How did Pa. State Police finally ID ‘Beth Doe’ and what led them to her long-ago boyfriend?
Updated Apr 02, 2021;
While the dismembered body “Beth Doe” and that of her near full-term fetus which were found in December 1976 in three suitcases near the Lehigh River and an Interstate 80 overpass in the Carbon County borough of East Side were exhumed in 2007 to extract DNA, its placement in a missing person’s database didn’t result in any hits, Pennsylvania State Police report.
Her family never reported her missing, having received a letter in January 1977 stating she had moved to Connecticut with her boyfriend, had the baby and would contact them if she needed anything, police said in court papers.
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Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, 2019. Still from YouTube, Wikimedia Commons
By Jonah Raskin |
SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. English Department purists might complain that Tongo Eisen-Martin doesn’t write “real” poems, that is poems about birds and flowers, and thus shouldn’t be featured this year during National Poetry Month, which as always falls in April.
Eisen-Martin’s first book,
someone’s dead already, was published by Bootstrap Press. His second,
Heaven Is All Goodbyes ($11.17) was published by City Lights in its venerable Pocket Poets Series. Tongo’s brother Biko, an artist and an actor, designed the cover.
The first poem in the volume is titled, “Faceless.” The last is titled “The Oldest Then the Youngest,” and begins, “Grandmother, why don’t you ever talk about your children who the first world murdered?” The grandmother replies, “Because, son, I haven’t run out of knife handles.”
The New York City Department of Corrections spent $447,337 per inmate in fiscal 2020, a third more than a year ago and more than double the fiscal 2015 mark, according to a report released Wednesday by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.
The city is spending more on inmates despite a drop…