On October 4th, 2025, by majority voice vote, 23 good and true “English” jurors found Richard Plantagenet guilty of six most heinous acts of murder: those of the Lords Hastings, Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan, and, most horribly, of his two minor nephews, King Edward V, aged 12, and Richard, Duke of York, aged 9. Many thanks to our diligent paparazzi Dennis Williams who recorded the spectacle.
L to R: Janaki Stoeckley (Dowager Queen Elizabeth), Josh Freeman (Richard), Loretta Pfaff-Carano (Stanley), Gordon L. Gidlund (Understudy and Playwright), Keira Casey (Tyrrell), Billy Bob Shakespeare, Bryan H. Wildenthal (Judge), Genevieve Tai (Ratcliffe), Bill Glaser (Clerk), and Tom Haine (Prosecutor). Not pictured: Jena Joyce (Defense counsel).
“You must not be influenced by any re-enactments of the events at the heart of this case that you may have seen performed by actors on the common stage.”
“‘Twas shamefully bereft of justice or of any decency. Upon Richard’s orders alone were the three fine men let blood at Pomfret Castle.”
“By Saint Anne, to death the wretched babes are gone!”
“Well, call me hyper-technical, but you come in here and claim to have willingly assisted in the murder of two children and yet still walk around free as a bird.”
“Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts, bloody Richard’s head, all indirectly, gave direction.”
“Yonder squats the dog!”
“They got what process they were due, the traitors!”
“What, think you we are Turks or infidels? Or that we would, against the form of law, proceed thus rashly to the villain’s death.”
“Pray forgive me, the sweet semblance of their innocent faces is enough to unman me.”
“Sir, are you now seriously expecting this jury to believe that it was you and your men who spread the news that the princes had been murdered?”
