Word: murderable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Karen's murder was the latest in a grisly skein that has claimed the lives of seven young women in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area in the past two years -five since March. Most of the victims had been sensible, intelligent girls like Karen. Ranging in age from 13 to 23, they included three Eastern Michigan students, two from the University of Michigan, a junior high school student and a high school dropout...
Pattern. Karen's murder followed what is by now a pattern: the victim, usually walking alone, accepts a ride and disappears. Her body is found several days later. All the girls were brunette Caucasians, and all were murdered in rainy weather. Six of the seven were either strangled, stabbed in the neck or left with something twisted around their necks. The exact official causes of death: two by gunshot, two by strangulation, two by stab wounds and one by skull fracture...
...Corporal David Leik returned from a vacation to find his house "disturbed." Leik's nephew, John Norman Collins, 23, had a key to the house. Going on Leik's report and other evidence, police arrested Collins, an Eastern Michigan senior, and charged him with the first-degree murder of Karen Sue Beineman. At week's end police were investigating to see if Collins, a student in good standing, could be tied to any of the other murders...
Wild Bill Scholl v. Dr. Sam Sheppard. That surprising billing on the pro wrestling program is expected to pack the high school stands for the exhibition bouts that will be held in Waverly, Ohio, on Aug. 9, to raise money for cancer research. After two murder trials, two malpractice lawsuits arising from patients' deaths and last winter's much publicized divorce petition from his second wife, Dr. Sam ranks as a celebrity of sorts. He also claims to have been a pretty fair grappler as a youth, and he reportedly was something of a champion at Ohio Penitentiary...
...exclusive Old Capitol Club, where a waiter informed Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman, 67, that a visitor wished to speak with him in the hall. There Foreman was confronted by Melvin Powers, the hulking drifter whom he had successfully defended along with Candy Mossier, 49, in the celebrated 1964 murder of Multimillionaire Jacques Mossier. Powers, 27, was incensed over Foreman's suit to obtain legal fees involving several hundred thousand dollars from Powers' Aunt Candy. "Look you bastard, I'm mean," raged Powers, gesturing threateningly. "I'm tough too," replied the husky lawyer. Then, as onlookers gaped...