Sunday 31 March 2013

Film Star Natalie Wood Drowns

Daily Mirror dated Monday November 30th 1981
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Natalie Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko in San Francisco in 1938 and appeared in her first film in 1943. She is probably best remembered as Maria in ‘West Side Story’ as well as Oscar nominated parts in ‘Splendour in the Grass’ and ‘Love with the Proper Stranger’.

Her death by drowning was originally deemed to be an accident but the coroner’s verdict was amended recently to include the wording ‘drowning and other undetermined factors’.


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Yet again it turned out that the man primarily responsible for young John Haddon’s death had just recently been released from prison after serving 4 years of a 7-year sentence for the attempted abduction of another boy. Paul Corrigan had spent those 4 years planning to abduct, abuse and kill a child. He recruited teenager Derek McInnes to help him. At their trial they were found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. McInnes got 7 years and Corrigan life.
In 1999 the Fallon Inquiry into misconduct at the Ashworth Secure Hospital named Corrigan as the ringleader of a paedophile ring within the unit.

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This item refers to the first of the Northern Ireland supergrasses Christopher Black. His revelations led to the convictions of 22 members of the IRA, although 17 of these were overturned in 1983.

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David Frost and Lynne Frederick’s marriage lasted another 7 months before they divorced. She remarried but again it ended in divorce in 1991. She died at the age of 39 in 1994.

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters was formed in 1903 and has a long history of Mob involvement, notably the presidency of Jimmy Hoffa who had disappeared in 1975 believed murdered. Organized crime influence on the Union was weakened by the deregulation of the freight transport industry in the 1980’s and then the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) in 1989.

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Despite a £10000 reward being offered, the doorstep murder of Roy Herterich has never been solved.

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A serious analysis of PC Alan Godfrey’s UFO experience can be read at the Fortean Times archive here. I have seen PC Godfrey talk about that night and he certainly didn’t come over as deserving public ridicule by the Daily Mirror.

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Ex-keyboard player for the prog rock group Yes, Rick Wakeman and ex-page 3 model Nina Carter married in 1984 and remained so until 2004. Nice boots, Rick! 

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William Holden had died on November 12th after a fall at his home in Santa Monica. Throughout the 1950’s he’d been one of the top 10 biggest box office draws, his 60’s films included the infamously violent ‘The Wild Bunch’ and in the 70’s he appeared with Steve McQueen and Paul Newman in ‘The Towering Inferno’.

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This cartoon doesn’t even have to label the lady with the handbag – everyone knew it was Margaret Thatcher.

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Football hooliganism goes back to 1880’s and beyond. I have only been to one professional match in my life so I don’t have any first hand knowledge, but I know that throughout the 70’s and 80’s non-fans like myself assumed that all football fans were violent yobs. They all weren’t but some were.








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