In this True Crime post some older cases get new attention.
We've got some new insight into the logic of Mary Winkler's jurors. Not that the logic makes sense. Also, John Mark Karr, heh, the Jonbenet nut arrested.
Also, an 11 yr old drinks and drives, a child stabs her 8 yr old brother and another horrific gang rape.
Finally, a reader discovers a sex pervert teaching dancing to the children he abused. Pic of the Day
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Classic Quotes by Helen Keller (1880-1968) U.S. writer A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks. --------------- All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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Male or Female? 1) Ziploc Bags are Male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them. 2) Copiers are Female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again. It's an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can wreak havoc if the wrong buttons are pushed. 3) A Tire is Male, because it goes bald and it's often over-inflated. 4) A Hot Air Balloon is Male, because, to get it to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under it, and of course, there's the hot air part.
5) Sponges are Female, because they're soft, squeezable and retain water. 6 ) A Web Page is Female, because it's always getting hit on. 7) A Subway is Male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up.
8) An Hourglass is Female, because over time, the weight shifts to the bottom.
9) A Hammer is Male, because it hasn't changed much over the last 5,000 years, but it's handy to have around. 10) A Remote Control is Female. Ha! You thought it'd be male, didn't you? But consider this - it gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying!
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Mary Winkler-STILL That Jury Verdict Makes No Sense
Mary Winkler woke up one fine morning, went and fetched a shotgun then shot her sleeping husband. Matthew Winkler remained alive long enough to know what happened to him, to ask his wife "Why?" and to hear his wife round up his children and hear as all left him laying too far from a phone to call for help.
Mary Winkler claimed she was abused by Matthew Winkler. The jury found her guilty of manslaughter and she should be out of jail soon.
Well I've ranted plenty over this jury verdict but in the interest of continuing research into the mind of fools, I tuned into ABC's recent showing of "20/20", which featured a segment on those Winkler jurors.
I'm one of the biggest fans of our jury system, the OJ jury notwithstanding. Every day ordinary citizens make the most difficult of decisions that would take away the freedom of their co-citizens and 99.99% of the time they do a far better job than a paid juror or jurors could possibly do. The OJ jury almost cut my faith in juries off at the knees but I survived. The Winkler juror still leaves me stunned speechless. In
this Blog post I challenged a Winkler juror to tell me what was the logic of finding this woman guilty of such a lesser crime that she may be free with less than a year served.
No Winkler juror contacted me as challenged and the ABC show with many of the Winkler jurors interviewed, didn't enlighten me one whit.
I will say this about the "20/20" show of which I write: It did convince me that Matthew Winkler might not have been such a nice man. For snippets of the Winkler trial revealed several people testifying of some nasty things Winkler did to wife Mary. Up until this viewing I had serious doubts as to Mary's assertion that husband Matt was very mean. Matthew Winkler was "mean" folks, not a nice fellow. So far as I've been able to ascertain, he was NOT what I would call an abuser.
Matthew's secretary at the church where he was minister testified that she'd often heard Matthew speaking to his wife in a loud, abrasive and angry manner. Several of the Winkler neighbors were interviewed by the ABC hostess and they too said that they'd witnessed Matthew's nastiness to his wife.
I tend to believe these people far more than I believe either Matthew or Mary's family, although plenty of them told their version of life in the Winkler household. Nobody, not even Mary Winkler, testified or suggested that Matthew had ever physically abused either his wife or his children. In fact, Matthew's young daughter testified that she'd never witnessed any abuse by her father to her mother.
So hey, I've been married to a nasty man. I didn't wake up one morning and kill the guy. We don't get to kill nasty husbands even if they do ask us to wear platform heels and wig during sex.
Several of the Winkler jurors were interviewed by ABC and I've got a video snippet of one such interview.

For you see, that jury BELIEVED Mary Winkler. They BELIEVED that she was mistreated, they believed that Matthew regularly berated her, they believed that because he was a minister he should be the last husband on earth to be so mean.
Well yeah. Still, in America we simply do not get a free pass to kill people like this, however much they deserve to die. Mary Winkler only should have gotten a free pass had her life or that of her children been in danger. Mary herself admits this was never the case.
I'll stop now. Click the video below because I think I've captured the segment that mosts illustrates that jury's logic and mindset.
Matthew Winkler did not deserve to die for his "crime" and Mary Winkler had every chance to walk away from the man. Instead she shot him dead and a jury of her peers thought this was just fine and dandy. Let us hope that none of that jury's family or spouses up and decide that they too are mean and need to die.
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