Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fury (and arguing about it does nothing to keep it from happening again), we continue to debate in the hopes of finding a cause, and thus, a prevention for the future. The people I'm close to, as well as myself, can all look at our hearts would ever commit such terrible crimes. But there was a point when the two boys' peers could have said the same thing about them...
Amidst the fear and pain that suddenly washed over me, I also felt unbearably frustrated. What could I have done, had I been in that school on that day? What could I do if (God forbid) someone did try to commit a similar or worse crime in my sister's algebra class, my brother's football practice, my mother's cafeteria duty hours...
...fourth rendition of the Sesame Street jam, I am beginning to appreciate the psychological factors that drive people to commit violent crimes--the fatigue, the desperation. I eye Sunkist boy's kneecaps. I envision what it would look like to shatter them with a crow bar into many tiny pieces. I suspect that such an act will harm my chances of successfully becoming a VJ, but at this point I don't give a damn...
...taken to a hospital psychiatric ward for 10 days of evaluation. During that time, the staff learned that he had his father's M-1 rifle in his apartment and asked a judge to commit him. But Williamson convinced the judge that he would be fine if he could return to classes. He continued, though, to be haunted by voices, and stalked the campus with a video camera, trying to prove that people were manipulating him with psychic messages. "It occurred to me that I was losing my mind, but it was only a fleeting thought," Williamson recalls. "I thought...
...suspects on the theory that by proving everyone else innocent, he can close down paths the defense lawyers for JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY might travel. Says a source within the investigation: "Anytime the Ramseys name a suspect or a piece of evidence that they think could prove someone else committed this crime, we have to check it out. If we can eliminate it, then that helps prove that an intruder didn't commit this crime." Hunter's wide-net investigation strategy, however, may have its flaws. One investigation source told TIME, "The thing in this case shouldn't be closing...