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Barred Wives (1993)

play Human suffering or death
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Clip description

On home video, we see Ann and Jim exchange vows as they wed in prison in 1991. Jim expresses his love for his wife. Interviewed two years later, Jim describes how, upon release from prison, he killed her with a hammer.

Curator’s notes

In the film, we hear that when he killed Ann, Jim had only been out of prison a few days, and had started drinking immediately on release.