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...admit that I feel a bit betrayed as well. It's hard to blame us. We gave up our weekends in January and February of last year to campaign for Clinton and Gore in desolate New Hampshire; we spent our days fleeing from angry dogs and angrier shotgun-toting Republicans, all in search of one or two extra votes; we spent our nights with students from dozens of other schools on the frozen tundra of a YMCA gym mat--at the very least we could have been rewarded with a remotely ethical campaign...
After reading your article on Kay Weekley, who killed her husband after years of violence [SOCIETY, Dec. 23], I had flashbacks of my own disastrous, painful, abusive relationship with my first husband. I can picture myself with a double-barreled shotgun standing over him while he was sleeping, the father of my only child, and trying to decide if this was the way I wanted to end my "living hell." Kay Weekley was a victim of a tragedy that has happened to others over and over again. I know the pain and I have the scars. Like...
Weekley's final act of violence was on June 6, 1992, when he stabbed Kay, Debbie and William during an argument at the mobile home where Kay was living. Three weeks later, as Kay tells it, she returned to clean blood from the trailer, bringing her father's shotgun for protection. On Sunday night, Jackie parked his car outside a pool hall just up a small incline from the trailer and put a quarter on the table to reserve a game. He then went down to see his ex-wife. Kay says she shot Jackie on the porch after...
...from 24 ft. to 28 ft. away, not the 12 ft. or so Kay claimed. Nor did the door appear to have been broken down. After the guilty verdict, Kay wrote a letter to the judge explaining that she had actually used her brother-in-law's sawed-off shotgun but lied because she did not 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...
...SHOTGUN MARRIAGE...