Word: mcshane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market, which by some estimates totaled a robust $5 billion in the U.S. last year. Increasingly, people are buying art works as hedges against inflation and a weakening dollar. Art prices have risen to levels that even the least cultured brigand can appreciate. Says FBI Art Thefts Investigator Thomas McShane: "Thieves read about these prices and they realize they can cut themselves in on some very valuable booty...
Having obtained permission from the nuns who cared for Mrs. Mott, police filmed the 3½-hour visit. As she left the home, McShane was arrested. The nuns searched Mrs. Mott's clothing and found 18 Nembutal tablets-more than enough to kill a healthy adult. Still on film, the mother explained that she wished to die. "It's because my daughter loves me so much that she wants to help me," she said...
...jury disagreed. After a 14-day trial early this year, McShane was convicted on charges of attempting to "aid, abet, counsel or procure" her mother's suicide and passing dangerous drugs. She was sentenced to two years in prison...
Enter Yorkshire TV, which decided that the case perfectly suited the network's goal of creating "socially committed documentaries that illuminate dark areas of our society." The producers persuaded McShane to tell her side of the story on camera. "My mother's been threatening to commit suicide for about 40 years," she explained. "It's a fantasy of hers." The lethal pills, she said, were a sort of "security" for her mother. As it happened, Mrs. Mott died of natural causes two weeks ago, ten days before the TV documentary went...
...Michael Ratcliffe: "Suicide, euthanasia, privacy and surveillance: rarely can there have been a broadcast in which so many time bombs of universal interest were ticking away The Independent Broadcasting Authority [Britain's commercial TV watchdog] would have been irresponsible if it had prevented The Case of Yolande McShane from being shown. In the public interest...