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The Murder Of The Manchester Model

It reads like a line from a clever whodunnit:

The aspiring actress told an operator: “I can’t breathe. I’ve been stabbed. Please help me. I’m dying. He’s stabbed me to death.”

There’s something about the murder mystery that holds a unique place in our popular lore, from Hitchcock to Agatha Christie to CSI. Such mysteries are fun and intellectually diverting…

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Familicides And Seeing Our Children As Chattel

In my first year of law school we studied the Kitty Genovese murder. In 1964 a young woman in Queens, New York, was stalked and stabbed, then stalked and stabbed, repeatedly, over almost an hour, outside her apartment complex, as her cries for help were heard but ignored by no less than 38 of her neighbors.  It was a…

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