Word: arrester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early effects is the way Chicago police have handled Richard Speck, accused killer of eight nurses, in what the coroner called "the crime of the century." The police were so fearful of prejudicing their case that they did not even question Speck during the first three weeks after his arrest. Ironically, they seem also to have ignored another historic Supreme Court decision-the recent reversal of Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction on grounds of "virulent" pretrial publicity. While recoiling from Speck himself, the Chicago police have talked about him enough so that his lawyers may well plead "trial...
After years of jailing Bowery drunks until they sobered up, New York City police recently started letting the derelicts sleep it off in doorways and vacant lots. Reason: a new Legal Aid Society campaign to affirm that public intoxication alone is no cause for arrest without actual disorderly conduct. Were the bums pleased with this victory for humane treatment? Indeed not: they are clamoring for the good old days. "They want to get taken in," reported the Bowery Mission's Rev. Herbert Maynard last week. "They want to get cleaned up and get some food. If they...
...after the cruelly mutilated bodies were discovered in a South Side Chicago apartment. Only 67 hours after the crime, Richard Benjamin Speck, 24, was detained as the prime suspect in the mass murder of eight young nurses on July 14. In the brief interlude between the slayings and the arrest, Speck played out a drama almost as incredible as the killings of which he is accused...
Speck's first arrest, at 13, was for trespassing; in all, he was picked up 36 times as a juvenile for offenses ranging from drunkenness to burglary. In 1962, Speck married a pretty, 15-year-old brunette named Shirley Annette Malone (now remarried), and they had a daughter who was, according to one of Speck's sisters in Dallas, his "real love." In the bloody Chicago flophouse cubicle where detectives retrieved Speck's wallet, they found a color picture of a pert little girl, grinning up at the camera from the front steps of her house...
Thomas E. Crooks, director of the Summer School, said that the arrest was "news to me." This was not a care of disciplinary action, Crooks said, she simply withdrew the last day possible