charles had been entertaining and fun , and he seemed to take pains never to refer to their past differences . hanging over the edge of the opened box , which is itself hanging over the edge of my dresser top . he had beaten the woman pretty badly , according to the article , and then had stayed at her house the entire weekend , threatening to hurt her two year old daughter if she tried to escape . as her body fell away , she was flung across the sky and plunged down into the earth . 