#prime suspect 1973

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Sam Reid's onscreen partners/love interests over the years

(yes, even the f*cked-up ones)

These are the ones I could find pictures of and/or know of (so far). If you can find others I will gladly add them!

Top to bottom/left to right:

Jenni Herzberg in Spooks / Camilla Power in Whitechapel / Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Belle / Max Irons in The Riot Club / Azure Parsons in Astronaut Wives Club / Rebecca Ferguson in Despite the Falling Snow / Olivia Cooke in The Limehouse Golem / Stefanie Martini in Prime Suspect 1973 / Teresa Palmer in 2:22 / Phoebe Tonkin in Bloom / Philippa Northeast in Standing Up for Sunny / Jessica Barden in Lambs of God / Jessica De Gouw in The Hunting / Jessica De Gouw (again) in The Drover's Wife / Anna Torv in The Newsreader / Chai Hansen in The Newsreader / Jacob Anderson in Interview with the Vampire / Maura Grace Athari in Interview with the Vampire.

TBC!

And here is the Jacob Anderson one.

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Hot baby smoking hot

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Sam Reid pulling in and pulling out

[105nt]

This is getting silly. Well, hello!

[glitchinslimjim]

"Mrs. Tennison"

[marley-manson]

Tropic Morning News  | MASH vid

or: BJ Goes to Maine

footage sources and thanks under cut

Footage taken from: MASH, Battered (1978), Prime Suspect (1982), The Four Seasons (1981), The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), Isn’t It Shocking? (1973), and The Cider House Rules (1999) thanks to googling films set in Maine for exactly one shot lol.

Thanks to @pomegranate, @amrv-5, @not-trustworthy​, and @npdclaraoswald​ for pointing me towards certain shots I was looking for, whether I ended up using them or not <3

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The Murder of Martha Moxley

October 01, 2023

On October 30, 1975, 15 year old Martha Moxley went out with her friends to "mischief night" which was a night where all the neighbourhood kids would pull pranks on the neighbours, such as ding dong ditch and TP'ing houses.

According to the other kids there that night, Martha had been flirting with a boy named Thomas Skakel and even kissed him. Thomas had an older brother named Michael. Their mother had died in 1973 from brain cancer and that was when Michael turned to drinking. It was said that the Skakel's would be given large sums of money and would be left unsupervised a lot.

The last time anyone saw Martha she was apparently with Thomas behind a fence, near the boy's pool in his backyard. This was at 9:30pm.

The following day, October 31, 1975, Halloween, Martha's body was found underneath a tree in her own backyard. Her pants and underwear were pulled down, though it was later determined she had not been sexually assaulted.

Pieces of a broken six-iron golf club were found near her. The autopsy indicated that she had been bludgeoned and stabbed with the club. The club was owned by the Skakel's.

Since Thomas Skakel was the last person to have been with Martha the night before he became the prime suspect. His father however, denied authorities to get any access to Thomas' school and mental health records.

Thomas' live in tutor, Kenneth Littleton also became a prime suspect. He had only started working a few hours before the murder. Neither Thomas or Kenneth were charged and the case was cold for decades.

Over the years both Thomas and his brother Michael changed their alibi's for the night Martha was murdered. Michael claimed he was window-peeping and masturbating in a tree beside Martha's home from 11:30 pm to 12:30 am.

Two former students who had gone to a centre for troubled youths reported they had heard Michael confess to killing Martha with a golf club. One of these students quoted Michael as having said, "I'm gong to get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy." Michael's aunt was the widow of US Senator, Robert F. Kennedy. Michael supposedly had gotten special treatment at this centre.

A man named William Kennedy Smith was tried and acquitted for rape in 1991, and a rumour had begun that he had been at the Skakel house on the night Martha was killed. Though it was never confirmed if he had involvement, the case had a new investigation to go off of.

In June 1998, a one-man grand jury was set to review the evidence of the case. After 18 months, it was determined there was enough evidence to charge Michael Skakel with murder.

On January 9, 2000, Michael surrendered to authorities. He was released shortly after on a $500,000 bail. On March 14, 2000, Michael was arraigned for murder n juvenile court, because he was only 15 years old at the time of Martha's murder.

On January 31, 2001, a judged ruled he would be tried as an adult.

The trial began on May 7, 2002, in Connecticut. Michael's alibi at the time of the murder was that he was at his cousin's house. On June 7, 2002, Michael was found guilty of the murder of Martha Moxley. He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

Skakel and his team fought for a new trial many times, often being denied. However, on October 23, 2013, Skakel was granted a new trial by Judge Thomas A. Bishop who ruled his attorney had failed to adequately represent Michael when he was convicted in 2002.

On November 21, 2013, Skakel was released on a $1.2 million bond and conditions. He had to be monitored with a GPS device and have no contact with the Moxley family. He would not be allowed to leave the state of Connecticut and would be periodically checked in on over the phone.

In December 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated Skakel's murder conviction with a 4-3 majority decision. In 2018, they wanted the court to revoke Skakel's bail, and make him continue to serve his sentence in jail. Also in 2018 it was announced there would be a new trial ordered, but by October 2020, it was informed that Skakel would not be retried, with the state's chief saying the state would not be able to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt.

Michael Skakel remains released.

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David Fuller: the ‘morgue monster’

David Fuller is a father-of-four who lived in a quiet cul-de-sac in Heathfield, East Sussex, working for most of his adult life as an electrician at hospitals serving the residents of Kent and Sussex.

Those close to him recoiled in horror when the true nature of his character was revealed - as Fuller was identified as a double murder who had spent years sexually abusing dead women and girls.

The family man, 67, with keen interests in birdwatching, cycling, and photography had been identfied as the prime suspect in the so-called “bedsit murders” when Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, were both sexually assaulted and killed in separate attacks at their Tunbridge Wells homes in 1987.

Fresh analysis of DNA had picked out Fuller as the killer and a trawl of his home uncovered a terrifying collection of four million images on hard drives and floppy disks showing sexual offences.

Among the horrific catalogue of abuse was footage of Fuller himself interfering with bodies in the hospital morgue.

He has now admitted the double murder and the sexual abuse of dozens of victims, aged from just nine to 100-years-old, and he is almost certain to die behind bars.

There were possible signs of the horrors to come when Fuller was convicted in 1973 and 1977 for a series of ‘creeper’ home burglaries, involving break-ins through rear windows. He was spared a jail sentence at Portsmouth crown court.

Within the space of five months in 1987, he carried out the murders of Ms Knell and Ms Pierce in the streets of Tunbridge Wells that he knew well. Fuller had met Ms Knell at the SupaSnaps store in the town where she was the manager and he often took in his photographs to be developed.

Her body was discovered at her bedsit in Guildford Road on June 23, 1987, with tests revealing her naked body had been sexually assaulted after the attack and possibly once she was already dead.

On November 24, 1987, Ms Pierce was attacked by Fuller outside her bedsit in Grosvenor Park and the killer dumped her body around 40 miles away in a country lane ditch.

Fuller may have believed he got away with the murders as the years passed by but DNA evidence from the scene as well as a bloody fingerprint would eventually be his downfall, thanks to improving analysis technology and techniques.

SupaSnaps envelopes were found at his home, tying him to Ms Knell, and detectives found a diary entry showing he had visited the Buster Browns restaurant where Ms Pierce worked.

Fuller told a pack of lies to police but investigations revealed he had lived near to, or visited, the streets where both victims were killed. The discovery of the images and videos hidden at his home switched police attention to the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital where Fuller had worked from 1989 to 2010 and Tunbridge Wells Hospital where he was employed until his arrest.

Detectives discovered the killer had access to the morgues, using his swipe card to let himself in to abuse bodies after other staff members had left for the day.

He knew which parts of the morgue were covered by CCTV and carried out the abuse out of shot. But footage from his own collection, as well as detailed records of names and ages that he made, helped police to identify at least 80 people whose bodies have been interfered with.

Fuller eventually confessed to his sickening activities and admitted to police that he could not remember when it started or how many people he had abused. He insisted his motives were not sexual, but refused to discuss the abuse further.

A police hotline was set up to deal with hundreds of calls from the worried families of deceased people while the police investigation has widened once more to see if other historic violent and sexual crimes might be linked to Fuller.

He initially denied knowing either of the murdered women, then pushed the case to trial by claiming “diminished responsibility” for the killings. Ultimately, he pleaded guilty as the full details of his crimes were laid bare in court.

Police suspect Fuller may have abused hundreds of dead bodies during his life as a hospital electrician and maintenance worker.

[mariacallous]

How depressing and upsetting it is today to recall Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrogance under interrogation about Case 2000, one of the three corruption cases against the prime minister. “This is classified, don’t let it leak, okay?” he said, flattering the police investigators with the magic lure of security secrets. And then he explained his doctrine regarding Hamas and Hezbollah.

“We have neighbors,” he said, “who are our bitter enemies ... I send them messages all the time ... these days, right now ... I mislead them, destabilize them, mock them, and them hit them over the head.” The suspect then continued his lecture: “It’s impossible to reach an agreement with them ... Everyone knows this, but we control the height of the flames.”

This arrogant worldview, so disconnected from reality, isn’t the only thing that blew up in Netanyahu’s face, and ours, on Saturday morning. The other “concept” that collapsed was one many good people warned about: the idea that the leadership of the state could be entrusted to a criminal defendant.

History will judge everyone who lent a hand to this moral distortion – first and foremost the defendant himself and his fanatic supporters, party colleagues, and partners in the governing coalition, but also the media personalities and jurists who mobilized to kosher this abomination.

It will also presumably cast an unflattering light on the 11 Supreme Court justices who refrained from putting their fingers in the dike on the grounds that they lacked the power to do so, while shutting their eyes to the disastrous consequences of their passivism.

But even before that history is written, the state commission of inquiry that will have to be formed once the fires die down will have to delve into the prime minister’s priorities and agenda. It will have to examine how many hours he devoted this year to his dangerous justice minister, to the court’s reasonableness standard and to the Judicial Appointments Committee, compared to how many he devoted to his defense minister and the army’s chief of staff; it will have to examine how much attention he paid to the head of Military Intelligence compared to how much attention he paid to his lawyers and PR people.

It’s infuriating to recall that just a few months ago, Netanyahu found time to appear in the Jerusalem District Court to deter a frightened witness, the businessman Arnon Milchan, while Israel’s own deterrence was eroding. Or to recall his refusal to meet with IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi, who sought to warn him about the destructive consequences of abolishing the reasonableness standard, on the day the law doing so was passed.

It’s impossible to close your eyes to the reality. There’s a clear connection between the corruption trial, the government’s judicial overhaul, and the greatest failure since the Yom Kippur War of 1973, perhaps even since the establishment of the state.

Admittedly, the intelligence agencies failed inconceivably at foreseeing the actual attack. But they warned Netanyahu time and again in recent months that Israel’s enemies had identified a historic weakness, making the likelihood of war higher than it has been since the Second Lebanon War of 2006.

Yet instead of quelling Justice Minister Yariv Levin, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich due to this danger, Netanyahu prioritized ensuring his personal survival and the integrity of his coalition at the price of capitulating to insane, messianic racists. To this end, he turned his domestic rivals into enemies and systematically destroyed the connective tissue that, with great difficulty, held Israel society together.

He and his partners in this criminal organization forgot that Israel isn’t Poland or Hungary, but first and foremost a country deeply embroiled in a national conflict. Consequently, it doesn’t have the privilege of entertaining itself with dictatorial games.

Hamas as partner

Effectively, Netanyahu’s entire worldview collapsed over the course of a single day. He was convinced that he could make deals with corrupt Arab tyrants while ignoring the cornerstone of the Arab-Jewish conflict, the Palestinians. His life’s work was to turn the ship of state from the course steered by his predecessors, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ehud Olmert, and make the two-state solution impossible. En route to this goal, he found a partner in Hamas.

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.

The worst terror attack in Israel’s history also strips Netanyahu of his title as “the terrorism expert,” a source of pride ever since he established the Jonathan Institute in memory of his brother Yoni, who was killed during the Entebbe hostage rescue. With its help, he marketed himself for years and eventually reached the Prime Minister’s Office.

Netanyahu learned the lesson of his predecessors Menachem Begin and Olmert and for years, maneuvered skillfully to avoid getting embroiled in a war in which hundreds would die, since he knew that would likely be the end of his road as a politician. But the vertigo of his current term, during which he sacrificed everything for the sake of clinging to power, resulted in “his nightmare scenario coming true,” to quote a man who knows him well.

He has been prime minister for most of the last 16 years, yet what he will be remembered for after he goes is this last devastating year. In a single day, under his reckless leadership, Israel paid a much higher price in blood than it did during the Second Lebanon War, and similar to what it paid during the first Lebanon War in the early 1980s.

Olmert will be credited with destroying Syria’s nuclear reactor and striving to end the conflict with the Palestinians. Begin will be remembered for bombing Iraq’s nuclear reactor and, of course, making peace with Egypt. Netanyahu’s portfolio of achievements is pretty thin, with all due respect to the Abraham Accords.

Not long ago, we marked the 40th anniversary of the cabinet meeting at which Begin announced that he couldn’t go on any longer. Israel was bogged down in the Lebanese quagmire, with fatalities mounting every day, and this overcame him.

“The reason is that with every fiber of my being, I can’t go on,” Begin told his partners in Likud and the governing coalition, who begged him to reconsider. “There are times like that ... If I had even a shadow of a doubt that I could go on, I would do so. But it’s not in my power to do so. What does a man need to do if it’s not in his power? ... Allow me to go to the president [to resign] this very day. Forgive me, pardon me, grant me atonement. I can’t do it anymore.”

What we need now is for Netanyahu to follow in the footsteps of Likud’s first leader. But you can’t expect any soul-searching from him, and certainly not self-flagellation or shutting himself up at home à la Begin. Soon, any moment now, he’ll be blaming everyone except himself. The poison machine has already started to work.

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

By 1999, Yeltsin was visibly ill and frequently intoxicated, and the problem of succession became acute. Elections were needed to replace him; from the perspective of the oligarchs these needed to be managed and the outcome controlled. A successor was needed who would allow Yeltsin’s family (in both the normal sense of his relatives and in the Russian sense of friendly oligarchs) to stay alive and maintain their wealth. “Operation Successor,” as the challenge was known in the Kremlin, had two stages: finding a new man who was not a known associate of Yeltsin, and then inventing a fake problem that he could then appear to solve. To find his successor, Yeltsin’s entourage organized a public opinion poll about favorite heroes in popular entertainment. The winner was Max Stierlitz, the hero of a series of Soviet novels that were adapted into a number of films, most famously the television serial Seventeen Moments of Spring in 1973. The fictional Stierlitz was a Soviet plant in German military intelligence during the Second World War, a communist spy in Nazi uniform. Vladimir Putin, who had held a meaningless post in the East German provinces during his career in the KGB, was seen as the closest match to the fictional Stierlitz. Having enriched himself as the assistant to the mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s, Putin was known to the Kremlin and thought to be a team player. He had worked for Yeltsin in Moscow since 1998, chiefly as head of the Federal Security Service (FSB, the former KGB). When appointed Yeltsin’s prime minister in August 1999, Putin was unknown to the larger public, so not a plausible candidate for national elected office. His approval rating stood at 2%. And so it was time to generate a crisis that he could appear to solve. In September 1999, a series of bombs exploded in Russian cities, killing hundreds of Russian citizens. It seemed possible that the perpetrators were FSB officers. In the city of Ryazan, for example, FSB officers were apprehended by their local colleagues as suspects in the bombings. Though the possibility of self-terrorism was noticed at the time, the factual questions were overwhelmed by righteous patriotism as Putin ordered a new war against the part of Russia deemed to be responsible for the bombings: the Chechen republic of southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus region, which had declared independence in 1993 and then fought the Russian army to a standstill. There was no evidence that Chechens had anything to do with the bombings. Thanks to the Second Chechen War, Putin’s approval rating reached 45% in November. In December, Yeltsin announced his resignation and endorsed Putin as his successor. Thanks to unequal television coverage, manipulation of the vote tally, and the atmospherics of terrorism and war, Putin was accorded the absolute majority needed to win the presidential election of March 2000. The ink of political fiction is blood.

Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Think about Crocus City Hall.

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To add on to my last ask, imagine these 3 in a film as brothers:

Cody Fern

Sam Reid

(Also took me ages to realise why I recognised Sam with short hair, and that's cos I watched him in Prime Suspect: 1973)

Dacre Montgomery

I NEED THIS

I need them as three brothers in a rich family drama so bad now omfg!!! With their real accents of course

Add Margot Robbie as their sister!

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Interview with the Vampire (TV) coming to the BBC

Interview with the Vampire (TV) coming to the BBC

In the second piece of vampire related news today (see all the news about new Buffy audios), the BBC is bringing the SMC series Interview with the Vampire to BBC Two and iPlayer. Based on Anne Rice’s best-selling novel, the seven-part series stars Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Broadchurch), Sam Reid (The Newsreader, Prime Suspect 1973, Lambs of God), Bailey Bass (Avatar: Way of…

[haroldgross]

New Post has been published on Harold Gross: The 5a.m. Critic

New Post has been published on https://literaryends.com/hgblog/lola/

Lola

[3 stars]

I’m not usually a found-footage fan for movies. They can be fun and entertaining, but they always end up a little contrived and breaking their rules to get scenes or angles that just wouldn’t exist in real life.

So why am I suggesting this odd little indie? Basically, this funky bit of scifi is a nice play on some old tropes. Also the story is well thought through, as much as these kinds of stories can be. And some of the reworked historical video is very clever.

In addition, director and co-writer Andrew Legge worked hard to avoid the forced footage conundrum. In doing so, the film is also a bit hard to watch if you can’t handle a lot of abrupt cuts, shaky cam, and light flashes. But there is a cohesive story that forms as it goes along, and a solid conceit for the existence of it at all. Even the rushed ending, while frustrating in some ways is fair and, frankly, I think you get the info you need to understand how it gets resolved.

The two sisters at the center, Stefanie Martini (Prime Suspect (1973)) and Emma Appleton (The Witcher) build a great tension and sense of family together. Appleton also gets to inhabit a rather different kind of woman for the 1940s, and she does so with gusto. There is more to the cast, all with nice credits, and all deliver. But it is better to experience them as they come.

It is clear you’re going to be dealing with alternate history and such in this tale from the beginning. But how that relates to our world and theirs is the fun of watching. And at about an hour and a quarter, it isn’t a huge risk to take.

Where to watch

[105nt]

This was hard to get, with him being a corpse and all. 💀 Well, hello!

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Sunday, March 31, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: PARISH (AMC Canada) 10:15pm

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

NETFLIX CANADA AS GOOD AS IT GETS BIG DADDY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 DOPE S.W.A.T: UNDER SIEGE

“GIVE US BARRABAS!” - Movies for Easter (TCM) 8:00am: The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952) (Cartoon Network Canada) 10:00am: Hop (2011) (TCM) 12:00pm: Godspell (1973) (TCM) 2:00pm: The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (W Network) 4:00pm: Easter Under Wraps (2019) (TCM) 5:30pm: The Robe (1953) (Crave) 5:30pm: Easter Sunday (2022) (W Network) 6:00pm: An Easter Bloom (2024) (TCM) 8:00pm: Easter Parade (1948) (TCM) 10:00pm: King of Kings (1961) April 01 (TCM) 6:00am: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

CURLING (TSN/TSN3) 8:00am: LGT World Men's Curling Championship: Canada vs. Scotland

MLB BASEBALL (SN/SN1) 1:30pm: Jays vs. Rays (SN Now) 4:00pm: Red Sox vs. Mariners (TSN2) 7:00pm: Cardinals vs. Dodgers

MLS SOCCER (TSN2) 1:30pm: DC United vs. CF Montreal (TSN2) 3:30pm: Atlanta vs. Chicago

2024 WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS (CBC) 2:00pm: Exhibition Gala

NHL HOCKEY (SN360/SNPacific) 3:30pm: Ducks vs. Canucks

NBA BASKETBALL (SN) 7:00pm: Warriors vs. Spurs (TSN/TSN4) 6:00pm: 76ers vs. Raptors

NORTHERN AIR RESCUE (APTN) 7:00pm: At Missinippi Airways, medivac pilots do much more than fly planes; when a job-related injury sidelines one of their crew members, a talented young pilot earns her shot at moving up to the medivac program.

OCEAN WARRIORS: MISSION READY (APTN) 7:30pm: An oil spill from a grounded tug and barge in 2016 proved devastating to the Heiltsuk, who use their waterways for food, transport and cultural practices; today, Heiltsuk's Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary team searches for a missing community.

THE JESUS MUSIC (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm: With stirring songs of faith, love and hope, Jesus music rises from America's 1960s counterculture movement to become a worldwide phenomenon.

BIG BROTHER CANADA (Global) 9:00pm

HIGH COUNTRY (CTV Drama) 9:00pm: After Rose's harrowing ordeal in the bush, Andie investigates another suspect in the disappearances, ex-army hermit Ghillie Jack.

INTO THE DARK: DOWN (T&E) 9:00pm: Two office workers get trapped in an elevator over a long Valentine's Day weekend. A promising romantic connection turns dangerous as they learn more about each other.

PETER RABBIT (Starz Canada 2) 9:00pm: Peter Rabbit and his three sisters enjoy spending their days in Mr. McGregor's vegetable garden. A battle of wills soon breaks out as McGregor hatches scheme after scheme to get rid of Peter -- a rabbit who proves to be a worthy and wily opponent.

PROSPER (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: Cal locks horns with a psychologist as he suffers a breakdown following Rosa's suicide.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 10:00pm: The team has finally reached target depth in the Garden Shaft, but their drilling efforts may be thwarted by a legendary flood tunnel.

BRYAN'S ALL IN (HGTV Canada) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Matt and Alicia bought their town's beloved bowling alley to save it from being torn down. The business is a local landmark, giving young, old, and everyone in between a safe, familiar place to gather and unwind.