Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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County Sheriff Earl Robinson and Garden City police found the other bodies: Wife Bonnie in an upstairs bedroom, Herb Clutter and his son Kenyon in the basement. The killers had murdered coolly, systematically. They had bound their victims hand and foot with nylon cord, gagged Nancy with a scarf and...
Through the thin, -104°F. air he fell freely, first face down, then atumble, then on his back-1,000, 5,000, 10,000 ft.-reaching a flashing terminal velocity of about 450 m.p.h. As he plummeted, he took readings on his instruments, and with cool self-possession, tape...
It was during the course of questioning butchers that Investigator Kaplan's agents uncovered the extortion ring. Butcher Manny Seligman, for one, explained how it worked. He had been summonsed for short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered...
Give & Take. Union President Lapidus copped a guilty plea on charges of extortion. Boss Loughran (who ironically had won a reputation for his exposes of rackets in retail businesses) was haled before a county grand jury, fired from his $8,250-a-year job and arrested on charges of extortion...
One by One. Every Sunday the Clutters took two neighboring farmers' teenage daughters to the Methodist Church in Garden City, seven miles from the Clutter farm. When the two girls knocked on the door of the Clutter house on Sunday morning last week, nobody answered. The only explanation they...