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The May 31 murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, 67, has already been reconstructed in chilling detail: the threats to Good Samaritans who tried to intervene, the single shot in a Wichita, Kans., church, the wailing wife, the gunman's powder-blue getaway car decorated with a red rose - an...
• A native of Merriam, Kans., a Kansas City suburb.
• In April 1996, a 38-year-old Scott Roeder - thought to be the same man - was arrested in Topeka, Kans., after Shawnee County police stopped him for not having a proper license plate. Officers said they found bomb-making supplies in the car: ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse...
George Tiller long ago erased the line between his private life and his public cause, turning his Wichita, Kans., clinic into ground zero in the fight over late-term abortions. Tiller, 67, lived with death threats and was shot in both arms in 1993 by an antiabortion activist. His clinic...
Tiller, one of the few doctors in America willing to perform late-term (or third-trimester) abortions, was a regular usher at his church, which was often the target of antiabortion protests. At about 10 a.m. Sunday, as the doctor was greeting church members at the sanctuary door, a middle...