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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even supporters admit Cruz went looking for trouble--and he found it. After the Nicarico slaying, police searched for leads in Aurora, the working-class town where Cruz lived. Perhaps prodded by a $10,000 reward, Cruz began telling wild stories. The police took him on as an informant, settling him in a witness-protection housing complex, while he told what one of his lawyers concedes were lies. "It was a big game," says Northwestern University law professor Lawrence Marshall, who represented Cruz on appeal. "Nobody's defending Rolando for playing that game, but it doesn't deserve a death...
That's where it was headed. Investigators began to suspect that the talkative Cruz was involved in the killing, but they had no solid evidence linking him to it. Then the so-called vision statement materialized. Detectives say Cruz told them he had a vision of Nicarico's killing, including details only the killer could know. The statement was the most damning piece of evidence against Cruz when he was tried and convicted of the crime. Still, it was always a little fishy. Despite its importance, the detectives hadn't tape-recorded it or even taken notes about...
...Pinta and the Santa Maria--and the Spirit of St. Louis, for that matter. It is a high-tech combination of hot air and gas, equipped not only with simple necessities like a bunk, toilet and desks but also with a fax machine and satellite telephones. The journey began on March 1, Piccard's birthday, in the snowcapped mountains of Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland. Piccard and Jones cruised toward Italy at an altitude of 21,000 ft., crossed over the Mediterranean at night and enjoyed a meal of emu. On a satellite phone, Jones chatted with his wife, who spent...
...began to cry after their first game because they are just so great," Schutt says. "Harvard women's hockey is finally getting credit for what it has been doing all along. It makes me smile...
...Schutt stood up with guitar in hand, introduced herself, then her music. When she began Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing", Lowell erupted--everyone was cheering and dancing---including West, who was jamming along to Schutt's beat...