Skyler Saunders
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Smart-Tube: The Top Three Underrated or Under Watched Scripted Television Dramas That Will Make You Smarter
During this pandemic, it has become a pastime to sit in front of our intelligence screens and consume some smart television. Yes, that’s right, the scores of assistant directors, best boys, grips, camera operators, writers, actors, producers, and directors, studio executives and everyone else involved in tv bliss have imbued into their TV storylines enough brain food to sate any appetite. These shows have presented the most thoughtful moments on the small(er) screen; relatively recent history has provided much consideration via the thinking tube. So grab your voice activated devices to cue up The Top Three Underrated or Under Watched Scripted Television Dramas That Will Make You Smarter.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Geeks
Reason First: Nan Patterson and the Case of the Murdered Lover
An actress and a dancer garnered 1904 New York City’s attention for all the wrong reasons. She received accusations regarding the murder of Caesar Young, a married bookmaker. The actress named Nan Patterson had been married just as Young had a wife also. This didn’t matter. The pair carried on a tryst. During a carriage ride down Broadway, Patterson and Young travelled to have him meet up with his wife at the docks. In time, Young would be shot dead with a firearm belonging to Patterson. The woman received the cold steel of justice around her wrists on the charge of murder.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Story of Selfless Murderer Albert T. Patrick
Greed did not drive Albert T. Patrick to commit murder. Greed is about producing and creating more and possessing ambition to always want more...morally and legally. With the aid of Charles F. Jones, Patrick defrauded and murdered cotton, land, and railroad tycoon William Marsh Rice.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Roland Molineux and The Case of the Alleged Toxic Playboy
Does having a stomachache or a headache include being murdered? Henry C. Barnet’s and Katherine J. Adams' cases of why they died remain unsolved to this day. Roland Molineux allegedly provided the toxins to them and led to their deaths from diptheric poisoning and mercury cyanide poisoning, respectively.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Killer Sausage Maker
To claim one’s innocence after specific and indisputable evidence had surfaced took gall. For convicted murderer Adolph Louis Luetgert, he died in jail maintaining his guiltlessness. The “Mr. Lover,” who charmed concubines while still married and without his second wife’s approval, worked as the head of a sausage making factory.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Mystery and Intrigue of the Lizzie Borden Murder Case
The tale of the murders of Lizzie Borden’s parents has been circulated for over a century ad infinitum. Like the schoolyard rhyme that is attached to the case, it has become a seemingly endless song about mystery and intrigue.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Poisonous Physician
An electric chair took on another sinister figure in New York, this time in the year 1895. The punishment stemmed from a murderer named Robert Buchanan. This doctor had claimed that obvious pinprick pupils would erase any indication that someone had been poisoned.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Wild West Needed Better Respect for Property Rights
Small business versus big business rests on the case of Nathan “Nate” Champion. This rustler wanted to rise against the larger more successful cattlemen. In the process, he became the first man to be mowed down by a hitsquad.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: William Kemmler’s Electric Ride
A hatchet sliced into Tillie Ziegler on March 29, 1889. The man holding the bloody murder weapon stood as William Kemmler. A jury found him guilty. A sentence stated that he should be put to death. As an uneducated swindler, Kemmler held onto bits and pieces of rage. For his crime, he would see that fury silenced as the first man to die from the electric chair.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Doctor Death’s Unreason
The Hippocratic Oath clearly states that a doctor must abide by the idea that he or she “will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.” J. Milton Bowers must have overlooked this section. The so-called “ladies’ man” murdered three of his four wives. After serving only four years in prison for his crimes, Dr. Bowers returned to his practice as if nothing ever happened.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
