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Angelika Graswald pleads guilty over fiance's kayak death. Watch Online Watch Looking For An Echo Full Movie Online Film on this page. A woman accused of removing a drain plug from her fiance's kayak and contributing to his drowning on New York's Hudson River has pleaded guilty.
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Prosecutors say Poughkeepsie resident Angelika Graswald removed the plug from 4. Vincent Viafore's kayak and pushed a floating paddle away from him after the kayak capsized in April 2. Graswald had been facing murder and manslaughter charges but pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide on Monday in Orange County Court. Video from News 1. Westchester Tears: Attorneys flank Angelika Graswald, center, as she cries after pleading guilty to criminally negligent homicide. Emotion: Angelika Graswald wells up as she admits her guilt to the court in Goshen, New York Angelika Graswald, 3. Monday in Orange County Court over the 2.
Vincent Viafore on New York's Hudson River. She is pictured here in 2.
Her attorney has said the death was an accident and was caused by high waves, cold water and alcohol. Graswald, who has been in custody awaiting trial, had told police that she wanted to be 'free from his sex demands and threesome desires', earlier court hearings heard. She said she was unable to save Viafore when he capsized without a life jacket. She was rescued from the water by another boater and treated for hypothermia. But prosecutors said she removed the drain plug from the kayak and pushed a floating paddle away from him as he struggled in the cold and choppy Hudson River. Viafore's body was found three weeks after he disappeared by a fisherman near the U.
S. Military Academy at West Point. Graswald had been facing murder and manslaughter charges in relation to 4. Vincent Viafore's death but pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide on Monday. Prosecutors say Graswald (left in her mugshot) removed the plug from Viafore's kayak and pushed a floating paddle away from him after the kayak capsized in April 2. She was accused of removing the plug from Viafore's kayak and contributing to his drowning on New York's Hudson River. His body was found three weeks later by a fisherman.
By then, Graswald had already been charged with murder. Prosecutors claimed she wanted out of her relationship with Viafore and had wanted to get her hands on $2. At Graswald's arraignment in May 2. Orange County Assistant District Attorney Julie Mohl said: 'She felt trapped, and it was her only way out.' Mohl added that Graswald had admitted tampering with Viafore's kayak and later confessed that 'it felt good knowing he would die.'She also did not call 9. Viafore's kayak overturned and witnesses said she intentionally capsized her own craft, according to Mohl. Graswald is facing anywhere from 1. She will be given credit for time already served. She will be sentenced on November 1. Graswald, who has been in custody awaiting trial, had told police that she wanted to be 'free from his sex demands and threesome desires', earlier court hearings heard.
Orange County Assistant District Attorney Julie Mohl said in 2. Graswald (above) admitted tampering with Viafore's kayak and intentionally capsized her own craft.
The Body (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)"The Body" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1. It was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon and originally aired on the WB network in the United States on February 2. In the series, Buffy Summers is a teenager chosen by mystical forces and endowed with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other evils in the fictional town of Sunnydale. She is supported in her struggles by a close circle of friends and family, nicknamed the Scooby Gang.
In "The Body", Buffy is powerless as she comes upon her lifeless mother, who has died of a brain aneurysm. Although Buffy and her friends deal with death every week, often in very gruesome and fantastic ways, in this episode they are bewildered by the natural death of Joyce Summers, the divorced mother of Buffy and her sister Dawn and occasionally a mother figure to their friends. They struggle to comprehend what the loss means to each of them and to the group. Buffy must begin to face her life and her duties as the Slayer without parental support and comfort. The episode was stripped of all music—a regular staple of the Buffy series—and disorienting effects were included to convey the sense of displacement and loss associated with the death of a close family member."The Body" aired to wide acclaim, and has since been ranked by several critics as one of the greatest episodes of television ever broadcast. Background[edit]Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is assisted from season one by her close friends, who collectively refer to themselves as the Scooby Gang: Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon), whose primary strength is his devotion to Buffy, and Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan), who begins dabbling in witchcraft and grows progressively more powerful. They are mentored by Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), Buffy's "Watcher", and joined by Xander's girlfriend Anya Jenkins (Emma Caulfield), who was a vengeance demon until her powers were taken away.
Anya is often at a loss to know how to communicate with humans, and her speech is frequently abrupt. In the fourth season, Willow became romantically involved with Tara Maclay (Amber Benson), also a witch.[1]Each season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (often simplified as Buffy) presents an overall theme episodes tie into. Roz Kaveney identifies family and belonging as the overall theme of the fifth season. Buffy's mother Joyce (Kristine Sutherland) begins experiencing headaches at the beginning of the season, once collapsing and requiring hospitalization. She subsequently has a brain tumor removed. She has been recovering well. In the previous episode, she receives flowers from a male suitor, which Buffy finds at the end of that episode.
The fifth season also introduces Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg), Buffy's 1. Each season has a primary antagonist called the Big Bad; in the fifth season this takes the form of a powerful goddess named Glory (Clare Kramer).[1]Beginning where the previous episode left off, Buffy arrives home and sees the flowers sent from Joyce's suitor. She calls out to her mother and hears no answer. Buffy sees Joyce lying lifeless on the sofa, staring at the ceiling.
The credits appear over a flashback to a Christmas dinner where all the Scoobies are present, having a typical lighthearted conversation as Joyce and Buffy discuss a pie that drops on the floor. The scene snaps back to Buffy in the living room, shaking Joyce and screaming at her. She calls for an ambulance and attempts CPR, accidentally snapping a rib in the process, but to no avail. Buffy calls Giles. Talking Funny Full Movie Part 1. The paramedics arrive and work on Joyce and she revives, the paramedics declare it a miracle in the ambulance, and Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn rejoice in the hospital. The scene snaps back to the living room where the paramedics continue to work on Joyce until they stop and tell Buffy that Joyce is dead.
They leave, and Buffy goes into the hall and vomits. Giles arrives and Buffy tells him not to move the body, shocking herself by using that word. At school, Dawn is crying in the bathroom upset that a girl called her a freak.
In art class she talks with a boy as they sketch, and the two share a moment of understanding about being troubled. Buffy arrives and pulls Dawn out of class into the hall.
Through the windows of the art room, the class watches Buffy tell her that Joyce has had an accident. The rest of the conversation is muffled. Dawn collapses in the hall, sobbing. In Willow's dormitory room, Tara tries to help Willow find a shirt to wear.
Xander and Anya arrive and double- park. Willow panics, rejecting shirt after shirt, not knowing how to appear for Buffy and Dawn.
She asks why her clothes are stupid and she is childish, weeping until Tara kisses and calms her. Anya asks Xander what she is supposed to do; he cannot answer. Willow changes her shirt again and Xander expresses his desire to find Glory and exact justice, then complains about Joyce's negligent doctors. Anya asks if they will see the body, then if the body will be cut open, and Willow responds angrily.
Anya tearfully says she does not understand how to behave, or why Joyce cannot go back into her own body, unable to understand human death, she states that it is all "stupid and mortal", and no one will tell her why things are happening. Xander puts his fist through the wall, making him bleed but feel oddly better. As the group leaves to visit Buffy at the hospital, Xander gets a parking ticket.
In the waiting room outside the morgue, the doctor tells Buffy that Joyce died of an aneurysm suddenly and painlessly. Left alone with Buffy, Tara tells her that her own mother died when she was 1. Dawn goes alone to the morgue to see Joyce's body. While she is there, one of the bodies, now a vampire, gets up. After noticing Dawn has not come back, Buffy goes to look for her and finds her in the morgue, being attacked by the vampire. As Buffy fights and kills the vampire, the sheet falls from Joyce's face. Looking at her mother, Dawn asks where she went, as she reaches out to touch her cheek.
Production and writing[edit]My experience with death is that apart from a lot of people hugging at funerals, it seldom brings people together. It actually tears them apart. And I had always learned from TV that death made everybody stronger and better and learn about themselves.
And my experience was that an important piece had been taken out of the puzzle .. Joss Whedon, 2. 00. From the start of writing the Buffy series, Joss Whedon asserted that it would never have a "very special episode" as in contemporary series Beverly Hills, 9. The Wonder Years, or Party of Five, where the core cast of characters addresses a single issue (AIDS, drug abuse, or alcoholism, for example) and resolve all the problems at the end.[3] Whedon was not interested in finding a life- affirming lesson for "The Body". Rather, he wanted to capture the isolation and boredom involved in the minutes and hours after finding a loved one has died,[2] what he termed "the black ashes in your mouth numbness of death". He did not intend to resolve any religious or existential questions about the end of life, but wanted to examine the process in which a person becomes a mere body.[4] Whedon's mother, a teacher, also died of a cerebral aneurysm,[5] and he drew on his own experiences, and those of friends and other writers, in constructing the episode.
He tried to achieve an "unlovely physicality" in "The Body" to portray the upsetting minutiae involved in attempting to comprehend what is incomprehensible.