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every good man knows Madge Oberholtzer was trapped in this house of crime…forced to drink a drugged drink…abused shamefully until her body was marked by the teeth of this less than man and less than beast. I think I can appreciate her frame
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“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.”
― The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
― The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
“One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts.”
― The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer
― The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer
“Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.”
― Only In New England: The Story of A Gaslight Crime
― Only In New England: The Story of A Gaslight Crime
“In America, there's no idea so patently absurd that it can't catch on.”
― The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
― The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
“I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”
― Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
― Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
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