-old daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN DEFENSE OF TALK SHOWS | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...introduced to external standards of morality. The preaching--delivered alternately by the studio audience, the host and the ever present guest therapist--is relentless. "This is wrong to do this," Sally Jessy tells a cheating husband. "Feel bad?" Geraldo asks the girl who stole her best friend's boyfriend, "Any sense of remorse?" The expectation is that the sinner, so hectored, will see her way to reform. And indeed, a Sally Jessy update found "boy crazy," who'd been a guest only weeks ago, now dressed in schoolgirlish plaid and claiming her "attitude [had] changed"--thanks to the rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN DEFENSE OF TALK SHOWS | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...case, she says, everything that her boyfriend was telling her could have been lies, and she would not have been able to recognize the deceit...

Author: By Anne C. Krendl, | Title: 'Netting the internet romance | 12/2/1995 | See Source »

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