Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pushed into the dirt, a clothesline tight around her cold little neck was the lifeless body of one of the girls, ravished and murdered. In the bushes a few yards away, similiarly strangled and raped, were the bodies of the others. As the horrible news of California's crime-of-the-year spread through the Los Angeles area, police began a round-up of suspected sex criminals, pieced together possible clues...
...newspaper clippings about the tragedy to a scrapbook he had begun when the girls were first reported missing. By week's end, with angry crowds surging before the Inglewood City Hall threatening lynching to suspect after suspect, Mrs. Dyer wrote a summary of the crime into the scrapbook, ended it, "The suspected murderer...
...placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then he returned and repeated the crime with the others. Then he ravished the three bodies. Finally in a fit of remorse he took off the girls' shoes, ranged them neatly side by side and prayed over them. "What did you say?" asked the District Attorney. "I said 'Lord forgive what I have done.' Then...
...Bilbao fell, retreating Anarchists accused Miss Boland of having packed her bags, explaining that this was a sign of Rightist sympathies and that they were finishing off all such "traitors." She showed them her British passport. Tearing it up before her eyes, they proceeded to slay Governess Boland, a crime to which numerous Spanish witnesses testified...
...least one occasion Secretary of Labor Perkins has indicated that in her mind the legal status of the Sit-Down was not proven. President Roosevelt, a lawyer by training, is known to have had no illusions that the Sit-Down was legal but to have deprecated it as no crime, just a misdemeanor. Last week in Philadelphia in the first Sit-Down ruling from the Federal bench, the Circuit Court of Appeals declared that sit-downers in a local hosiery mill were not only guilty of such crimes as forcible entry and forcible detainer but had violated the Wagner...