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- Joseph Stalin -https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=666937051
- John Dillinger
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PART 5 -> https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667334151- Billy the Kid - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667381831
- Hitler
- Vladimir Lenin
- Fidel Castro - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=666951741
- Albert Fish
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PART 5 -> https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=666968231- Ted Bundy
- Mao Zedong[indent]PART1 -> https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=669789551
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PART 3 -> https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=671066791- Peter Kurten - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=666938691
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- Jack the Ripper - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667042581
- Richard Kuklinski - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667051831
- Josef Mengele
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- Ed Gein
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- The Manson Family - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667409461
- President Charles Taylor - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667772141
- Joachim Kroll - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667699061
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- David Berkowitz -
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PART 2 -> https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667839401
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PART 4 -> https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=668071741
PART 5 -> https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=668078361- Gilles de Rais - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667630681
- Murder of Junko Furuta - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667627391
- General Butt Naked - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667813181
- Carmine Persico - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667814711
- Charles Taylor - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667772141
- The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
- Uday Hussein - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667763611
- Dennis Jurgen's Death - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=667905991
- The Zodiac Killer
- Cary Stayner - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=668181681
- The Night Stalker - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=668201631
- Shiro Ishii
- Ira Einhorn – https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=669165991
- Moral Side of Murder – https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=69179461
- Aribert Heim – https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=670190241
- Armin Meiwes – https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=670178251
- Andrea Yates – https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=669643411
- The Wests – https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=669480601
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04-26-2011, 09:03 PM #421
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Mao Zedong Continued - Communist Leader
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
Guerilla Warfare.
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The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. It was the culmination of over two decades of civil and international war. From 1954 to 1959, Mao was the Chairman of the PRC. During this period, Mao was called Chairman Mao (毛主席) or the Great Leader Chairman Mao (伟大领袖毛主席).
The Communist Party assumed control of all media in the country and used it to promote the image of Mao and the Party. The Nationalists under General Chiang Kai-Shek were vilified as were countries such as the United States of America and Japan. The Chinese people were exhorted to devote themselves to build and strengthen their country through Communist ideology.
In October 1950, Mao made the decision to send the People's Volunteer Army into Korea and fought against the United Nations forces led by the U.S.
Along with land reform, during which significant numbers of landlords were beaten to death at mass meetings organized by the Communist Party as land was taken from them and given to poorer peasants, there was also the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, which involved public executions targeting mainly former Kuomintang officials, businessmen accused of "disturbing" the market, former employees of Western companies and intellectuals whose loyalty was suspect. The U.S. State department in 1976 estimated that there may have been a million killed in the land reform, 800,000 killed in the counterrevolutionary campaign.
Mao himself claimed that a total of 700,000 people were executed during the years 1949–53. However, because there was a policy to select "at least one landlord, and usually several, in virtually every village for public execution", the number of deaths range between 2 million and 5 million. In addition, at least 1.5 million people, perhaps as many as 4 to 6 million, were sent to "reform through labour" camps where many perished. Mao played a personal role in organizing the mass repressions and established a system of execution quotas, which were often exceeded. Nevertheless he defended these killings as necessary for the securing of power.
Starting in 1951, Mao initiated two successive movements in an effort to rid urban areas of corruption by targeting wealthy capitalists and political opponents, known as the three-anti/five-anti campaigns. A climate of raw terror developed as workers denounced their bosses, wives turned on their husbands, and children informed on their parents; the victims often were humiliated at struggle sessions, a method designed to intimidate and terrify people to the maximum. Mao insisted that minor offenders be criticized and reformed or sent to labor camps, "while the worst among them should be shot." These campaigns took several hundred thousand additional lives, the vast majority via suicide.
In Shanghai, people jumping to their deaths became so commonplace that residents avoided walking on the pavement near skyscrapers for fear that suicides might land on them.
Five Year Plan
Following the consolidation of power, Mao launched the First Five-Year Plan (1953–58). The plan aimed to end Chinese dependence upon agriculture in order to become a world power. With the Soviet Union's assistance, new industrial plants were built and agricultural production eventually fell to a point where industry was beginning to produce enough capital that China no longer needed the USSR's support. The success of the First-Five Year Plan was to encourage Mao to instigate the Second Five-Year Plan, the Great Leap Forward, in 1958. Mao also launched a phase of rapid collectivization. The CPC introduced price controls as well as a Chinese character simplification aimed at increasing literacy. Large-scale industrialization projects were also undertaken.
Hundred Flowers Campaign
Programs pursued during this time include the Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which Mao indicated his supposed willingness to consider different opinions about how China should be governed.Given the freedom to express themselves, liberal and intellectual Chinese began opposing the Communist Party and questioning its leadership. This was initially tolerated and encouraged. After a few months, Mao's government reversed its policy and persecuted those, totalling perhaps 500,000, who criticized, as well as those who were merely alleged to have criticized, the party in what is called the Anti-Rightist Movement. Authors such as Jung Chang have alleged that the Hundred Flowers Campaign was merely a ruse to root out "dangerous" thinking.
Others such as Dr Li Zhisui have suggested that Mao had initially seen the policy as a way of weakening those within his party who opposed him, but was surprised by the extent of criticism and the fact that it began to be directed at his own leadership.[citation needed] It was only then that he used it as a method of identifying and subsequently persecuting those critical of his government. The Hundred Flowers movement led to the condemnation, silencing, and death of many citizens, also linked to Mao's Anti-Rightist Movement, with death tolls possibly in the millions.
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The Great Leap Forward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
Largest Famine In Human History.
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In January 1958, Mao Zedong launched the second Five-Year Plan, known as The Great Leap Forward.
The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC) which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization, industrialization, and collectivization.
Under this economic program, the relatively small agricultural collectives which had been formed to date were rapidly merged into far larger people's communes, and many of the peasants ordered to work on massive infrastructure projects and the small-scale production of iron and steel. Some private food production was banned; livestock and farm implements were brought under collective ownership.
Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages that led to an approximately 15% drop in grain production in 1959 followed by a further 10% reduction in 1960.. In less than twelve months 900 million Chinese peasants were moved into enormous collective farms, becoming the greatest mobilization of human beings the world has ever seen.
Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization. Agricultural collectivization is: Collective farming and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which member-owners engage jointly in farming activities.
- Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted.
- Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, and social pressure.
- The net result, which was compounded in some areas by drought and in others by floods, was that the rural peasants were not left enough to eat and many millions starved to death in the largest famine in human history.
- This famine was a direct cause of the death of some 30 million Chinese peasants between 1959 and 1962 and about the same number of births were lost or postponed.
- Further, many children who became emaciated and malnourished during years of hardship and struggle for survival died shortly after the Great Leap Forward came to an end in 1962.
- According to some, most notably Dr. Li Zhisui, Mao was not aware of anything more than a mild food and general supply shortage until late 1959:
"The idea that the state mistakenly took too much grain from the countryside because it assumed that the harvest was much larger than it was is largely a myth – at most partially true for the autumn of 1958 only. In most cases the party knew very well that it was starving its own people to death. At a secret meeting in the Jinjiang Hotel in Shanghai dated March 25, 1959, Mao specifically ordered the party to procure up to one third of all the grain, much more than had ever been the case. At the meeting he announced that 'When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.'" - Jasper Becker notes that Mao was dismissive of reports he received of food shortages in the countryside and refused to change course, believing that peasants were lying and that rightists and kulaks were hoarding grain.
- He refused to open state granaries, and instead launched a series of "anti-grain concealment" drives that resulted in numerous purges and suicides.
- Other violent campaigns followed in which party leaders went from village to village in search of hidden food reserves, and not only grain, as Mao issued quotas for pigs, chickens, ducks and eggs. Many peasants accused of hiding food were tortured and beaten to death.
Whatever the case, the Great Leap Forward led to millions of deaths in China. Mao lost esteem among many of the top party cadres and was eventually forced to abandon the policy in 1962, also losing some political power to moderate leaders, notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. However, Mao and national propaganda claimed that he was only partly to blame. As a result, he was able to remain Chairman of the Communist Party, with the Presidency transferred to Liu Shaoqi.
The Great Leap Forward was a disaster for China. Although the steel quotas were officially reached, almost all of it made in the countryside was useless lumps of iron, as it had been made from assorted scrap metal in home-made furnaces with no reliable source of fuel such as coal. Moreover, most of the dams, canals and other infrastructure projects, which millions of peasants and prisoners had been forced to toil on and in many cases die for, proved useless as they had been built without the input of trained engineers, whom Mao had rejected on ideological grounds.
The worst of the famine was steered towards enemies of the state, much like during the 1932–33 famine in the USSR. As Jasper Becker explains:
"The most vulnerable section of China's population, around five per cent, were those whom Mao called 'enemies of the people'. Anyone who had in previous campaigns of repression been labeled a 'black element' was given the lowest priority in the allocation of food. Landlords, rich peasants, former members of the nationalist regime, religious leaders, rightists, counter-revolutionaries and the families of such individuals died in the greatest numbers."
Census
Censuses were carried out in China in 1953, 1964 and 1982.
The official statistic is 20 million deaths, as given by Hu Yaobang. Yang Jisheng, a former Xinhua News Agency reporter who had privileged access and connections available to no other scholars, estimates a death toll of 36 million. Frank Dikötter estimates that there were at least 45 million premature deaths attributable to the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962.[57][58] Various other sources have put the figure between 20 and 46 million.
Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that:
"coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the very foundation of the Great Leap Forward" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history."
After Math
The years of the Great Leap Forward in fact saw economic regression, with 1958-61 being the only years between 1953 and 1983 in which China's economy saw negative growth. Political economist Dwight Perkins argues, "enormous amounts of investment produced only modest increases in production or none at all. … The Great Leap also led to the greatest destruction of real estate in human history, outstripping any of the bombing campaigns from World War II. Approximately 30 to 40 per cent of all houses were turned to rubble. Frank Dikötter states that "homes were pulled down to make fertilizer, to build canteens, to relocate villagers, to straighten roads, to make place for a better future beckoning ahead or simply to punish their owners.” In short, the Great Leap was a very expensive disaster."
Deaths By Violence
Not all deaths during the Great Leap were from starvation.Benjamin Valentino notes that "communist officials sometimes tortured and killed those accused of failing to meet their grain quota." Frank Dikötter estimates that at least 2.5 million people were beaten or tortured to death and 1 to 3 million committed suicide. He provides some illustrative examples. In Xinyang, where over a million died in 1960, 6-7 percent (around 67,000) of these were beaten to death by the militias. In Daoxian county, 10 per cent of those who died had been "buried alive, clubbed to death or otherwise killed by party members and their militia." In Shimen county, around 13,500 died in 1960, of these 12 per cent were "beaten or driven to their deaths."
Beatings with sticks was the most common method used by local cadres (roughly half of all cadres regularly pummeled or caned people), but others devised harsher means to humiliate and torture those who failed to keep up. As mass starvation set in, ever greater violence had to be inflicted in order to coerce malnourished people to labor in the fields. Victims were buried alive, thrown bound into ponds, stripped naked and forced to labor in the middle of winter, doused in boiling water, forced to ingest excrement and urine, and subjected to mutilation (hair ripped out, noses and ears lopped off). In Guangdong, some cadres injected salt water into their victims with needles normally reserved for cattle.
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The Great Leap Forward Continued - CIA Videos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_L...#Videos_by_CIA
The following short film is produced by Central Intelligence Agency at the beginning of the Great Leap Forward.
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CIA Archives: China's Great Leap Forward - Part 1 (1958)
This episode shows everyday life of ordinary folks, apartments, people's militias, textiles factories, hospitals, transport, and Summer Palace.
CIA Archives: China's Great Leap Forward - Part 2 (1958)
This episode shows thousands of volunteers building reservoir near the Ming Tombs using hand tools. Commune members outside Beijing were shown ploughing the field up to 18 inch deep. Donkey carts were being used for transporting goods.
CIA Archives: China's Great Leap Forward - Part 3 (1958)
CIA Archives: China's Great Leap Forward - Part 4 (1958)
Life in People's commune, and factories.
CIA Archives: China's Great Leap Forward - Part 5 (1958)
In this episode, members of the People's commune were using hand and rocks to break up ore, and using coal to fire up Backyard furnace.
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04-28-2011, 04:43 PM #429
Can a mod change the name of this thread for me?
Not sure if they're able to.
I want it to be "WTF facts about the most dangerous people/events in history (srs)"
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04-29-2011, 11:48 AM #432
Murder of Suzanne Capper Part 1
Murder of Suzanne Capper
(Happened near me)
Background
Capper, described as "a gentle and easily influenced girl,"(-whore, basicaly) had been babysitting for Jean Powell since she was ten years old. In 1990 she had spent time in the care of the local authority after her mother, Elizabeth Capper, and her stepfather separated, after which Suzanne and her older sister Michelle stayed with their stepfather. Around this time Capper began to truant from Moston Brook High School, and her attendance during the final two years of schooling was described as "erratic." Capper increasingly spent her time at Powell's house. Powell lived at 97 Langworthy Road, Moston, a small Victorian terraced house, where she also dealt drugs and was involved with the handling of stolen motor vehicles. Michelle Capper had briefly lived with Powell, but moved out in August 1992 because she did not like the "evil new friends" Powell was associating with, particularly Bernadette McNeilly, who had recently moved in three doors away at number 91. McNeilly,subsequently moved in with Powell and her three children, where the two shared a bed in the downstairs dining room because the bedrooms were "full of children." Capper continued to stay regularly even though Powell and McNeilly frequently bullied her. Her sister said: "It was not that she was scared of them, it's just that she would do anything for them. She pampered their every whim."
Powell was separated from her husband Glyn, although the two remained friendly and he would visit regularly from his nearby home. McNeilly's boyfriend was 16-year-old Anthony Dudson, who was also having sexual intercourse with Powell. Powell was sexually involved with Jeffrey Leigh, a regular visitor to the house as a purchaser of amphetamines. Another frequent visitor to the house was Powell's younger brother, Clifford Pook.
Kidnap
At trial, it emerged that Capper had been kidnapped for "insubstantial, even trivial" reasons: Jean Powell claimed that Capper had tried to persuade her to sleep with a man for money; McNeilly and Dudson had contracted pubic lice which they believed were from a bed that Capper had also used; and McNeilly believed that she had taken a pink duffle coat that belonged to her.(- Hardly strong criminal) In November 1992, when Dudson had contracted pubic lice and had his pubic hair shaved, McNeilly told him she thought that he had caught them from Capper. Dudson believed otherwise, and said later: "I told Jean [Powell] I thought I got them from Bernie [McNeilly]." On 7 December 1992, Capper was lured to Jean Powell's home, where Glyn Powell and Dudson were already waiting. She was grabbed as soon as she arrived and held down while Glyn Powell shaved her head and her eyebrows and then made her clean up the hair and place it in a bin. Then he placed a plastic bag over her head and walked round her while hitting her on the head. She was then kicked by Jean Powell and McNeilly as she lay curled up on the floor and both women took turns beating her with a three-foot-long wooden instrument and a belt. She was then taken to the bathroom and forced to shave off her own pubic hair as "ritual humiliation in revenge for having caused, as they claimed, Dudson and McNeilly themselves to be shaved." Afterwards Jean Powell locked her in a cupboard overnight. The following morning she was taken upstairs and locked in another cupboard. On 8 December she was transferred to McNeilly's house because of concern that Powell and McNeilly's six children were disturbed by Capper's crying. There she was tied spreadeagle to an upturned bed with electrical flex in a downstairs back room.
Torture
Over the next five days Capper was subjected to a series of violent acts, "increasing in severity and brutality as the time passed."[8] She was regularly beaten and injected with amphetamines, burned with cigarettes, and had rave music — in particular a 45-minute long remix of Hi, I'm Chucki (Wanna Play?) by 150 Volts, featuring samples from the movie Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking — played at maximum volume through headphones. McNeilly would commence each torture session with the phrase "Chucky’s coming to play" and soon the words themselves were enough to make Capper scream. At some point during the week Pook and Leigh called at the house and were shown Capper, blindfolded and gagged, tied to the bed. By this time, Capper had been lying in her own urine and faeces for several days and was placed in a bath containing concentrated disinfectant and scrubbed with a stiff brush with sufficient force to remove skin. Pook then used pliers to extract two of her teeth, which police later found at his house "like some kind of macabre trophy." Dudson said: "I was stood at the doorway with Jeanie [Powell] and Bernie [McNeilly]. Cliff [Pook] took her gag off. He told her to open her mouth. He said: 'Right, I'm going to rip your teeth out'. He started hitting her teeth with the pliers. He got the pliers on and started pulling it out. But it just snapped and chipped. Then he hit them a few more times. He put the pliers on again and really, really pulled. He pulled Suzanne's head forward until there was a snap and he had the tooth in the pliers. He did the same again and he was laughing."
Missed opportunities for rescue
David Hill, 18, was asked to "sit in" at the house, and while there heard Dudson shout "Shut up, you slag!" in the back room. When he asked what was going on, Leigh had shown him Capper. He said: "She had a sort of cloth over her face, from just above the eyebrows and covering her nose. She had a bit of dried blood on her lip. She had no hair." Hill also said he had heard them talking about "dentistry work. It was something about pulling her teeth out with a pair of pliers."[19] Later, he was left alone in the house with Capper, who pleaded with him to untie her. He said: "She asked me if I could help but I told her I couldn't. I asked her who she was. She said her name was Suzanne. She asked me if I could untie her. I said I couldn't do anything." He later claimed that he was too afraid of Leigh to intervene or raise the alarm, saying: "I thought they would batter me. If I'd said [anything] they'd all have got me, wouldn't they? I didn't know what to do. I was too shocked to do anything." While Capper was being held in the house, Leigh and Dudson met up with her sister's fiance Paul Barlow to help him repair his car. Barlow said: "They could have told me there and then. The door would have been kicked down and I would have got Suzanne out. I did not think they were capable of such savagery. Now all I want is ten minutes with them in a back room.
Murder
The six finally agreed that Capper had to be removed from the house after Michelle Capper told them her stepfather was going to report her to the police as a missing person. In the early hours of 14 December 1992, Capper was forced into the boot of a stolen white Fiat Panda car and driven 15 miles to a narrow lane at Werneth Low near Romiley, on the outskirts of Stockport. In the car were McNeilly, the Powells and Dudson. McNeilly "giggled" as they made the journey. Capper was pushed down an embankment into a patch of brambles and then McNeilly poured petrol over her. Powell stated: "Suzanne was still wobbly and fell over. Bernie [McNeilly] said 'Get up.' Bernie pushed her down the hill and poured petrol on her." When McNeilly had difficulty getting the petrol to ignite, Glyn Powell asked Dudson for some paper, who handed him a folded envelope which Powell then attempted to light and use as a taper. After three failed attempts, Dudson said: "In the end he just went up to her with a lighter and lit her. He lit her on the back. She went straight up in flames and was screaming. The flames lit up the whole forest." McNeilly began to sing "Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn!" from the Trammps' song Disco Inferno. Believing Capper to be dead, the four returned to Jean Powell's house, stopping to buy canned drinks on the way. Both Leigh and Pook were at the house when they arrived and Dudson stated: "Cliff [Pook] asked Glyn [Powell], 'Have you done it?' Glyn said 'Yes' and he was laughing. He gave Cliff his lighter back."
Naming attackers before death
Capper had not died immediately as her murderers believed, and after they left she managed to scramble back up the embankment and stagger along the lane for approximately a quarter of a mile to Compstall Road before being found at 06:10 by Barry Sutcliffe and two of his colleagues on their way to work. She told them: "Over there, in the field. They burnt me, they put petrol on me." They immediately took her to a nearby house and roused the residents, Michael and Margaret Coop, to call for an ambulance. Michael Coop said: "Both her hands appeared like ash. Her legs were just like raw meat and her feet appeared to be badly charred. I was struck by how polite the victim was. She was constantly thanking my wife for her assistance." Margaret Coop said: "I instinctively went to put my arms around her but she pulled away because she could not bear to be touched. Her head was shaved and there were recent, not new, cuts to her head. Her face was almost featureless. Her hands were red raw and black at the fingertips. Her legs were red from top to bottom. She couldn't bear anything near her legs."[19] Capper drank six glasses of water, but was unable to hold the glass herself because of the injuries to her hands. Margaret Coop said: "She looked like the victim of an attack in the Vietnam war. But I felt she would survive. I had this theory that, now she had got to somewhere she could be helped, she would live." Capper was rushed to the hospital and was able to give the names of her six assailants and Powell's address before falling into a coma. The extent of her burns was such that her mother and stepfather were unable to recognise her, and she was positively identified by a partial fingerprint from her thumb, the only part of her hands not severely burned. She died on 18 December 1992, without regaining consciousness.
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04-29-2011, 11:49 AM #433
Murder of Suzanne Capper Part 2(final)
Trial
The trial commenced on 16 November 1993, and lasted 22 days. All six denied murder and in their testimonies each defendant tried to minimise their part in the crime. On 24 November, Clifford Pook was cleared of murder on the directions of the judge Mr. Justice Potts. The jury began their deliberations on 16 December 1993, and took nine hours and fifty-two minutes to reach their verdicts. Mr Justice Potts said: "Each of you has been convicted on clear evidence of murder which was as appalling a murder as it is possible to imagine."
Verdicts and sentences
Bernadette McNeilly
* guilty of murder—life imprisonment
* guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm—20 years
* pleaded guilty to false imprisonment—20 years
Jean Powell
* guilty of murder—life imprisonment
* guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm—20 years
* pleaded guilty to false imprisonment—20 years
Glyn Powell
* guilty of murder—life imprisonment
* guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm—20 years
* guilty of false imprisonment—20 years
Jeffrey Leigh
* pleaded guilty to false imprisonment—12 years
* cleared of murder
* cleared of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm
Anthony Michael Dudson
* guilty of murder—detained during Her Majesty's pleasure with a minimum tariff of 18 years
* guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm—15 years
* pleaded guilty to false imprisonment—15 years
Clifford Pook
* pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm—15 years
* pleaded guilty to false imprisonment—15 years
* earlier cleared of murder
As the sentences were announced two women jurors wept and there were cries of "Yes! Yes!" from the public gallery, which was filled with relatives of the dead girl. In a statement to the press after the sentencing D.I. Wall said: [b]"Psychological reports say that these are absolutely sane individuals. It's frightening that they are such ordinary people. There is nothing special about any of them."[b]
Social environment
(What they say about the town I grew up in.)
There was wide commentary in the news media about the social situation in and around Moston. Writing in The Times, Jon Ronson focused on Manchester's apparent economic imbalance, pointing out that while "superficially, it is a city of growth" — hosting international environmental conferences in 1993 and bidding to host the 2000 Olympic Games — this could not disguise the realities of the poor quality of "built-to-collapse" housing, the city council's policy on single-person homelessness, poverty, street violence and drugs culture, all of which played parts in the events leading up to Capper's murder. The city, he said, had violent 'no-go' areas, where "you can expect to be mugged," created through drug abuse and hopelessness, and populated by people who "don't work, have no money, and rarely leave the houses that they find themselves living in before dark." Ronson highlighted a city of contrasts, where "expensive canal-side cafes are springing up faster than you can count them: the joke around town is that you can sip cappuccino all day and gaze out at the corpses floating past." David Ward, writing in The Guardian, similarly drew attention to the housing policies, and quoted an older Moston resident as saying: "These people are moving in and out every three months. They're illiterate half of them — just shagging and having kids." The Daily Mail – in what Barker and Petley called "ideological overdrive" – described Capper's killers as "the product of a society that tolerates petty crime, the break-up of families and feckless spending... Most of Suzanne's tormentors were on social security... [and belong to] an underclass which is a grave threat to Britain's future." Author Carol Anne Davis agreed that when looking for answers about how this crime came about one need only "look at the upbringings of these women who were single parents to three children by their mid twenties, had teenage boyfriends who were barely legal and who supported themselves through drug dealing and theft."
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