Genie Wiley
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Today, Mar 6, 2007, an editor on wikipedia, added an newspaper article as an external link to the article on Genie, which identifies the parents as "Clark Wiley and his wife Irene". Many online postings state that the father shot and killed himself before he could be arrainged. Armed with this, and the useful tool that a name like "Clark Wiley" is quite rare, I went looking for his death entry and found it. In trying to find an obit, I found much more. | Today, Mar 6, 2007, an editor on wikipedia, added an newspaper article as an external link to the article on Genie, which identifies the parents as "Clark Wiley and his wife Irene". Many online postings state that the father shot and killed himself before he could be arrainged. Armed with this, and the useful tool that a name like "Clark Wiley" is quite rare, I went looking for his death entry and found it. In trying to find an obit, I found much more. | ||
| − | An article in the ''Valley News'' of Van Nuys, California, Dec 17, 1970, (page 23C "Felony Charge Dismissed in Wiley Child Abuse Case") gives her name as "Susan". It repeats her parents names as above and adds that she had a brother or half-brother named John Wiley, calling him "Clark's son". In this same article, Irene is called "of Alhambra, California". In 1970, in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia, she was taken into protective custody. | + | An article in the ''Valley News'' of Van Nuys, California, Dec 17, 1970, (page 23C "Felony Charge Dismissed in Wiley Child Abuse Case") gives her name as "Susan". It repeats her parents names as above and adds that she had a brother or half-brother named John Wiley, calling him "Clark's son". In this same article, Irene is called "of Alhambra, California", although their home is described as being "in Arcadia". In 1970, in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia, she was taken into protective custody. |
| − | Clark Wiley's mother had been "killed by a hit and run driver", and this is used to explain his bizarre actions. "Just before he was due in court to be arraigned for child abuse, he shot and killed himself | + | Clark Wiley's mother had been "killed by a hit and run driver", and this is used to explain his bizarre actions. "Just before he was due in court to be arraigned for child abuse, he shot and killed himself", as the Valley News reports, adding that he was 70 years old, and killed himself on Nov 20. The article also states that Mrs Wiley is 50 years old. |
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