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Word: housebreaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Reno's police radio one afternoon last week came a routine alarm: "Housebreak at Mt. Rose and Forest." Within minutes, the cops were pulling up at a massive, castlelike mansion owned by La Verne Redfield, 54, an obscure stock and real-estate operator who was locally known to be wealthy and somewhat eccentric. Events quickly proved that he was all of that and then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Record Haul | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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