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...Newsday that a search of Truitt's Norfolk, Va., apartment after the Iowa explosion had netted detonating caps and a copy of the book How to Get Even Without Going to Jail. According to the newspaper, another copy of the book and a detonating device supposedly were found in Hartwig...
...front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have set off the explosion to kill a shipmate and collect $100,000 in life insurance. At the same time, they said it was also possible that the other sailor, Gunner's Mate Second Class Clayton Hartwig, 25, intentionally caused the blast to kill himself...
These competing theories surfaced as the Naval Investigative Service conceded it has failed, in its review of the training, equipment and gunpowder involved, to find a technical explanation for the explosion. The idea that the blast was no accident arose largely from a report that Truitt and Hartwig had been such close friends that in 1987 each had made the other the beneficiary of a life insurance policy for $50,000, with double indemnity in case of accidental death. According to Hartwig's sister Kathleen Kubicina, 36, of Cleveland, the friendship ended last year when Truitt married. While Truitt last...
Truitt, on leave from the Iowa, flatly denied that he or Hartwig was a culprit. At a press conference with his wife last week, he claimed that the rumors proved that the Navy was "at a loss" to explain the tragedy. Said the sailor: "They're just looking for a scapegoat...
...Hartwig Looft, an electronics teacher from Stuttgart, West Germany, who said he had been working for the Libyans for the last 24 years, said he heard a "big bang" and saw huge columns of smoke when the bombers struck...