Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that day, George Whitmore, 19, a myopic, pock-marked Negro drifter with an IQ of 60, walked up to a Brooklyn cop in an area where a nurse had barely managed to frighten off a rapist the night before. "What was all the shooting about last night?" asked Whitmore carelessly. For days afterward, he was answering, not asking questions...
...Shakeing All Over." Whitmore was hustled to the station house and grilled for 26 hours. Next day, the city's top police brass triumphantly displayed the youth before TV news cameras as the confessed perpetrator of three crimes -the attempted rape, the unsolved killing of a Brooklyn charwoman, and the Wylie-Hoffert murders. The nurse, police said, had identified Whitmore. As to the double murder, police said that Whitmore diagramed the career girls' apartment for them and was even carrying a snapshot of Janice Wylie that he had snatched from her dresser. To be sure, Whitmore recanted...
...first on the most serious charge. With only the now-suspect confession to go on, the prosecutors took a different tack. In the murder trials, if Whitmore took the stand to repudiate his confession, prior convictions would be admissible evidence to impeach his testimony. By arrangement between the Brooklyn and Manhattan D.A.s, Whitmore was thus tried first in Brooklyn, where the nurse's identification would help nail him for attempted rape; the Brooklyn and Manhattan murder trials were scheduled to follow in ascending dramatic order...
Revealing Statement. On the arrest of Robles, D.A. Hogan finally issued a 1,400-word statement clearing Whitmore of the Wylie-Hoffert murders, though not of the Brooklyn murder, which is not in Hogan's jurisdiction. One of Hogan's assistants declared: "I am positive that the police prepared the confession for Whitmore just as his lawyers charged." And he added: "If this had not been a celebrated case, if this case hadn't got the tremendous publicity, if this was what we so-called professionals call a run-of-the-mill murder, Whitmore might well have...
...anti-Wagner coalition is composed of city and county Democratic bosses whom Wagner antagonized in 1961 by his celebrated and rather sudden stance of fighting for reform and against boss rule. These war lords include Charles Buckley of The Bronx, Peter Crotty of Buffalo and Stanley Steingut of Brooklyn. Last fall this coalition forced Wagner to accept Bobby Kennedy's candidacy for the Senate...