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  1. Jul 9, 2020 · When Mickey fell asleep, drunk, that night, Hughes doused his bed in gasoline, lit it on fire, packed her four children into her car, and drove away as flames engulfed the house.

  2. Mar 21, 2019 · Soon, Francine had four children and a husband who spent much of their money on alcohol. In 1971, she spoke with a local social worker and divorced Mickey. But he ignored the divorce decree,...

  3. At age 16, Francine left high school to marry James "Mickey" Hughes. They had four children together: Christie, James “Jimmy” Berlin Jr, Nicole and Dana. In the movie about Hughes' story The Burning Bed there are only the first 3 children.

  4. Mar 31, 2017 · She took the three of her four children who were home, drove to the Ingham County Jail in Mason, and reported what she had done. By the time firefighters reached the house, it was engulfed in...

  5. Mar 30, 2017 · Francine had four children with Mickey: Christy, James, Dana and Nicole. The oldest two testified that Mickey beat Francine, would swear at her, would rip the phone out of the wall...

  6. Jul 9, 2020 · When Francine Hughes murdered her husband after enduring years of abuse, a debate about domestic violence was ignited, making her story both a high point and an aberration in how such cases...

  7. Jul 9, 2020 · Francine Hughes did not stab her husband or kill her husband while he was in the process of abusing her. He was sound asleep in a drunken stupor. And we decided at that time to charge her with first-degree murder.

  8. Mar 31, 2017 · Forty years ago Thursday, Francine Hughes of Dansville entered the Ingham County Jail and confessed to setting her house on fire with her sleeping ex-husband inside.

  9. Apr 3, 2017 · That’s how Barbara Niess-May, executive director of SafeHouse Center in Ann Arbor, described the case of Francine Hughes of Dansville, Michigan. On March 9, 1977, Hughes ended 13 years of abuse from her husband James. She waited until he was asleep, poured gasoline around his bed and set it on fire. He died as a result.

  10. Sep 16, 2014 · Before Francine Hughes doused her sleeping husband's bed in gasoline and lit it up, she tried to get help. She turned to her mother and was told, "If you make a hard bed you have to lie in it."

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