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Lorena W. Weeks (born 1929) was the plaintiff in an important sex discrimination case, Weeks v. Southern Bell (1969). She claimed that Southern Bell had violated her rights under the 1964 Civil Rights Act when they denied her application for promotion to a higher paying position because she was a woman.
John Wayne Bobbitt (born 1967) and Lorena Bobbitt (née Gallo; born May 15, 1969) [1] [2] were an American former couple, married on June 18, 1989, [2] [3] whose relationship received international press coverage in 1993 when Lorena severed John's penis with scissors while he was asleep in bed; the penis was successfully surgically reattached.
Jesse Lorena is thought to have resided in Hong Kong for more than eight years, [5] originally worked as a domestic helper, [5] but transitioned to a "part-time disc jockey in a pub" at the time of the murder. [4] Lorena was last seen at around 20:45 on 31 October 2014, outside a pub in the Wan Chai red light district, and spoke briefly to ...
Sylvia Roberts (1933–2014) was an American lawyer known for legal work on behalf of patients at the East Louisiana State Hospital's Forensic Unit, for the National Organization for Women's (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDEF), as an educator and advocate for the legal rights of women in Louisiana, and on the behalf of victims of domestic violence.
Michael Dewayne Johnson (May 27, 1977 – October 19, 2006) was a criminal sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Jeff Wetterman. Johnson committed suicide 15 hours before his scheduled execution. Johnson committed suicide 15 hours before his scheduled execution.
On March 2, 2020, Letecia Stauch was arrested in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on charges of first-degree murder of a child by a person in a position of trust, child abuse resulting in death, tampering with a deceased human body, and tampering with physical evidence. [4] She was extradited to Colorado and held without bond at the El Paso County ...
She left the apartment with the severed appendage and drove her car to the nail salon where she worked. She threw the penis out of the car window into a roadside field during her commute. It was later found and re-attached. After her arrest, Lorena accused John of ongoing domestic violence and marital rape. The story and trial became a headline ...
[8] A note was allegedly found in the house describing a plan to murder her children and commit suicide. [4] According to the arrest affidavit, Beau was shot twice in the head on January 27 while being driven by his mother from soccer practice. [9] Schenecker then drove home and killed Calyx in her room as she was doing her homework on her ...