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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 ...
The house was originally built in 1927 and redesigned in 1984 by businessman Mark Slotkin. The property boasts a pool and private tennis court, alongside a two-story guesthouse and two-car garage.
Tony Hughes, a deaf and mute man, was Jeffrey Dahmer's 12th victim, and is depicted in a new Netflix series. Here's what Hughes' mother said about his death.
The 46-year-old is now sharing an appeal to reunite the 135 photos and hopes to make contact with the family. She told BBC Radio Derby : "I just hope I find them through social media, it will be ...
You Only Live Twice - The Incredibly True Story of the Hughes Family is a 2010 Australian documentary film, written and directed by Brendan Young, covering four generations of the Hughes family. It looks at Richard, a ventriloquist, his son Richard , a journalist and spy, Dick , a journalist and musician, and Christa Hughes, a performer. [ 1 ]
Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd both left the Top Rank nightclub in Swansea without ever making it home. Their bodies were discovered later in Llandarcy. Dubbed the case of the “Saturday Night Strangler”, it became the first documented case of a serial killer in Wales. Joseph Kappen was the real-life perpetrator. [1]