Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Myers was discovered in his apartment with knife wounds in his chest and lacerations on his wrists. Police are still investigating his death...
When it comes to railing at swollen military budgets, Congress talks a good game. But where constituents are concerned, legislators all too often pull out the purse instead of the paring knife. One such sympathetic Senator is Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania: thanks to an amendment he tucked into a defense appropriations bill, a Pennsylvania firm stands to gain as much as $10 million to cover cost overruns on a fixed-price contract with the Navy...
...asked the young woman for a ride to his C.P.A. night class at L.S.U.'s local campus. Once in Francioni's white Mustang, Rault produced a .25-cal. pistol and shot her in the abdomen. He raped her, beat her and slit her throat with a knife. The two hours of viciousness ended when he dumped her body on the city's east side and set the body afire to cover his crime. But an off-duty state trooper spotted the blaze, and minutes later Rault, reeking of gasoline, was arrested running from beneath a highway overpass...
...manner of Hess's death stirred shock and suspicion. An obvious suicide risk, Hess had tried to kill himself on at least four occasions, including a 1977 attempt in which he used a blunt dinner knife to gouge his wrists, foot and elbow. His son, Wolf Rudiger Hess, 49, a Munich civil engineer, complained about "too many mysterious circumstances" surrounding his father's death, while Alfred Seidl, the old man's lawyer, argued that it would have been physically impossible for Hess, frail and nearly blind, to have throttled himself. The suicide was a particular embarrassment to the U.S., which...
...characteristic but not consistency: Watson's war wound, sustained in Afghanistan, wanders from shoulder to leg, depending on the plot. Holmes has a "catlike love of personal cleanliness," yet he keeps his "tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper," and unanswered letters "transfixed by a jerk-knife into the very center of his wooden mantelpiece...