Decapitation, Death and the Damned
On this, the first anniversary of the death of Heath Ledger, news of a decapitation, Mason County deaths, and the movie industry's recognition of The Joker are hitting the media. Exactly one year ago today, on January 22nd, Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in The Dark Knight , was found dead in his fourth-floor apartment at 421 Broome Street, between Crosby and Lafayette Streets in SoHo, New York City, on the day of the Full Moon. The link between the Joker and decapitations has already been made on this blog, often. Last night, the horror of a decapitation merged with a familiar location in school violence history. Wednesday, January 21, 2009, police reported a woman was slain on the Virginia Tech campus and decapitated, according to wire services including AP and Fox News. Xin Yang, 22, was killed Wednesday night after arriving at the campus from Beijing on Jan. 8 to begin studying accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said. The first 911 call came into polic...