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August 6th and 9th, 1945 forever changed the course of history. When the first nuclear bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, World War II ended, but a new fear was born that dominated the thoughts of all men, women, and children for decades to come. The Cold War, atomic bomb testing, a cartoon turtle telling children to “duck and cover”, and this new technology that had the actual potential to literally end the world changed the perception of what was scary. Art reflects life, so cinema began to capitalize on these fears. Gone were the days of creepy castles, cobwebs, bats, vampires, werewolves, and the other iconic images that ruled genre cinema in film’s earliest decades. Science fiction was larger than ever and giant ants, giant octopi, terror from beyond the stars, and...
August 6th and 9th, 1945 forever changed the course of history. When the first nuclear bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, World War II ended, but a new fear was born that dominated the thoughts of all men, women, and children for decades to come. The Cold War, atomic bomb testing, a cartoon turtle telling children to “duck and cover”, and this new technology that had the actual potential to literally end the world changed the perception of what was scary. Art reflects life, so cinema began to capitalize on these fears. Gone were the days of creepy castles, cobwebs, bats, vampires, werewolves, and the other iconic images that ruled genre cinema in film’s earliest decades. Science fiction was larger than ever and giant ants, giant octopi, terror from beyond the stars, and...
- 11/4/2014
- by Max Molinaro
- SoundOnSight
Two men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the kidnapping and murder of Sherry Arnold after prosecutors filed court documents with new alleged details of her brutal attack. Arnold disappeared at dusk along a rural road near her hometown of Sidney, Mont., where she was a star high school math teacher and mom to two kids and three stepchildren. Before the arraignment, prosecutors added murder charges that make Michael Keith Spell, 22, and Lester Van Waters Jr., 48, both of Parachute, Colo., eligible for the death penalty. According to the new documents, a jailhouse informant named Michael Pruit says Spell told him that...
- 5/15/2012
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
Funeral services for the teacher abducted Jan. 7 during a pre-dawn jog through her rural Montana town will be held Friday at the high school where she taught algebra. Two drifters are charged with kidnapping Sherry Arnold, 43, a mom of two kids and three stepkids. After one of the men allegedly confessed to burying her in unattended farmland, the FBI on March 21 discovered her body near Williston, N.D. Family members say they remain devastated by the loss, but they don't want to become consumed with anger for the defendants. "We just want Sherry back," Rhonda Whited, Arnold's sister, tells People.
- 3/29/2012
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
Authorities have recovered human remains believed to be those of Montana math teacher Sherry Arnold, who disappeared while jogging in January. The FBI issued a statement Wednesday afternoon, hours after the discovery in Williston, N.D., but provided few details regarding its location or condition. A few days after Arnold's disappearance a suspect had been arrested in Williston and the body was believed buried in unattended farmland in that region, according to reports. The body has been sent to a state medical lab in Missoula, Mont., for positive identification. Arnold's disappearance shocked the tiny community of Sidney, Mont., where Arnold,...
- 3/21/2012
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
Folks in Sidney, Mont., used to leave their doors unlocked, knowing the worst crimes were usually bar fights. The last murder was 33 years ago. But that small-town sense of security during what has been a regional economic boom vanished on Jan. 7, when Sherry Arnold, a 43-year-old high school math teacher - the great-granddaughter of the city's first police chief - went jogging before dawn. Now, authorities are searching for her body in two states in what is being called a criminal case. So far, all that's been found is one of her Brooks running shoes on the edge of town...
- 1/21/2012
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
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