The opera Midnight Son  was inspired by the true story of the murder of a woman that died in what year?
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Midnight Son (opera) Midnight Son is an opera by composer Gordon Kerry and librettist Louis Nowra. The contemporary opera is inspired by the true story of the murder of Melbourne woman Maria Korp.
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Maria Korp Maria Korp (born Maria Matilde; 14 January 1955 – 5 August 2005) was an Australian woman reported missing for four days and later found, barely alive, in the boot of her car on 13 February 2005. She spent a short time in a coma before emerging into a state of post coma unresponsiveness. She became the centre of a controversy in Australia during 2005. Depending upon their viewpoint, persons characterised the controversy as being about euthanasia or about human rights and protecting people with disabilities. On 26 July 2005 Victoria's Public Advocate, Julian Gardner, announced that the feeding tube to Maria Korp would cease to be used for providing artificial nutrition and hydration, that palliative care would be implemented and that she was expected to die within 7–14 days. Korp died on 5 August 2005.
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Krystyna Ceynowa Krystyna Ceynowa, also spelled as "Cejnowa" (died 1836), was an ethnic Polish victim of murder by lynching and an alleged witch in Germany. Accused of sorcery, she was subjected to the ordeal of water and drowned in Ceynowa (today Chałupy). She was among the last people in Europe to be subjected to lynching on the grounds of sorcery and witchcraft.
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Death of Jeannie Saffin Jeannie Saffin was a woman from London, England, whose death from fire in 1982 is cited by paranormal researchers and authors as an example of spontaneous human combustion, and is reported to be the most recent suspected case in the UK. Aspects of the reports made immediately after her injury and death apparently supported the conclusion that her death was due to spontaneous human combustion; John Heymer devoted a chapter of his 1996 book "The Entrancing Flame" to the case. However, later research has cast doubt on some of the evidence and refutes the claims that her injuries were caused by spontaneous human combustion.
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Lesja murder case The Lesja Murder Case (in Norwegian "Lesja-saken") refers to the disappearance, rape and murder of 14-year-old Ingrid Marie Skotte from Lesja, Norway in February 1987. The disappearance became one of the most publicized criminal cases in post-war Norway.
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Murder of Rikako Okamoto In 2005 at Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Rikako Okamoto (岡本 利加香 , Okamoto Rikako , 1986 – c. October 12, 2005) was murdered and her mother Chizuko Okamoto (岡本 千鶴子 , Okamoto Chizuko ) (born July 17, 1951) was later convicted of killing her own daughter. Chizuko Okamoto was also suspected as a serial killer who might have killed at least four others, but was not charged. "Asahi Shimbun" described her mysterious incident as "house of horrors".
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Murder of Penny Bell Ruth Penelope "Penny" Bell (28 February 1948 – 6 June 1991) was an English businesswoman who was murdered on 6 June 1991 in Perivale, Greenford, London. She was stabbed 50 times as she sat behind the wheel of her car in the car park of the Gurnell Leisure Centre. Her murder remains unsolved.
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Murder of Marion Parker Marion Parker (October 11, 1915 – December 17, 1927) was the 12-year-old daughter of Perry Parker, a prominent banker in Los Angeles. She had a twin sister named Marjorie. On December 15, 1927, Marion was abducted from her school and later killed by William Edward Hickman (February 1, 1908 – October 19, 1928), who called himself "The Fox". Her murder has since become the subject of folk songs.
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Mother Thekla Mother Thekla was born "Marina Sharf" in Kilslovodsk, a spa town in the North Caucasus to Vladimir and Alice Sharf (née Volkenstein) during the revolution in Russia the day after Nicolas II, and the royal family was murdered 18 July 1918 and died in the early hours of Sunday August 7, 2011. The family escaped to England and lived in Richmond, Surrey. Her older brother, Andrew, was an historian specializing in Byzantium. He moved to Israel with his wife, Eva, a painter, and his mother they emigrated to Israel. Andrew became professor of history at Bar Ilan University.
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Mary Lynn Witherspoon Mary Lynn Witherspoon (1950–2003) was a school teacher in Charleston, South Carolina, and died in 2003 when her ex-boyfriend's son, Edmonds Tennent Brown IV, who had stalked and obsessed over her for 22 years, broke into her home after being released from prison, and raped and killed her.
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Murder of Alice Gross Alice Poppy Madeleine Gross (14 February 2000 – 28 August 2014) was an English girl who was murdered in London.
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Martha Wise Martha Wise (1884 – June 28, 1971), born Martha Hasel, was an American poisoner and serial killer. After her husband died and her family forced her to end a relationship with a new lover, Wise retaliated by poisoning seventeen family members, of whom three died, in 1924. She was convicted of one of the murders, despite defense claims that she was mentally ill and that her lover had ordered her to poison her family. The case is considered one of the most sensational of the era in Ohio, where it occurred.
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Murder of Edna Phillips Edna Phillips was a 70-year-old woman who was murdered on 16 July 1992 by two teenage girls, one of them her next-door neighbour, at her home on a council estate in Penywaun in South Wales. The details of the crime were made public soon after the start of the trial of the two boys who murdered two-year-old James Bulger in Merseyside, which contributed to the resulting moral panic in the United Kingdom.
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Priscilla Ford Priscilla Joyce Ford (February 10, 1929 – January 29, 2005) was a mass murderer who was sentenced to death after driving her Lincoln Continental down a sidewalk in Reno, Nevada on Thanksgiving Day in 1980. The attack killed six people and injured 23 more. She had schizophrenia. Ford launched numerous appeals against her death sentence, all of which failed. A heavy smoker, she died at the age of 75 after suffering from emphysema.
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Bobbie Jo Stinnett Bobbie Jo Stinnett (December 4, 1981 – December 16, 2004) was a 23-year-old pregnant woman found brutally slain in her home in Skidmore, Missouri. The accused, Lisa M. Montgomery, then 36, was convicted of strangling Stinnett from behind and then cutting the woman's unborn child, eight months into gestation, from her womb. The child was not found at the scene of the murder.
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Murder of Masego Kgomo Masego Kgomo (c. 1999 – 31 December 2009) was a South African girl murdered in order to provide body parts for rituals performed by a sangoma. Her murder sparked calls for sangomas to stop using human remains.
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Catherine Eddowes Catherine "Kate" Eddowes (14 April 1842 – 30 September 1888) was one of the victims in the Whitechapel murders. She was the second person killed in the early hours of Sunday 30 September 1888, a night which already had seen the murder of Elizabeth Stride less than an hour earlier. These two murders are commonly referred to as the "double event" and have been attributed to the mysterious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
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Gloria Taylor Gloria Taylor (1950 – 7 April 2008) was a Nigerian activist. Her 10-year-old son, Damilola Taylor, was brutally attacked and murdered by two youths in a vicious attack at the North Peckham Estate of South London in November 2000. Her son's murder called attention to social and economic crises in the UK's poorer inner city neighborhoods.
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Lady Midnight Lady Midnight is a young adult urban fantasy novel by Cassandra Clare. It is the first book in "The Dark Artifices", which is chronologically fourth in the The Shadowhunter Chronicles. The book follows the events that occur in the Los Angeles area in 2012, focusing on the residents of the Los Angeles Institute. The title was based upon "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Crumbles murders The Crumbles Murders may refer to one of two crimes that took place on "The Crumbles", a shingle beach between Eastbourne and Pevensey Bay — the 1920 murder of Irene Munro by Field and Gray, and the 1924 murder of Emily Kaye, a pregnant woman, by Patrick Mahon.
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Chipita Rodriguez Josefa "Chipita" Rodriguez (December 30, 1799 – November 13, 1863) was convicted of murder and hanged in San Patricio County, Texas, at the age of 63. She was not the first woman to be put to death by the state of Texas. The first woman was Jane Elkins. It was May 27, 1863, when they carried out Judge John H Reagan’s orders and hanged her in downtown Dallas, right where the Old Red Courthouse is today. A century later, on June 13, 1985, the Texas Legislature passed a resolution noting that Rodriguez did not receive a fair trial. She has been the subject of two operas, numerous books, newspaper articles, and magazine accounts.
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Carrie Pringle Carrie Pringle (Caroline Mary Isabelle Pringle) (19 March 1859 – 12 November 1930) was an Austrian-born British soprano singer. She performed the role of one of the Flowermaidens in the 1882 premiere of Richard Wagner's "Parsifal" at the Bayreuth Festival. Unproven rumours associate Wagner's supposed infatuation with Pringle with the circumstances of his death in Venice in 1883.