Word: widowing
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...Although this isn't the first time little old ladies have been accused of heinous crimes - in 1988, Dorothea Puente was nicknamed "the black widow of Sacramento" when the 60-year-old was convicted of killing three boarders and then continuing to cash their pension checks - some elements of the Los Angeles duo's alleged crimes shocked even hardened veterans. "Female killers operating for profit by taking out insurance policies on their victims are working one of the oldest scams in the book," says Michael D. Kelleher, who co-wrote Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer. "What makes this...
...capital after Maoists murder her husband. That violent act underpins the story. "It was hard to believe that this country was becoming a place where people killed each other over differences in ideas about how to govern it," ponders Pitamber, a man who gives shelter to the widow. But her influence on Pitamber and his family, which almost splits apart after she moves in, drives the action far more than the violence in her past...
REVIVED. The estate claim of Anna Nicole Smith, 38, ex-stripper and widow of Texas billionaire J. Howard Marshall; by the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned a 2004 appeals court ruling that federal judges did not have jurisdiction over Texas probate matters; in Washington. The high court's unanimous ruling does not settle Smith's 11-year fight with Marshall's son Pierce but allows her to continue her pursuit of some $500 million from her husband's estate...
...Pegeen’s naïve concept of romance prevents her from seeing Christy’s lack of substance, and it’s this portrayal that Lloyd-Bollard brings to life particularly vividly.Catherine P. Walleck ’06 presents a complex character well as the Widow Quin, a predatory townswoman who battles with Pegeen to win the affections of Christy but who must also deal with the advances and questions of Old Mahon, Christy’s father, who seeks revenge for his son’s ungratefulness. Walleck is ending her career in theater...
...showtune worthy keyboards. The Furnaces aren’t all fun and games, however. The album’s strongest track, “Teach Me Sweetheart,” is a harrowing portrait of loneliness, sexual frustration, and paranoia. Eleanor sings from the perspective of a young widow wasting away in the loveless home of her deceased husband’s family. She invites “brave young bachelors” to rescue her from her isolation, and imagines that her relatives-in-law are plotting her murder. Eleanor’s vocal performance is raw and affecting...