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Gruesome Impact. Cabbie Miller became a suspect when one of his passengers reported that he had confessed to the murder. After he was arrested, Miller was held incommunicado for 52 hours, denied counsel and told that one of his pubic hairs had been found in the child's vagina...
That was not the only revelation. At the 1963 hearing, the prosecution lost its star witness, Betty Baldwin, the Canton passenger who had testified that Miller blurted a confession while she was riding in his cab. Now she completely recanted her story. Then there was Miller's landlady: she...
He seems to write out of an astonishing range of information about art, politics, corruption, finance. His imagery is sharp: "They were beautiful children, completely out of control, sweet, active and savage as weasels." He is occasionally aphoristic: "Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable." His only persistent...
Chicago Criminal Court Judge Maurice Lee was getting nothing but moot replies in Spanish from two Puerto Rican complainants in a disorderly-conduct case. Was there an interpreter in the house? Up stepped Danny Escobedo, 29 (TIME Cover, April 29), who has been kindly disposed toward the law ever since...
Bailey laid his plans carefully. DeSalvo was not charged with murder: there had never been enough admissible evidence to support such an indictment. What he was charged with were armed robbery and sex crimes arising from assaults on four women, all of whom lived to testify against him. Before the...