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  • Adeline Watkins: The Woman Who Claimed to Be Ed Gein's Girlfriend, Then Took It Back

    “He didn’t come right out and say it,” she explained, “but I knew what he meant.” Watkins painted a picture of an awkward but caring man, someone who walked her home at night and never Some papers hinted that the relationship explained his hatred of women: that her rejection might have She denied ever entering his home or calling him “sweet.” Ed Gein’s Women In Gein’s twisted imagination, women occupied a strange dual role: both idolised and

  • Marcus Wesson: The Horrific History of the 'Vampire God' of Fresno

    At some point he slipped back inside. She'd come to take him home that afternoon and never saw him alive again. Some of the nine children killed on 12 March 2004. Some of the girls still wanted ordinary lives. Some of the family stayed loyal.

  • John Lennon's Last Day: The Photo, the Interview and the Five Shots at the Dakota

    He was forty, he was making records again after five years at home with his son, and Double Fantasy was The reason there was a cover story to shoot at all was that Lennon had come back. The plan was to go home, say goodnight to Sean and then head out to the Stage Deli. Some estimates for the New York crowd ran much higher. He was walking home with that work in his hands when he died.

  • The Boys Who Ran Away to New York: How Two Dublin Kids Fooled the World in 1985

    in the 1980s: A Place to Dream Big To understand the trip, it helps to picture where the boys were coming the ferry pulled out of Dún Laoghaire harbour, Keith and Noel were already a long way further from home spending money and sending them home with I Love New York t-shirts as souvenirs. Back home, the moment police told Keith's mother where her son actually was became a story in itself. Keith was sent to boarding school not long after coming home.

  • How Stetson Kennedy Took on the Ku Klux Klan from the Inside

    Yet Kennedy’s moral education did not come from drawing rooms or family lore. Rather than accept a desk bound role, he reframed his sense of patriotism. In the American South, it wore robes rather than uniforms. Week after week, he attended meetings held in private homes, rented halls, and rural clearings. Kennedy’s home was firebombed multiple times. Death threats became routine.

  • Paul and Linda McCartney's Mugging in Lagos and the Recording of 'Band On The Run'

    Walking home from a friend's house in Lagos in September 1973, they were stopped by a car of five or Fela accused McCartney of coming to Nigeria to steal African music, and it took a studio visit and a Nigeria had come out of a brutal civil war only three years earlier, and by 1973 the country's oil revenue house nearby, and decided to walk the twenty minutes home rather than accept a lift, enjoying the warm The car disappeared for good this time, and the two of them walked the rest of the way home shaking,

  • Handfasting: The Real History Behind Scotland's Year-and-a-Day Marriages

    The idea mostly comes from an 18th century travel book and a Walter Scott novel. It comes from the Old Norse handfesta, meaning to strike a bargain by joining hands. That Roman connection got bolted onto the handfasting story too, with some writers claiming the custom The closest thing to an eyewitness comes from a letter written in 1796 and later reprinted in the New Some couples still make renewable vows that last a year and a day before deciding whether to carry on

  • The True Gangsters Behind Goodfellas: A Dive into the Real-Life Crime Stories

    Burke was sentenced to 20 years for his role in the Boston College point-shaving scandal and received Gina, and lived together with Karen’s parents before moving into their own place as Henry’s status rose After his role in the Lufthansa heist, DeSimone continued his violent streak, even killing Parnell “Stacks Things came to a head during a “welcome home” celebration at Robert’s Lounge, a bar owned by Henry Hill In front of a crowd, Batts joked about DeSimone’s past as a shoeshine boy, saying, “Go home and get your

  • The Rollercoaster Life and Loves of Errol Flynn

    Does "in like Flynn" actually come from his rape trial? He hated it and lasted about a year before heading home in 1926. They had a daughter, Arnella Roma Flynn, born on Christmas Day 1953. The strangest detail of his death didn't come out until later. He’s at hospital, but is coming home in the morning”.

  • Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, A Quiet Love Story Hiding in Plain Sight

    They shared homes on and off for over a decade in the 1930s and 40s, and the studios openly publicised But the sight of two unattached men openly co-managing a home life together was unusual enough to make A Home With a View and a Portrait of Domestic Ease Randolph Scott had family resources, a thick Southern Some accounts from that circle were tender and direct. another man to share a bed, a moment of open queerness that confused 1935 audiences enough to send some

  • John Peel: The DJ Who Introduced New Music to the World

    The Fall, the Festive Fifty and Home Truths If Peel had one true love in music, it was the Fall. From 1998 he presented Home Truths on BBC Radio 4, a warm and often very funny show about family life , much of it drawn from his own household at Peel Acres, the family home in Suffolk. It's been estimated at around 25,000 LPs and 40,000 singles, plus thousands of CDs, home movies and his the way it did and countless electronic, reggae and metal acts would've gone unheard outside their home

  • Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan: The Beirut Hostage Crisis

    how they were taken, what happened to them while they were gone, and how each of them eventually came home He took a teaching post at the American University of Beirut, partly to put some distance between himself and the Troubles back home. He later said he'd come too far to back out and chose to go through with it. Brian Keenan: The First to Go Home Keenan was released into Syrian custody on August 24, 1990, after

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