Slain Good Samaritan a Strike Against Gender Equality

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We’ve all probably heard of the Biblical “Good Samaritan”, and if you haven’t, just imagine a person stopping to help someone with no assumption of compensation.  Believe it or not, there are folks in the world willing to go out of their way for others.  Some call us suckers.

Could be they’re right …

Melissa Jenkins, a science teacher at Vermont’s St. Johnsbury Academy, received a call from Allen and Patricia Prue, a couple who had plowed her driveway in the past, claiming car trouble.  Jenkins, who clearly got a bad vibe from the dynamic duo, called a friend to let someone know where she was going … just in case.

From WMUR:

According to court documents, Prue beat and strangled Jenkins when she got out of her car. He said his wife was outside helping him but didn’t know what she was doing, court documents said.

He then put the body in the backseat of their car, and they drove to their home — at some point, Patricia Prue …

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Trial Underway for New Hampshire’s Resident Psycho Killer

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Kimberly Cates, a 42-year-old nurse from a quintessential small New Hampshire town, was murdered last October by a group of angry, isolated, outcast adolescent boys. Now the alleged ringleader of the group—and the one who wielded the machete that left over thirty wounds on Cates’ body—is on trial for first-degree murder.

That would, of course, be Steven Spader of creepy-letter-to-local-newspaper-to-make-his-rantings-public infamy.

And while it’s not the three ring circus personified by the trials of Charles Manson and O.J. Simpson, coverage of the carnage perpetrated by kids robbing homes and killing a woman and seriously injuring her daughter just for kicks (Spader’s accomplice Christopher Gribble, whose first-degree murder trial is scheduled for February, told authorities that he “had wanted to kill someone for a long time and was disappointed he didn’t feel any emotion following the Cates killing”) is really pretty disturbing.

While video clips show Spader steepling his fingers and trying to stare down prosecution witnesses, I can’t help but be disgusted by the fact that Kimberly Cates, who literally …

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