Word: irwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warren Lee Irwin was a fellow with a screw loose in his head. He stole, lusted continuously after women, and was inclined to kill people who stood in the way of his scheme of things. At 27 he was a hardened jailbird. In the 13 months since getting out on parole (from Michigan sentences as an habitual criminal), he was believed to have murdered one woman, kidnaped another, and to have killed a Michigan gas-station attendant...
Unseeing Search. A pretty, 17-year-old Maryland high-school girl named Carolyn Jane Barker was sitting in the car with her boy friend, 19-year-old Lawrence Gilbert. The pair-interrupted just as the boy had presented an engagement ring-were too startled to utter a sound. Irwin yanked out his pistol. "Drive me to Virginia," he said, dramatically, "the FBI is after...
...gear trouble; as it ground slowly across the Potomac, Irwin cursed impatiently, talked of his crimes, and threatened to kill "many people" if he was not obeyed. Finally he ordered a stop on a dirt road, and forced the girl to tape her fiancé's hands. Then Irwin raped her. Afterward, with a weird kind of reasonableness, he freed the boy, walked the pair to a gas station and bought them Cokes...
...turned Gilbert loose, and got on a Washington-bound bus with Carolyn. "I know a cheap hotel," he confided. "I'll kill you if you scream." When they walked into the lobby, she winked desperately at a lounging marine; the marine simply winked back. She wept when Irwin shut the door of their room. She was forced to submit to him four more times during the night...
When the pair emerged on the street the next morning, the Washington cops were scouring the city for them; young Gilbert had gotten to a police station by 8 a.m., had pointed to Irwin's picture on a "Wanted" poster, and told the whole story. Yet no one spotted the fugitive and his captive. Irwin hocked Gilbert's watch and the engagement ring for $15, and forced the girl into a bus. Irwin grew confidential again. He was going to rob a rich uncle in Doylestown, Pa. and "give...