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Lori Hedgpeth
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- Hometown:
- Atlanta, GA
- About Me:
- I am a business professional by day, secret novelist by night, I freely admit my fascination with all things celebrity, old Hollywood, literary and true crime. I have a weird obsession with all things "Pride & Prejudice" and will read nearly any fan fic based on the Austen classic. When not blogging or reading, I enjoy NASCAR (and rooting for Matt Kenseth), baseball (Atlanta Braves, the hometown team) and old movies. I share my home and my life with my husband, son, two dogs, a cat and lots of books and movies.
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- Reader, Writer
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Pride and Prejudice; Jane Austen; Ann Rule; Jerry Bledsoe; Dean Koontz; Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier; Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- The Women (1939); The Thin Man series; Pride and Prejudice (A&E version); Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version)
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Johnny.
The Eastburn woman could have had a lover on the side, one who had no clue she was going to be raped and killed. Since it was so easy to I.D. Hennis, I think it's likely he acted alone. A second person would've been I.D.'d quickly, as well. It almost always works against a criminal when he acts in concert with others. It's the biggest mistake a criminal makes, in fact. The lone wolf always stays out longer.
Styron won the 1967 Pulitzer for Confessions Of Nat Turner, about the slave who murdered several whites in Southampton County in 1831 and was executed for it. He also wrote Sophie's Choice, which was made into a movie with Meryle Streep(sp?), The Long March, and Lie Down In Darkness.
But Hennis was a special kind of killer because he planned the rape and was prepared to kill all in the environment to cover it up, right from the start.
With MacDonald, it was a reaction to stress, a man overworked, popping pills to stay awake, and trying to satisfy an overly demanding wife. Sure, he was later viewed as an egocentric sociopath, but he never planned anything.
In October 1982, at my home in Clinton, I spoke with Dennis Rogers, who, at the time, was a cub reporter in Fayetteville covering the case and knew both the prosecution and defense teams. According to him, the general belief was that MacDonald came home late, as usual, from his second job as an emergency room physician at either Hope Mills or Spring Hope community hospital(can't remember which) and was immediately berated by Collete for one thing or another, especially not completing his renovation or repair of kitchen cabinets or something like that. There was a two-by-four leaning against the doorjamb and he grabbed it in a rage and went to the bedroom and starting hitting her and couldn't stop. But when he cooled down, he systematically killed his children, to cover up the first murder. The first was understandable, though inexcusable, but the others were not. If it hadn't been for killing his children, he'd have served his time, or done psychiatric treatment, or whatever, and been out long ago.
Point of interest: If you might want and haven't yet, and are familiar with the novelist William Styron, his home place is in my old neighborhood, at 129 Chesapeake Boulevard, on the corner of Beechwood Avenue, overlooking the James River at the tip of the Peninsula, just a block or so from Mary Immaculate Hospital. It's a two-story Cape Cod with brown shingles, last I saw it in October.
Surprised one of your involvement in reading hadn't found this site earlier.
So what kind of work took you to Newport News, my hometown?