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...Parkhurst's house and found nobody home. He returned to his own home and set it afire with diesel fuel he had purchased that day. Next Drega drove across the Connecticut River into Vermont, where he shot at a New Hampshire fish-and-game officer, Wayne Saunders. Fortunately, the bullet hit Saunders' badge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TIME BOMB EXPLODES | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...isolated and wooded that the officers could not radio for help right away. Before backup could arrive, Drega shot a Border Patrol agent and a Vermont state trooper. Finally, at about 6:50, during a fire fight with more than 20 police officers, Drega was killed by a police bullet through his mouth. Two days later, police discovered an arsenal of 86 pipe bombs, half a dozen rifles, and explosives and projectile casings for a grenade launcher in the ashes of his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TIME BOMB EXPLODES | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...Vickie Bunnell's law office, where he shot her in the back. He also shot and killed News and Sentinel Editor Dennis Joos. Drega continued on his rampage in the stolen cruiser, wounding four police officers and a Fish and Game officer in nearby Vermont before taking a fatal bullet himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 67-year-old Gunman in N.H. Killing Spree | 8/20/1997 | See Source »

...fellowships, not to mention a circle of devoted readers. But the big commercial blockbuster that all writers, no matter how pure and literary, dream about has so far eluded him. Already Dead (HarperCollins; 435 pages; $25) looks very much like Johnson's bid to hit the charts, with a bullet. Subtitled A California Gothic, a phrase that some may find redundant, this new novel offers just about everything that thriller buyers look for: drugs, booze, sex, murderous violence, a soupcon of the supernatural and a large cast of enterprising psychopaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CALIFORNIA BAD DREAMING | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...found on May 9 in rural Pennsville, N.J., near the body of William Reese, 45, a cemetery caretaker. Police found him shot in the head, again with a Golden Saber .40-cal. bullet. Reese's red 1995 Chevrolet pickup was gone. The FBI believes Cunanan spent a few days in New York City's Greenwich Village, then headed south on the New Jersey Turnpike. Along the way Cunanan replaced the truck's plates with South Carolina license plates that he apparently stole from a K Mart parking lot off I-95 in Florence, S.C. Law-enforcement officials soon began picking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAGGED FOR MURDER | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

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