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Last August the body of Rebecca Heath was found near La Grange, Ga., slumped behind the steering wheel of her family's Oldsmobile. The car had smashed into a small tree, and at first it appeared that she, and the nine-month fetus she was carrying, had died in an auto accident. X rays revealed, however, that her right eyelid had been closed over a bullet hole made by a .32-cal. slug as it was fired into her brain. Investigators in La Grange then built a case of murder-for-hire against her husband Larry, his girlfriend Denise...
...murder would have taken its place in local lore. But now the case may also earn the defendants a permanent niche in law-school textbooks, plus a place on death row. The reason is an apparently unique question of double jeopardy. It arises from the fact that while Becky Heath's body was found in La Grange, Ga., her murderers picked her up, or perhaps kidnaped her, from her home 45 miles away in Phenix City, Ala. And after some of the defendants had confessed or pleaded guilty in La Grange, the prosecutor across the border in Phenix City...
...Federal Government sometimes brings charges in civil rights cases, such as those involving police brutality, when it believes local juries have been too lenient. But different states do not seem to have prosecuted in the same case, in part no doubt to avoid the extra work load. In the Heath case, however, Becky's father wanted to see his daughter's killers get the death penalty, and he urged the second prosecution. William Benton, the district attorney in Phenix City, had his own reasons. "A state has a responsibility to protect its citizens," he says. "The fact that...
...four years after residents discovered the toxic effects from seepage of the waste, the EPA has determined that most of the 400 nearby homes are now safe for habitation. "The Love Canal area is ... as safe as other residential areas in industrial towns around the country," announced Dr. Clark Heath of the Department of Health and Human Services. Only those houses within a block and a half of the canal, many of which have already been razed, are still considered dangerous...
...hedgehog in a permanent Celtic twilight. Yet, somewhere on the far horizon of his stories, a tiny solitary figure can usually be found: a latter-day Adam, as lost as on the first day after the Fall-or, more likely, an Eve. The storms Hardy stages on his heath are nothing compared with the tempests of sexual passion that tear at the hearts of these lonely wanderers among the thorns: Bathsheba of Far from the Madding Crowd, Eustacia Vye of The Return of the Native, Tess of the d'Urbervilles...