Word: hoaxing
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...between 1975 and 1983. On the basis of Lucas' confessions, police closed some 210 previously unsolved homicide cases in 26 states. But the Dallas Times Herald last week published a copyrighted story by Reporters Hugh Aynesworth and Jim Henderson contending that Lucas' claims of serial murders were a perverse hoax. Lucas told Aynesworth in 1983 that he had killed only three people and was claiming more murders in an effort to ridicule the police. Lucas knew that his ongoing confessions would delay a transfer to the Texas death row at Huntsville...
...plutonium up to 200 times as high as normal but still no more than .4% of federally established danger levels. Declared Koch: "The water is absolutely safe to drink." Law-enforcement authorities are still looking for a culprit. Shrugged the mayor: "We don't know if it was a hoax, sham or a deranged mind." CENTRAL AMERICA Weighing a Retaliatory Raid...
...months in jail; in London. Pierson, who pleaded guilty to charges of sending malicious communication and causing a public nuisance, obtained the e-mail addresses from a news website and claimed to represent the U.K.'s Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Thailand. Presiding Judge Daphne Wickham said the hoax caused "indescribable" pain. Pierson's lawyer claimed the father of three was attempting to give families closure...
ALEK KOMARNITSKY, computer specialist, on his elaborate hoax in which millions of strangers thought they were able to control his home's 17,000 Christmas lights via his website...
...we’re told a kennel of Yale students pulled off a massive stunt at The Game, tricking two thousand Crimson fans into holding up construction paper spelling out “WE SUCK.” Yale’s student newspaper reported the hoax Monday, and the pranksters put up a website (www.harvardsucks.org) complete with video documentation and posters for sale (way to sell out, fascists...