#murder victims

[oldtimeytim]

“𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩…𝙩𝙝𝙚…𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡…?”

Huzzah I’m back and I’ve finally finished it

[goingtiny]

Artist Transforms ‘Harry Potter’ Books into Portraits Honoring Murdered Trans Women

Tai Ericson creates portraits of murdered trans women using ‘Harry Potter’ books, with part of proceeds supporting trans advocacy.

Vermont-based artist Tai Ericson has turned a beloved fantasy series into a poignant protest: portraits of transgender women who were murdered, crafted from the pages of Harry Potter books.

Ericson’s project began earlier this year, responding to J.K. Rowling’s widely criticized statements on trans issues. “Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights,” the artist declares on their website. Each portrait is a tribute to lives lost and a statement against ongoing anti-trans rhetoric.

[dhmrsbeer]

Making a post about Steven Hicks (Jeff's first victim) and I found a photo of him I'd never seen before somehow

[love4columbine]

“She was beautiful, she was gracious, intelligent, loved life, loved her friends, loved animals, she simply loved everything.”

- Nedra Paugh (JonBenét’s grandmother)

[and95blog]

Sharon Tate (1943-1969)

American actress and model. During the 1960s, she played small television roles before appearing in films and was regularly featured in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic acting performances, Tate was hailed as one of Hollywood's most promising newcomers.

Sharon Tate (24.01.1943 - 09.08.1969)

She made her film debut in 1961 in Barabbas with Anthony Quinn. She was seen next in 1966 with the occult-themed Eye of the Devil. Her most remembered performance was as Jennifer North in the 1967 cult classic film, Valley of the Dolls, earning her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Tate's last completed film, 12+1, was released posthumously in 1969, with the actress receiving top billing.

On January 20, 1968, Tate married Roman Polanski, her director and co-star in 1967's The Fearless Vampire Killers.

On August 9, 1969, Tate and four others were murdered by members of the Manson Family in the home she shared with Polanski. At the time of her death, she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with the couple's son. She was 26.\

A decade after Tate's murder, the actress' mother, Doris Tate, in response to the growing cult status of the killers and the possibility of them being granted parole, organized a public campaign that resulted in amendments to the California criminal law. Tate's mother went on to say that the law would "help transform Sharon's legacy from murder victim to a symbol of victims' rights". A book by Tate's sister, Debra Tate, titled Sharon Tate: Recollection, was released in 2014.

[rhirhidamiengurl666]

Looking at these sickening comments about those murdered children and adults from that terrible act against humanity in England on social media, because you hate someone’s political, and religious beliefs that don’t matches yours that it makes you looks like a lowlife human being just the coward who had done the heinous act. I’d been questioning the morals of this society ever since my sister was brutally murdered that people were making insensitive comments about her and other victims online. Remember murder victims can’t defend themselves and show some respect to their grieving families.

[elisabethloxx]

Photographs of murdered beauty queen and schoolteacher Irene Garza from her McAllen High School Yearbook, 1951.

Garza was the first Latina twirler and drum majorette at McAllen High School. Her classmates voted her Band Queen in 1951.

[elisabethloxx]

Richard Speck victim Suzanne Farris appears as a young girl with a prayer card from her funeral on July 18, 1966. Her brother, John Farris, still carries the photo and prayer card in his wallet 50 years later. 

The Farris family lived in a quiet, tree-lined Far South Side neighborhood called Fair Elms. Their father, John, had attended seminary, changed his mind about the priesthood and married a young woman, Mary, who had grown up three blocks from him. In the family's two-bedroom Cape Cod home, Suzie and her older sister, Marilyn, shared a bedroom. John had his own. Their parents slept on a hide-a-bed in the living room. 

When John thinks about growing up with Suzie, he thinks about the kitchen. In that small room, with its linoleum floor and overhead light, Suzie taught him how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and how, if you mixed sour cream and dry onion soup mix, presto, you had French onion dip.

The kitchen is where he and Suzie shared lunch, usually made by their dad, who worked afternoons while their mother worked days. It's where Suzie taught him, as a 10-year-old, to play solitaire.

"You know," he said, "older sisters take care of you and I always felt taken care of. You're afraid in life, and here's someone who is comforting you.''The kitchen was also home to the family cookie jar, a white canister that said "Cooky" on the front, a detail he retains because "Cooky" was his father's nickname for Suzie.

He remembers that after she died, when the mourners came, their father wept and moaned, “Cooky, Cooky, Cooky.”