Word: leonski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leonski Case...
Victim No. 3 was Miss Gladys Hosking, 41, a university secretary whom Leonski met on May 18, after he had been drinking (supposedly 30 beers and seven whiskies). "It was raining," he said, "and I asked if I could go home with her. She walked with me to a very dark part of Latehouse Street. She turned to go but I didn't want her to go so I grabbed her. I wanted her voice so I grabbed her by the throat. She was very soft and didn't make a sound...
...none of the cases did Leonski criminally attack his victims. He showed a not uncommon voice fetishism, unconsciously linking the voices of his victims with that of his mother...
...Leonski's case can be reviewed by General Douglas MacArthur as commanding officer of U.S. troops in Australia. If there was an error in judging Leonski sane, there was also an excuse for the medical examiners in failing to recognize a rare mental phenomenon...
...there was no excuse for the manner in which the news of Leonski's arrest was broken to his aged Polish-born mother. At 1 a.m. Reporter Al Willard of New York's Daily News awakened the Leonski family. To wheedle a picture for the News, and for subsequent syndication, Reporter Willard told Mrs. Leonski that her son had just been cited for bravery...