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Oct 26, 2017 · A Look Back at the Crime Scene Photos That Changed How Murder is Documented. A Parisian police clerk created scientific methods for capturing images of murder and mayhem. By: Stassa...
Jul 7, 2022 · Also known throughout her life by the names Tonya Hughes, Tonya Tadlock, and Sharon Marshall, The Girl in the Picture depicts the investigation that saw the appalling crimes of Franklin Delano Floyd exposed and her true identity confirmed.
Mar 31, 2017 · Francine Hughes, the Dansville woman who killed her abusive ex-husband 40 years ago in what came to be known as the “Burning Bed” case, has passed away.
Mar 21, 2019 · Francine Hughes Killed Her Abusive Husband—And Changed U.S. Views on Domestic Violence. Her ordeal helped draw attention to a national epidemic of spousal abuse. By: Erin Blakemore. Updated:...
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
Mar 31, 2017 · Francine Hughes Wilson, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity after setting her abusive ex-husband on fire as he slept in 1977, a homicide dramatized in the TV movie "The Burning Bed"...
Mar 31, 2017 · A mostly female jury acquitted Hughes of first-degree murder charges in the watershed case, finding her not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
