AN ESSAY ON MURDER, MEDIA MAYHEM AND THE CONDITION OF THE CULTURE by Michael Tracey FOR PATSY RAMSEY, SHERRY KEENE-OSBORNE, and BARB SMITH Courageous and Good Ladies All Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumbers’ chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood’s…