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Warning for domestic abuse.

From Crime Does Not Pay #50. It's in the public domain, so I'm posting the full story. The art is by George Tuska.










Date: 2019-03-01 02:01 am (UTC)
alicemacher: Lisa Winklemeyer from the webcomic Penny and Aggie, c2004-2011 G. Lagacé, T Campbell (Default)
From: [personal profile] alicemacher
Howard couldn't have buried Muriel very deep if the rain exposed her body. So he was not only disturbed and cruel; he was really, really stupid.

Date: 2019-03-01 02:40 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lordultimus
When I read that title, I thought of the Chicken Heart, which made me smile. Then I remembered that came from Bill Cosby. I stopped smiling.

Date: 2019-03-05 07:01 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kuratowa
If you can get past his comedy routine, the actual episode of the radio show Lights Out he's referencing is quite great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_OD_jUnYNM

Date: 2019-03-01 02:51 am (UTC)
beyondthefringe: (Default)
From: [personal profile] beyondthefringe
Wow. That guy really loves his chickens.

Must not... make joke... about him being obsessed with cocks.

Date: 2019-03-01 03:36 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] locuatico
He sure knows how to treat his chicks.

Date: 2019-03-01 04:02 am (UTC)
beyondthefringe: (Default)
From: [personal profile] beyondthefringe
Apparently, he really digs 'em...

Date: 2019-03-01 03:06 am (UTC)
sadoeuphemist: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sadoeuphemist
Apparently this is based on a real case where a man came home and killed his wife because she hadn't prepared a chicken dinner for him, and someone read about that and said, 'okay, but what if the exact opposite?'

Date: 2019-03-01 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tcampbell1000
Clerk Admits Killing Wife When Dinner Was Late

Denver, May 22, (UP)--District Attorney James Burke said tonight he will file a first degree murder charge against Howard (Sonny) Potts, Denver shipping clerk who told police he beat his wife to death and buried her in their basement because, “I lost my head when dinner wasn’t ready.”

Detective captain James E. Childers said Potts, 39, formerly of Boone, Ia, signed a complete statement that he struck his wife with his fist, jumped on her body in a rage, dragged her by the hair to the basement stairway and hurled her down, when he found a promised chicken dinner hadn’t been prepared.

Potts told police that before he buried his wife he went down into the basement several times a day, “sometimes just to look at her, but generally to fix the furnace.”


This is kind of distressing (I mean, besides the senseless loss of life and all). I knew CDNP exaggerated its stories, but I figured there was at least the skeleton of the original narrative in there. This seems more like a word association game: "Okay: uxoricide, chicken, dinner, go!"

Date: 2019-03-01 08:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tripodeca113
I'll be honest I just assumed they made this up, and they only mostly did.

Date: 2019-03-01 11:29 pm (UTC)
bradygirl_12: (bear (picnic table))
From: [personal profile] bradygirl_12
Bet this guy wasn't a fan of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Date: 2019-03-02 05:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mesmiranda
Honestly I was expecting some kind of weird, ironic, darkly horrifying EC Comics-style twist at the end, but... nope. The guy just really loves his chickens.

Date: 2019-03-02 06:44 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] captainbellman
I guess now we know who rules the roost! Haha, I gotta run

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