Word: drifter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Salameh, by contrast, was a drifter, never settling into a permanent home or regular job. His grades in school were so mediocre that he could not get into the university law or science programs; his only option was to attend the University of Jordan's college of religious law, where one professor recalls that Salameh was involved in fundamentalist student activities...
...sometimes kill. In the squalid roadside camps they call home, shotguns and 9-mm pistols abound, as do the tools of their trade: roofing knives. In one case a roofer's throat was cut so deeply he was nearly decapitated. In another a roofer shot and stabbed a drifter 100 times. Soldiers who patrolled the area say they saw a roofer bite off another man's ear, then spit...
...incarnation as a drifter, Kreimer became something of a local fixture. High school friends would invite him into their homes for a shower and shave. When it was too frigid to spend the night in the fields near a new condominium development, he would take the train to Manhattan and ride the cold out on the subway...
According to psychologists, serial killers are usually white males in their 20s or 30s. Aileen Wuornos may be an exception. In De Land, Fla., last week the 35-year-old drifter was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of electronics repairman Richard Mallory. He was one of at least seven male motorists who authorities believe have been lured to their death since 1989 by a man-hating prostitute...
...didn't he? That's what cops want to know about Donald Leroy Evans, 34, a drifter from Galveston, Texas, who claims to have murdered 60 people in a 10-year rampage across 20 states. If true, the boast would make Evans the nation's most prolific serial killer. But police and FBI investigators are skeptical, and began a thorough investigation last week...