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 The Murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair: America's Most Hated Woman by Lona Manning
Madalyn Murray O’Hair carried on without her son Bill and relied on her younger son Jon Garth Murray and her granddaughter Robin to carry the atheist torch.
O’Hair concluded that Waters was a dangerous person and that the courts were indifferent to prosecuting him as he deserved to be -- because he had stolen from atheists.
Madalyn O’Hair had been the most closely confined, at the Warren Inn Apartments in Northeast San Antonio, and Robin was probably her companion.
crimemagazine.com /ohair.htm   (7961 words)

  
 The Harvard Law School Forum
O'Hair attacked what she called the fundamental element of Judeo-Christian doctrine, which is that death and evil entered the world through the disobedience of Eve, but that death can be overcome through an acceptance of God.
O'Hair stated her belief that the nation is moving towards feudalism and that the middle class is being wiped out by conservative policies.
O'Hair concluded by noting the ties between conservative politics, the original intent doctrine of constitutional interpretation, and a time when the position of religion in society was "comfortable" and not open to challenge.
www.law.harvard.edu /students/orgs/forum/Ohair.html   (387 words)

  
 The Murder of Madalyn Myrray O'Hair Famous Atheist
O’Hair was always extremely secretive about the financial affairs of American Atheists, which she had founded in 1963 and dominated ever since.
O’Hair knew he had a criminal record but she later claimed she didn’t know just how bad it was.
Madalyn O’Hair, however, must have faced Waters with her customary courage, because Waters apparently never learned about the other New Zealand bank accounts in Jon Garth’s name, because they were untouched, nor about a bank account in San Antonio that contained $23,000.
dunamai.com /articles/atheist/murder_of_ohair.htm   (7904 words)

  
 Bill Murray, hairy story
Madalyn Murray O'Hair seems to have been a thoroughly messed-up woman who messed up the life of her son who took to a rather crazy form of Christianity, although his daughter followed her grandmother's atheism.
William J Murray was an alcoholic and drug abuser (just like the President he now admires), the illegitimate son of a Catholic and an atheist who was brought up by his strong-willed/tyrannical mother.
William J Murray was only a famous atheist to the extent that he was Madalyn's son and the plaintiff in her law suit.
mwillett.org /atheism/ohair.htm   (924 words)

  
 Interview with Madalyn Murray O'Hair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
O'Hair was a fierce proponent of the separation between church and state, tirelessly working on behalf of Atheists everywhere.
O'Hair: During the Second World War, I joined the army as a buck private but the first thing they do is give you an IQ test and when I came out with 150, they pulled me out and put me in Officer's Training.
O'Hair: I think you have had some sort of a serious emotional confrontation in your life, and were not able to handle it so you have retreated from the world.
www.wittenburgdoor.com /archives/ohair.html   (5480 words)

  
 Debate: Carl McIntire, Christian vs. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, atheist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
O'Hair a letter and suggested that we have a meeting face to face in which I desired to talk with her about the Christian faith.
MADALYN O’HAIR: Of course it is. Atheism is the religion of the future because it is the religion of life.
O'Hair, that what you have said, so far as my knowledge of the truth is concerned, is what you would naturally say, be­cause as I understand sin and what it has done to the hearts of men, "The natural,man receivith not the things of the Spirit of God" (I Corinthians 2:14).
www.carlmcintire.org /ohair/ohair.htm   (8021 words)

  
 Without Gods: Murray_O'Hair Archives
Murray O'Hair had some limitations as atheism's spokeswoman: One of her sons had the bad grace to get born-again.
Murray O'Hair was a plaintiff in an important school prayer case.
Eventually their murderers were arrested (Murray O'Hair liked to hire ex-cons) and the bodies were found.
www.futureofthebook.org /mitchellstephens/archives/murray_ohair   (569 words)

  
 Madalyn Murray O'Hair FCC Petition Hoax - U-M Virus Busters
Madalyn O'Hair went missing in 1995 a year before the hoax claims she filed the petition, and is presumed dead.
Possible Clue On Missing Atheist With a former employee of the missing atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair in custody, charged with weapons violations, investigators were hoping for a long-awaited breakthrough in the perplexing 1995 disappearance of the 77-year-old woman, her son, her granddaughter and $500,000 in gold coins.
O'Hair's organization, American Atheists Inc., was arrested after an eight-hour search of his apartment in Austin, Texas His lawyer told reporters that federal officials considered Waters a suspect in the possible murder of the three missing people.
www.itd.umich.edu /virusbusters/hoaxes/ohair.html   (524 words)

  
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 Atheist O'Hair may have taken a leave of absence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Despite rumors that O'Hair is ill or dead, a recent Atheist Center newsletter suggests she may simply have gone on a prolonged vacation -- in part because of stress created by a series of thefts and burglaries that left the organization in a financial crisis.
The disappearance of O'Hair, 76, her son, Jon Murray, and her granddaughter, Robin Murray O'Hair, in late August or early September launched a media search for atheism's trinity.
Tyson said O'Hair was well when he spoke to her about a month ago.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/95/11/05/ohair.html   (958 words)

  
 Politics: Murray O'Hair Mystery
Amid the maelstrom of weirdness that surrounds her disappearance, there is one immutable fact about Madalyn Murray O'Hair: She's more famous as a missing person than she ever would have been had she hung around.
Beyond that fact, much of the story about the disappearance of O'Hair, her son Jon Garth Murray, and her granddaughter Robin Murray O'Hair, dissolves into messy theories, trails gone cold and once-talkative sources who have suddenly decided they don't want to talk anymore.
O'Hair's 'disappearance' was not at all sudden, but was actually the culmination of a rather convoluted scheme carried out over a considerable period of time.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue12/pols.ohair.html   (1956 words)

  
 Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Madalyn tittered with glee at her poisoned-pen nationwide "expose" of Waters, who was still actively trying to conduct business in the community.
A quick trip to the O'Hair home only deepened the mystery: breakfast dishes were sitting on the table, Madalyn's diabetes medicine lay unused on the kitchen counter, and three dogs were left behind.
Water's ex-girlfriend testified that he was so angry when Madalyn O'Hair wrote her article that he began plotting to pull off her toes with pliers.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/misc/madalyn-murray-ohair   (2555 words)

  
 FREEDOM WRITER : In search of Mrs. O'Hair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The long search for the missing atheist Madalyn O'Hair, along with her son and granddaughter, which began in September 1995, may be nearing its unhappy conclusion.
O'Hair, a consummate publicity hound, the reason for her reluctance, she indicated that the media was biased against her and she felt that we wouldn't publish everything she said.
O'Hair "Madalyn Murray O'Hair," but when asked how she wanted to be addressed, Mrs.
www.publiceye.org /ifas/fw/9909/ohair.html   (343 words)

  
 Biography of Madalyn Murray O'Hair | Life of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Madalyn Murry O'Hair (1919-1995) was a staunch atheist whose court cases brought down rulings from the Supreme Court that prayer is not to be required in public schools.Madalyn Murray O'Hair called herself "the most hated woman in America." Although School Board of Abbington Township v.
Schempp is usually cited as the case through which the Supreme Court ruled that public schools may not require Bible reading, the second decision on that issue was a case filed in 1959 by O'Hair and her son, William J. Murray (Murray v.
Murray, as she was named then, attracted notoriety by organizing the American Atheist Center (1959), American Atheists, Inc. (1965), and the Society of Separationists (1965).
www.essayboom.com /biographies/Madalyn_Murray_OHair-32020.html   (317 words)

  
 Augusta, Georgia: features@ugusta: Atheist leader, money, kids are missing 1/3/97
O'Hair at about the same time that the 78-year-old leader, her son and her adopted daughter were reported missing.
O'Hair, who built her reputation with litigation that led to a 1962 Supreme Court ruling against prayer in public schools, has been missing from her Austin headquarters since August 1995, along with her younger son, Jon Garth Murray, 42, and granddaughter, Robin Murray O'Hair, 31, whom she adopted.
O'Hair's estranged older son and Robin's father, who publishes a conservative Christian newsletter in Stafford, Va., filed a missing-persons report with Austin police.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/010497/ohair.html   (600 words)

  
 In Truth.. From The Newswire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The 77-year-old O'Hair and her children, son Jon Garth Murray and adopted daughter Robyn Murray O'Hair -- her granddaughter by birth, were last seen in August 1995.
O'Hair, who called herself ``the most hated woman in America,'' came to fame in 1963 after the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer in public schools as a result of her lawsuit against the Baltimore School District.
So virulent was O'Hair's disdain for all things religious that she once said that when she died she did not want any ''damned Christer praying over the body or even putting his hands on it.''
www.lifegoeson.net /InTruth/ohair.htm   (558 words)

  
 O'Hair a Victim of Her Success   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
O'Hair and two family members were abducted and murdered in 1995 in the course of a robbery, apparently by an ex-employee of her American Atheists Inc.
O'Hair was best known for her 1963 Supreme Court case that ended school prayer.
O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape.
members.iquest.net /~macihms/Christian/ohair.html   (627 words)

  
 Baptist children gave only Bible found in O'Hair's home
PFLUGERVILLE (BP)--Apparently, the only Bible owned by Madalyn Murray O'Hair was sent to her in 1968 by a Sunday school class of 12-year-olds from Winnetka Heights Baptist Church in Tulsa, Okla.
O'Hair was last seen at her American Atheists office in Austin in September 1995.
The O'Hair trio was traced through cell phone calls and bank records to San Antonio, where $500,000 was withdrawn from one of American Atheists' bank accounts, The New York Times recounted Jan. 25.
www.baptiststandard.com /1999/2_3/pages/ohair.html   (471 words)

  
 wfn.org | Madalyn Murray O'Hair FCC Rumors Resurface   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Their petition, which was routinely assigned a number (#2493), was denied in 1975 on the grounds that the First Amendment required government bodies to observe a stance of neutrality toward religion.
Nonetheless the "O'Hair petition" has been assumed by some to be a genuine document with 287,000 signatures.
Something odious like the O'Hair petition copy can be received and further circulated to a larger group in a matter of minutes; the damage is exponential.
www.wfn.org /2000/03/msg00220.html   (273 words)

  
 BookRags: Madalyn Murray O'Hair Biography
Madalyn Murry O'Hair (1919-1995) was a staunch atheist whose court cases brought down rulings from the Supreme Court that prayer is not to be required in public schools.
O'Hair's younger son, Jon Garth Murray, and her granddaughter, Robin Murray O'Hair, helped her run the Center.
In August of 1995, at the age of 76, O'Hair mysteriously disappeared along with her son Jon and her adopted daughter Robin.
www.bookrags.com /biography/madalyn-murray-ohair   (454 words)

  
 Madalyn Murray O'Hair on church and state
O'Hair by remarriage) went on to found American Atheists, the largest atheist organization in the nation.
He said, "Madalyn, when you are fighting for atheism you are dividing the masses, when the masses need to be united to fight capitalism." He called me a bourgeois reactionary divisionist.
O'HAIR: Oh, one of the things I'm most proud of is that people can say, "I am an atheist," in the United States today, without being called a Communist atheist, or an atheist Communist.
www.publiceye.org /ifas/fw/8903/ohair.html   (2997 words)

  
 O'Hair may be dead, but will the phony FCC petition live on?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Through that case, which eventually was heard by the United States Supreme Court, and her leadership of the American Atheists organization, O'Hair gained notoriety as one of the most reviled and ridiculed figures in public life.
Authorities believe O'Hair and her son Jon Garth Murray and granddaughter Robin Murray O'Hair were kidnapped in 1995 as part of an extortion scheme led by a former employee of O'Hair's organization.
Three skeletons believed to belong to O'Hair and her two family members were found on a ranch in remote Real County Jan. 27.
www.baptiststandard.com /2001/2_5/print/ohair.html   (352 words)

  
 Madalyn Murray O'Hair, by her son (a christian) Savanah Rose
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR The Final Chapter On Sunday, January 28, 2001, FBI agents and Texas Rangers recovered a metal artificial hip from a 5,000 acre ranch near Camp Wood, Texas.
O'Hair were found but was not aware that other family members were also killed.
O'Hair's lifestyle for all those many years, if she had called out to Him at the end and asked for forgiveness, yes even, she would have been forgiven...Now that IS A GOD OF LOVE AND MERCY!!!!!
www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm264736.html   (5504 words)

  
 Politics: O'Hair Timeline
She sues Roths for divorce and begins calling herself Madalyn Murray, even though she never married Murray.
That same year, Madalyn flees Baltimore to escape charges that she assaulted five Baltimore policemen.
July 1998: The house at 3702 Greystone Drive that Madalyn, Jon, and Robin shared is sold for $240,000 to satisfy creditors.
www.auschron.com /issues/vol18/issue12/pols.ohair.side3.html   (859 words)

  
 The Daily Texan
Following the discovery of human remains believed to belong to Austin atheist leader Madalyn O'Hair this weekend, a U.S. district judge unsealed the chief murder suspect's plea agreement at a Monday hearing.
O'Hair murder suspect David Waters pled guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery and extortion in exchange for leading authorities to the remains of Madalyn O'Hair, her son Jon Garth Murray and granddaughter and adopted daughter Robin Murray-O'Hair.
The O'Hairs were then presumed to be kidnapped and killed, authorities said.
www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2001/01/30/StateLocal/Judge.Releases.Plea.In.Ohair.Case-698125.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com   (600 words)

  
 America's Most Hated Woman: The Life And Gruesome Death Of Madalyn Murray O'Hair - techwritingjobs.com Info and Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Perhaps O'Hair was America's most hated woman at one time, but Jane Fonda replaced her in the early 1970s, and various feminists and celebrities have since vied for the distinction.
It is amazing that there hasn't been more attention, although the reason is probably due to the length of time between their disappearance and the discovery of the bodies (as well as the criminal trials).
O'Hair stopped being an idealist, someone who truly wanted to change society and right some of the wrongs she saw in American culture, and where...
www.techwritingjobs.com /shop/asinsearch_0826416446.html   (403 words)

  
 Rumors about Madeline Murray O'Hair's petition Federal Communications Commission
O'Hair's middle name; and its only 25 words of truth merely state that her June, 1963 prayer-removal victory came 15 years before the letter was written.
Later, some deluded zealots intentionally LIED again to snowball these rumors into a false statement, saying Madalyn Murray O'Hair (the atheistic arch-antichrist for all militant "Christians" in need of someone to hate) had separately proposed that the FCC consider limiting or banning all religious programming.
Madalyn was kidnapped at age 77 in late 1995, with her son, Jon, and Robin, daughter of her other son, William (see their picture).
www.fcclighthouse.com /ohair_petition_rumors.htm   (1988 words)

  
 Flexible Reality: A Proud Member of the Reality-Based Community
A rumor has been circulating since 1975 that Madalyn Murray O’Hair, a widely known, self-proclaimed atheist, proposed that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) consider limiting or banning religious programming.
O’Hair was not a sponsor of this petition.
O’Hair started the petition and that the petition asked for an end to religious programs on radio and television.
www.bizmarts.com /rec/2004/02/endless-loop-madlyn-murray-ohair-s.html   (380 words)

  
 The Morning News - Madalyn Murray O’Hair In Hell: The Mad Minister From Circle Six, Part I, by Kevin Guilfoile
Madalyn Murray O’Hair and I were eating lunch in a trendy sidewalk café called Forese’s with Carny, my Maine Coon cat.
Madalyn’s brittle, blonde hair, damp from humidity, stuck to her head like thin seams of caulk.
Madalyn stood up, waved at a hovering hornet, peeled the glossy back from one of her stickers, and, smoothing it across the seat of her molded plastic chair, officially announced the start of her campaign.
www.themorningnews.org /archives/stories/madalyn_murray_ohair_in_hell_the_mad_minister_from_circle_six_part_i.php   (1772 words)

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