#Sheila Ferguson

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The Three Degrees, singing trio, Sheila Ferguson, Valerie Holiday and Fayette Pinkney, in their belly-baring tops and flares.

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Plot bunny, glee, Sutton Foster?

Sheila Ferguson

Plot A ( Untitled ): she's a college student in community theatre with Josh, she gets pregnant but her boyfriend leaves her, she's too late now to get an abortion and doesn't know what to do because she doesn't want the child, Josh has recently helped the Berrys buy their house and knows they're considering another child so puts them in touch, she's Leonard & Toni's bio mom, tbd if she's still present in their lives but leaning towards yes, just not in a maternal way

Plot B ( Let Me Be Your Star + On With The Show ): she's a college student in community theatre with Josh, she's ridiculously talented and really wants to try moving to New York and trying to make it on broadway but can't afford it, Josh knows the Berrys are looking for a surrogate and are willing to pay very well for it, puts them in touch, she's Sadie & Oz's bio mom in their respective verses. She is still family friends with the Berrys & one of Josh's best friends, but has 0 interest in being a mother to Sadie/Oz. She's sort of a cool aunt figure, they eventually know she was their surrogate because she's still around sometimes, but never tries to have a maternal role in their life. Sadie & Oz sometimes go to her when they need non-dads advice but don't want her to be their mom

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Happy birthday Sheila Diana Ferguson, lead singer for The Three Degrees!

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all main a chorus line characters

don't mind how poorly some of them were drawn, I was trying smth new

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Sheila Pree Bright ֍ 1960 Now (National march on Ferguson, 'We Can't Stop Now,' Protesting Police Violence and the Murder of Mike Brown) (2015)

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*based on Aaron's impromptu Q&A on Twitter, writer comments during the official TDP discord watch party, and publicly available storyboarder info

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gale cleven in art

folded paper (c. 1974-82), sheila pinkel / silence (1911), odilon redon / the color of a cigarette (2023), rf. alvarez / points de suspension (n.d.), marie bourget / alfred’s heron (n.d.), carol eckert / untitled (1924), hilma af klint / the double (1938), roberto montenegro / is — vii (1974), edda renouf / zylo-probe (c. 1975), mildred thompson / in my father’s house (1992), jesseca ferguson

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Sheila Ferguson is a deaf ASL instructor! im really glad that they had a deaf person voice amaya, it means a lot!

Oh my gosh! Thank you anon! I didn't know that... but damn do the dragon prince creators know what they're doing!

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THE WHITE HOUSE FARM MURDERS

When greed, hatred, and jealousy takes over someone’s mind, it can sometimes make someone snap. It can make someone snap to the point where they kill their whole family, just because they couldn’t stand the favoritism. Add on the fact that an inheritance could make them very, very, wealthy, but they didn’t want to share that money with their only sibling. At least, that’s what drove Jeremy Bamber to snap. For some time he played it off like it was his poor mentally ill sister who committed the crime, while his crocodile tears drowned him in his own web of lies.

THE BAMBER FAMILY

Ralph Nevill Bamber, 61, was a farmer and former RAF Pilot, and magistrate at the Witham Magistrates’ Court. He married his wife, June Speakman, 61, in 1949 and moved into the Georgian White House Farm, in Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex. They owned 300 acres of farmland that belonged to June’s father. Nevill was described as a well-built, strong man, who was 6ft 4, and in great health. This became important during the trial as Jeremy’s defense lawyers claimed that Sheila, who was a very petite woman, had been able to overpower, beat, and subdue Nevill, which the prosecution contested. The couple were unable to have biological children, and decided to adopt Jeremy and Sheila when they were babies, completely unrelated to each other. June suffered a lot with mental health issues and was very depressed. She was admitted into a psychiatric hospital in the 1950’s, including the year after she adopted Sheila in 1958. June was given electroshock therapy at least 6 times. She was treated by a psychiatrist named Hugh Ferguson in 1982, who would also later treat Sheila. The Bamber’s gave their children a good life, and were very financially secure. They had a good home and received a private education. However, June’s relationship with the children weren’t great, and her relationship with Sheila was particularly poor. June was extremely religious and would try and force her beliefs onto her children, along with her grandchildren. Sheila felt like her mother didn’t approve of her and that she was a constant disappointment. Her relationship with Jeremy wasn’t much better, as he eventually cut contact with her completely.

Sheila was born on July 18th, 1957, and was only 28 when she was killed. She was adopted by the Bamber’s in October of 1957, when she was only around three months old. She attended secretarial college in Swiss Cottage, London. When she turned 17 in 1974, she found out she was pregnant, the babies father being Colin Caffell. Her parents refused to let her have the child, and forced her into getting an abortion. Sheila’s relationship with her mother became worse when June found her and Collin sunbathing naked in a field, and began calling her the “devil’s child.” After her abortion she continued studying and was eventually trained as a hairdresser, and temporarily worked with the Lucie Clayton agency as a model. In 1977 she became pregnant for the second time, and the couple decided to get married. Unfortunately, she miscarried during the sixth month of her pregnancy. Her parents wanted to help them during their hard times and bought the couple a garden apartment in Hempstead. She became pregnant a third time and once again, had a miscarriage. Sheila didn’t give up and got pregnant for a fourth time, and gave birth to twin boys, Nicolas and Daniel, after being on bed rest in the hospital for four months. However, Sheila found out that Colin had started an affair before their sons were born, and left Sheila for the other woman just five months after they were born. They divorced in May of 1982.

Sheila became extremely upset after the divorce, and her mental health declined more and more as time went on. The boys were placed into foster care between 1982–1983 due to her mental health problems. That being said, both parents were involved in their life, and the boys were living with Colin for several months before the murders occured. Colin had plans to bring the boys on vacation to Norway, and scheduled a week long visit to the Bamber’s farm home so they could spend time with them and Sheila before their trip. Colin dropped them off on August 4th, and it was the last time he saw them alive.

After the divorce, Nevill purchased another apartment for Sheila, in Morshead Mansions, Maida Vale. She then decided to track down her birth mother who lived in Canada. The two met up briefly, but no relationship was started. Shortly afterwards she met a group of young women who nicknamed her “Bambi.” The women would later report that Sheila was very insecure and would often complain about her terrible relationship with her mother, and would also live on either welfare checks or low paying jobs. Sheila and these women would often partake in partying, drugs (usually cocaine), and fooling around with much older men.

As her mental health continued to decline, she began episodes of banging her head against walls. Her psychiatrist, Ferguson, claimed that she was in an agitated state, and was psychotic and paranoid. She was admitted into St. Andrew’s Hospital, a private psychiatric facility, where he later diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was discharged in September of 1983, and began taking an antipsychotic medication. Ferguson claimed that she would talk about suicide, but did not deem her as a suicide risk. She also told Ferguson that she believed the devil had given her the power to bring evil onto others, and that she could even make her sons have sex and cause violence with her. She called the twins the “devil’s children,” which was the exact same thing her own mother, June, would call her. She also claimed that she was capable of murdering them or having them murder others. Five months before the murders, she was re-admitted into St. Andrew’s Hospital, after a psychotic episode where she claimed that others, including her boyfriend, were trying to hurt and kill her. It was at this point where the twins went to live with Colin. Four weeks later she was discharged, and would receive monthly injections of another antipsychotic medication.

Sheila’s mental health problems is exactly why the theory regarding Sheila causing a murder suicide was so believable in the beginning. However, Ferguson told the court that the kind of violence that was necessary for this type of crime was not consistent in her behavior or the way he viewed her. He claimed that her deep relationship issues were with her mother, not her father or her children. Her ex-husband Colin supported Ferguson’s statement, and said that even though Sheila would throw fits of anger, and sometimes hit him, not once did she ever lay a finger on their children. Sheila’s aunt and niece also told the court that she was not a violent person, and she had never used a gun, and was never taught how to use a gun. However, on the night of the murders where Jeremy was standing outside the house with the police, he told them that he and Sheila had went target shooting together in the past, and later told the court that he had actually never seen her use a gun as an adult.

Jeremy Nevill Bamber was born on January 13, 1961. He was put up for adoption when he was only six weeks old, and was later adopted by the Bamber’s when he was six months old. He attended St. Nicholas Primary school, then Maldon Court Prep School, which Sheila also attended. In 1970 at the age of nine, he joined the Cadet Force while attending Gresham’s Boarding School. Jeremy claimed he was very unhappy there due to bullying and other issues. He left Gresham’s with no qualifications and attended sixth form college. His father, Nevill, paid for him to go to Australia where he took scuba diving courses, before going to New Zealand. Jeremy’s former friends claimed that he had broken into a jewelry shop and stole a very expensive watch, and also bragged about smuggling in heroin. Jeremy returned back home to England in 1982 to work on his parents farm. Nevill set him up with a cottage which was just around a five minute drive from their farm, and 15 minutes or less by bike. Nevill also gave him a car to use, and eight percent of a family business, Osea Road Campsites Ltd.

THE MURDERS

Three days before the murders on Sunday the 4th, 1985, Sheila and her sons arrived to the farm to spend time with June and Nevill. The housekeeper claims to have seen Sheila that day and said nothing was unusual about her behavior. Additionally, two farm workers also saw her and the children, and said everyone seemed happy and normal. On the evening of Tuesday the 6th, Jeremy visited the farm house. In court he claimed that he had suggested that the boys be put into daytime foster care, and Sheila didn’t seem bothered by the suggestion at all. Ferguson challenged this statement by saying any suggestions of putting her sons into foster care would’ve actually provoked Sheila, but she would’ve been open to having daytime help at her home. A farm worker heard Jeremy leave at 9:30. The farms secretary, Barbara Wilson, called Nevill around that time and claimed that he was short with her and seemed to hang up quickly in irritation, leaving her with the assumption that she had just interrupted an argument, and claimed that he had never acted that way before. Junes sister, Pamela, called them around 10 PM, and said that she spoke to Sheila, who was quiet, and then to June, who seemed to be perfectly normal.

In the early hours of August 7th, Jeremy called the Chelmsford police station. It’s important to note that he did not call the 999 emergency number. He notified the police that he had gotten a call from his father, asking Jeremy to come to the house quickly, as Sheila had gone “berserk” with a gun. He claimed that the line went dead in the middle of the call. After he called the police, he drove slowly to the farm house. There’s a lot of contradictions in his story about these phone calls. In his early witness statements, Jeremy claims that he called the police immediately after he received the call from his father, and then called his girlfriend, Julie Mugford. After he called the police, the operator checked the Whitehouse Farm’s landline number at 3:56 AM, according to the police log, and at 4:30 AM, according to the Court of Appeal. The operator found that the line was open, and could even hear a dog barking. At the time they didn’t keep records of local calls, but experts during the trial claimed that if Nevill really did call Jeremy, and if he really did leave the receiver off the hook, the call would’ve only been open for two minutes, which means Jeremy would not have been able to use his phone. Additionally, he claimed in later interviews with the police, that it’s possible that he called Mugford first and then the police, and was confused about the sequence of events.

When asked about why he didn’t call the 999 emergency number, he claimed that he didn’t think it mattered how long it took for the police to arrive. Jeremy claims his father sounded terrified on the phone, and even though he asked him to come to the house quickly, Jeremy instead decided to not call the emergency number, spend extra time looking up the number to the local police station, called up his girlfriend, and then proceeded to drive SLOWLY to the house, and then waited outside the house until police arrived. He also acknowledged that he could’ve called one of the farm workers as well, but didn’t consider it at the time. Later during the trial the prosecution would argue that there was never a call between Nevill and Jeremy. Instead, it was Jeremy who picked up the phone in the farm house, called his own landline, and then left the receiver off the hook, in order to establish an alibi, and to further set the scene to paint Sheila as the culprit. Further evidence to support this claim is that Nevill, according to the Court of Appeal, was very bloody around this time, and the phone had “no visible blood” on it when police examined the scene. However, it was also acknowledged that no swabs had been taken either.

THE CRIME SCENE AND POLICE INVESTIGATION

Three officers from the Witham police station passed by Jeremy on Pages Lane and arrived to the farmhouse around two minutes before he did, and later testified in court that Jeremy was driving very slow. Even his own cousin, Ann Eaton, claimed that it was strange considering he was normally a fast driver. Everyone waited outside the house until 5AM for a tactical firearms unit to arrive. They then decided to wait until daylight to actually try and enter the home, and spent an additional two hours trying to communicate with Sheila, but all they could hear was a dog barking. All the entryways to the home were closed, besides the window in the master bedroom on the first floor.

While waiting outside the police began to question Jeremy, and said he was pretty calm considering his family was in danger and is likely hurt or worse. They asked him whether he really thought his sister had gone “berserk” with a gun, he replied: “I don’t really know. She is a nutter. She’s been having treatment.” He also let them know that he didn’t get along with his sister very much. Police then asked him why his father would call him for help instead of the police, which Jeremy replied: “my father was the kind of person who would want to keep things within the family.” The next few hours consisted of him talking with an officer about cars, and mentioned that he’d be getting a brand new Porsche soon. Jeremy also told police that when he was at the farmhouse a few hours earlier, he had loaded the rifle because he thought he heard rabbits outside, but ended up leaving the rifle on the kitchen table, fully loaded, with a box of ammunition right beside it. The doctor who was called to the crime scene later testified that the family could’ve died at any point in the night, and claimed that Jeremy was in a state of shock, crying, and seemed to throw up.

The police entered the home at 7:54 AM, forcing their way inside by breaking the the back door down with a sledgehammer. Five bodies were found with multiple gunshot wounds. Nevill was found downstairs in the kitchen, and everyone else was upstairs. A total of 25 bullets were shot, most of them at a close distance. The phone that Nevill apparently called Jeremy with was lying on one of the kitchen surfaces with it’s receiver off the hook, with empty .22 cartridge cases next to it. Chairs and stools were overturned, along with a broken sugar basin, a broken ceiling light, a broken crockery, and it looked like there was blood on the floor.

Nevill was dressed in pajamas and lying over an overturned chair near the fireplace. He was shot eight times, six times to his head and face while the rifle was only a few inches away from his skin. The remaining two shots to his body were from at least two feet away. Three empty cartridges were found in the kitchen and one upstairs, so the police concluded that Nevill was originally shot upstairs but was able to make in downstairs where the struggle took place. He was then hit with the rifle multiple times, and then fatally shot. He had two wounds to the right side of his body and two to his head that would’ve caused unconsciousness. His lip was wounded, jaw fractured, and his teeth, neck, and larynx were damaged. There were gunshot wounds to his left shoulder and left elbow. He also had linear bruising to his cheeks, a broken nose, and black eyes, along with linear bruising to his right forearm, lacerations to his head, bruising to the left wrist and forearm and three circular burn type marks to the back. It was also stated that the linear marks were consistent with him being struck with a blunt object, possibly with the rifle. It was brought up in court by the prosecution that Sheila wouldn’t have been strong enough to give such a harsh beating to such a big and healthy man.

June’s body and clothing were heavily covered in blood, and was found in her nightgown, barefoot. Based on the bloods platter on her clothes, police assumed that she was sitting up during part of her attack. Her body was found lying on the floor near the door of the master bedroom. She was shot seven times. One of the shots to her forehead, right between her eyes, was shot just under one foot away from her. That shot, along with one other to her head would’ve caused a quick death. There were also shots to her right forearm, right side of her lower neck, and two injuries on her right knee and right side of her chest.

Daniel and Nicholas were found in their beds, appearing to have been shot while in bed. Daniel was shot five times in the back of his head, once being over two feet away, and three times within one foot away. Nicholas was shot three times, all of them being in very close proximity.

Sheila was found on the floor of the master bedroom, also in her nightgown and barefoot. She had two bullet wounds under her chin, one of them being on her throat. The pathologist claimed that the lower shot was from three inches away, and the higher shot was on contact. He also said the higher of the shots would’ve immediately killed her, while the other one would’ve been a slow death. He believed that the lower shot happened first due to the amount of blood down her neck, and later testified in court that the injuries she sustained would’ve been possible for her to walk around, but considering the lack of blood on her clothes suggested that it was very unlikely that she had done that. He also said he believed that she was also sitting up when she was attacked, considering the pattern of the bloodstains on her clothing. Blood and urine samples were taken from Sheila and had found Haloperidol in her system, along with cannabis that she had taken a few days prior. There were also no marks on her body that suggested that she was in a struggle. Her feet and hands were clean, her fingernails were manicured and not broken, and she had no blood, powder, or dirt on her fingertips. There were zero traces of any lead dust. The magazine to the rifle would’ve been loaded two or three times during the murders, which would normally leave lubricant and materials from the bullets on the hands. Additionally, there was no trace of blood or other debris on her feet, such as the sugar that was scattered on the floor downstairs. There were also very low traces of lead on her hands, which a forensic scientist testified that it was consistent with the use of every day use of things around the home, and if she had really added 18 cartridges of bullets into the magazine, there would be a lot more lead on her hands. The blood found on her nightgown was also her own blood, and no one else’s. Sheila’s right ring finger was found on the right side of the butt of the rifle, pointing down. Jeremy’s right forefinger was on the rear end of the barrel, above the stock and pointing towards the gun. There were an additional three fingerprints that could not be identified.

“A farming family affectionately dubbed “The Archers” was slaughtered in a bloodbath yesterday. Brandishing a gun taken from her father’s collection, deranged divorcee Sheila Bamber, 28, first shot her twin six-year-old sons. She gun downed her father as he tried to phone for help. Then she murdered her mother before turning the automatic .22 rifle on herself.”

This was an article reported in the Daily Express, on August 8th, 1985, just a day after the murders. This article was the result of a very poorly done investigation. Not only was the murder scene not properly secured, evidence wasn’t recorded or preserved, the crime scene officer moved the murder weapon without wearing gloves, and it took several weeks before the gun was examined for fingerprints. The police also burned bloodstained bedding and carpets, supposively to protect Jeremy’s feelings. Within only three days of the murder, Jeremy and the extended family were given the keys back to the home.The police also did not find the silencer at the scene of the crime, one of Jeremy’s cousin found it on august 10th, and took it back to another cousin’s home, where they noticed bits of what looked like red paint and blood on it. It took the police three more days to retrieve it. Later, the cousins noticed scratch marks on a mantle that had red paint, which investigators assumed came from the struggle with the rifle. The police also didn’t take proper notes, and the officers who dealt with Jeremy that night didn’t write down the statements until weeks later. All the bodies were released just a few days after the murders, all but the children’s bodies were cremated. Additionally, Jeremy’s clothes weren’t examined until a month afterwards, and all blood samples were destroyed ten years later.

PECULIAR BEHAVIOR AT THE FUNERAL

Jeremy’s family became increasingly suspicious of him possibly being involved in the murders due to his strange behavior before and after the funeral. The family claimed that he was crying at the funeral, and seemed to be genuinely upset, but when everyone started to leave the funeral service and he thought no one was looking at him, a family member saw him smiling. They claimed that he literally wiped away his crocodile tears and had a huge grin on his face. Also, during the wake after the funeral, he was cracking jokes and laughing.

Not too long after the funeral, he and his girlfriend Julie Mugford traveled to Amsterdam with a friend and purchased a lot of cannabis. The travel agent testified that the group, especially Jeremy, seemed to be in very high spirits. He also began to sell off his family’s belongings, including both of his parents cars. He also tried to sell 20 nude photos of Sheila, and went on another vacation overseas to Saint-Tropez with a friend.

JULIE MUGFORD’S STATEMENTS

Julie had originally told police the day after the murders that Jeremy had called her at home in the early hours of the 7th, between 3 and 3:30 AM, to tell her something was wrong at the home and that he seemed worried. She told police that she was tired and didn’t think of asking him any questions at that time. Her statement changed a month later, following a series of arguments between her and Jeremy. On September 7th, Julie went to the police station, alleging that Jeremy had been planning to kill his family. Four days before she changed her statement, she claimed she and Jeremy got into an argument about ending their relationship. Jeremy wanted to call it quits, and during the argument she asked him if he had any involvement in the murders, which escalated the argument. In the middle of it, he received a call from another woman, and Julie found out he was cheating on her. She called him a psychopath, smashed a mirror, and slapped him, which in return caused him to twist her arm behind her back.

In her second statement she claimed that between July and October of 1984, Jeremy had said that he wished he could “get rid of them all.” He spoke awfully about his “mad” mother, and “old” father, and said that Sheila had nothing to live for, and her children were disturbed. He said his parents were trying to ruin his life, and the fact that his father was paying for Sheila’s nice apartment really annoyed him. Julie claimed that he told her that he would sedate his parents, shoot them, and then burn the house down, and said that Sheila would make a good scapegoat. He also told her that he would cycle along the backroads to get to the home, enter the house through the kitchen since the catch was broken, and he would leave through a different window that would lock from the outside. He would also make a phone call while inside the farm house to his home. She told police she never felt concerned about these conversations because she deemed them to be just “idle talk” and that Jeremy had claimed to have killed rats with his own hands before, so he could test whether or not he’d ever be able to kill, and concluded that he could never kill his own family, even though he had fantasies about it.

Julie further explained that she had spent the weekend with Jeremy before the murders back at his cottage. She said he dyed his hair black and saw his mother's bicycle there. She further claimed that Jeremy had called her at 9:50 PM on August 6th and told her he was thinking about the crime all day, and was “pissed off” and told her it was “tonight or never.” At 3:00 AM he called her again saying, “everything is going well. Something is wrong at the farm. I haven’t had any sleep all night… Bye honey and I love you lots.” He then called her once more later that morning to inform her that Sheila had gone mad, and the police were coming to take her away. When she arrived with the police at Jeremy’s cottage, he pulled her to the side and said, “I should have been an actor.” These statements from Julie is what lead to Jeremy’s arrest.

It’s important to mention that Julie had admitted to a brief background of dishonesty. In 1985 she was cautioned for using her friends checkbook when it was reported stolen, and claimed that she and a friend had repaid all the money they used back to the bank. She also said she helped Jeremy back in March of 1985 to steal from the Osea Caravan site that his family owned. She told them that he had staged a break in to make it look like it was strangers who committed the crime.

JEREMY’S ARREST

Jeremy was arrested and charged on September 8th, 1985. He told the police that Julie was lying and being spiteful due to wanting to get back at him for breaking up with her. He said that he loved his family and denied the accusations about thinking his parents shorted him on money. He claimed that the only reason he broke into the Caravan site was to prove that they had poor security. He told them that he saw his parents will and it stated that he and Sheila would both share the estate, and that the silencer on the gun wasn’t used often because it wouldn’t fit into its case if it was on.

THE TRIAL: PROSECUTION’S ARGUMENTS

The trial started on October 3rd, 1986, and lasted 18 days. He was very arrogant during this time, and at one point when the prosecutors accused him of lying, he said: “that is what you have got to establish.” The prosecution argued that Jeremy was motivated by greed and hatred. He went to his parents farm house for dinner on august 6th, and left around 10 PM to go back to his cottage. In the early hours of the next morning he went back to the farm on his mother’s bicycle, and went along the backroads to avoid detection on the main roads, and approached the farm home from the back. He entered the house through the bathroom window downstairs, grabbed the rifle with the silencer attached, and made his way upstairs. From there he proceeded to shoot his mother, June, while she was sitting up in her bed, and she was able to walk a few steps before collapsing on the ground and dying. He’s not his father, Nevill, as well, but he was able to make his way downstairs where he and Jeremy fought in the kitchen, where Jeremy was able to shoot him an additional four times, twice at the top of his head and twice in his temple. He shot his sister, Sheila, in the main bedroom next to her mother, and made his way to the children’s room where they were sleeping, and shot them in their beds.

Jeremy then arranged the crime scene by trying to make it look like Sheila committed the murders before turning the gun onto herself. Jeremy knew that Sheila could not have reached the trigger either the silencer attached, so he removed it from the rifle and returned it to the cupboard where the guns were stored. He then placed a bible next to her body to make it look like a religious theme. After he removed the kitchen phone from the hook, he possibly took a shower and then left the home through a kitchen window, and banged the window from the outside so the catch would fall back into place. Then he cycled back to his cottage and waited until 3 AM to call his girlfriend, Julie Mumford, then the police at 3:26 AM, where he claimed to have just received a call from his father and explained that his sister had “gone berserk” with a gun. He created a delay before the bodies could be discovered by not calling the emergency 999 number, and drove very slowly back to the farm, and told the police that Sheila was very familiar with guns to prevent them from going into the home sooner.

They also argued that Jeremy had never received a phone call from his father, and that he would’ve been too badly injured after the first shots he received to have been able to speak to anyone. There was also no blood on the phone that was left off the hook, and Nevill would’ve called the police and not Jeremy in such an extreme situation. They also argued that if such a call was made to Jeremy, he himself would have not only called the emergency 999 number, but he also would’ve called and notified the farm workers to try and get help, and then drive quickly to the farm house.

One of the biggest roles of the prosecution case regarded the silencer. It was concluded to have been on the rifle when it was fired due to the blood that was found inside of it. They said the blood was from Sheila’s head when the silencer was pointed at her. Had she discovered that she could not shoot herself with the silencer attached, it would’ve simply been found next to her body. There would’ve been no reason for her to return it to the gun cupboard. It was also argued that Sheila had not recently expressed suicidal thoughts, and a medical professional claimed that she would’ve never harmed her children or her father. There was no evidence on her body or her clothing that she had moved around the house or was involved in any struggle. The only blood found on her was her own.

THE DEFENSE’S ARGUMENTS

The defense argued that the witnesses who claimed that Jeffrey hated his family were all lying or had misinterpreted what he was saying. They claimed that Julie lied because she was hurt by his betrayal. No one had seen him cycling to and from the farm, and there were no marks on his body that suggested that he was in some kind of struggle. Additionally, to bloodstained clothing of his was ever discovered. They argued that the reason he didn’t drive as quickly as he could’ve to the barn was due to being afraid. They said that Sheila knew how to use guns since she was raised on a farm and went shooting when she was younger. She also had a very serious mental illness, and had told her psychiatrist at one point that she felt like she was capable of killing her children. She saw the loaded rifle and extra cartridges on the kitchen table, and became enraged at the recent argument about putting her children in daytime foster care, which caused her to snap. A former boyfriend testified that Sheila had a mental breakdown around him in 1985, where she started banging the walls because the phone died while she was in the middle of a call. He claimed she said the phone was bugged, talked about God and the devil, and how the devil loved her. He further told the court that he had feared for the safety of others around her, who had a deep and intense dislike for her mother, June. The defense continued to argue that people who have committed altruistic murders have been known to engage in ritualistic behavior before killing themselves, so she might’ve placed the silencer back into the cupboard, washed up and changed her clothes, which would explain why there wasn’t much lead on her hands or sugar on her feet and clothes. There was also a possibility that the blood inside the silencer was not hers, but the blood of Nevill and June.

THE VERDICT

The judge told the jury that there were three very important questions to think about. Who did they believe? Jeremy or Julie? Did Nevill make that call to Jeremy? If he didn’t, his whole story goes out the window, because the only other way he would’ve known about the shootings is if he had committed them himself. The last question was two fold: were they sure that Sheila wasn’t the killer who then committed suicide? And, was the second, fatal, shot fired at Sheila with the silencer on? If that answer is yes, then she could not have fired it.

The jury deliberated for more than nine hours, and in October 28th, they finally came to a conclusion: Jeremy Bamber was found guiltily by a majority of 10–2, which was the minimum required for a conviction. He was sentenced to five life terms, with the recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years. In December of 1994, Home Secretary Michael Howard told Jeremy that he would remain in prison for the rest of his life, which followed the decision by the Home Secretary of the day, Douglas Hurd, in 1988.

Jeremy is now 61 years old and still serving his whole life tariff in prison. He has applied many times to overturn his conviction and his whole life tariff, and all were denied. His extended family are still convinced of his guilt, however, he has many supporters who believe he’s innocent and have campaigned for his release for years.

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Playlist: Beat Orgy fill, Triple R, May 6, 2023 listen back on demand here

Adele Sebastian - Day Dream David Axelrod - Holy Thursday Dennis Bovell - Heaven Sheila Chandra - You (pic) The Jellies - Jive Baby On A Saturday Night Bobby Hutcherson - A Night In Barcelona Kate NV - meow chat Konk - Elephant Genji Sawai - 1969 (The Real) Asha Puthli - Space Talk (2023 remix) Helen - Zanzibar Donald Byrd - Wind Parade McKenzie Wark, Body Techniques - We Go (Murmuration mix) Arthur Verocai - Abertura Jean Carn - Don’t Let It Go To Your Head Andrea True Connection - More, More, More (12” Inch Version) Minnie Riperton - Reasons Bob Dylan - Serve Somebody African Head Charge - Microdosing Sonia Ferguson - Hard Times Prefab Sprout - I Trawl the Megahertz Bob Marley - Midnight Ravers (Bill Laswell remix) Raw Bell - Not Ready

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Supreme Court, U.S FILED In The OCT 2 2022 Supreme Court ofthe United States  RALAND J BRUNSON, Petitioner,

Named persons in their capacities as United States House Representatives: ALMA S. ADAMS; PETE AGUILAR; COLIN Z. ALLRED; MARK E. AMODEI; KELLY ARMSTRONG; JAKE AUCHINCLOSS; CYNTHIA AXNE; DON BACON; TROY BALDERSON; ANDY BARR; NANETTE DIAZ BARRAGAN; KAREN BASS; JOYCE BEATTY; AMI BERA; DONALD S. BEYER JR.; GUS M. ILIRAKIS; SANFORD D. BISHOP JR.; EARL BLUMENAUER; LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER; SUZANNE BONAMICI; CAROLYN BOURDEAUX; JAMAAL BOWMAN; BRENDAN F. BOYLE; KEVIN BRADY; ANTHONY G. BROWN; JULIA BROWNLEY; VERN BUCHANAN; KEN BUCK; LARRY BUCSHON; CORI BUSH; CHERI BUSTOS; G. K. BUTTERFIELD; SALUD 0. CARBAJAL; TONY CARDENAS; ANDRE CARSON; MATT CARTWRIGHT; ED CASE; SEAN CASTEN; KATHY CASTOR; JOAQUIN CASTRO; LIZ CHENEY; JUDY CHU; DAVID N. CICILLINE; KATHERINE M. CLARK; YVETTE D. CLARKE; EMANUEL CLEAVER; JAMES E. CLYBURN; STEVE COHEN; JAMES COMER; GERALD E. CONNOLLY; JIM COOPER; J. LUIS CORREA; JIM COSTA; JOE COURTNEY; ANGIE CRAIG; DAN CRENSHAW; CHARLIE CRIST; JASON CROW; HENRY CUELLAR; JOHN R. CURTIS; SHARICE DAVIDS; DANNY K. DAVIS; RODNEY DAVIS; MADELEINE DEAN; PETER A. DEFAZIO; DIANA DEGETTE; ROSAL DELAURO; SUZAN K. DELBENE; Ill ANTONIO DELGADO; VAL BUTLER DEMINGS; MARK DESAULNIER; THEODORE E. DEUTCH; DEBBIE DINGELL; LLOYD DOGGETT; MICHAEL F. DOYLE; TOM EMMER; VERONICA ESCOBAR; ANNA G. ESHOO; ADRIANO ESPAILLAT; DWIGHT EVANS; RANDY FEENSTRA; A. DREW FERGUSON IV; BRIAN K. FITZPATRICK; LIZZIE LETCHER; JEFF FORTENBERRY; BILL FOSTER; LOIS FRANKEL; MARCIA L. FUDGE; MIKE GALLAGHER; RUBEN GALLEGO; JOHN GARAMENDI; ANDREW R. GARBARINO; SYLVIA R. GARCIA; JESUS G. GARCIA; JARED F. GOLDEN; JIMMY GOMEZ; TONY GONZALES; ANTHONY GONZALEZ; VICENTE GONZALEZ; JOSH GOTTHEIMER; KAY GRANGER; AL GREEN; RAUL M. GRIJALVA; GLENN GROTHMAN; BRETT GUTHRIE; DEBRA A. HAALAND; JOSH HARDER; ALCEE L. HASTINGS; JAHANA HAYES; JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER; BRIAN HIGGINS; J. FRENCH HILL; JAMES A. HIMES; ASHLEY HINSON; TREY HOLLINGSWORTH; STEVEN HORSFORD; CHRISSY HOULAHAN; STENY H. HOYER; JARED HUFFMAN; BILL HUIZENGA; SHEILA JACKSON LEE; SARA JACOBS; PRAMILA JAYAPAL; HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES; DUSTY JOHNSON; EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON; HENRY C. JOHNSON JR.; MONDAIRE JONES; DAVID P. JOYCE; KAIALPI KAHELE; MARCY KAPTUR; JOHN KATKO; WILLIAM R. KEATING; RO KHANNA; DANIEL T. KILDEE; DEREK KILMER; ANDY KIM; YOUNG KIM; RON KIND; ADAM KINZINGER; ANN KIRKPATRICK; RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI; ANN M. KUSTER; DARIN LAHOOD; CONOR LAMB; JAMES R. LANGEVIN; RICK LARSEN; JOHN B. LARSON; ROBERT E. LATTA; JAKE LATURNER; BRENDA L. LAWRENCE; AL LAWSON JR.; BARBARA LEE; SUSIE LEE; TERESA LEGER FERNANDEZ; ANDY LEVIN; MIKE LEVIN; TED LIEU; IV ZOE LOFGREN; ALAN S.LOWENTHAL; ELAINE G. LURIA; STEPHEN F. LYNCH; NANCY MACE; TOM MALINOWSKI; CAROLYN B. MALONEY; SEAN PATRICK MALONEY; KATHY E. MANNING; THOMAS MASSIE; DORIS 0. MATSUI; LUCY MCBATH; MICHAEL T. MCCAUL; TOM MCCLINTOCK; BETTY MCCOLLUM; A. ADONALD MCEACHIN; JAMES P. MCGOVERN; PATRICK T. MCHENRY; DAVID B. MCKINLEY; JERRY MCNERNEY; GREGORY W. MEEKS; PETER MEIJER; GRACE MENG; KWEISI MFUME; MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS; JOHN R. MOOLENAAR; BLAKE D. MOORE; GWEN MOORE; JOSEPH D. MORELLE; SETH MOULTON; FRANK J. MRVAN; STEPHANIE N. MURPHY; JERROLD NADLER; GRACE F. NAPOLITANO; RICHARD E. NEAL; JOE NEGUSE; DAN NEWHOUSE; MARIE NEWMAN; DONALD NORCROSS; ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ; TOM O'HALLERAN; ILHAN OMAR; FRANK PALLONE JR.; JIMMY PANETTA; CHRIS PAPPAS; BILL PASCRELL JR.; DONALD M. PAYNE JR.; NANCY PELOSI; ED PERLMUTTER; SCOTT H. PETERS; DEAN PHILLIPS; CHELLIE PINGREE; MARK POCAN; KATIE PORTER; AYANNA PRESSLEY; DAVID E. PRICE; MIKE QUIGLEY; JAMIE RASKIN; TOM REED; KATHLEEN M. RICE; CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS; DEBORAH K. ROSS; CHIP ROY; LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD; RAUL RUIZ; C. A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER; BOBBY L. RUSH; TIM RYAN; LINDA T. SANCHEZ; JOHN P. SARBANES; MARY GAY SCANLON; JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY; ADAM B. SCHIFF; BRADLEY SCOTT SCHNEIDER; KURT SCHRADER; KIM SCHRIER; AUSTIN SCOTT; DAVID SCOTT; ROBERT C. SCOTT; TERRI A. SEWELL; BRAD SHERMAN; MIKIE SHERRILL; MICHAEL K. SIMPSON; ALBIO SIRES; ELISSA SLOTKIN; ADAM SMITH; CHRISTOPHER H. V SMITH; DARREN SOTO; ABIGAIL DAVIS SPANBERGER; VICTORIA SPARTZ; JACKIE SPEIER; GREG STANTON; PETE STAUBER; MICHELLE STEEL; BRYAN STEIL; HALEY M. STEVENS; STEVE STIVERS; MARILYN STRICKLAND; THOMAS R. SUOZZI; ERIC SWALWELL; MARK TAKANO; VAN TAYLOR; BENNIE G. THOMPSON; MIKE THOMPSON; DINA TITUS; RASHIDA TLAIB; PAUL TONKO; NORMA J. TORRES; RITCHIE TORRES; LORI TRAHAN; DAVID J. TRONE; MICHAEL R. TURNER; LAUREN UNDERWOOD; FRED UPTON; JUAN VARGAS; MARC A. VEASEY; FILEMON VELA; NYDIA M. VELAZQUEZ; ANN WAGNER; MICHAEL WALTZ; DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ; MAXINE WATERS; BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN; PETER WELCH; BRAD R. WENSTRUP; BRUCE WESTERMAN; JENNIFER WEXTON; SUSAN WILD; NIKEMA WILLIAMS; FREDERICA S. WILSON; STEVE WOMACK; JOHN A. YARMUTH; DON YOUNG; the following persons named are for their capacities as U.S. Senators; TAMMY BALDWIN; JOHN BARRASSO; MICHAEL F. BENNET; MARSHA BLACKBURN; RICHARD BLUMENTHAL; ROY BLUNT; CORY A. BOOKER; JOHN BOOZMAN; MIKE BRAUN; SHERROD BROWN; RICHARD BURR; MARIA CANTWELL; SHELLEY CAPITO; BENJAMIN L. CARDIN; THOMAS R. CARPER; ROBERT P. CASEY JR.; BILL CASSIDY; SUSAN M. COLLINS; CHRISTOPHER A. COONS; JOHN CORNYN; CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO; TOM COTTON; KEVIN CRAMER; MIKE CRAPO; STEVE DAINES; TAMMY DUCKWORTH; RICHARD J. DURBIN; JONI ERNST; DIANNE FEINSTEIN; DEB FISCHER; KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND; LINDSEY GRAHAM; CHUCK GRASSLEY; BILL HAGERTY; MAGGIE HASSAN; MARTIN HEINRICH; JOHN HICKENLOOPER; MAZIE HIRONO; JOHN HOEVEN; JAMES INHOFE; RON VI JOHNSON; TIM KAINE; MARK KELLY; ANGUS S. KING, JR.; AMY KLOBUCHAR; JAMES LANKFORD; PATRICK LEAHY; MIKE LEE; BEN LUJAN; CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS; JOE MANCHIN III; EDWARD J. MARKEY; MITCH MCCONNELL; ROBERT MENENDEZ; JEFF MERKLEY; JERRY MORAN; LISA MURKOWSKI; CHRISTOPHER MURPHY; PATTY MURRAY; JON OSSOFF; ALEX PADILLA; RAND PAUL; GARY C. PETERS; ROB PORTMAN; JACK REED; JAMES E. RISCH; MITT ROMNEY; JACKY ROSEN; MIKE ROUNDS; MARCO RUBIO; BERNARD SANDERS; BEN SASSE; BRIAN SCHATZ; CHARLES E. SCHUMER; RICK SCOTT; TIM SCOTT; JEANNE SHAHEEN; RICHARD C. SHELBY; KYRSTEN SINEMA; TINA SMITH; DEBBIE STABENOW; DAN SULLIVAN; JON TESTER; JOHN THUNE; THOM TILLIS; PATRICK J. TOOMEY; HOLLEN VAN; MARK R. WARNER; RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK; ELIZABETH WARREN; SHELDON WHITEHOUSE; ROGER F. WICKER; RON WYDEN; TODD YOUNG; JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN JR in his capacity of President of the United States; MICHAEL RICHARD PENCE in his capacity as former Vice President of the United States, and KAMALA HARRIS in her capacity as Vice President of the United States and JOHN and JANE DOES 1-100.  

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-380/243739/20221027152243533_20221027-152110-95757954-00007015.pdf

[celtfather]

Lady of the House #681

On the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #681. Subscribe now!

The Drowsy Lads, Dan Possumato, Cherish The Ladies, Cleveland Celtic Ensemble, Conamara Chaos, Jesse Ferguson, Tarren, The Langer's Ball, Goitse, Enda Reilly, Olivia Bradley, Larkin & Moran Brothers, The Miles O'Brien band & Betsy Rose, DLÙ, Bealtaine

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0:06 - The Drowsy Lads "Derry Reel Hooley _The Drowsy Lads_Time Flies" from Time Flies

6:32 - WELCOME

8:06 - Dan Possumato "Poor but Happy at 53 / Sheila Coyle's / Silver Spire (feat. Bill Verdier, Frances Cunningham & Gerry Whelan)" from An Teachín Gorm

12:10 - Cherish The Ladies "The Cameronian Set: Tha M'Intinn Raoir/Duke of Gordon/The Cameronian/Lady of The House" from One And All, The Best of Cherish the Ladies

17:31 - Cleveland Celtic Ensemble "Road to Banff" from Cleveland Celtic Ensemble

20:22 - Conamara Chaos "The Hill of Thieves" from Anord

24:18 - FEEDBACK

25:52 - Jesse Ferguson "Lovely Lindsay" from Ten

29:23 - Tarren "Solstice" from Outside Time

34:45 - The Langer's Ball "Galway Races" from The Singles Collection 2023- 2024

37:49 - Goitse "Margadh an Iúir" from Rosc

40:44 - Enda Reilly "Grá Mo Chroíse -  Love of my Heart" from Hy- Brasil

43:33 - THANKS

45:11 - Olivia Bradley “Molly Malone” from Misty Morning Shore

47:44 - Larkin & Moran Brothers "Another Night At Christy's" from Éistigí

51:28 - The Miles O'Brien band & Betsy Rose "An Irish Song" from My Name Is Miles

55:08 - DLÙ "Spicy Hector" from Close To

59:52 - CLOSING 1:00:25 - Bealtaine "Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her" from The Founders' Room Vol 2

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The Three Degrees - ‘When Will I See You Again’ [Live] 1976

Happy Birthday Sheila Ferguson

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'...Former Doctor Who star David Tennant will be at the helm, hosting the event live from the Royal Festival Hall in London.

All eyes will be on Christopher Nolan’s gripping biopic Oppenheimer, leading the pack as the favourite to clinch the Best Film prize, boasting an impressive 13 nominations in total....

Who is presenting the Baftas?

TV and film star David Tennant, 52, is the master of ceremonies on the night - and will be joined by a whole host of A-list guest presenters.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Baftas have lined up former England footballer David Beckham and Grammy winner Dua Lipa to hand out statues alongside Hollywood luminaries such as Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Hugh Grant, and Gillian Anderson.

Joining this illustrious lineup are Andrew Scott, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daisy Edgar Jones, Daryl McCormack, Keegan-Michael Key, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lily Collins, Marisa Abela, Rebecca Ferguson, Sheila Atim, and Taylor Russell, ensuring a night filled with glitz and glamour...

Who is nominated for a 2024 Bafta?

Cillian Murphy is in the running to be named best actor at this year’s Baftas with his nuclear bomb biopic Oppenheimer dominating the nominations.

He faces competition from fellow Irishman Barry Keoghan for his turn in Saltburn, as well as Bradley Cooper who is nominated for Maestro. The shortlist is completed by Rustin’s Colman Domingo, Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers and Teo Yoo in Past Lives.

The success of Oppenheimer’s box office rival Barbie is also recognised with Margot Robbie nominated for leading actress along with Carey Mulligan in Maestro, The Color Purple’s Fantasia Barrino, Sandra Huller in Anatomy of a Fall, Rye Lane’s Vivian Oparah and Emma Stone for Poor Things.

Huller is also nominated for supporting actress for The Zone of Interest with competition coming from Oppenheimer’s Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks for The Color Purple, Claire Foy in All of Us Strangers, Saltburn’s Rosamund Pike and Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers.

Ryan Gosling gets a nod for his role as Ken in the Barbie film with a nomination for supporting actor, along with Dominic Sessa for The Holdovers, Paul Mescal for All of Us Strangers, Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer and Robert De Niro who is recognised for the Killers Of The Flower Moon.

Martin Scorsese’s epic crime drama is also hoping to be named Best Film, with competition coming from Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Poor Things as well as Oppenheimer.

Poor Things is in the running for outstanding British Film, with other nominees including Ridley Scott’s historical epic Napoleon, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Wonka, The Zone of Interest, All Of Us Strangers, How to have Sex, Rye Lane, Scrapper and Saltburn...

What were the biggest snubs?

Irish actor Andrew Scott had been widely tipped for recognition for his moving performance in the drama All Of Us Strangers - but ultimately missed out on a best lead actor nomination...

What were the biggest surprises?

...Andrew Haigh's nomination for Best Director for All of Us Strangers also stands out, considering the absence of other high-profile directors in the category...'

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Cloak & Dagger On the Air Annual Halloween Show This Saturday

Called “Dark Fantasies,” Production Features Three Harrowing Stories This Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, Cloak & Dagger On the Air presents its annual Halloween show at 4 p.m. at Top of West Virginia Convention & Visitors Bureau, located at 3539 Main Street in Weirton (across from Ferguson Tire Pros). Titled Dark Fantasies, the show will explore three harrowing stories from the darkest corners of our fears and fantasies, each written by some of the foremost playwrights in American radio history. The stories are “Cat Wife” by Arch Oboler, in which a troubled marriage is thrown into chaos by the wife’s sudden transformation into (you guessed it) a cat; “Carmilla” by Sheridan Le Fanu and Lucille Fletcher, wherein a family’s houseguest shows an unusual (and bloodthirsty) interest in their daughter; and “I Saw Myself Running” by Antony Ellis, in which a woman battles her greatest foe while dreaming. “We look forward to our annual Halloween show,” Fernbaugh said. “It gives us a chance to dust off and reimagine some classic scripts, such as ‘Cat Wife’ which is pure camp and ‘Carmilla’ which is pure horror and ‘I Saw Myself Running’ which is one of the best psychological thrillers ever written for any medium. I think our audience will enjoy these dark fantasies as they celebrate the spookiest season of the year.” Cloak & Dagger On the Air: Dark Fantasies stars The Wayward Saints: Sheila Cavalette, Rob DeSantis, Bethany Fernbaugh, Pete Fernbaugh, Robert J. Gaudio, Noah Hilton, and Karissa Martin, with Roberta Fedoush providing an original score and The Holy Foley Molies creating the sound effects. Admission to Cloak & Dagger On the Air: Dark Fantasies is free, although donations to help cover production costs are always appreciated. Light refreshments and water will be available. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. with live music by R.J. Gaudio, Troubadour, who will perform pop, rock, and folk music favorites. The program will also livestream from The Ohio Valley Cloak & Dagger Company Facebook page starting at 3:30 p.m. Top of WV CVB is located at 3539 Main Street in Weirton, W.Va., across from Ferguson Tire Pros. Ample parking is available behind the building, where there is an entrance. Individuals with mobility impairments may more easily enter through the building’s front entrance. Members of the troupe are more than willing to assist these individuals. Cloak & Dagger On the Air is a monthly theatrical series from The Ohio Valley Cloak & Dagger Company that celebrates audio drama from all eras, particularly the fabled Golden Age of Radio. By reimagining classic radio dramas and literary works, along with original stories written and produced by independent writer and actor Pete Fernbaugh, Cloak & Dagger On the Air strives to give audiences an immersive experience that engages the theatre of their imagination in creating a fully realized storytelling adventure. For more information and for updates on our live and recorded productions, please visit The Ohio Valley Cloak & Dagger Company's Facebook page. Read the full article