Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along with the killer, fear and suspicion stalk a city...
...lonely killer, cunningly carrying out his crazed sexual fantasies by coldly stalking female victims and killing them in the night, is a hackneyed figure of cheap thrill movies and crime pulps. But in New York, his existence is a chilling reality, terrifying hundreds of thousands of young women in and around the city, enraging public officials, and both fascinating and frustrating one of the nation's most sophisticated police forces. The elusive "Son of Sam," who skillfully wields a lethal .44-cal. Bulldog revolver, struck for the eighth time last week, slaying Stacy Moskowitz, 20, and blinding Robert Violante...
...worked as a secretary for a shoe firm in the Empire State Building, was Son of Sam's sixth murder victim. Robert, a polite, conservatively dressed fellow who had just applied for a construction job with Con Ed, was the seventh person to survive bullet wounds in the killer's yearlong series of attacks...
...city's anger was most personally expressed by Stacy's anguished but controlled mother, Neysa Moskowitz, who said: "An animal like this has to be caught. I hope he suffers for the rest of his life." More directly to the killer, she pleaded: "I hope you get caught, but if you don't, just stop it. If you don't get caught, just stop it." Mayor Abraham Beanie ordered the rehiring of 136 laid-off policemen. In all, 75 detectives and 225 uniformed cops worked full time on the case, while another 700 officers volunteered...
Probably not, for the analogy be tween killer whale and great white shark is just too tempting - they are both big, strong and mysterious, therefore scary to landlubbers. Television documenta ries have taught us that the whale has a complex language and, since he may also be monogamous, perhaps a human like emotional life. It is easy, therefore, to anthropomorphize the whale and then cobble up the kind of plot line that runs sluggishly through Orca...