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Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
The Burning Bed is a 1984 television drama film starring Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, and Richard Masur.Based on the 1980 non-fiction novel of the same name by Faith McNulty, it follows battered housewife Francine Hughes and her trial for the murder of her abusive husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes.
The following year, her role as battered wife Francine Hughes in the fact-based television movie The Burning Bed (1984) earned her the first of her four Emmy Award nominations. [37] The project was the first television movie to provide a nationwide 800 number that offered help for others in the situation, in this case victims of domestic abuse ...
Hurley (1885), a judge ruled that public education be accessible for Chinese children. Sadly, the school denied Tape's daughter entry again on the grounds that she didn't have her vaccinations. Still, Tape fought to end school segregation -- and made headway – several decades before the monumental Brown v.
The fire was caused by a blown fuse when a laptop was being plugged in, family said.
Today, Hughes lives with his wife of 16 years, Linda Leach-Hughes, in one of the property’s original homes, just across the street from the house he was raised in.
Francine Hughes (1947–2017), battered wife who killed her husband Mickey in self defense after 13 years of horrific domestic abuse. She was the inspiration of the book The Burning Bed, which took place in Dansville; Sam Williams (1931–2013), American football player
Today, Liza is a horse sculptor who lives in upstate New York, per the New York Post. She was married to Hap Tivey from 1984 to 2003, and they have two children: Quinn and Rhys Tivey.