ET: Joseph Morley

I had an Executed Today entry posted today: Joseph Morley, a seventeen-year-old boy who, in 1887, brutally murdered his landlady for no apparent reason. He was hanged one month and ten days after the killing. The wheels of justice ground much more quickly then, although not so fine.

Awesome article on the Benjamin Kyle case

I thought I would share with you a comprehensive retelling of the famous unidentified man “Benjamin Kyle”, who is unidentified no longer, and the twelve-year search to give him back his name. Given my line of work, I’ve known about the case since the outset, but never followed it closely. This is a really good article about it. It’s really long, but it kind of has to be, as the case is so mysterious and took so long to come to a conclusion.

Make-a-List Monday: Bus Stops

This week’s MALM is of MPs who were last seen at the bus stop or bus station. It seems to me that people, especially women and children, are kind of vulnerable at bus stops. They’re often standing close to the curb, within grabbing distance of passing motorists. People who are waiting for the bus are often tired, distracted, perhaps hungry, perhaps with their hands full of shopping or whatever, and just generally not at their best. Maybe the weather is terrible; maybe it’s raining or snowing or blisteringly cold, or maybe it’s humid and 95 degrees in the shade. And anyone who’s waiting for a bus obviously wants to go somewhere, and if someone pulls up and offers them a car ride to their destination — especially if it’s someone they know — the person might just say yes.

I did exclude people who were last seen walking towards or away from a bus stop. There are quite a few of those. But if a person was at the bus stop about to leave, or was about to board or even had already boarded, I put them on the list (provided, in the latter instance, that the bus hadn’t left yet).

1. Ashok Ankam
2. Paget Renee Barr
3. Carol Ann Batterman
4. Susan Robin Bender
5. James Elwood Brady
6. Allen Briscoe Jr.
7. Larhonda Marie Bronson
8. Jose Moreno Caballero
9. Fernando Paul Cardenas
10. Kevin Andrew McCarthy Collins
11. Ingrid Siomara Contreras
12. Thwana Mithsell Darrough
13. Kimberly Sue Doss
14. Jeremiah Edward Foco*
15. Mary Frances Gregory
16. Gwendolyn M. Hooser
17. Sandra Lee Hopler
18. Rita Mae Hughes
19. Barbara Ann Hutchinson
20. Rochelle Maria Ihm
21. Willie Mae Jackson
22. Matthew Ellis Keith
23. Joseph A. Krainak Jr.
24. Alexandria Joy Lowitzer
25. Faloma Luhk
    
26. Maleina Quitugua Luhk
27. Suzanne Gloria Lyall
28. Heather Ann MacCrossen
29. Kimberly Ann Mallard
30. Pedro Castro Martinez
31. Marta Alicia Michel
32. Jackson Alexander Miller
33. Alan Lee Morse
34. Judith Erin O’Donnell
35. Ariza Maria Olivares
36. Carmen Maria Owens
37. Byron Eric Page
38. Francisco Robles Perez
39. Annette Deanne Sagers
40. Philistin Saintcyr
41. Lloyd Melvin Thomas
42. Kimberly Faye Thrower
43. Delight Marie Watson
44. John Albert Weichelt
45. Billy Wellman
46. Francis Loretta Heath Wells
47. Nancy Debra Willis

*maybe