Word: mulroy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Alvin Goldstein Sr., 70, newspaper reporter who shared a Pulitzer Prize with James Mulroy for their help in solving the Leopold-Loeb murder case; in San Rafael, Calif. Goldstein and Mulroy were cub reporters on the Chicago Daily News in 1924 when 14-year-old Bobby Franks was kidnaped. Keeping one step ahead of police investigators, Goldstein identified a newly discovered body as that of Bobby in time to prevent a $10,000 ransom payment, then succeeded in tracing the ransom note back to Law Student Nathan Leopold's typewriter. Goldstein spent the next 40 years...