Posted on 04/09/2007 6:16:01 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Deaf lesbian chainsaw murder shocks US
April 09, 2007
THE trial in South Dakota of a deaf, black lesbian accused of murdering a rival and dismembering her with a chainsaw has shocked the rural midwestern US state. Daphne Wright, 43, could become the first woman sent to death row in South Dakota, which has not executed a prisoner in more than 60 years.
Wright is accused of kidnapping and murdering a heterosexual deaf woman, Darlene VanderGiesen, 42, whom she thought was spending too much time with her girlfriend.
Emotional testimony and gruesome exhibits filled the first week of her trial, and worse is to come: prosecutors are expected to show jurors a video of a pig being dismembered with the same type of chainsaw Wright bought two days after VanderGiesen disappeared.
VanderGiesen's mother sobbed and stepped out of the courtroom as jurors passed around her daughter's charred brassiere on Thursday.
But she managed to sit stoically as a maintenance worker described finding her daughter's head and navel wrapped in bags and bed sheets that other witnesses linked to Wright.
Flecks of VanderGiesen's bone and tissue were found hidden under a coat of fresh paint in Wright's basement, where the smell of petrol lingered days after VanderGiesen's charred remains were left in a nearby dumpster and in a steep ravine 30 kilometres away, police testified.
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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/LegalCenter/story?id=2937917&page=1
There’s a headline that can’t resist.
This thread is going to be like watching a pileup on the freeway. You know you shouldn’t look, but . . . .
Sounds like the title to some B movie from the ‘80s.
It’s like an epidemic! Every time I open the paper there’s another deaf lesbian chainsaw murder somewhere in the country! What’s going on???
this is, like, the onion, right?
I sense a movie.
“..deaf, black lesbian..”
Wow — that’s a “protected VIC-tim group” trifecta!!
She (?) will probably get a medal and a parade.....
“The Deaf Lesbian Chainsaw Murder” Can the movie be far behind?
Boy and I have always heard the Gays are such a nice group of people.
Ummm, yeah. She just can't hear, it's not like she can't think.
No special privileges. Do the crime, do the time.
Wasn’t that a metal band? Def Les Perp?
Just 1.5 per cent of Minnehaha County residents are black.
You can just about count on that "question."
Wonder what the lesbian per cent is.
Waiting for someone to tell me why it should matter that she is deaf, black, or a lesbian.
Then you have the sequel, Deaf Lesbian Chainsaw Murder: 2 and then the prequel, Deaf Lesbian Chainsaw Murder: Bloody Beginnings
If she did it, then she deserves the death penalty.
Yahhh, first we had dat Fargo movie about dat guy gitten put in da wood chipper......and now wit dis black lesbian chain saw murder I guess it will be called Sioux Falls
I thought it was a Heavy Metal Band
She qualifies for special treatment over and over again.
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