Word: corded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovered three bodies: those of Josa Munoz Rubalcava, a retired Mexican police official, and his two sons, Alberto, 24, and Casar, 21. Someone had stabbed all three men in the back, trussed them with rope and added a macabre finishing touch to the father's corpse. "[He] had yellow cord tied around the mouth with a bow," says Travis Kuykendall, the agent in charge of El Paso's Drug Enforcement Administration office. "It looked like they were wrapped up for somebody, like a present...
...head 13 times with a lead crystal candlestick and crushing her skull. Thereafter, she and her boyfriend mutilated the body, inserting a knife into the dead woman's neck in an effort to make her death appear to be a suicide, and nearly severing her spinal cord...
Bacterial meningitis is a disease that can cause inflammation around the brain and spinal cord and make victims very sick within a day of exposure. It is fatal in about one out of every seven cases, public health authorities...
...hero; in Holland, Michigan. Urban's World War II exploits across the European theater ultimately earned him more combat decorations than any other soldier in American history, including the Medal of Honor and seven Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat, like the bullet that tore out a vocal cord and left him raspy-voiced to the end of his days. He led a milder civilian life as a recreation director...
...number of children in the Chicago area's substitute-care system skyrocketed from 8,000 to 36,000. The public faces of this catastrophe appeared in 1993, when a toddler named Joseph Wallace was returned from foster care to his mother, who hanged him with an electrical cord; and again last February, when 19 children were discovered living in squalor in a North Keystone Avenue apartment...