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  Deletha Word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
On the morning of August 19, 1995, thirty-three-year-old Deletha Word was driving across a bridge in Detroit, Michigan on her way back from Belle Isle when her car hit the fender of a car driven by Martell Welch.
In Welch's trial, the defense focused on the fact that Welch did not actually throw Word off the bridge, and that Word had traces of PCP in her system, suggesting that Word might have thought she could fly when she jumped.
The death of Deletha Word has been used as an example of the bystander effect, as a number of people crossing the bridge that morning were witnesses to her plight, yet none stopped to help her.
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 Word
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 Deletha Word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
On the morning of August 19, 1995,thirty-three-year-old Deletha Word was driving across a bridge in Detroit, Michigan on her way back from Belle Isle when her car hit the fender of a car driven by Martell Welch.
In Welch's trial, the defense focused on the fact that Welch did not actually throw Word off the bridge, and that Word hadtraces of PCP in her system, suggesting that Word might have thought shecould fly when she jumped.
The death of Deletha Word has been used as an example of the bystander effect, as a number of people crossing the bridge that morning were witnesses to her plight, yetnone stopped to help her.
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 Law Course
The altercation began when Welch and Word were involved in a minor fender bender in the early morning hours while driving back from Belle Island, a popular island park in the river between the United States and Canada.
They contended Word was so scared of Welch that she jumped to escape being beaten again.
Word had traces of the hallucinogenic drug PCP or angel dust in her system at the time of her death.
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 Benevolence
Word was bleeding from the mouth and nose and was heavily bruised, he said.
Word by the waist, lifted her off the ground and carried her into the middle of the crowd and offered her for sale, Mayberry said.
Word walked to the edge of the bridge and jumped just as the attacker was about to hit her with the jack, he said.
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 master
33-year-old Deletha was killed for bumping the fender of this misogynist 19-year-old monster.
Thus, a fender bender was all the excuse he needed to lynch Deletha.
Martell and two of his boys pulled Deletha from her car and stripped her to her panties.
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 Court TV Casefiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Martell Welch was charged with murder in the August 19, 1995, drowning death of Deletha Word, who drowned after jumping into the river after Welch beat her up following a traffic accident.
The altercation began when Welch and Word were involved in a minor fender bender in the early morning hours while driving back from Belle Isle, a popular island park in the river between the United States and Canada.
Prosecutors argued that Welch was guilty of murder even though he did not push Word from the bridge and was standing several feet away when she jumped.
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 The McGregory Family - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Supplying the tempo for the group and singing lead vocals is the oldest daughter Deletha McGregory Aldridge.
Deletha has been playing drums for about ten years.
Deletha is married to the lead vocalist of the group Scottie Aldridge.
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 Bystander effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For this reason, the name Genovese syndrome or Genovese effect was used to describe the phenomenon at the time.
The death of Deletha Word in 1995 after witnesses failed to thwart her attackers, as well as the James Bulger murder case, may have been other well-publicized cases of the effect.
A 1968 study by John Darley and Bibb Latané first demonstrated the bystander effect in the laboratory.
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 Jet: College student arrested in death of Detroit woman who died trying to escape beating
Deletha Word, 33, drowned after jumping off the Belle Isle bridge in an apparent attempt to escape 19-year-old Martell Welch, who reportedly was enraged because Word hit his car during a minor traffic accident, authorities say.
Welch allegedly proceeded to attack Word's car with a crowbar, before dragging her from the car, ripping her clothes off and hitting her as she resisted.
Word, the mother of a 13-year-old, worked at a grocery store while studying for a bachelor's degree in marketing at the Detroit College of Business.
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 CNN U.S. News: Suspect charged with murder in Detroit bridge death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Deletha Word's mother, Dortha, is angry and bitter.
Word's father says that the second-degree murder charge is not serious enough.
Word died early Saturday after more than 40 onlookers, some cheering, watched as she was pulled from her car by a group of men who stripped her clothes off and chased her until she jumped off the Belle Isle Bridge.
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 Bystander effect. Who is Bystander effect? What is Bystander effect? Where is Bystander effect? Definition of Bystander ...
For this reason, the name Genovese syndrome or Genovese effect was used to describe the effect at the time.
The killing in 1995 of Deletha Word in front of a crowd who failed to intervene appears to have been another case of the bystander effect on a large group of people.
A 1968 study by Darley and Latane first demonstrated the bystander effect in the laboratory, and it has been studied ever since.
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 Caribbeanedu.com | CORAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Mildred Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1943, to Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor.
She would later say she "was born in a segregated city in a segregated state in...
The written word, he quickly learned, offered a special kind of privacy,...
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 CNN U.S. News: News Briefs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Martell Welch is accused of brutally beating 33- year-old Deletha Ward before she jumped to her death.
Word also had been stripped of nearly all her clothes.
Welch's lawyer claims Word's death was not a direct result of his client's actions.
www.cnn.com /US/Newsbriefs/9509/9-01   (307 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
On the morning of August 19, 1995, thirty-three-year-old '''Deletha Word''' was driving across a bridge in Detroit, Michigan on her way back from Belle Isle (Michigan) Belle Isle when her car hit the fender of a car driven by Martell Welch.
In Welch's trial, the defense focused on the fact that Welch did not actually throw Word off the bridge, and that Word had traces of Phencyclidine PCP in her system, suggesting that Word might have thought she could fly when she jumped.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Deletha Word.
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 Encyclopedia: Deletha Word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar.
Phencyclidine (also called PCP or Angel dust) is a dissociative/anaesthetic drug that was commercially developed in the 1950s by the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company.
The bystander effect (also known as bystander apathy) is a psychological phenomenon where persons are less likely to intervene in an emergency situation when others are present than when they are alone.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Deletha-Word   (358 words)

  
 ULTRAVISIT - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
ULTRAVISIT captured their sonic barrages on their first EP titled "Interminable Procession." The first single "Deletha Fell" gained notable attention with its addition to Vancouver’s CFOX Radio (99.3 FM), The F-Spot.
"Deletha Fell" is also in pre-production for the bands first video.
After playing the live circuit throughout Vancouver’s lower mainland, the band has been busy in the studio recording for their first full length LP that is full of perpetual motion and chaos.
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 WORD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Search the WORD Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the WORD Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named WORD at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/W/WORD.htm   (121 words)

  
 RealAudio: NPR's April 30, 1996 Morning Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Welch chased Deletha Word after the two had a minor traffic accident...
Word jumped to her death from a bridge as Welch approached her with a metal bar.
Lynn Neary reports on the Christian youth rally on the lawn of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Organizers compared it to Woodstock and predicted a quarter of a million people from church groups all over the country would attend -- but the crowd never got that big.
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 Jet: Jury finds enraged man who chased woman off Detroit bridge after car accident guilty of murder - Martell Welch Jr
A motorist who was enraged after a fender-bender and went after a woman with a car jack forcing her to jump off a bridge to her death recently was found guilty of murder.
Martell Welch Jr., 20, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the August 1995 drowning of Deletha Word, 33, in the Detroit River (JET, Sept. 11, 1995).
Witnesses said Welch also smashed the windows of Word's car with a jack and then ran toward her with the jack as she stood next to the rail of the bridge.
www.parentsurf.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n1_v90/ai_18308730   (391 words)

  
 He's ordered the Energy Department to begin selling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A jury found Martell Welch guilty of second degree murder in the death of Deletha Word.
In August 1995, Welch and Word were involved in a series of minor traffic accidents that witnesses said ended with Welch dragging Word out of her car, stripping her nearly naked and beating her.
Welch's attorney says the jury ignored evidence that Word had been taking a hallucinogenic drug at the time of her death.
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 newStandard: Tuesday, August 22, 1995
DETROIT -- As dozens of onlookers gathered, and some cheered, three men pulled a woman from her car, ripped off her clothes, then chased her until she either jumped or was forced off a bridge to her death.
None of the 40 or so passersby tried to help Deletha Word during the confrontation that began with two minor traffic accidents early Saturday on Belle Isle, said police Sgt. John Morel.
A man who arrived late tried to rescue her from the Detroit River but couldn't reach her.
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 The Second Coming: Tuesday, August 22, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
DETROIT - As dozens of onlookers cheered, three men pulled a woman from her car, ripped off her clothes, then chased her until she either jumped or was forced off a bridge to her death.
One of the men smashed her car with a crowbar and pulled her from the car, ripping off some of her clothes...The man pushed her against the car and beat her...
Word tried to run away, police said the man with the crowbar chased her.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- THE WEEK -- Sep. 04, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Deletha Word, a 33-year-old mother of one, jumped from a bridge to her death following an angry altercation that occurred when her car hit another vehicle.
Early accounts said Martell Welch, the driver of the other car, stripped Word naked on the Douglas MacArthur Bridge, smashed her car window with a tire iron and then forced her to jump while dozens of people stood by cheering.
Prosecutors now call these reports exaggerated, saying Word was not stripped or beaten and there were no cheering crowds.
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 Geometry.Net - Authors: Taylor Mildred
Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) It is my hope that to the children who read my books, the Logans will provide those heroes missing from the schoolbooks of my childhood, Black men, women, and children of whom they can be proud.
Although she was born in the South, her father moved the family to the North, settling in Toledo, Ohio, three weeks after she was born.
She is the daughter of Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor.
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 American Renaissance October 1995 Issue
About 2:30 in the morning of Aug. 19, 33-year-old Deletha Word was driving in Detroit's Belle Isle Park, an island connected to the city by a bridge.
Welch then lifted Miss Word off the ground, walked into the middle of the crowd, and asked if anyone wanted "to buy some of this bitch because she has to pay for my car." There were a few offers of ten dollars or so.
Welch then threw Miss Word to the ground, beat her some more, and dragged her to the side of the road, saying "I ought to throw you over the bridge." Mr.
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 People Weekly: Death in a crowded place: paralyzed by fear, people stood by as a Detroit woman was beaten - and died. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
More than 40 people watched and did nothing while Martell Welch Jr allegedly beat Deletha Word on a bridge in Detroit, MI, on Aug 19, 1995.
To escape from Welch, Word jumped off the bridge and later drowned.
"I have nightmares that we're both in the water and she's reaching out her hand to me, but I can't get her." The vision tormenting Mayberry is of Deletha Word, who fell--or leaped--to her death...
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 6-1-6-Social Settings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
God's word in the form of beautiful covenant promises came to Abraham.
Paul explains that God's plan is not for those who try to earn his favor by being good; it is for those who realize that they can never be good enough and so must depend on Christ.
Three decades later, in August 1995, a young women named Deletha Word was chased and attacked by a man whose fender she had dented.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- MARCHING TO FARRAKHAN'S TUNE -- Oct. 16, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The complement to the fl separatism that has always alienated whites is a philosophy of self-discipline and self-reliance.
During a recent speech, Farrakhan told the story of Deletha Word, a fl woman who dented the car of another motorist, also fl, on the Belle Isle Bridge over the Detroit River.
The driver allegedly beat Word with a tire iron, then watched as she flung herself to her death off the bridge.
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