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SuzieC wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 7:52 pm

keith wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 12:43 am

SuzieC wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 10:11 pm Gaslit. Untold story about Martha Mitchell as the first truth teller about Watergate. She was literally beaten up, gaslighted, and stigmatized as drunk and mentally ill. Julia Roberts is excellent as Martha and Sean Penn loathsome as John Mitchell. But in my opinion, the actor playing G. Gordon Liddy is fantastic and totally captures his howling psychotic insanity.

Yes to everything you said.

But to be fair, she WAS a drunk, and, though I am not a shrink, she probably was mentally ill during some of the more critical events - pushed there by the gaslighting and torture.

Women who were gaslighted, abused and tortured at the time often anesthetized themselves with pills and alcohol. And still do.

Inside ‘Homicide Hunter’ Joe Kenda’s Most Memorable Cases
The veteran lieutenant has investigated everything from a man who choked to death on his own eyeball to a woman whose death he believes was staged to look like suicide.

American Detective, his latest venture, features cases from investigators across the country. Homicide Hunter, which debuted its ninth and final season in 2019, digs into Kenda’s case files and showcases the law enforcement veteran’s most memorable investigations.

Eye of the Beholder

On July 3, 1986, a security guard patrolling a vacant office park on the east side of Colorado Springs found a woman covered in blood sitting next to a dead man who appeared to have been bleeding.

Joe Kenda was called to the scene, where he attempted to speak with the dazed female, Grace Todd. “This girl is falling down drunk, hopeless, drunk,” the lieutenant recalls. “She has many things I want to know, but she’s in no position to tell me.”

While Grace, 25, is sobering up, Kenda tries to figure out how the man died, but he doesn’t observe any visible wounds. “I’m looking at his face. I look at his eye sockets. The orbits around the eyes just look odd to me,” he says.

The reason? Both of the man’s eyeballs were gone.

“I look at his mouth and it doesn’t look right either,” Kenda says. “His lips are kind of protruding, so I pull his lower lip back. There’s an eyeball in his mouth, and it’s looking at me.”

Kenda then learned about Jeff Kelly, a key witness who described to detectives how a woman matching Grace’s description knocked on his door and asked for a phone, telling him she just killed somebody.

According to Kenda, Grace initially denied she had anything to do with Cave’s death but cracked when he told her she was under arrest for murder.

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“She said, ‘Okay, I poked his eyes out, because he tried to get in my pants!’” Kenda says of Grace, who attacked Cave and used her thumbs and index fingers to pull his eyes out of his head.

A coroner determined Cave died from choking to death on one of his eyeballs. “So, the murder weapon is a blue eye,” Kenda says, calling the homicide “another first.”

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Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:10 pm Then I come back here and see The American People's Convoy's Protest thread.

Danraft wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:39 am Thanks for the Carter suggestion—. I just checked it out and it will be watched when I get some time.

First observation is that there is stunning camera work with long continuous shots (or spliced together with carefully used transitions) that direct one’s attention and are a visual feast.

SuzieC wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 2:08 pm The new 8-episode series A League of Their Own on Amazon Prime. It is based upon the 1992 film, but is much more diverse and has prominent LGBT themes. Abbi Jacobson from Broad City heads the cast. She is terrific.