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🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
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0:28.6 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Music In the summer of 1943, witnesses crammed themselves into the execution chamber of Sing Sing Prison, New York, preparing themselves to witness history. |
1:07.5 | The stench of smoke and the prisoner who had already faced his execution by the electric chair |
1:12.3 | still hung in the air around them. A sickening foreshadowing of what awaited the young man being |
1:18.5 | led to the chair that very moment. His name was Edward Haight. Edward Haight came into the world |
1:26.6 | in 1925 in Stanford, Connecticut, the second out of |
1:31.1 | four children, born into a family rife with lawlessness and criminality. He alone stood out as the |
1:37.7 | outcast at the young and tender age of only 16 for having a clean criminal record, But that was soon to change. Born out of ashes |
1:48.1 | and destruction, Edward's life began anew in 1939 when his home was burned to the ground. Inside |
1:55.7 | it was his mother, Georgiana, who would tragically perish that night, leaving her children to the care |
2:02.4 | of her estranged husband, Arnold. Arnold himself had only just been paroled from prison when |
2:09.1 | his children showed up at his doorstep, hungry and homeless. Arnold built them a two-story house |
2:15.7 | to live in, but neighbors would later describe it as |
2:18.7 | little more than a shack, a stark depiction of the childhood that awaited them all. |
2:25.1 | Bored with a life of poverty and not seeing the point in an education, Edward dropped |
2:29.6 | out of school when he was only about 16 years old and got a job mowing lawns and playgrounds and other |
2:35.4 | governmental property. But by then, Edward was even more of an outcast than he had been before. |
2:42.3 | Girls in school found him odd and unattractive, citing his weak chin, unruly black hair, and his |
2:50.4 | slovenly appearance. |
2:52.6 | Neighbors said that he was dull and dim-witted, and recalled that he was taken to going |
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