Around 8 a.m. on March 29, 2010, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala punched out of her overnight shift as a paramedic in Springfield. That evening, police found her wife, Cara Lee Rintala, cradling Annamarie’s lifeless body in the basement of the Granby home they shared with their 2-year-old daughter, Brianna. In October, Cara Rintala was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Annamarie, making it the first gay marriage murder case in Massachusetts.
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"Festered in the shadows" ????? There are stories on DOMESTIC VIOLENCE all the time. Welcome to marriage. Is it more horrible for GAYS? LESBIANS ? I don't think so. VIOLENCE IS VIOLENCE. You are creating a SPECIAL STORY when there is none.
Globe's late-breaking news flash - Gay people ARE people! Any abusive relationship, especially involving violence, is a tragedy, but that's true for heterosexuals too. / Nothing to see here, move on.
A tricky article, right Bella? The cause is to raise awareness of same-sex domestic violence while at the same time maintaining the fiction that women are almost always the victims in heterosexual relationships. >> Only trouble is, it's not true that: "In heterosexual relationships, women are the victims more than 90 percent of the time." >> So, Bella, please define "victim", and where you get this "statistic". (If you said that women and men are violent to about the same degree but women tend to get injured more severely 90 percent of the time I might consider that to be possible.)