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Monthly Archives August 2008

Candace Newmaker's Murderer: Therapist Connell Watkins Released from Prison

Day 162. Survivors found: 2

Courtesy of AP | ED ANDRIESKI
This is Connell Watkins, photographed while arriving at district court in Golden, Colorado on April 16, 2001.
As you can see, there is nothing particularly out of the ordinary about her. She is neither deformed nor striking in any sense. Black pools of hellfire do not emanate [...]

Posted 05 August 2008 § Candace Newmaker § Conrad Boeding § legal justice § torture tapes ‡ Comments (35) °

Stranger in Strange Lands

Day 160. Survivors found: 2
Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’m back from faraway lands… Can you guess where?

This “traveling for leisure” is a new thing to me. I think I’m finally getting the hang of it though, seeing its appeal beyond the patina of worldliness you immediately acquire if you’ve been overseas a lot.
The time abroad [...]

Posted 03 August 2008 § Candace Newmaker § foster childhood § torture tapes ‡ Comments (5) °