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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) .

A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff’s deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .