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County Sheriff Earl Robinson and Garden City police found the other bodies: Wife Bonnie in an upstairs bedroom, Herb Clutter and his son Kenyon in the basement. The killers had murdered coolly, systematically. They had bound their victims hand and foot with nylon cord, gagged Nancy with a scarf and the others with two-inch-wide adhesive tape. Then, one by one, they had slaughtered the Clutters, shooting each in the face with a shotgun held a few inches away. Before or after shooting Herbert Clutter, the murderers had cut Clutter's throat. Whatever terrible rage seethed inside them...
...killers had left no clues behind. The cord and tape they used to bind and gag their victims were stock items that could have been purchased in any town in the U.S. There were plenty of fingerprints around, but the house of the busy, friendly Clutters had been "like a railroad station," as a neighbor put it, and the prints could have belonged to any of numerous visitors. One thing seemed certain to the Clutters' friends and neighbors: so methodical a crime could not have been committed by strangers who came upon the farm by chance. "When this...
While Surgeon Simonetta massaged the heart, Jacobs ripped the cord from an electric fan in the operating room, ordered a silver-plated spoon from a room where the nurses took their coffee breaks. "I bared the wires," he said, "and wrapped one around the spoon and placed it against the heart. I wrapped the other around a retractor and placed it against the shoulder. A third fellow plugged the wire in.'' After four jolts of current, the fluttering heart was calm; 15 minutes after its own last beat, normal pumping was resumed...
...with the patient making a normal recovery, the citizens of Spring Valley (pop. 5,000) found a way to show Dr. Jacobs their gratitude. They chipped in to help buy the hospital a $350 defibrillator so that other patients' lives would not have to depend on an electric cord, a coffee spoon...
...monuments. Epstein's bull-bold, pink alabaster Adam made strong men blush, girls giggle, and dowagers howl for blood. "I saw my subject," Epstein rumblingly explained, mankind." "as His the contorted fount of female all nude, Rima, was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin in 1925. As he pulled the cord, the Prime Minister was heard to exclaim...