Talk:Eva Coo

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• ... that police forced Eva Coo and her accomplice to reenact the killing at the crime scene using the exhumed body of the victim?

• Source: Gado, Mark (2008). Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press. Crime, media, and popular culture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-275-99361-0.

• ALT1: ... that Eva Coo's lawyer was paid $3,000 to trick her into speaking with a journalist while she was on death row at Sing Sing? Source: Gado, Mark (2008). Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press. Crime, media, and popular culture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-275-99361-0.
• ALT2: ... that at the murder trial of Eva Coo, street vendors sold wooden mallets similar to the one she was alleged to have used in the killing? Source: Gado, Mark (2008). Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press. Crime, media, and popular culture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-275-99361-0.
• ALT3: ... that Eva Coo's final words to the prison matrons at her execution were "Goodbye, darlings"? Source: Shipman, Marlin (2002). "The Penalty Is Death": U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's Executions. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-8262-1386-0.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Fortune
• Comment: I like the first hook best and I think it would be good for Halloween.

Converted from a redirect by Voorts (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

voorts (talk/contributions) 23:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]

• @Voorts: new enough, long enough, properly cited, no copyvio, QPQ done. I agree with putting ALT0 in the Halloween set. Would prefer the gutting of "the" at the beginning of the beginning of the hook. Roast (talk) 14:30, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Guerreroast: Removed the "the". Thanks. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:28, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]