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...Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Fla., died last year, following surgery for a heart defect, doctors made an unsettling discovery: Arlena Twigg was not their biological child. Last week genetic tests established that the Twiggs' real daughter is Kimberly Mays, who was born at Hardee Memorial hospital in Wauchula, Fla., at about the same time as Arlena...
Devastated by this news, the parents reviewed oddities surrounding their daughter's birth at Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula, Fla., on Dec. 2, 1978. After delivery, their pink-cheeked infant scored a perfect 10 on the Apgar health rating. Nevertheless the baby the Twiggs took home suffered from a heart abnormality. The child's weight was allegedly changed from 8 lbs. 6 oz. to 6 lbs. on the birth certificate, which also recorded Arlena's blood type as O. A battery of genetic tests proved that the child the Twiggs had raised for ten years could not have been their...
...Death Exception. Earl Enmund, now 50, was waiting anxiously at the wheel of the getaway car in 1975 when his accomplices got into a gun battle and killed an elderly couple they were robbing near Wauchula, Fla. His partners might be liable to the death penalty in Florida, but could Enmund be? Because he helped out in the robbery, Florida law held him responsible for the killing by his partners, and he was sentenced to death. His lawyers argued, however, that capital punishment for an accomplice who was not at all involved in the shooting violated the Eighth Amendment...
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...Wauchula was the place where we played musical comedy And no one laughed. The director went out and said "What's the matter? Don't you like it? Why don't you laugh? Why don't you clap?" An old lady said "We'd like to laugh but we're afraid to interrupt the living actors It don't seem polite. We'd like to clap, but we don't know when. We don't at the pictures...
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