Belinda Henry/Ashley Ervin
- Episode aired Jan 2, 2017
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Dan Matteucci
- Detective
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Daniel Braswell
- Brady Davis
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Belinda Henry/Ashley Ervin
What have we here? Two disparate tales of self-destruction and depravity, the second even worse than the first.
Belinda Henry had been married twice before; third time unlucky, she ended up blowing her brains out after her no-good third husband had drawn her into a web of crime which resulted in him murdering a young woman, and Belinda nearly murdering the victim's mother. We hear from that woman, Sheila Dates.
Ashley Ervin was on her first love, one that will be her last unless she turns to munching carpet behind bars. After her boyfriend and his bro' murdered a totally innocent man during a ludicrous botched robbery, they went on to commit a crime with echoes of the notorious 1961 A6 Murder. After kidnapping Huy Ngo and Maria Aparece at gunpoint, they drove them to an isolated area, forced them to strip, Maria was raped, and they were both shot.
As with Belinda Henry and her husband, there was no way this gang would escape retribution for these terrible crimes. Awhile back, some semi-literate moron started a petition on behalf of Ervin. After all, she only drove the car, she doesn't really deserve life without parole. In Texas, it is called the law of parties, everywhere else on the planet it is known as joint enterprise or some such. If she had participated in only one crime, there might have been some hope for her, but she was a member of a gang that started out robbing people and ended with a double murder of shocking depravity.
The Ervin story as related here cuts a few corners, in particular, there were more than three people involved. Elsewhere when she has related her tale of woe, Ervin has done her best to minimise her role. The truth though is that she was not a ho from da hood, but a product of the American black middle class. We all make bad choices when we are wrong, but some crimes are so terrible that even youth cannot mitigate them.
Belinda Henry had been married twice before; third time unlucky, she ended up blowing her brains out after her no-good third husband had drawn her into a web of crime which resulted in him murdering a young woman, and Belinda nearly murdering the victim's mother. We hear from that woman, Sheila Dates.
Ashley Ervin was on her first love, one that will be her last unless she turns to munching carpet behind bars. After her boyfriend and his bro' murdered a totally innocent man during a ludicrous botched robbery, they went on to commit a crime with echoes of the notorious 1961 A6 Murder. After kidnapping Huy Ngo and Maria Aparece at gunpoint, they drove them to an isolated area, forced them to strip, Maria was raped, and they were both shot.
As with Belinda Henry and her husband, there was no way this gang would escape retribution for these terrible crimes. Awhile back, some semi-literate moron started a petition on behalf of Ervin. After all, she only drove the car, she doesn't really deserve life without parole. In Texas, it is called the law of parties, everywhere else on the planet it is known as joint enterprise or some such. If she had participated in only one crime, there might have been some hope for her, but she was a member of a gang that started out robbing people and ended with a double murder of shocking depravity.
The Ervin story as related here cuts a few corners, in particular, there were more than three people involved. Elsewhere when she has related her tale of woe, Ervin has done her best to minimise her role. The truth though is that she was not a ho from da hood, but a product of the American black middle class. We all make bad choices when we are wrong, but some crimes are so terrible that even youth cannot mitigate them.
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