marking my spot.....
Today is August 6 - the 248 day of the year, and there are 147 days till the end of the year,
1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1914 - The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
1924 - The New York "Daily News" debuted the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray.
1962 - Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances
[video=youtube;1DG0cVUd0pI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1DG0cVUd0pI [/video]
1966 - The Beatles album "Revolver" was released in the U.K
1986 - It was revealed that artist Andrew Wyeth had secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor. The works of Helga Testorf had been created over a 15-year period.
1998 - Marie Noe of Philadelphia, PA was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, accused of smothering eight of her children to death between 1949 and 1968. Noe later received 20 years' probation.
2002 - The gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the ocean floor.
BBM She only received 20 years probation!!!!! Unbelievable!!!!
I just had to look her up on Google:
"...Mrs. Noe reportedly told police last year that she suffocated four of the infants but she did not remember the other four deaths. She said she was probably responsible for all of them, though. Rudenstein then said his client's confession was taken under "abominable circumstances" and she was led to believe she had no choice but to sign it.
Since her arrest, Mrs. Noe had been released from jail on $500,000 bond and ordered confined to her home with an electronic monitoring bracelet....
At a bail hearing in August, prosecutors described Mrs. Noe as killer who shouldn't be allowed on the streets. Assistant District Attorney Jay Feinschi called her "as much a mass murderer as Ted Bundy."
Noe gave birth to a total of 10 children. One child was stillborn, and another died in the hospital six hours after birth. The other eight left the hospital, apparently in good health, only to die at home.
With no evidence to show otherwise, doctors and investigators reluctantly concluded that the causes were "crib death," now known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Police, however, never closed the case.
Prior to her plea bargain, Mrs. Noe had faced life in prison. She was ineligible for the death penalty because the law had not been passed at the time of the killings...."
http://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/noe-marie.htm
Unbelievable!!! :gaah:
Sometimes the law stinks, IMO.
