Word: murder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...payoff to an informant, the FBI discovered the bodies in a new earth dam. Four months later, the Philadelphia sheriff, his deputy and 17 others were arrested, and in 1967 seven of the 19 (including the deputy but not his boss) were convicted of conspiracy to murder...
...went. On some nights more than a hundred paying customers left at intermission or even during the performance. One couple who marched up the aisle during the second act seemed particularly weary of a plot device that has the hero, a tap-dancing gang leader, repeatedly fake his own murder. As the departing woman looked back at the stage, she whispered, "He's alive again." Muttered her companion: "Better he should have stayed dead...
...tense evening, the McCulloughs drink and argue. Suddenly Glynnis is brandishing a knife, there is blood on the floor, and Glynnis hurtles backward through a plate-glass window. After 18 days in a coma, she dies. Following the funeral and a police investigation, Ian is charged with second-degree murder...
Several of Derwinski's subordinates in the Heritage Groups also had questionable backgrounds. One has been implicated in the murder of 7000 Jews in 1941. And the U.S. government has accused three other Latvian-American members of wartime atrocities against Jews...
...flaws in Hampton's logic are particularly disturbing because they betray a widely held belief that homosexual relations somehow "hurt" others. This reasoning is an implicit approval of the violent actions against gays epitomized by this murder...