Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in a state that has legalized sin, Conforte, 58, falls into a special category. He set up shop in the 1950s, building the Mustang Ranch outside Reno into Nevada's biggest bordello. Over the years, Conforte has been linked to political payoffs, arson and murder. In the 1960s he served time for attempted extortion and tax evasion. In 1980 he faced five years in federal prison for a conviction in another tax case. He was also up on a state charge of bribery, and the local D.A. was talking about seeking a life sentence for Conforte...
...best mayors are those who take advantage of neighborhood activism, he said, citing efforts like the South End community crime watch and the Fenway's arson prevention--group...
Lucas fingered Toole, currently serving a 20-year sentence in Raiford, Fla., for arson, as his most frequent accomplice. During subsequent interviews with police, Toole, Lucas' occasional lover, claimed more than 50 murders of his own, mostly of young men. Like Lucas, Toole was chillingly matter of fact in the telling. "It's as though he were discussing the weather," reported one detective...
...quickly routed her husband. Surgeon Leonard Kemler, and their two children to safety and summoned the fire department. Police found two liter-size plastic soda bottles propped against the two-story home; they had been filled with a flammable liquid, possibly gasoline. "It definitely was a case of arson," said Police Chief Francis Reynolds...
...incident was the fourth arson attack against Jews in West Hartford (pop. 61,000), an affluent suburb of Connecticut's capital, in less than six weeks. The first fire badly charred the wooden interior of the Young Israel of West Hartford Synagogue. Four days later, a second blaze gutted Emanuel Synagogue, a few blocks from the site of the first arson. The next day, flames raced through the home of Rabbi Solomon Krupka, spiritual leader of Young Israel. He and his family were away; six guests staying there managed to escape unharmed...