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Article: A hidden life.(The Last Word)(Marzena Ladiejewska's death)
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- Commonweal
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- October 26, 2007
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On Sunday, February 25, 2007, Marzena Ladiejewska and her mother Urszula Winiarski went to their former home in Cheshire, Connecticut. The house was up for sale, and Marzena and Urszula arrived to prepare it for an open house later that day.
Urszula's former husband, Tadeusz, had been living there, but the court barred him from the premises when his ex-wife was present. Urszula divorced Tadeusz in July 2006, after enduring more than a decade of abuse at his hands. Selling the house was part of the divorce settlement. Proceeds from the sale would help support their two teenage sons who had been living with their mother. That Sunday, the boys also came along to ...