Word: drifters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wuornos, 34, is a drifter who lists her occupation as "professional call girl." According to police, Wuornos has admitted killing the seven men; one she shot six times, including a coup de grace in the head "to put him out of his misery." The police arrested her Jan. 9, but even before she was charged, Wuornos had signed a movie deal with California producer Jackelyn Giroux. "She's delightful," says Giroux. "Basically, from age three, she had been abused by everyone in her life. If one child can be saved by having another child's story told, it's worth...
...launched Thursday-night pie-eating rituals: everybody digs in as soon as FBI agent Cooper bites into a slice of cherry or huckleberry. Fans are trading theories about Laura's killer (the Log Lady? the sheriff?), while a European video version of the pilot identifies the killer as a drifter named Robert. Don't be so sure, say the show's creators; in the U.S. the culprit could be different...
...Stockton, Calif., a few graves are marked by odd, poignant gifts: plastic dolls, balloons, soft-drink cans, plates of fruit, piles of pennies. They are the offerings of bereaved Cambodian parents to the spirits of four children who were murdered in last year's rampage by a mentally deranged drifter at the city's Cleveland elementary school. Though Stockton police maintain that the episode was not racially motivated, the Indochinese in California's Central Valley believe otherwise. Almost a year before the shooting, school officials had to paint over anti-Asian graffiti, including signs that said GOOKS GO HOME. Fights...