In the past 24 hours, I found out that the movie Jaws has been a crucial point in at least two criminal cases: (definitely in one case, a possible lead in another.)
Last night, while listening to the Hadden Clark series on Last Podcast on the Left, Marcus briefly talked about the Lady of the Dunes case, and how, after 45 years, nobody knows who she is. While Hadden Clark claims to have killed her and knew her name and refuses to divulge it out of spite, his confession remains dubious. The closest thing to a lead anyone’s been able to get is that, after watching a documentary about the case, and Jaws several weeks later, he saw a woman who looks a lot like a recent reconstruction of the Lady, wearing clothes like those found on her body, in the “4th of July Crowd” scene, which was filmed in the general area her body was found, around the same time. And I Would Like To Think This Was Only A Matter Of Chance.
In a more concrete way, in 1996, a young Florida boy named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his Dad and was captivated by this scene:
This led to a National History Day project about the sinking, and that project led to him interviewing 150 survivors and coming to the conclusion that Captain Charles McVay III, the only captain in the history of the US Navy to be court-martialed for losing his own ship, was innocent of the charges brought against him. This culminated in him going before Congress in 2000 to argue that McVay, whose life was ruined by the court-Martial and killed him self in 1968, deserved to be exonerated. He got his wish in October 2000.
Last night, while listening to the Hadden Clark series on Last Podcast on the Left, Marcus briefly talked about the Lady of the Dunes case, and how, after 45 years, nobody knows who she is. While Hadden Clark claims to have killed her and knew her name and refuses to divulge it out of spite, his confession remains dubious. The closest thing to a lead anyone’s been able to get is that, after watching a documentary about the case, and Jaws several weeks later, he saw a woman who looks a lot like a recent reconstruction of the Lady, wearing clothes like those found on her body, in the “4th of July Crowd” scene, which was filmed in the general area her body was found, around the same time. And I Would Like To Think This Was Only A Matter Of Chance.
In a more concrete way, in 1996, a young Florida boy named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his Dad and was captivated by this scene:
This led to a National History Day project about the sinking, and that project led to him interviewing 150 survivors and coming to the conclusion that Captain Charles McVay III, the only captain in the history of the US Navy to be court-martialed for losing his own ship, was innocent of the charges brought against him. This culminated in him going before Congress in 2000 to argue that McVay, whose life was ruined by the court-Martial and killed him self in 1968, deserved to be exonerated. He got his wish in October 2000.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
