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Gary Heidnik, 43, is led to his preliminary hearing. Heidnik, a millionaire preacher who founded a small church to accumulate wealth and avoid taxes, kidnapped, raped, and tortured six women, murdering two of them, while holding them captive in his basement (Philadelphia, 1987) .

My mother in 1970. 1952-2017

My grandma Karen (left) and her best friend Marilyn, spring 1954!

A girl tying on a wish on a fox statue at an Inari shrine. Japan, 1932

Joseph Taborsky hugs his mother after his exoneration from death row. He spent 4 years on death row for a 1950 murder before his conviction was overturned. Just over a year later, Taborsky murdered 5 people and confessed to the 1950 murder. He was executed in 1960 (Connecticut, 1955) .