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After her disappearance, Fran Smith's husband faces murder charges in a twisted tale of dark secrets: A Dateline exclusive
After Fran Smith vanished in 1991, her husband’s dark secrets began to unravel. In the three decades since, John Smith, 73, was convicted of killing his first wife in Ohio years earlier, in a murder authorities weren’t even aware of until they began investigating Fran’s disappearance. Fran’s body has never been found, but prosecutors in New Jersey charged her husband in her death five years ago. Then the case took an unusual turn: Those same prosecutors dropped the murder charge against Smith...
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Tales of Kenzera Zau Review: An untimely tale of grief
The premise of Tales of Kenzera is simple at its core, but wrapped in a more complicated story: Zuberi is a young man who has just lost his father to illness, reading the last story his father ever wrote. In the story, a young shaman named Zau who has ALSO just lost his father, and has dived into the underworld to bargain his father’s life back from Kalunga, the god of death. To have his wish fulfilled, challenges you to track down three Great Spirits who have cheated death, and help them to...
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Tales from the Towpath
Novelist William Haddow of the Citadel Arts Playwrights Workshop had the idea of a floating venue. Haddow is also a volunteer on the barge, the Lochrin Belle, and he researched the mystery of Kemp’s death. Artistic Director Liz Hare is proud of all the venues the group has visited around Leith and Edinburgh: “We’ve performed plays in bars, libraries, churches, schools, care homes, in and around Leith Custom House, but never on a moving barge.” That’s set to change when Tales from the Towpath...