Explore More Melanie Cox’s mammoth sore had gotten worse – much worse.
It started as a hot, puffy spot between her thumb and index finger, where she’d been injecting heroin for nearly two decades. But soon, the lesion bloated into a grotesque, brownish-green slug.
It wasn’t the heroin that had rotted Cox’s flesh away. It was the animal sedative known as “tranq,” which has infected every facet of the drug game and left healthcare workers bewildered and addicts reeling from its shocking side effects. Read More...
She performed the title song "The Good Times Are Comin'" during the opening sequence of the 1970 film Monte Walsh, starring Lee Marvin and Jack Palance. In 1972, she made three appearances on the variety series The Julie Andrews Hour. Her final appearance on the show was the Christmas installment that aired on Wednesday, December 20, 1972. In December 1978, four years after Elliot's death, the episode was rebroadcast on syndicated stations as a Christmas special called Merry Christmas With Love, Julie. Read More...
Actress Tasha Smith (“Empire,” “Jumping the Broom”) is donning her director’s cap for “When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story.”
The TV One movie recounts how, in 2002, 19-year-old stripper Falicia Blakely — caught in a web of drugs, sex and violence — killed three men in two days along with accomplice Ameshia Ervin. (Her name is changed to Pumpkin in the movie; she’s played by Tiffany Black.]
Blakely, 33, is now serving life without parole in a Georgia prison — but Smith says “When Love Kills” isn’t just another true-crime story. Read More...