Martin Theodore Orne, M.D., Ph.D., emeritus professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, died February 11, 2000 at the age of 72. He was a professor in the School of Medicine for 32 years before becoming emeritus professor in 1996. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1927, Dr. Orne received his M.D. degree from Tufts University Medical School in 1955, with a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1958. Upon coming to Penn in 1964, Professor Orne established and directed the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, a research laboratory in the School of Medicine that has conducted uninterrupted scientific research for 36 years. ^[1]

Dr Orne pioneered research into demand characteristics illustrating the weakness of informing participants that they are taking part in a psychology experiment and yet expecting them to act normally. He was also well-known as a researcher in the field of hypnosis.

View the official website for the published papers of Dr. Martin T. Orne at the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]

Patients[link]

Anne Sexton

References[link]

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Orne
—  Department  —
Coat of arms
Location of Orne in France
Coordinates: 48°42′N 00°00′E / 48.7°N 0°E / 48.7; 0Coordinates: 48°42′N 00°00′E / 48.7°N 0°E / 48.7; 0
Country	France
Region	Basse-Normandie
Prefecture	Alençon
Subprefectures	Argentan Mortagne-au-Perche
Government
• President of the General Council	Alain Lambert (UMP)
Area1
• Total	6,103 km2 (2,356 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Total	292,609
• Rank	73rd
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Department number	61
Arrondissements	3
Cantons	40
Communes	505
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Orne (French pronunciation: [ɔʁn]) is a department in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.

History[link]

Orne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution, on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Normandy and Perche.

Geography[link]

Orne is in the region of Basse-Normandie neighbouring Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Sarthe, Mayenne, and Calvados. It is the only department of Basse Normandie and Haute Normandie to be landlocked.

Economy[link]

The largest town by a considerable margin is the prefecture, Alençon which is an administrative and commercial centre for what is still an overwhelmingly rural department. There are no large industrial centres: agriculture remains the economic focus of Orne.

Demographics[link]

The inhabitants of the department are called Ornais.

The recorded population level peaked at 443,688 in 1836. Declining farm incomes and the lure of better prospects in the overseas empire led to a sustained reduction in population levels in many rural departments, and by the time of the 1936 census the recorded population stood at just 269,331. Once motor car ownership started to surge in the 1960s employment opportunities became less restricted and by 2008 the population level had recovered a little to 292,282.

The two major cities in the Orne are Alençon, the prefecture, and Flers, who deserved to be subprefecture.

Culture[link]

Alençon is the chief town of the Orne department.

Camembert, the village where Camembert cheese is made, is located in Orne.

The local dialect is known as Augeron.

See also[link]

• Cantons of the Orne department
• Communes of the Orne department
• Arrondissements of the Orne department
• Orne River
• St. Andre sur Orne
• La Mansonnière cave

External links[link]

Normandy portal

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) General Council website
• (English) Orne at the Open Directory Project

• (English) Orne Tourism

Kenneth Bianchi
1979 mugshot of Kenneth Bianchi
Background information
Birth name	Kenneth Alessio Bianchi
Also known as	The Hillside Strangler
Born	(1951-05-22) May 22, 1951 (age 61) Rochester, New York
Conviction	Murder
Sentence	Life imprisonment
Killings
Number of victims	12
Country	United States
State(s)	California and Washington
Date apprehended	January 12, 1979

Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951) is an American serial killer. Bianchi and his cousin Angelo Buono, Jr., together are known as the Hillside Stranglers. He is serving a term of life imprisonment in Washington. Bianchi is also a suspect in the Alphabet murders, three unsolved murders in his home city of Rochester.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Bianchi was born in Rochester, New York, to a prostitute who gave him up for adoption two weeks after he was born. He was adopted at three months by Frances Scioliono and her husband Nicholas Bianchi in Rochester.

Bianchi was deeply troubled from a young age, and his adoptive mother described him as being "a compulsive liar who had risen from the cradle dissembling". He often worried her with his penchant for trance-like daydreams. Despite having above-average intelligence, he was an underachiever who was quick to lose his temper. He was diagnosed with petit mal seizures when he was five years old and passive-aggressive disorder when he was 10. After Nicholas' death from pneumonia in 1964, Frances had to work while her son attended high school. Frances is known for keeping Bianchi home from school for long periods of time. Bianchi would make frequent trips to the doctors because of a urination problem. Frances would make the doctors poke and prod his private parts. This caused him more mental pain then anything else that happened in his childhood.^[1]

Shortly after Bianchi graduated from Gates-Chili High School in 1971, he married his high school sweetheart; the union ended after eight months. Supposedly, she left him without an explanation. As an adult, he dropped out of college after one semester, and drifted through a series of menial jobs, finally ending up as a security guard at a jewelry store. This gave him a great opportunity to steal valuables, which he often gave to girlfriends or prostitutes to buy their loyalty. Because of many petty thefts, Bianchi was constantly on the move.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1977, and started spending time with his older cousin Angelo Buono, who impressed Bianchi with his fancy clothes, jewelry, and talent for getting any women he wanted and "putting them in their place". Before long, they worked together as pimps, and, by late 1977, had escalated to murder. They had raped and murdered 10 women by the time they were arrested in early 1979.

Murders[link]

Bianchi and Buono would usually cruise around Los Angeles in Buono's car and use fake badges to persuade girls that they were undercover cops. Their victims were women and girls aged 12 to 28 from various walks of life. They would then order the girls into Buono's "unmarked police car" and drive them home to torture and murder them.

• Yolanda Washington, age 19 – October 17, 1977
• Judith Ann Miller, age 15 – October 31, 1977
• Lissa Kastin, age 21 – November 6, 1977
• Jane King, age 28 – November 10, 1977
• Dolores Cepeda, age 14 – November 13, 1977
• Sonja Johnson, age 12 – November 13, 1977
• Kristin Weckler, age 20 – November 20, 1977
• Lauren Wagner, age 18 – November 29, 1977
• Kimberely Martin, age 17 – December 9, 1977
• Cindy Lee Hudspeth, age 20 – February 16, 1978

Both men would sexually abuse their victims before strangling them. They experimented with other methods of killing, such as lethal injection, electric shock, and carbon monoxide poisoning. Even while committing the murders, Bianchi applied for a job with the Los Angeles Police Department and had even been taken for several rides with police officers while they were searching for the Hillside Strangler.

One night, shortly after they botched their would-be eleventh murder, Bianchi revealed to Buono he had attended LAPD police ride alongs, and that he was currently being questioned about the strangler case. After hearing this, Buono erupted in a fit of rage. An argument ensued at one point during which Buono threatened to kill Bianchi if he did not flee to Bellingham, Washington. In May 1978 he did flee to Bellingham.

On January 11, 1979, Bianchi lured two female students into a house he was guarding. The women were 22-year-old Karen Mandic and 27-year-old Diane Wilder, and were students at Western Washington University. He forced the first student down the stairs in front of him and then strangled her. He murdered the second young girl in a similar fashion. Without help from his partner, he left many clues and police apprehended him the next day. A California driver's license and a routine background check linked him to the addresses of two Hillside Strangler victims.

Following his arrest, Bianchi admitted he and Buono, in 1977, while posing as police officers, stopped a young female by the name of Catharine Lorre with intentions of abducting and killing her. But after learning she was the daughter of actor Peter Lorre, they let her go. Only after he was arrested did Catharine learn of the true identity of the men whom she encountered.

Trial[link]

At his trial, Bianchi pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming that another personality, one "Steve Walker", had committed the crimes. Bianchi even convinced a few expert psychiatrists that he indeed suffered from multiple personality disorder, but investigators brought in their own psychiatrists, mainly the psychiatrist Martin Orne. When Orne mentioned to Bianchi that in genuine cases of the disorder, there tends to be three or more personalities, Bianchi promptly created another alias, "Billy". Eventually, investigators discovered that the very name "Steven Walker" came from a student whose identity Bianchi had previously attempted to steal for the purpose of fraudulently practicing psychology. Police also found a small library of books in Bianchi's home on topics of modern psychology, further indicating his ability to fake the disorder.

Once his claims were subjected to this scrutiny, Bianchi eventually admitted that he had been faking the disorder. To acquire leniency, he agreed to testify against Buono. However, in actually giving his testimony, Bianchi made every effort to be as uncooperative and self-contradictory as possible, apparently hoping to avoid being the ultimate cause of Buono being convicted. In the end, Bianchi's efforts were unsuccessful, as Buono was in fact convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1980, Bianchi began a relationship with Veronica Compton, a woman he met while in prison. During his trial, she testified for the defense, telling the jury a false, vague tale about the crimes in an attempt to exculpate Bianchi and also admitting to wanting to buy a mortuary with another convicted murderer for the purpose of necrophilia. She was later convicted and imprisoned for attempting to strangle a woman she had lured to a motel in an attempt to have authorities believe that the Hillside Strangler was still on the loose and the wrong man was imprisoned. Bianchi had given her some smuggled semen to use to make it look like a rape/murder committed by the Hillside Strangler.

Bianchi is serving his sentence at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington.

Kenneth Bianchi was denied parole on August 18, 2010 by a state board in Sacramento (according to Los Angeles County district attorney's office spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons). He will be eligible to apply for parole again in 2025.

References[link]

Citations[link]

Further reading[link]

• Bardsley, Marilyn. Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, the Hillside Stranglers. Crime Library. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
• Farnsworth, Cheri. Alphabet Killer: The True Story of the Double Initial Murders

Films[link]

• The Mind of a Murderer, Parts 1 and 2 (1985), PBS documentary

See also[link]

• Alphabet murders

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Martin Fay (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1938) is an Irish fiddler and bones player, and a former member of The Chieftains.

In 1962 he became one of the founding members of The Chieftains. In 2001, he decided to stop touring with the group, limiting his appearances with the group to events in Ireland.

External links[link]

• Martin Fay page

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Manuel Alejandro Salazar Rivas (born January 23, 1986 in San Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.

He represented the Salvadoran national team.

Club career[link]

Salazar started his career at Salvadoran second division side Telecom before joining Luís Ángel Firpo in 2005.^[1]

In December 2008, Salazar along with his club and national team teammate Carlos Monteagudo, both were invited to train with Mexican Primera División A team Monterrey 1a. A (effectively CF Monterreys reserve team),^[2] with the hopes of signing with the clubs second division side. After the two week trial, both players returned to El Salvador, with the promise from head coach Gerardo Jiménez, that he would look to open negotiations to transfer them to the club, whether on a fulltime basis, or on loan however neither player was ever signed. On July 1, 2010, Salazar signed a six month contract with FAS^[3] only to rejoin Firpo for the 2011 Clausura claiming FAS owing him three months wages.^[4]

International career[link]

Salazar received his first call up to the national team in January 2007 and made his debut for El Salvador in a February 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Nicaragua. He earned a total of 50 caps, scoring no goals, and has represented his country in 18 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.^[5] He has played at the 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup,^[6] as well as at the 2007^[7] and 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cups.^[8]

His final international game was an October 2010 friendly match against Costa Rica.

Retirement from football[link]

On May 18, 2011, Salazar decided to retire from the sport due to long-standing knee problems and to focus on his academic and business ventures (he owns a restaurant).^[9][10]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Manuel Salazar at National-Football-Teams.com

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