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After that night of terror, Mrs. Walker, a magazine editor, began carrying a .45-cal. pistol. She and her husband put new locks on their windows and set up lights around the yard. When alone, she slept with all the lights in the apartment turned on. A few weeks after the attack, she returned from a brief vacation to find a makeshift ladder at one of their apartment windows and the screens ripped. But the prowler, whom Mrs. Walker assumes was the rapist bent on another attack, was heard by a friend of the Walkers' and fled as police arrived...
...fired from her job at Bob's Big Boy Restaurant in West Los Angeles because she had made a false injury claim. A few months later, at 2:30 a.m., two of her friends arrived at the café with a sawed-off shotgun, a standard shotgun and a .32-cal. pistol. After forcing nine employees and two customers into a meat freezer and ordering them to kneel facing the wall, the gunmen began shooting. Three of the victims were killed; five were wounded. Franklin Freeman Jr., 22, Ricky Sanders, 25, and Carletha Stewart, 19, the fired waitress, all black, have...
...Tryforos, 38, was the motivating factor for murder. Argued Bolen: "There was dual intent, to take her own life, but also an intent to do something else . . . to punish Herman Tarnower . . . to kill him and keep him from Lynne Tryforos." Bolen ridiculed the notion that Harris fired her .32-cal. revolver by accident. He urged the jury to examine the gun while deliberating. Said he: "Try pulling the trigger. It has 14 pounds of pull. Just see how difficult it would be to pull, double action, four times by accident." Bolen, who was thought by his superiors...
...eight-woman, four-man jury-the class-conscious Harris would probably never admit they were her peers-began their deliberations by requesting all 400 pieces of evidence. As Lisa Zumar, mother of two, told the New York Daily News: "We wanted it all-the bloodstained pajamas, the .32-cal. gun, the bloodied bed sheets, the schematics showing the trajectory of the bullets, and the letters-including of course the crucial Scarsdale Letter." That frenzied, ten-page epistle, the emotional centerpiece of the trial, had been sent by Harris to Tarnower the morning of his death. "I have to do something...
...match was "a good chance for us to have some warm-up competition" before leaving for a nine-day spring-break road trip to California, Roberts said. The Crimson will face Colorado, Washington. Michigan State, San Diego, Cal Polytech and Cal Santa Clara...