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Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
2 Μαρ 2017 · Farrah Fawcett and Paul LeMat starred as Francine and Mickey Hughes in the 1984 movie "The Burning Bed." Francine killed Mickey when she set his bed on fire while he slept. She was later found...
21 Μαρ 2019 · By 1977, the same year that Francine Hughes killed her husband, the FBI had reported that spousal abuse was the United States’ most underreported crime.
9 Ιουλ 2020 · A new documentary looks at the landmark case of Francine Hughes and examines the inequalities in the criminal-justice system’s treatment of women who kill in self-defense.
31 Μαρ 2017 · Ms. Hughes was charged with first-degree murder. In November, a jury of 10 women and two men took five hours to pronounce Ms. Hughes not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
31 Μαρ 2017 · In this Nov. 3, 1977, photo, Francine Hughes and her lawyer Arjen Greydanus walk into the courtroom in Lansing, Mich. Wilson, whose Michigan spousal abuse case was the subject of a 1984...
27 Οκτ 2014 · "The Burning Bed" told the story of Francine Hughes, a local woman who, seven years earlier, had been acquitted of murder after she poured gasoline around her sleeping ex-husband, James...
