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...friends and relatives of 13-year-old suspect Mitchell Johnson, and two starkly different pictures have emerged. One is of a boy who sang in the school choir, who remained unaffected by his parents' divorce, and whose most violent hobby was to trim hamburgers in his grandfather's butcher shop...
...barricaded the couple inside their house and threatened that they would kill themselves. Three hours later, after the odor of natural gas filled the street, police, fearing an explosion, rushed the front door. They reached the 48-year-old author safely, but Bob, 51, killed himself by grabbing a butcher knife and plunging it into his throat...
...third child of Sicilian immigrants, Bono never graduated from high school nor did he ever receive formal musical training. But, in the late '50s, he began hawking his songs to Sunset Boulevard record labels between making stops as a butcher's delivery boy. His big break came when he landed a job as an assistant to superstar record producer Phil Spector. It was during his tenure with Spector that Bono learned to hone his craft as a writer and arranger. In 1964 the Searchers recorded what is considered one of his best songs, Needles and Pins. During that period...
Then one night when he was house sitting in Westwood, he heard a noise in the kitchen and noticed an open window he could have sworn had been closed. Next thing you know, he's creeping around with a butcher knife in one hand and a cell phone in the other, his friend across town posing Freddy and Jason trivia questions and gleefully whispering "Kill, kill, kill...
...better to get a feel for the Las Vegas style than in Las Vegas? So hordes of foreign gambling impresarios have trekked there to soak up the atmosphere and hire those creating it. "We're just so much bigger, and we really know what we're doing," says Len Butcher, managing editor of the trade journal Gaming Today. "The rest of the world is taking their first baby steps...