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Anne Scripps (November 18, 1946 – January 6, 1994) was an American heiress to the E. W. Scripps Company and the great-great granddaughter of James E. Scripps, founder of The Detroit News. In 1993, she was bludgeoned by her estranged second husband, Scott Douglas, as she slept in her Westchester County, New York, home.
Family and marriages
Anne Frazier Scripps (formerly Morrell) was born on November 18, 1946, to Captain James E. Scripps III, a former merchant mariner, and Anne Scripps (née Gibbs). She has a brother, James IV, and a sister, Mary. In 1969, when Scripps was 23 years of age, she married Anthony Morrell, a Rye stockbroker. The wedding was held in the St. Regis Hotel. The marriage resulted in two daughters, Alexandra and Anne. Scripps's marriage to Morrell ended in divorce, but she loved and doted on her daughters. At a party in 1988, Scripps met Scott Douglas, an out-of-work and self-employed house painter. She hired him to paint her house, which led the two to marry that October. They had a daughter Victoria, nicknamed Tori. Douglas did not have a good relationship with Alexandra, who thought of him as not bright or articulate enough for her mother, and she quickly moved out of the house.
Domestic violence and death
Scripps's daughters noticed that Douglas drank heavily and became erratically violent towards their mother, openly hitting her in public on at least one occasion. Both daughters advised their mother to file for divorce and get an order of eviction to have him removed from the home. In 1991, Scripps took Tori and moved in with Alexandra. She had changed her will and moved back in for fear that Douglas would take Tori and flee. During the holidays, she discovered Douglas had removed Tori's birth certificate and other personal records from the house. Scripps and her two eldest daughters began documenting and keeping records of the assaults, and on December 6, 1993, went to obtain an eviction notice; however, the judge refused to order his eviction. Scripps told a friend that she began sleeping with a hammer under her bed because Douglas's new method of abuse was to wake her up in the middle of the night to scare and berate her.
On December 31, 1993, Douglas bludgeoned Scripps with a hammer while she slept. Her daughter Anne had called the police on January 1, 1994, at 3:30 a.m., because she was unable to get into contact with her mother or Douglas. The police arrived and knocked down the locked door, and found Scripps unconscious in bed, her sheets soaked in blood, her terrier puppy next to her trying to comfort her. Across the hall Tori, then 3 years old, had witnessed the crime that left her mother's skull irreparably broken. Tori Douglas was reported as saying, "Daddy gave Mommy boo-boos. Daddy gave Mommy many boo-boos. Why is Mommy wearing warpaint?" Immediately the police began searching for Scott Douglas. In a matter of hours, Douglas's 1982 BMW was found on the Tappan Zee Bridge with the bloody hammer inside. The authorities dragged the Hudson River for him but operated under the assumption he was still alive. As Scripps lay in the hospital, her first husband, Anthony Morrell, who was in the terminal stages of cirrhosis of the liver and had been hospitalized near Philadelphia, left his hospital bed to be at her side. A week after the attack—two days after the authorities stopped dragging the Hudson for Douglas's body—on January 6, 1994, Scripps, at age 47, was taken off life support and died without regaining consciousness. After her death, she was able to give her liver, which was transplanted into her ex-husband, Anthony Morrell, saving his life. "Her daughters acted on what they knew would be their mother's wishes," said family attorney, "Anne left this world the way she lived in it—loving and giving."
Resolution
In the days after Scripps's death, her family lashed out at the authorities who allowed Scott Douglas to remain in the home. Scripps's mother told the press, "This could have been prevented. My daughter would be alive today if that judge hadn't let him stay here. I think it's criminal."
The family alleged that the New Rochelle Family Court Judge Ingrid Braslow refused to grant an order barring Douglas from the house despite the assertions that he beat Anne and tried to shove her from the car. However, court documents show that these allegations relate to the 1991 case that was not before Braslow. The transcript of the December 6 hearing shows Braslow was not asked to remove Douglas from the home. The Scripps family filed an $11 million suit against the county which was later dismissed.
Three months after Anne Scripps's death, there was a break in the case when a railroad employee found the corpse of a man in jeans washed ashore in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Dental records identified the corpse as Scott Stuart Douglas. The Scripps family met the news with relief. "It was a surprise, but the nightmare is over," stated Anne Morrell. "We don't have to worry anymore about him coming after us or Tori," said Alexandra Morrell.
Authorities re-examined the system that failed Anne Scripps resulting in changes in Westchester County's domestic violence procedures. Scripps's ex-husband Anthony Morrell died in 2005.
Family aftermath
On September 25, 2009, The Huffington Post reported that Anne's daughter Anne had jumped to her death from the Tappan Zee Bridge. Authorities found a note and believed Anne got out of her car and jumped off the bridge the evening of September 24. Three days later, her body was found in the Hudson. The contents of the suicide note were released by an interview on ABC's 20/20 in 2010. Family friends stated that Anne never got over her mother's murder and she had been hospitalized several times for major depression. At the time of her death she had a son named Michael.
In 2011, Tori, who had been raised in Vermont after being adopted by her mother's sister, Mary Scripps Carmody, and her husband, Robert, was arrested in Burlington, Vermont, for possession of heroin. She was subsequently convicted of drug-related crimes and served time in prison. In 2018, Tori was arrested for possession of stolen property after she pawned the heirloom jewelry of her adoptive mother and stole her car. On March 1, 2023, Scripps-Carmody was arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, on charges of second degree trespass.
References
= Sources
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Gribben, Mark (2008). "Abused Heiress - Anne Scripps Douglas". TruTV. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
Berger, Joseph (12 May 1994). "After Scripps Slaying, Families Clash Over Custody of Child, 3". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 7 June 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
External links
Anne Scripps at Find a Grave
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Anne Scripps (November 18, 1946 – January 6, 1994) was an American heiress to the E. W. Scripps Company and the great-great granddaughter of James E. Scripps, founder of The Detroit News. In 1993, she was bludgeoned by her estranged second husband, Scott Douglas, as she slept in her Westchester County , New York , home.
The Scripps Inheritance - New York Magazine
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Heiress’ daughter killed herself same way father did - New York Post
Sep 28, 2009 · The mother, Anne Scripps Douglas, and the daughter, Anne Morell Petrillo, were victims of the same crime, said Jeanine Pirro, who handled the case in 1994 as the Westchester County district...
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Sep 27, 2009 · The daughter of slain newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas, who New York police said plunged to her death from the Tappan Zee Bridge on Thursday, was struggling with financial woes, alcohol...
Heiress’ suicide echoes her family’s earlier tragedy
Oct 4, 2009 · The mother, Anne Scripps Douglas, and the daughter, Anne Morell Petrillo, were victims of the same crime, said Jeanine Pirro, who handled the case in 1994 as the Westchester County district...
A daughter reflects on 'Our Mother's Murder' - SouthCoastToday.com
Jul 16, 1997 · Roxanne Hart, center, portrays publishing heiress Anne Scripps, murdered by her husband, in the TV film, "Our Mother's Murder," airing at 9 tonight on the USA network.
Heiress Dies After Beating and Spouse Is a Suspect
Jan 7, 1994 · The woman, Anne Scripps Douglas, 47, had an order of protection against her husband, Scott, the police said, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest in the attack. But the police do not...
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Newspaper Heiress in Tappan Zee Suicide - ABC News
Aug 13, 2010 · Their mother, Anne, an heiress to the Scripps newspaper fortune, was just a regular mom. "She didn't think of herself as having a lot of money," Annie said back in 1994.
Heiress' suicide mirrors that of stepfather - NBC News
Sep 28, 2009 · The mother, Anne Scripps Douglas, and the daughter, Anne Morell Petrillo, were victims of the same crime, said Jeanine Pirro, who handled the case in 1994 as the Westchester County district...
