Talk:Boundary Channel

Irrelevant info? Cut from main page and pasted here
A second throat-slashing murder and rape occurred on Hains Point (almost directly east of Boundary Channel on the D.C. side of the Potomac River) on October 5. This victim was 18-year-old Dorothy Berrum. Investigators quickly found eyewitnesses and a chain of evidence which led them to United States Marine Corps Private Earl McFarland. McFarland was indicted on December 11, 1944, and a jury convicted him of murder after an hour's deliberation on February 1, 1945. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair. On April 3, McFarland and a companion escaped from the D.C. Jail. Two guards were playing cards with them, and the men overpowered them and walked out of the unlocked cell block. An eight-day manhunt covered the entire East Coast before McFarland was recaptured in Knoxville, Tennessee, (his home town) on April 11. His escape led to scathing indictments about the way the D.C. Jail was staffed and managed. President Harry S. Truman declined to give McFarland clemency on July 3, 1946, and the Supreme Court of the United States denied his appeal on July 18. He was executed on July 19.

Opera hat (talk) 18:52, 14 February 2021 (UTC) (text originally posted by User:Tim1965)


 * It seems relevant when two gruesome murders occur at the site, and this one results in a U.S. Supreme Court case. That's my rationale for including it. To my mind, it's akin to saying "Marion Barry was arrested in Room 711 at the Vista Hotel" in an article about that hotel, or in saying "The Donner Party got trapped and committed cannibalism in the Tahoe National Forest." The history of places is as important as the thing itself. If the idea is that this particular event is provided in too much detail, then be bold. - Tim1965 (talk) 20:38, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * But this is the article about the Boundary Channel, and the second gruesome murder didn't occur at the site; it took place in East Potomac Park on the other side of the river. To my mind, it's akin to saying "John Lennon was shot outside the Dakota" in the article about the Sherry-Netherland. The info about McFarland is all good stuff, but it doesn't belong here. I suggest you add it to the article on East Potomac Park. Opera hat (talk) 15:08, 16 February 2021 (UTC)