Word: murdered
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This is obviously not Lassie Come Home; it is the odd couple as crime busters. Turner is a small-town detective, an apt occupation for a man of his temperament. He has placed Hooch, the only witness to his former owner's murder, in protective custody. As the movie's none-too-ambitious mystery plot unfolds, it is Hooch, ferociously loyal to both his former master and his new one, who does most of the protecting. He's obviously never heard of Miranda rights. Not that he is a one-note character: he introduces Turner to romance with the local...
...decision left many Swedes more dissatisfied than ever with the bungled investigation of the February 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme. Last week a panel of judges found Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson, 42, a former mental patient with a long criminal record, guilty of the slaying and sentenced him to life in prison. The court split 6 to 2, with six lay judges convinced that Pettersson gunned down Palme. But the two professional judges on the panel voted for acquittal...
Throughout the five-week trial, Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of more than 60 offenses, including the 1970 bayonet slaying of a man near the Palme murder scene, maintained his innocence. The key witness against him was Palme's widow Lisbet, who told the court she was absolutely certain that Pettersson was the man she saw when she turned around after her husband fell. An appeals court will decide in September if there was sufficient evidence to convict Pettersson...
...hours that followed, the mission proved short-sighted, even misguided. Israel should not be blamed for the apparent murder of U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins by terrorists, even though the execution was in retaliation for Obeid's abduction. There is no question about that. The question is, however, how Israel could have failed to realize that their mission would backfire...
President Bush condemned the reported hanging and hurried back to Washington to meet with aides about a response to "this brutal murder...