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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.
Authorities believe that 24-year-old Christine Walker arrived at the family's farmhouse around 4 pm on Saturday, December 19, 1959, where she was raped, then murdered by gunshot. [1] Her husband Cliff, 25, then arrived with their 3-year-old son Jimmie and 1-year-old daughter Debbie. Cliff was ambushed and killed by gunshot. [2]
Killing her husband after years of abuse, and being found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity 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 ...
[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 ...
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.
At the time of her murder, Gretchen was 51 years old and had a 12-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. [1] David Ethan Anthony, originally David Anthony Deutsch, was a fitness trainer. He served a brief stint in jail after holding up a Blockbuster video store with a squirt gun. Anthony was fired in 2017; his manager allowed him to return ...
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 ...
The trial took seven weeks. [4] Campione's lawyer argued that she was not guilty by reason of insanity; they did not dispute that she killed the girls. [6] On November 15, 2010, she was convicted. [5] The jury decided that she was guilty as she knew murder was wrong, despite any presence of mental illness. [7]