Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fault: she hurt him so badly during a kinky sex act, said Chambers, that he inadvertently struck her, crushing her windpipe. Chambers had met Levin in an Upper East Side bar; later they went to Central Park, where her battered, partially nude body was discovered. The "preppie murder" drew national attention to underage drinking and sex in New York's prep school...
...trial, angry demonstrators protested what they called the defense's "blame the victim" strategy. Prosecuting Attorney Linda Fairstein, labeling Chambers a "consummate liar," promised to introduce evidence that the couple did not have intercourse. "There was no sex," she told the jury. "Only death." If convicted of second-degree murder, Chambers faces a possible life sentence...
Camarena's horrible death deeply strained relations between Washington and Mexico City. Though Mexican officials eventually arrested more than 60 people in connection with the case, no one has ever been convicted of the murder. Last week the U.S. moved to advance the probe as a federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed up indictments against nine defendants. (The U.S. claims jurisdiction because the murder of an American official anywhere in the world is a crime under federal...
...unrelated but chillingly similar incident last week, seven members of an Iowa family were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide...
...common fates. The women cling to the church and the men to the bottle, but a growing number, like Edward Nolan, take to the gun. Nolan was a Fenian leader at the time of Clonbrony; later he is hardened in Portland prison and becomes experienced in conspiracy and vengeful murder on both sides of the Atlantic...