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propria



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PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2004 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

>>> Is not the claim that America is going to hell in a handbasket more ancient than ourselves? <<<


yup, it is ... as is the claim that the whole world is going to hell in a hand basket. however, that does not stop either one of those claims from being true, and i really do think it is more true in recent times than it was in the past. there have always been 'evildoers' on earth, but they operate today with an impunity that rises from our abandonment of accountabilty for those who do wrong ... the worldwide stance of 'if it feels good, do it' is a much less ancient failing of civilized humanity as we have steadily deep-sixed the standards and principles that have governed human behavior for thousands of years.

in fact, you've touched on that truth in your post, as well as many times in other posts ... i betcha anything we're going to find out that sarah fox's murderer is a repeat offender, and that he is out on the street because some codependent fix-it person worked hard to protect his offender's rights. if we did nothing more as a nation than protect the rights of crime victims as zealously as we protect the rights of criminals, crimes like those we've addressed here would drop like a rock ... if we went on from there to hold even powerful people accountable for their wrongdoing, right along with everyone else doing wrong, we might even weed out some of the evil sitting in authority over us all.


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PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

>>> Did murders such as Sarah Fox in a Manhattan park take place in the past? Are there more murders now per population than in the past? Is not the claim that America is going to hell in a handbasket more ancient than ourselves?<<<

I don't have answers right here for all of the questions above, but this is something I picked out in a hurry from google. This was justice in the 1950s. It was a high profile case, but the defendant did not have any dream team. He had known the young girl, they talked in a coffee shop together sometimes. He was about 27 years old and a student at the University of California at Berkeley at the time. The girl was a highschool student. Obviously the murderer was not taught up in the way he should go. He was a victim also. Notice that the DA handled the case himself, not as in the OJ trial where assistant district attorneys had to handle the case themselves.

The victim's schoolbooks were found in the basement of the murderer's home by his wife, who called the police. The murder had been in all of the newspapers.

In those days if you got murdered in San Francisco you probably made the front page of the newspaper, regardless of who you were. Today if you are murdered in San Francisco you may not even get into the newspaper, or the news story will be way in the back of the newspaper.

The trial took place in Alameda County in California, across the bay from San Francisco. I am not certain where the murder occurred, but the kidnapping, or abduction, would have probably been in Berkeley, California. The girls body was found on the grounds of a summer cabin owned by the murderer. Who found the body? A San Francisco Examiner news reporter. He went to where the suspect's cabin was located, rented some dogs, and found the body almost right away in a shallow grave. The reporter received a pulitzer prize for his reporting of the murder.

Here is my quote from Google:

>>>As DA, Coakley returned to the trial courts in 1955 to prosecute Burton Abbott in one of the most highly-publicized cases in the history of California. Abbott was charged with abducting and murdering 14-year old Stephanie Bryan as she was walking home from school in Berkeley. Abbott was convicted and sentenced to death. He was executed in San Quentin's gas chamber in 1957.<<<

Today murderers are still appealing 20 years later. Notice the time of the trial to the time of execution.

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PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They take two years to let ink dry on paper now, that's how bad it is. Perhaps there is another Pulitzer Prize waiting for a journalist who solves this mystery. Here's a good start, a beautifully written tribute to Sarah Fox in life and in death by N. R. Kleinfield and Ian Urbina of the NY Times: (fair use)

For Shining Light at Juilliard, a Tragic End in a Remote Spot
By N. R. KLEINFIELD and IAN URBINA
New York Times
Published: May 27, 2004

Her story has much of the familiar ring of the young aspirant's tale. She was a radiant young woman with a repertoire of special hugs, imbued with talent and brimming with hope. From the far reaches of New Jersey, she came to study at one of New York's fabled cultural institutions and to wonder if one day destiny might find her. People took notice. She glowed.

Sarah Fox's story ended when her badly decomposed body was found on Tuesday by a volunteer search party in the thickets near a jogging path in Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan. Positive identification was made yesterday, law enforcement authorities said, after her mother presented dental records to the medical examiner's office.

The police said that she had been strangled, though they were uncertain whether by hand or by another method, and they could not determine if she had been sexually assaulted. The bizarre placement of petals and branches from a tulip tree around the body raised the question that the killing may have had a ritualistic element. The police said they were without suspects but were casting a wide net.

Ms. Fox was 21, 5 feet 2 inches tall, with blue eyes and strawberry blond hair that she wore short on the sides and spiked on top. She was a student in the drama department at the Juilliard School, the performing arts conservatory at Lincoln Center. The rarefied air of its sleekly modern buildings have produced a long list of hallowed names including Miles Davis, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Nina Simone and Robin Williams.

Ms. Fox was starry-eyed with her own high aspirations for a stage career. She drew a favorable response for her versatility, just as convincingly playing the conniving Natasha in Chekhov's "Three Sisters" as she did a bird in the Aristophanes play "The Birds." A fellow drama student at Juilliard remarked on how "brave, open, accomplished" she was as an actress.

Recently, though, she had taken a leave from the school. Her relatives said she had found Juilliard very demanding and simply needed a brief interlude to replenish herself. She intended to resume her studies in the fall as a third-year student.

The abrupt and jarring end to her life left Juilliard bewildered. The discovery equally stunned the city itself. Though Ms. Fox's movements in the hours leading to her death remain unclear, it appears that a young woman went out to jog well before dusk, in a park where children played and people walked their dogs, only to encounter a murderer that no one saw.

For an hour and a half yesterday morning, members of the Juilliard drama department gathered to collectively address her death. This took place in Room 304, a classroom that has become something of a designated grieving room. In recent years, similar grim assemblages occurred. Several years ago, another third-year drama student was found dead and the room filled up. It did again last year when a student's sister was murdered. It was the same place where students gathered after Sept. 11.

In the room that one student characterized as "an emotional vortex," more than 150 people mourned Sarah Fox, an astonishing number given that classes had ended for the academic year a week ago and many students had dispersed. A second-year drama student who attended the session said the event was "uplifting" even though virtually everyone was in tears. Ms. Fox's boyfriend, a Juilliard drama graduate, was among those who spoke.

Later in the day, about 70 students and faculty members returned to campus for a half-hour memorial service in one of the dance studios. Filing out of the building, Jane Cho, 31, a former piano student and now a career counselor at Juilliard, said, "It was dark and a lot of people were crying."

Joseph W. Polisi, Juilliard's president, issued a statement saying: "She reached out eloquently to others through her exceptional ability as an actress. Her senseless loss leaves us all feeling a profound sorrow."

Ms. Fox grew up in a family of modest means in Pennsauken, in southern New Jersey. She had an older sister, Samantha. Her father, a car mechanic, died of cancer 10 years ago, and her mother sometimes held two jobs to raise the two girls. She currently lives in Gibbstown, N.J., and is a manager for a mortgage company.

Ms. Fox caught the acting bug as a girl and filled her summers performing in shows. She also developed a strong interest in music, and she liked to jog to keep fit.

In an interview with The Courier-Post of New Jersey before her daughter's body was found, Lorraine Fox recounted how she had impressed on Sarah the dangers of the world. When Sarah was little, they played a game called "What If?" Her mother would ask a question like, "What if a stranger came up and asked you to help find a dog?"

Ms. Fox would learn the answers, which were always, "No."

During high school, she was a member of the first class of the Southern New Jersey Academy of the Performing Arts, a division of the Gloucester County Institute of Technology in Sewell. Eileen Shute, a spokeswoman for the school, said Ms. Fox was an A student and a "quality young lady."

According to the school's yearbook, she belonged to the fine arts club and the thespian society and had leading parts in a number of major productions, including Rosalind in Shakespeare's early romantic comedy "As You Like It." Classmates were amused when she and her date once showed up at a dance dressed as Sonny and Cher.

At the back of her 2001 yearbook, she is pictured in the front row of her graduating class. The headline over the photo reads: "The perfect end to a beautiful beginning"

Her talent gained her admission with a full scholarship to Juilliard in the fall of 2001, where she seemed to have become well-liked and admired by students and teachers.

Several classmates said she had a knack for knowing when other people needed a jolt of confidence. When one student assumed that no one had remembered his birthday, Ms. Fox put up on a drama department message board a brown paper bag on which she had scribbled, "We haven't forgotten, Happy Birthday." Another time, she cheered up a student having trouble mastering his character in a play by leaving a note on a blackboard that said: "Don't beat yourself up. You're immensely talented."

It was her abilities on the stage as much as her robust personality that attracted attention. A number of students praised her leading performance in last year's production of Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle." "She was 19 years old and was not a parent, but she played the mother so convincingly," said one recent graduate. "It made you wonder where someone could get that sort of poise and wisdom."

When she played a bird in "The Birds," many who saw the performance said they thought it was enlightened casting. "She was so light-spirited and in touch with her animal instincts," said Jess Weixler, another recent graduate.

Her family felt certain of her future. "I have no doubt that we would have seen her name in lights one day on Broadway," said an uncle, Isaac Porter.

Oscar Isaac, a fellow third-year drama student, said Ms. Fox was known for her constellation of hugs. The one reserved exclusively for Mr. Isaac would require each of them to tickle each other's backs while embracing.

Ms. Fox shared an apartment in the Inwood section not far from where her body was found. It was in a five-story walkup building in a neighborhood whose relatively low rents have drawn an influx of younger people embarked on careers in the arts.

Her roommate reported her missing last Thursday. The last time her roommate saw her was at 5 p.m. the previous day. Wearing workout clothes and carrying a compact disc player, Ms. Fox was apparently on her way to her gym or to jog.

The police sent officers, helicopters and dogs to root through the thickly forested parks of Inwood. News of her disappearance galvanized her friends and family to do what they could. They tacked up hundreds of posters bearing her photograph. To further assist, Mr. Porter, an electrician from Millville, N.J., assembled a volunteer search party, composed largely of people from South Jersey, to fan out through Inwood Hill Park. The police had been there. But the family sensed that if anything had happened to Sarah Fox, it had happened there.

Early Tuesday afternoon, members of the search party sifted through a tangled area near a jogging path and found what they had hoped they wouldn't find. They found the end of Sarah Fox's story.

Jason George, John Holl and Oren Yaniv contributed reporting for this article.
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