Tuesday 20 November 2012

Personality disorders

'Ice cream murder' trial begins in Vienna 

The trial has begun in Vienna of a Spanish-Mexican woman accused of murdering both her former husband and her lover, and burying them in concrete in the cellar of her ice cream shop.
Estibaliz Carranza is accused of shooting her former husband in the head in 2008, and killing her lover in his sleep in 2010. It is alleged that she then dismembered the bodies before burying them in the shop's basement.
Carranza has pleaded guilty to the charges.
(Adapted from BBC News)
Watch the video about this trial: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20404548



Estíbaliz Carranza is now in a unit for the 'mentally abnormal'. Can a personality disorder make you behave in a wicked way?
Listen to this radio programme to find out what the experts say: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2010_10_mon.shtml
Listen to the programme again, this time with the transcript and find the fourteen mistakes that the transcriber made. Spotting them is not enough: you have to correct them too!
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THai1RUEJSTV9HT28

Read these articles about Emma Charlton:
  2010: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255438/Conwoman-cheated-mother-gran-fiance-150-000-jailed.html
  2012: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2012/08/17/maneating-fraudster-emma-charlton-jailed-again-72703-31642817/


 

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