Word: crimed
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Based on the 1990 cult crime novel by Lew McCreary, The Minus Man tells the story of mild and childlike Vann Siegert (Bottle Rocket's Owen Wilson), an ostensibly kind, offenseless man. He's so nauseatingly likable and law-abiding (even when driving onto a deserted highway he makes a point of using a signal and looking both ways), you'd never suspect him of having any violent tendencies. He's perfect. Eerily perfect. All right, you guessed it--he's a serial killer; a bona fide psycho (how could someone who uses their blinker on a deserted highway...
...past 12 years, Cheryl Amirault LeFave has searched for someone who can convince the state's courts that she was convicted and imprisoned for a crime she maintains she did not commit...
Timothy McVeigh should have been charged with at least one more murder. That?s the line from the Christian Coalition, members of which were on hand Thursday as the House passed a bill that would make it a federal offense to harm a fetus while committing a federal crime. Under the coalition-backed Unborn Victims of Violence Act, McVeigh, one of the perpetrators in the Oklahoma City bombing case, would have one more offense on his rap sheet because a pregnant woman was among the casualties of the explosion. While no one can predict what will happen in the Senate...
...sending out their financial laundry to the Bank of New York, according to the New York Times ? the Italians, apparently, are not relying on help from Moscow. It?s not hard to imagine the reason for that Russian stonewall; when half a nation?s economy is controlled by organized crime, it?s inevitable that government officials ? including those at the Central Bank ? have a finger or two (or an arm, up to the shoulder) in the cookie jar. The Russians, say U.S. investigators, just want to find out where the U.S. paper trail is leading before they fill...
Macias and two colleagues are members of Grupo Beta, a federal unit set up to protect U.S.-bound migrants from bandits and warn them of dangers north of the fence. The officers can't arrest the youths for trying to cross into the U.S.; that's no crime in Mexico. Instead, the officers hand out bottled water and pamphlets describing the perils that await to the north, including dehydration and scorpions...