Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freeway, and you see these cars piled up, and you're going at a certain speed, and you know you'll hit the cars," she says during an interview at the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, where she is serving a 5-to-18-year sentence for murder. "It's just something that a battered woman knows." The Boone County prosecutor's office insists--and a jury agreed--that the shooting was premeditated. But the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, spurred by Dr. Kimberly Martin, a pediatrician and shelter volunteer who once took in Kay and her children...
...want to incriminate him for possessing an illegal firearm. A witness came forward to say that Kay told her she had laid in wait to kill Jackie two days earlier but changed her mind. The Weekleys also testified that Kay telephoned their son several times the weekend of the murder, trying to lure him to the trailer. Kay insists that she called only to check on her children, who were staying with Jackie's parents that weekend...
...says Nelson Bickley, one of Kay's original lawyers. "The world--or what little world was there--felt she was going to walk." Even Riffe says, "Frankly, if they'd found her innocent, I wouldn't have been too upset." So the jury's verdict, guilty of first-degree murder, which carried a 15-year-to-life sentence, was a shock. Says Bickley, who in part blames himself for inadequate presentation of expert testimony: "I think the jury did not fully understand what the battered woman's syndrome...
...formidable and sometimes forbidding Margaret Atwood has turned a notorious Canadian murder case from the mid-19th century into a shadowy, fascinating novel. Alias Grace (Doubleday; 468 pages; $24.95) is less combative and ideological than such earlier Atwood novels as The Handmaid's Tale and The Robber Bride. That's not a drawback. There's a teasing, unknowable mystery at the heart of the story, which is the same one faced by jurors in Toronto in the 1840s: to what extent was Grace Marks, a pretty, nearly 16-year-old servant girl, guilty of the murder of her employer, Thomas...
After the murder, Marks ran off to the U.S. with James McDermott, a manservant also accused in the crime. They were caught almost immediately, brought back to Toronto and tried and convicted of Kinnear's stabbing. McDermott was sentenced to death, hanged and cut into quarters. Marks' case seemed less clear. She claimed to have fallen unconscious for part of the period of the killing and to have no memory of the rest. Her sentence was commuted to life in prison...