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Monday – The Murders That Shook A City
Aug. 16th, 2010 01:28 pm.
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The state of Texas will execute a man named Peter Cantu tomorrow and I, a Democrat-leaning citizen who is not the biggest fan of the death penalty, will not shed a tear. Almost no one who lived in Houston in the summer of 1993 will. The murders of two teenage girls, Jennifer Ertman (14) and Elizabeth Peña (16), captivated the city in a way that I can’t recall any other murders – even those that were equally horrific – doing. The images still play out in our collective memories like a macabre slide show.
( My dear, do you know /How a long time ago / Two poor little children / Whose names I still know /Were stolen away / On a fine summer's day / And left in a wood / As I've heard people say? )
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The state of Texas will execute a man named Peter Cantu tomorrow and I, a Democrat-leaning citizen who is not the biggest fan of the death penalty, will not shed a tear. Almost no one who lived in Houston in the summer of 1993 will. The murders of two teenage girls, Jennifer Ertman (14) and Elizabeth Peña (16), captivated the city in a way that I can’t recall any other murders – even those that were equally horrific – doing. The images still play out in our collective memories like a macabre slide show.
( My dear, do you know /How a long time ago / Two poor little children / Whose names I still know /Were stolen away / On a fine summer's day / And left in a wood / As I've heard people say? )
