The Real Life Story Behind The Burning Bed Youtube Francine hughes. francine moran hughes (later wilson; august 17, 1947 – march 22, 2017) [1] was an american woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live in ex husband mickey hughes was sleeping, on march 9, 1977, in dansville, michigan. mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire. Francine hughes’ life story reads like a nightmare, and the book based on her ordeal, faith mcnulty’s the burning bed is as much a horror story as true crime reportage. as a child, francine.
The Burning Bed The True Story Of An Abused Wife By Faith Mcnulty On march 22, francine wilson — she had remarried and taken the last name of her second husband robert wilson — died after a bout with pneumonia in leighton, alabama. she was 69. a jury of 10. Anna boots writes on “the burning bed,” a new short documentary, from retro report, about domestic violence and law enforcement, and the cases of francine hughes and thomia hunter. The burning bed is a 1984 television drama film starring farrah fawcett, paul le mat, and richard masur. based on the 1980 non fiction novel of the same name by faith mcnulty, it follows battered housewife francine hughes and her trial for the murder of her husband, james berlin "mickey" hughes. hughes set fire to the bed her husband was. It became a cause célèbre when “the burning bed,” a 1980 book by the new yorker writer faith mcnulty, was made into a television movie with the same title in 1984, with farrah fawcett as.
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