When I read about the murder of a woman, I do what most women do. I ask: Where did it happen? Was it on the street? In a car? Her home? Did she have an abusive partner? Or was the victim chosen at random? Was there a break-in? Was the victim alone? Was she doing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘murder’
Peace Corps Turns 50 Amid Charges of Rape, Murder and Cover-Up
Posted in Politics, Woman Up, tagged 20/20, benin, kate puzey, murder, peace corps on January 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On the night of March 11, 2009, a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer named Kate Puzey was tied up and knifed on the front porch of her house in West Africa. Her throat was cut. She was killed the way you would slaughter a goat, Puzey’s cousin told ABC’s “20/20″ in a Jan. 15 broadcast. Kate [...]
The Gender of Murder
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Woman Up, tagged amanda knox, femme fatale, jenni-lyn watson, laurie bembenek, murder on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Two “femme fatales” were in the news last week. Laurie Bembenek, accused killer turned folk hero (“Run, Bambi, Run”) died of liver cancer at the age of 52 in Portland, Ore. A former Playboy bunny and a Milwaukee police officer, Bembenek was convicted of the 1981 murder of her husband’s ex-wife. She escaped from prison in [...]
Joran van der Sloot, Suspect in Natalee Holloway Case, Confesses to Murder in Peru
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, TV, tagged murder, natalee holloway, stephany flores, van der sloot on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who disappeared five years ago during a vacation in Aruba, is again in the news. On June 7, the prime suspect in her presumed murder, Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, was arrested in Chile after another woman, 21-year-old student Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, was found dead in Lima, Peru. [...]
Lily Burk: Sweet 17, and Dead
Posted in Woman Up, tagged crime, denise amber lee, eve marie carson, lily burk, murder on September 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Her name was Lily Burk, and her friends have gathered on Facebook, which seems to be joining curbside memorials and candlelight vigils as the way we grieve our losses in modern times. Burk, a 17-year-old Los Angeles girl, was in the Wilshire Place neighborhood picking up paperwork for her mother, who taught at the Southwestern [...]
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