Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Called by her keeper, police found Sylvia's body with arms crossed over her breast. Even to hardened cops, the sight was stomach wrenching. Virtually no part of the girl's corpse was unmarked. Her fingernails had been broken upward; there were massive bruises on her temples; much...
However it may complicate the solution of some crimes, many experts see Escobedo as a spur to better police training, more computerized law-enforcement procedures, and faster development of scientific crime detection. Moreover, no matter how far the Supreme Court goes, a large number of suspects will always be "gatemouths...
Absolute Privacy. The day is just about gone when police used rubber hoses, explained a defendant's suspicious bruises by claiming that "he fell downstairs," or (in New Orleans) made hydrophobic Negroes talk by suspending them over a lake canal at night. Today, the goal is "rapport" with the...
Dominate the Subject. Can he? In Minneapolis in 1962, John F. Biron, 18, admitted mugging an old woman, who later died. Accidentally, his lawyer discovered a police tape that showed how Biron had endured hours of relentless grilling by two hypnotic detectives. ("You're the fella's gonna...
Handcuffed Client. Grace's husband was shot in the back as he arrived at his slum home on Chicago's West Side one cold January night in 1960. It was a typically clueless crime: no gun was found; there were no witnesses. But 80% of all murders involve...