When El Viejo del Costal (Michael Galvan) appeared onstage during a recent performance, draped in rough burlap, his movements liquid and slithering, a kid in the audience whimpered.
—
Laura Zornosa,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Oct. 2026
Over the course of two hours, witnesses watched and listened as Christa Pike cried, whimpered and snored through Tennessee’s attempt to execute her.
Five players and the referee tried to catch it, Steph recalled, while its owner sobbed on the sidelines.
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Vanda Mayer,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2026
Minutes before he was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Caleb Flynn sobbed as his in-laws read letters written by his two daughters, asking him heartbreaking questions about their mother’s death.
By Monday, the girl who cried all those tears on her guitar will be both the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall, and youngest-member of the Nashville edition.
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Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2026
Several jurors cried after viewing autopsy photos of Hedgepeth, according to local media accounts.
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