Karen Kilgariff
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3,962 appearances
39 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jun
Karen Kilgariff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was crazy. I just wish the difference between Charlie's Angel, Farrah Fawcett, like supermodel, the hair, the whole thing. She was just a girl on a poster and all of a sudden she was like, watch this. That's incredible. Watch this. It was amazing. So basically Francine and Robert eventually leave Michigan for the South. There, Francine gets her nursing degree.
The couple lives in Tennessee and then in Alabama. Francine finds work in nursing homes and as an in-home caregiver, and she passes away from complications related to pneumonia in 2017. Francine Hughes was 69 years old at the time of her death. Her family members have said that she rarely talked about the case. She was once quoted as saying, People look at me like they're trying to figure me out.
I don't feel like I have to explain myself to anybody and I don't need pity or sympathy. I'm just an ordinary person." Francine was an ordinary person whose nightmarish home life was tragically also not unique. Instead, Francine was a victim of a much larger systemic problem that persists today.
Domestic and intimate partner violence can and does affect anyone regardless of a person's age, sex, education level, or economic background. Within a year of her trial, Michigan passed new laws dealing with spousal abuse. And since then, more have been introduced that prioritize victim safety.
Of course, there are now shelters, hotlines, and organizations dedicated to supporting survivors of domestic violence and or intimate partner violence. Still, Francine's case isn't the norm, despite hand-wringing shortly after her verdict about how women would now be able to shoot their husbands and get off scot-free.
The reality is that in the years since, there have been several high-profile cases where a survivor has been jailed for killing their abuser. Yeah, there's a lot of those. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 12 million people are affected by intimate partner violence each year.
One in four American women and one in seven American men over the age of 18 have been the victim of serious physical violence by an intimate partner. One in four and one in seven.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse or intimate partner violence, please remember you're not alone. They're not alone. Help is available. You can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE. Their website is thehotline.org, just thehotline.org.
And they offer information on warning signs of abuse, resources in your state, how to support someone you love that might be experiencing intimate partner violence. They're free. It's confidential. It's available 24-7. I'm grateful that we live in a time where I can pass that information on to
To all of you as a woman who has her own checking account and owns her own home and has some goddamn options in this world. And that is the story of Francine Hughes and the burning bed murder. Wow. I had never heard that. I had never heard of it. At all? No. Oh, I thought I was like, when I was talking about it, I thought you were just like, yeah, yeah, I know.
It's such a specific, I mean, you were four years old, but it's also such a specific, it's all, I can also remember the Mothers Against Drunk Driving made for TV movie. Right. Those weird like era changing ideas of like, we don't have to do this anymore. Totally. Then it's very mothers centric. It's female centric in my opinion. Of course. Yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah, it is.
Remember when I did the weather in 14, like 13? It was like when the weather was so bad for a year and a half that everyone just like died and there was no food and stuff. This is fucking older.
Yeah, they're over it. All Italians are over it. Let's not talk about it. No one was talking about her when I went to Italy.
I honestly thought Germany, and I was like, you should say Germany and just sound really smart. And then I was like, the other voice that's finally grown in my head that goes, don't do it. Don't even try. You don't know these things. Supped?
Supped? You're kidding yourself, Supped.
Yes. Was it Tiberius? Yeah. It's because I watched, what's it called? Gladiator 2? Seriously. Starring Paul Mescal. It's the PBS series from the 70s. I don't know. And I keep wanting to say Caligula. But you got it right.
Something stuck.
It was I, Claudius. Thank you. Thank you. I wondered where he was. I, Claudius.
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