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He Was a Dead Man Walking
A case that captured a nation and crippled a community. This is the true story of a double homicide of two teenagers as told by Detective Russell Duplantis. Little did Detective Duplantis know how close to home this case would become. The year was 1977. The location was Iberia Parish Louisiana. The suspects were Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Eddie James Sonnier, two brothers that were serial rapists who one night became murderers. This was the first case to test the new death penalty laws established in the United States. Detective Duplantis has been haunted by this case for over forty years. It is only now that he decided to tell his story. A case that saw Eddie James Sonnier get life in prison and Elmo Patrick Sonnier get the death penalty and ultimately executed in the electric chair in 1984.
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Evoking Justice
What would you do if you were given access to a window into the past? Staring out of the window, the social nuances wouldn't be obvious. Without context, the view might show abject squalor, poverty and ignorance but not enough to understand how people responded to such detrimental societal influences. Criminals would have been dealt with relative to the times, reflective of civic tolerances and in stark contrast to our contemporary collective consciences; which have evolved for a reason. Would you really want to go back and evoke justice from the past? One woman did just that and with the help of a friend, managed to turn back time. She didn't stop to consider in her mission, that just because she had the determination to achieve her goal didn't necessarily mean she should. She put her faith in fate, and fate gave her much more of an insight than anticipated…
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Danger, Darkness and Destitution in Nineteenth Century Britain
Victorian England was swamped in numerous of horrific headlines of baby farming and murder. Not all were dark shadowy figures stalking behind cobbled streets, many were trusted faces with inviting adverts in the local gazettes, while at the end of the 19th century, most people were shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper, often just as gory murders were happening. Amelia Dyer, the infamous baby killer known as the ‘angel maker’, spent three decades on a secret dark world and murdered 200 infants, possibly more. Many more killers were whose lives had taken a turn for the worst, known as unfortunates, had taken to crime to survive one of the most difficult times in the city’s history. These few stories alone show how dangerous London was in the Victorian era.
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