Feast Your Eyes (2017). Photo courtesy of the artist.
What we cook and how we cook it speaks volumes about who we are. Coded in every elaborate dinner party spread and humble Monday night meal for one is a picture of where we’re born, where our ancestors come from, and how we live now.
What does your favorite meal say about you? For “RECLAMATION: Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals,” an upcoming virtual exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC, curator Melani N. Douglass wants to know.
Douglass is inviting anyone and everyone to share their favorite recipes through an online form. You’ll be asked to share the ingredient list, a picture, and the directions, as well as some behind-the-scenes fare: from where did this dish come? From whom? How and when do you eat it?
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they also found bloody pieces of carpet and a blood-stained sweat shirt. it was a sweatshirt that had graphics on it of sign language. we knew right there there was a tie to the deaf community. testing proved it was darlene s blood on the sweatshirt, but someone else s dna was found inside the sweatshirt. i took cuttings from the inside of the sweatshirt hoping that one of them had transferred enough dna or skin cells inside. to get a full profile. i was fortunate and did get a profile and that matched daphne wright. by being able to put daphne wright inside a sweatshirt that had car len s blood and tissue on the front of it was extremely important. the sweatshirt was critically important in this case but it was one of the few pieces that
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bottle of chainsaw oil and we found a receipt from ace hardware for a chainsaw. this is a time of year in south dakota where chainsaws are not in huge demand. but there was no chainsaw in daphne s house or on her property. downstairs the basement had been painted with blue paint. there would be a spot painted here and a spot painted there and different sizes, parts of the wall, not a whole wall, a three or four foot section of the wall but not all the wall, parts of the steps but not all the steps. a few feet away was a small room that once had been used to store coal. the floor had been painted with this blue paint that was still tacky and soft to the touch indicating that it was recently painted. police also noticed several cuts in the concrete floor. detectives also made the comment it looks like chainsaw marks. law enforcement began the investigation by going to the ace hardware stores in town.
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take care of it was to eliminate her from the picture. but investigators still had a problem. they didn t have darlene s body. a jury like as body. a jury likes a murder weapon, and you just never know. you get that one skeptical juror who doesn t see the body and there s enough doubt to say not guilty in case like that. in the search police checked the dumpster where daphne and her neighbors disposed of the trash. by the time the officers got there, the dumpsters had been dumped into the garbage truck and taken out to the city landfill. the police went out to the sioux falls landfill, a 470-acre property that serves five counties and almost a quarter of a million people. it was estimated that there was probably two to three dozen tons of garbage brought out in the days that we had been looking for darlene. it s below zero with the frigid windchill.
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