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Police: Man Set Girlfriend On Fire
WISN-2 Milwaukee ^ | May 18, 2005

Posted on 05/19/2005 8:24:18 AM PDT by zaxxon

Police: Man Set Girlfriend On Fire

Helen Clark Finch Has Burns On 80 Percent Of Her Body

POSTED: 5:18 pm CDT May 18, 2005

MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee police are searching for a man they said set his girlfriend on fire early Wednesday morning.

Witnesses rushed to save the woman who emerged from her south side apartment in flames at about 12:45 a.m. Wednesday.

"She was just burning. She was actually burning from head to toe. Burning, on fire," neighbor Carla King said. "When I came out, she was laying out here burning."

King said her neighbor, Helen Clarkfinch, was rolling down the hallway ripping her clothes off, screaming at the top of her lungs.

"We took a fire extinguisher, put her out and called 911," King said.

At the same time, witnesses said, the woman's boyfriend, Tommy Wells, was running out of the building -- screaming for her to burn.

"He was saying yesterday (Tuesday) he was going to get her, but he always used to tell us he was going to get her, and whatever, but actually it really happened this time," neighbor Toya Jones said.

Neighbors said the 50-year-old woman they all called, "mama," and her boyfriend argued often, usually accusing the other of cheating and usually while under the influence of alcohol.

"You know they'd argue, but then next thing you know they're kissing and hugging. So I didn't think this was serious," King said.

(Excerpt) Read more at themilwaukeechannel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: frghouls
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1 posted on 05/19/2005 8:24:18 AM PDT by zaxxon
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To: zaxxon

It's Bush's fault


2 posted on 05/19/2005 8:24:44 AM PDT by Betaille (Harry Potter is a Right-Winger)
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To: zaxxon
...So I didn't think this was serious," King said.

A slight miscalculation.

3 posted on 05/19/2005 8:25:43 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Betaille

'It's Bush's fault'

Yes, but you forgot Haliburton.....

/sarcasm


4 posted on 05/19/2005 8:26:59 AM PDT by PilloryHillary (pilloryhillary.com)
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To: zaxxon

At the risk of being totally offensive and classless...

Q: What do you do if you see your ex-girlfiend writhing around on the ground in agonizing pain?

A: Shoot her again.


5 posted on 05/19/2005 8:27:44 AM PDT by oldleft
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To: zaxxon

There's an Old Flame Burnin' in Your Eyes
- Alabama

Come on Baby, Light My Fire
- The Doors

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on Fire
- Bruce Springsteen

You'll Always Be a Fire I Can't Put Out
- George Strait

They Call Me the Fireman
- George Strait


6 posted on 05/19/2005 8:28:36 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: zaxxon

Tommy Wells, was running out of the building -- screaming for her to burn.

8 posted on 05/19/2005 8:29:35 AM PDT by joesnuffy (The generation that survived the depression and won WW2 proved poverty does not cause crime)
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To: zaxxon

Any connection to this?





Wisconsisn- Woman Charged With Cutting Husband's Penis
Yahoo ^ | 5/18/05


Posted on 05/18/2005 6:38:47 PM EDT by KidGlock


Woman Charged With Cutting Husband's Penis

WAUPACA, Wis. - A rural woman was charged with substantial battery for allegedly cutting her husband's penis with scissors — an injury that required 15 stitches to repair.

A criminal complaint said the husband let his wife, Theresa L. Hedtke, bind his hands with duct tape. Hedtke then used the scissors in an effort to get him to confess to having an affair, according to the complaint.

Hedtke, 42, allegedly told police she didn't intend to cut her husband. He was treated at New London Family Medical Center.

Hedtke appeared Monday in Waupaca County Circuit Court, where Judge Raymond Huber released her on a $5,000 signature bond.

The substantial battery charge carries maximum three and a-half years in prison upon conviction.


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9 posted on 05/19/2005 8:31:37 AM PDT by KidGlock (Get in the pit and try to love some one)
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To: oldleft

In a similar vein,

Why didn't Mr. and Mrs. Smokey The Bear ever have any cubs?

Because every time she got hot he beat her with a shovel.


10 posted on 05/19/2005 8:32:37 AM PDT by tumblindice (Only you can prevent forest fires.)
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To: zaxxon
Geez, most guys just never call again...

And I'll never complain about it again!! ;o)
11 posted on 05/19/2005 8:32:56 AM PDT by LIConFem (Mein Luftkissenboot ist mit Aalen voll.)
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To: VRWCmember

I shouldn't so this ...

a hot day gone awry?

Seriously, it's getting crazy out there!


12 posted on 05/19/2005 8:34:56 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: joesnuffy

Burn baby burn?

This guy is SICK!


13 posted on 05/19/2005 8:35:33 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: zaxxon
the woman's boyfriend, Tommy Wells, was running out of the building -- screaming for her to burn.

There are times when neither a judge nor jury is needed.

14 posted on 05/19/2005 8:36:26 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (“I know a great deal about the Middle East because I’ve been raising Arabian horses" Patrick Swazey)
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To: VRWCmember
You forgot

"Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!"
- Richard Pryor

15 posted on 05/19/2005 8:36:36 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: zaxxon

In all seriousness, this is a horrible crime, but this women was as sick as her boyfriend. Why women stay with men like this is a mystery to me.


16 posted on 05/19/2005 8:36:55 AM PDT by LAQueenBee3
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To: zaxxon

Was she a witch?


17 posted on 05/19/2005 8:38:06 AM PDT by hoosierboy
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Was she a witch?

If she was, I'd have to think that leaving her would be a better idea than setting her on fire.

18 posted on 05/19/2005 8:46:23 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: zaxxon

One thing I never understood. Why witches, with all of their mpowers, never can escape from their captors...especially from getting burned at the stake.


19 posted on 05/19/2005 8:50:33 AM PDT by threeleftsmakearight
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