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Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
31 mar 2017 · Thirteen years of verbal and physical abuse from her hard-drinking, fitfully employed husband, James Hughes, known as Mickey, had led to a horrendous fight at their home in Dansville, Mich.
21 mar 2019 · Francine Hughes stood outside her Michigan home, watching it burn. Inside was her abusive husband, Mickey. Earlier that night, he had beaten and raped her for the last time.
30 mar 2017 · On March 22, Francine Wilson — she had remarried and taken the last name of her second husband Robert Wilson — died after a bout with pneumonia in Leighton, Alabama. She was 69.
9 lip 2020 · For thirteen years, Francine Hughes’s husband, James (Mickey) Hughes, beat her routinely. Something as small as the inflection of a word would set him off: he’d pin her down in a chair...
31 mar 2017 · Francine Hughes, the Dansville woman who killed her abusive ex-husband 40 years ago in what came to be known as the “Burning Bed” case, has passed away.
3 kwi 2017 · 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. Hughes was later charged with first-degree murder, but was found not guilty because of temporary insanity. Francine Hughes Wilson passed away last week at the age of 69.
