#true crime.

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A tribute to Ben Goodspeed. RIP.

You were so talented 🖤

https://www.artstation.com/bengoodspeed

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Carnage Park (2016)

Carnage Park (2016) The director, Mickey Keating, seems to know nothing but the world of horror. He can’t be said to be a very varied director who takes risks. He remains well and truly in his comfort zone, which I’ll describe as ‘shocking just to shock’! An American crime thriller that becomes a game of survival. Keating described Carnage Park as a nod to the films of Sam Peckinpah and Peter…

Carnage Park (2016)

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clodia-metelli replied to your post “Hooreman spends a lot of time thinking about Pallot, wondering when...”

I LOVE TERRIBLE FORGERY STORIES. This is so good, has everything. If you like this, you'll like: the Knoedler Gallery!

“I want you to put aside the fancy art words like ‘connoisseurship’ and ‘catalogue raisonné’ that the supposed experts use,” he said in his opening. On the courtroom screen, he projected a scoreboard, which listed what he claimed to be the facts of the case. The scoreboard had buzzer sound effects that went off every time he produced a new fact. The judge, Paul G. Gardephe, who said on several occasions that his preference was to meet on federal holidays and who never let court out before 5 p.m., was having none of this. Gardephe frowned throughout almost the entire trial—his face drooped in either heavy concentration or mere annoyance. He would sometimes uphold an objection by saying, “Sustained, sustained, sustained,” in the tone of a disappointed parent, with a heavy exhale and a slow shake of his head, as if the lawyer should have known better than to do something that would be objected to. “Please cut out the sound effects,” he told Schmerler.

Clarick, Crowell, and Reisbaum had to prove that Freedman acted with fraudulent intent and not just negligence—a tall order, according to Nikas and Schmerler. (Nikas, in fact, presented a short animation in his own opening that addressed this difficulty: it showed a stick figure climbing up a tall mountain, and atop the mountain was the word “fraud.”)

You were right!

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(true crime.)

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Facing debts of £4.4 million, 50-year-old Christopher Foster told a friend:

‘They're not having my stuff. I will top myself. They will carry me out of the house in a box'.  

Having hidden his financial woes from his wife and 15-year-old daughter, Foster decided to take matters into his own hands, and in 2008 shot them both in the back of the head in their 5 bedroom mansion in Shropshire.  Following the murders, Foster went outside and shot their dogs and horses, before setting fire to the family home and blocking the property entrance with a horse box.  Once alight, Foster walked back into the property, where his body was discovered lying on top of his wife.