Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Offers Refused. The three teen-agers told police that Weinstein had once given them $100 to kill a student, which they refused to do, and four other times begged them to murder students whom he had drugged. Weinstein used chloral hydrate (knockout drops) disguised in mustard and spread on hamburgers to drug his young friends, said the boys. He had also bragged to them of killing a student earlier in the year and burying his body in a cellar...
...week's end, Hammell and the two other teen-agers were under arrest on charges of being accessories to murder. Weinstein, too, was in jail after a Philadelphia theatrical agent recognized him in Manhattan's Times Square and pointed him out to a policeman. After trying to run away, Weinstein surrendered without a struggle. Meanwhile, detectives were searching for other possible victims in the cellars of Weinstein's house and shop...
...bodyguards is a matter of prestige and power, almost everybody who is anybody packs a weapon. Manila is the world's only major city where office buildings and bars have signs imploring customers to check their firearms when entering. But it is at election time that the murder rate really soars...
...Brooklyn, in the country's first so-called LSD murder trial, former Medical Student Stephen Kessler was accused of having stabbed his mother-in-law 105 times. Kessler was asked to leave Downstate Medical School in 1964 because his behavior was noted to be unstable. He has admitted that he used LSD in an attempt to establish that schizophrenia has chemical origins, but in the process, he took a couple of bad trips. In one, "a chair appeared to turn into blood"; after another, he had to be hospitalized for five days, and he remembered nothing of what...
...Broadway a couple of seasons ago, Wait Until Dark seemed like a wrong number for Playwright Frederick Knott, who once dialed M for Murder. The thriller's screen incarnation gives him a chance to call again. This time he gets through-with a better scenario, set and cast...