Word: crossons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted the kids to be proud of me, wanted to increase my nest egg," says Ruth Crosson, 79, of Golden, Colo. She pooled her life savings with money borrowed on an insurance policy and turned over $100,000 to Richard O'Donnell, an insurance agent who had vowed after the death of her husband 10 years earlier that Crosson would be taken care of. Over the years, O'Donnell told Crosson and 17 other victims that he would invest their money in insurance ventures that would pay them dividends of 13% a year. Actually, he was running a Ponzi scheme...
...final death toll stood at 47. Not until Friday afternoon could rescuers retrieve the bodies of three crew members who had been trapped inside the lead locomotive, buried in 15 feet of mud. Miraculously, some passengers managed to escape even from a car totally submerged in the bayou. Bill Crosson, 57, had grabbed his wife Vivian, 52, holding her down so she wouldn't be thrown about as the train fell into the swamp. Water then came rushing in. "It just filled so quickly," he says. "All I could think about was 'we're goners.' " But the couple found...