Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the bullet- riddled bodies of John List's mother, wife and three children were discovered in Westfield, N.J., in December 1971, the quiet accountant had been missing for nearly a month. It took authorities 18 years to catch up with him, and then only through a TV crime show...
...seamy Mississippi River city of East St. Louis, Ill., the grim local joke is that the crime rate is finally starting to level off because there's not much left to steal. Block after city block is boarded up or burned out. Many buildings have been reduced to rubble as thieves cart away everything of value: bricks, aluminum siding, copper wire, even heavy cast-iron manhole covers from the potholed streets to be sold for scrap. The housing authority complains that aluminum downspouts are swiped from its buildings within hours of installation. Trash-strewn vacant lots along the river stand...
...major campaign issue, the drug problem embodies many of the major social problems facing America--from poverty and crime in the cities to paltry health care to low education standards. Five months into his presidency, Bush has done virtually nothing substantial to attack the drug crisis. Although he spoke consistently throughout the fall campaign about waging a "war on drugs," his leadership in this respect has been inconsistent and incomprehensible...
...crime has convulsed Glen Ridge, a well-off community of 7,700 that likes to think of itself as a large family. The girl has known at least two of the youths since grammar school; she and the accused are white. The alleged assailants are among the town's favored sons: Kyle and Kevin Scherzer, 18- year-old twins, and Peter Quigley, also 18, are stars of the football team. The two other youths who were arrested were under 18 at the time of the attack, and their identities have not been released. Among the eight onlookers: the 18-year...
...Crips gang. Five months ago in Columbia, S.C., two boys ages 13 and 14 were charged with raping an eleven-year-old girl in school. In Houston last October, three youths ages 14, 15 and 16 abducted and raped a 26-year-old woman during a three-day crime spree...