Mary Atwell stood beside shelves piled high with books on a recent morning, looking up at seemingly endless stacks of publications representing more than a century of Hood College history.
Organized by the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, the vigils sought to amplify the movement s message as two bills that would abolish capital punishment begin working their way through
The last time a woman was executed for a federal crime, a kidnapping riveted the nation
Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post
Jan. 10, 2021
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The judge called it the most coldblooded, brutal murder he had ever tried. News articles described it as the most horrible kidnapping in decades, or as the St. Louis Dispatch wrote, a tale of evil, stupidity and corruption.
On September 28, 1953, Bonnie Brown Heady walked into Notre Dame de Sion, a Catholic school in Kansas City, Mo., and posed as the aunt of Bobby Greenlease, the 6-year-old son of one of the city s richest men. She and her boyfriend, Carl Austin Hall, kidnapped the boy and demanded ransom from his parents. They picked up a duffel bag of $600,000, the largest ransom ever paid at that point, and promised to return the boy safely to his family.
i know what you want. my idea, i take a lot of heat for this. we haven t found a complete cannon yet, okay, that s up there. we found the muzzle of one. but that s not good enough for him. not good enough. it blew up when it was fired. bly, is there an artifact that you d like to find? go ahead, you go. oh, goodness gracious. you know, we have almost found everything you can imagine from straight pins to guns. i love them all, so that s a hard question for me. here s williamsburg, virginia. jeff, go ahead with your comment or question. caller: hi, dr. kelso, i met you and the curator a couple years ago. my name is jeff. my question is from 1607 to 1699, and i understand a lot of the records burned, but there were quite a number of ships that arrived in jamestown probably 100 or 1,000. is there any detailed book that you used in your research that describes those ships arriving and possibly who was on those ships? during that time period. well, to my expe