Word: marrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vegetarian with a voice like a choir boy crossed with Slim Whitman, the Smiths burst out in '84 with music that breathed new life into the pop ballad. Vocalist Morrissey (maybe soon singers will call themselves just Sam or Mary) possesses a voice that floats in and around Johnny Marr's guitar riffs in elegant, almost improvised anxiety. Morrissey's lyrics express the range of human emotions from suicidal depression to mild unhappiness; he's the ugly, shy boy who everyone picks on and thinks is a fairy--and they're right, too. Yet the Smith's eponymous debut album...
...Moody, whose only tour victory was the 1969 Open, about the last time he made a putt. Then Doug Sanders, who lost the British Open in 1970 on a 2½-footer. "Sometimes I go as long as five minutes," Sanders says, "without thinking about that." The rookie, Dave Marr, muses down the row, "Jack Burke, Jay Hebert, Paul Runyan [61, 61 and 75], they all touched me in some way." And he smiles: "Maybe just beat my brains out. No, there really was a time when everybody had to help everybody else or nobody would have made...
Only Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (MONY) balked at paying, claiming Granberg was still alive. Although phony death claims are extremely rare-less than one-tenth of 1% of all death claims are found to be fraudulent-MONY's chief litigation counsel, Jerry Alan Marr, was suspicious about Granberg. He "was overinsured for a man of his means," says Marr. A year ago, two other insurance companies, conceding Granberg's death, told his wife they would not pay double indemnity, or extra accident benefits, because they thought Granberg had died of a heart attack, not drowning...
...Bird found another source, a relative of Granberg's, who revealed that three months before the accident, Granberg had visited his brother Richard, an ex-convict who lived in Puerto Rico. The relative said Granberg told his brother about the bogus death plot and borrowed his passport. Says Marr: "We believe now that they started planning this almost two years before he disappeared...
...Marr and Bird, now only hours behind the trail of the Granbergs, staked out one of the family's favorite hiding spots, the Temple Hills Motel in New Windsor, N.Y. The investigators now had enough evidence to bring in state police and federal inspectors for an arrest, and when Granberg walked unsuspectingly out of his motel room, they pounced. Granberg was indicted the following week by a federal grand jury on four counts of fraud and is now in jail in Manhattan, awaiting trial. Judy Granberg, Rignola and Farriel were also arrested on charges of fraud. Says Marr...