True Crime Stories

  As I stated at the beginning of my last entry, this case too involves an execution. It is only by coincidence really that they both took place in California. I will warn you that this case is a bit confusing and while the case in which sent Donald Beardslee to his execution involved several people. As usual I tried to find information on each of the participants of the crime and I found a little but when an execution is involved it is difficult to find anything beyond that a lot of the time. The strange thing here however is that I did not come across an appeal by Beardslee but I did find one from one of the other participant and those help in giving more information about the crime itself and was very informational. Donald Beardslee was born in 1944 and when he was of age he joined the Air Force and became an aircraft mechanic. In 1965 he and another airman were caught trying to steal a car. He was sentenced (although I do not know for how long) to a work farm in Minnes...

Many beliefs and behaviors are learned and passed down from generation to generation. The theory that male children are superior to female children is one of them. Of course until the early 1900's women were still even legally considered to be inferior. Some would argue today that women are still considered that way but it is nothing compared to where we started. This goes back at least as far as ancient times and just carried on down. Many female children babies were abandoned or even murdered in China when there was a one child policy in place for more than thirty years. Male children carry on surnames which make them important to fathers in particular. But mother's doted on their sons, some more than others. Sons were treated better than daughters. Daughters were expected to marry well; sons were expected to do well. Many mothers would not just try to convince their sons that no one would love them like they would, they made sure the women dating their son...