Yesterday, over at The Writer's Almanac I read about March 26 being the birthday of author Kate DiCamillo.
I did a search for Curt DiCamillo and found that he is listed in Wikipedia and is now a well-known personality, of sorts.
Also, in 1987, on March 26, responding to a 911 call, police raided the Philadelphia home of Gary Heidnik and find an appalling crime scene. In the basement of Heidnik's dilapidated house was a veritable torture chamber where three naked women were found chained to a sewer pipe. A fourth woman, Josefina Rivera, had escaped and called police.
Six women were kidnapped and held in Heidnik's dungeon. All were raped and tortured while the others were forced to watch. He killed one of the women by putting her in the pit, filling it with water and putting a live electrical wire into the water. Another of the women was killed when Heidnik let her starve to death while chained to the wall. In perhaps the most grisly and horrid episode of the entire incident, Heidnik dismembered one of his victims, cooking parts of her body and feeding it to his other captives.
Gary Heidnik
Although Heidnik was clearly mentally disturbed, he was found guilty and convicted of murder on July 1, 1988. He received a death sentence, and was executed on July 6, 1999.
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Oh... and by the way: A New Orleans judge ruled last Thursday that a law forbidding felons from owning firearms infringes their rights to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the state's newly amended constitution.
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WORD FOR TODAY
happenstance [hap-uhn-stans]
noun
a chance happening or event.
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“It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.”
--Thomas Pynchon
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