Word: waupaca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bucolic dairy town of Waupaca, a slim blonde farm wife named Jennifer Patri, 32, is to go on trial Dec. 6 for the first-degree murder of her hard-drinking husband, Robert. To most neighbors, Mrs. Patri seemed happily active. She taught Lutheran Sunday school, presided over a local P.T.A. and supervised a busy hog farm. The reality of her private life was, however, grim. Her husband, an auto-body repairman she married at 18, continually slapped her around and subjected her to agonizing sexual abuse. Says Mrs. Patri's attorney, Alan Eisenberg: "He apparently dreamed...
...only in immediate, severe danger, now, notes New Jersey Lawyer Robert Ansell, "the cumulative effect of beatings on a woman's consciousness is often considered. A woman may well be allowed quicker resort to a weapon than a man." That worries some lawmen. Says Sheriff Lawrence Schmies of Waupaca: "I wonder if these people know what they're doing. If they get their way, there's going to be a lot of killings...