Jaffa Gate is the only one of the Old City gates positioned at a right angle to the wall.This could have been done as a defensive measure to slow down oncoming attackers, or to orient it in the direction of Jaffa Road, from which pilgrims arrived at the end of their journey from the port of Jaffa.oth the Jaffa Gate and Jaffa Road are named after the port of Jaffa, from which the Prophet Jonah embarked on his sea journey and pilgrims debarked on their trip to the Holy City.
Modesto man pleads not guilty to the murders of Laci Peterson and the couple's unborn child. MODESTO â Scott Peterson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he murdered his pregnant wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner, a crime police and prosecutors say took place in the couple's Modesto home in the days just before Christmas.
He instead sat beside Mary until he knew she had died, then washed his hands and face, got dressed and called a neighbor to say he'd killed his wife.  'I just shot Mary â¦ and she is not in pain anymore,'  neighbor Grace Honea says Swink told her on the phone, according to her interview with police. First-degree murder charge Mary Swink's death has been painted by her husband as a sort of mercy killing, a sentiment echoed by many of the couple's friends in San Manuel, a former mining community 45 miles northeast of Tucson.