User talk:Loganmaggart
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Hi Loganmaggart, I was wondering if you had a topic proposal written up yet. It's pretty late by now, seeing as you'll be needing to spend a fair amount of time tracking down sources. That work can't really be rushed. Daclausen (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:34, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Priscilla Ford
Priscilla Joyce Ford (February 10, 1929 – January 29, 2005) was a mass murderer who drove her blue Lincoln Continental down a sidewalk at the corner of Second and Virginia streets on an afternoon in Reno, Nevada. The attack killed six people and injured 23. Ford was a former teacher from New York.
Ford’s blood-alcohol ratio was .162, too drunk to legally drive. She drove as fast as 40 miles per hour during her 100-foot drive. Ford didn’t resist when the police asked her to get out of the car. Officer Oakes, who was an officer at the crime scene, stated that Ford was remarkably calm. Ford asked him how many people she killed and when Oakes responded, “five or six,” she replied, “good”. Another officer stated that Ford said, “The more dead, the better,” while she was in custody.
On August 4, 1981, Ford was found competent to stand trial after being found incompetent on January 29th of that year. The trial lasted almost five months. After 13 hours of deliberation, a jury composed of seven women and five men found Ford guilty on six counts of murder and 23 counts of attempted murder on March 19, 1982. On March 28, 1982, the jury decided she was to be put to death. Even though seven people died of injuries from the attack, there were issues in the indictment, leading Ford to only be charged with six. Ford’s lawyer claimed she was mentally ill and shouldn’t be put do death, rather spend the rest of her life in a mental institution, while the District Attorney called her “evil personified” and fought for Ford to be found legally sane. Ford herself went on the stand and testified that she believed she was the reincarnation of Jesus and therefor incapable of sin.
The murders weren’t her only interaction with law enforcement during her life. In 1957, Ford shot her second husband in self-defense and then herself.
She was also arrested for trespassing and assault when her daughter was eleven. When her daughter was nine, Ford taught her how to smoke marijuana.
Ford, a heavy smoker, died of emphysema at 75 at Southern Nevada Women’s Correctional Center in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Loganmaggart (talk) 06:12, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
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