Wonder if............

[MWB]

There was a woman called Minnie Dean here in NZ who was hanged for baby farming back in the late 1800's.

She has been in the news here of late as the town where she was from want to make her a tourist draw and have put a gravestone where she was buried. Of course there wasn't one there before.

I wonder, in years to come, whether the likes of Ted Bundy, Karla Homolka, Andrei Chikatilo, et al will be lauded in the same way?

[Chaffinch]

Probably!

Though, we have the "spy" Burgess, (can't remember his first name!!!!!,) buried in our village, but no tourists yet, thank god

[jno]

I can see the signs now: 'Entering Barnstaple... welcome to the West Country... Rosemary West country!'

[jno]

just been reading the story... I must say I find it hard to summon up much love and sympathy for baby murderers, though I suspect what that meant was that she was killing other people's babies for them. I presume her historical significance is as the only woman executed in NZ.

[dot.hawkes]

wasn't her execution carried out really quickly? In these more enlightened yet forensicly advanced days, convicted prisoners can be on death row for years and years!