The Baby Jane Murders

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Authors: Pen Avram
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handsome young woman. Her biological mother, Gertrude
Winterbottom stayed with Miss Whiteford for several years and when
two adjacent houses in Medlow Bath went up for sale, they purchased
them and moved in. They maintained a very peculiar friendship; they
argued together. It was a game that started in Armidale and
continued every day in Medlow Bath. Miss Winterbottom and Emma
Baldwin had no contact.
    When Angelina was sixteen years old and
attending St Ignatius Ladies College, Ted Baldwin, her adoptive
father, went to her while she was asleep and raped her. When she
began to scream, he told her that it was alright, that she was
adopted and that he wasn’t her biological father, thus it wasn’t
incest. He disclosed to her the events of her birth and the
subsequent adoption.
    Angelina was broken, left
her school and began planning her revenge. She moved into a women's
refuge house, and illegally purchased a handgun. Then she went to
kill Ted Baldwin. When she was going to press the trigger, Mrs
Baldwin jumped in front of her husband and was killed instead of
him. Angelina correctly believed that nobody saw
her, and moved to Katoomba, where she got a job at Coles. One day,
she was asked for assistance by an elderly woman. Both had a very
strange feeling of closeness, as if they’d known each other
previously. Miss Gertrude Winterbottom was overcome and Angelina asked the woman for her name and realised that she
was talking to her natural mother. This discovery, instead of
making her happy, turned to hatred. At Coles, Mark Cotton made
advances to her, which she refused, because of her experience with
her adoptive father, and subsequent hatred of men in general. He
and his friend George Hurst invited her to a party, made her drink
a number of 'black rats' and, when she was drunk, they repeatedly
raped her. This act has been recorded on camera and was found
amongst the pornographic collection of Mr George Cotton, Mark's
father.
    Angelina , after realising what had happened, decided on revenge.
The next day at Coles, she dropped a carton of Cokes, close to
where the two boys were standing. Feeling guilty because of the
previous night, they picked up the scattered cans in gentlemanly
fashion. Angelina then carefully took them and kept
them. In the evening, she waited until Miss Whiteford left, walked
into Miss Winterbottom's house, brutally killed her and left a can
of Coke with the fingerprints of one of the boys on the windowsill.
The boys were hiding in the bush, until they tried to jump you and
your masterly martial arts skills got the better of
them.
    Yes, quite tragically, Miss Angelina Baldwin was a victim of circumstance. Adopted, and twice
raped, one could feel sympathy for the young lady. The system
failed her, as it so often does, and with tragic consequences.
However, nothing can permit us to take the law into our own hands.
She could have sought help. But instead she is now guilty of two
counts of cold-blooded murder."
    Hendrych was dumfounded and after a while he clapped his
hands. S ara
barked simultaneously, yet again proud of her master.
    “So in fact the two old ladies really were
friends. Poor Miss Whiteford.”
    “Indeed. For a moment there, it looked like
it could have been a real-life case of ‘Whatever happened to Baby
Jane’. But that’s just what Angelina Baldwin wanted us to
think.”
    “Well, we just have to hope that Ms Brunt is
prepared to start sharing her ANZAC biscuits with Miss
Whiteford”.
    “Are you kidding! Now that would be just
like the film!”
    And with that they laughed as the sun went
down over the Blue Mountains.

     

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