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Margaret Clitherow (née Middleton, c. 1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English recusant, [2] and a saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, [3] known as The Pearl of York.She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests.
Betty Broderick was born Elizabeth Anne Bisceglia [note 1] on November 7, 1947, and grew up in Bronxville, New York. [4] She was the third of six children born to Marita (née Curtin; 1919–2007) [5] and Frank Bisceglia (1915–1998), [6] who owned a successful plastering business with relatives.
Walburga Oesterreich (née Korschel; 1880 – April 8, 1961), nicknamed "Dolly" and "Queen of Los Angeles", was a German-born American housewife, married to a wealthy textile manufacturer Fred William Oesterreich (December 8, 1877 – August 22, 1922), who gained notoriety for the shooting death of her husband and the subsequent bizarre revelation that she had kept her lover, Otto Sanhuber ...
From 1992 to at least 2011, she was imprisoned at Central California Women's Facility before being transferred to California Institution for Women. Throughout her incarceration, she reportedly maintained a number of long distance relationships. In 2006, Omaima claimed to have become a born-again Christian. Around the same time, she gained the ...
Barbara Daly Baekeland (September 28, 1921 – November 17, 1972) [1] was a wealthy American socialite who was the ex-wife of Brooks Baekeland, the grandson of Bakelite inventor Leo Baekeland. She was murdered at her London home when her son, Antony Baekeland, stabbed her with a kitchen knife, killing her almost instantly.
James Tissot, The Beatitudes Sermon, c. 1890, Brooklyn Museum. The Beatitudes (/ b i ˈ æ t ɪ tj u d z /) are blessings recounted by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–10 within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, and four in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke, followed by four woes which mirror the blessings.
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story is a 1992 American drama TV movie directed by Dick Lowry and written by Joe Cacaci. It chronicles the events of the true crime case of Betty Broderick murdering her ex-husband, Daniel, and his second wife, Linda, on November 5, 1989.
Joan Vollmer (February 4, 1923 – September 6, 1951) [2] was an influential participant in the early Beat Generation circle. While a student at Barnard College, she became the roommate of Edie Parker (later married to Jack Kerouac).