Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles homicide squad lieutenant who had read the same list. "I wouldn't be surprised," said the lieutenant, "if Spears blew the plane up." As the Los Angeles police well knew, Robert Spears, a barefaced quack and crook, had a record of seven jail terms for fraud, forgery, larceny, impersonation, armed robbery, was free on $10,000 bail pending trial on charges of criminal abortion. He was familiar with explosives and had once said he would "blow up a hospital...
...wife Frances Spears, 36, and escape the abortion charges in Los Angeles; or whether Spears 2) let Al Taylor ride the DC-7B on Spears's ticket and then, hearing of the crash, coolly decided to drop out of sight and play out a spectacular insurance fraud...