Word: goldberg
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Even if moderate drinking does confer health benefits, which it probably does, they are rather modest--certainly not stronger than the effect of small daily doses of aspirin on heart health. Indeed, according to Dr. Ira Goldberg, a preventive-medicine expert at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, the effect may be more in line with the apparent cardioprotective benefit of eating a modest portion of nuts each day. Nuts, of course, aren't as sexy as alcohol...
...house, and DeSalvo was there as a workman. And there's another wrinkle, one that might or might not have been a coincidence. During the period DeSalvo was working at the Jungers', a 62-year-old woman was killed in a house down the street. Her name was Bessie Goldberg, and she was raped and strangled--precisely the Strangler's modus operandi. But DeSalvo was never charged with the crime. Instead a black man named Roy Smith, who had cleaned Goldberg's house that day, was convicted of her murder. Did the police get the wrong...
...Goldberg's death was--and still is--the only homicide ever to take place in Belmont. When the police wrote it up, they had to use forms marked TRAFFIC BUREAU REPORT. The cops picked up Smith the next day, and although he maintained his innocence and although the evidence against him was entirely circumstantial, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Smith was 35 at the time, a drifter and a drinker with a penchant but not much aptitude for petty crime. Nothing in his history, however, suggests that he was capable of doing what was done...
...navigating a maze of shadows, and you can see all the more clearly what an enormously skillful prose artist he is. Absent a pulse-pounding narrative, Junger entrances the reader by picking out small details--like the score of the kickball game being played in front of Goldberg's house when she died--that give the events he's describing an enthralling vividness and resonance and clarity...
DeSalvo eventually confessed to 13 murders, but he always denied having killed Goldberg. So who did? He and Smith have since died, and any DNA evidence from the crime scene is long gone. There is, ultimately, no way to know, and Junger never tries to force a certainty he doesn't feel. "About halfway through, I realized, There's no way. I'm not going to prove this," he says. "At first I was sort of depressed by that--Oh, God, no one is going to read this book because I can't prove anything. And then I realized...