Word: crimed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There's the workaholic, by-the-book FBI agent who moved 3,000 miles from the scene of the crime and after seven years still can't get this one out of his head...
...biggest and most confounding art heist in American history is 7 1/2 years old and juicier than ever. Organized crime, politics, greed, international intrigue and an execution-style hit all lie at the margins of the story. This one has everything but sex, and maybe even that--after all, the story is still unraveling. Each week brings private powwows among the players, new hopes, old frustrations and the same beating refrain...
...Mass., native who is in federal prison for interstate transportation of two paintings stolen in 1975 from the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. Connor, who appears to have escaped from a Damon Runyon story, says he and a gangster named Bobby Donati, a longtime pal and partner in crime, checked out the Gardner around 1974. "Did I case it?" asks the 5-ft. 7-in., bushy-bearded Connor, who looks more like a visiting professor than a guy who has run with a crew of gangsters for 30 years. "I took a walk through the place and saw what...
...been trying to find the stolen paintings, "they could have chopped his fingers off one at a time," and Donati wouldn't have given up the goods. Connor thinks it's more likely he was killed in a battle between Boston's warring mob factions than because some crime boss wanted a Rembrandt on his wall...
...explain why Kenneth Starr had decided to quit as the Whitewater special prosecutor. It was based on the possibility that Starr, like many of the rest of us, had awakened one morning and been struck with the disquieting realization that he'd completely forgotten what the original Whitewater crime was supposed to have been. Then Starr decided not to quit after all. My only consolation was the thought that with so many investigations of Bill Clinton going on, someday I'll probably be able to rework the theory and apply it to someone else...