Word: murdered
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...their son. As the verdict was read, Simpson remained stoic, staring straight ahead. Across the courtroom, a whoop of joy was heard from relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. "Yes!" screamed sister Kim Goldman, in contrast to the way she sobbed openly when Simpson was acquitted of murder 16 months ago. She and her mother and father clasped hands in jubilation, and in a press conference after the ruling, Fred Goldman commented, "Today marks two and a half years (since the killings) and we finally have justice. Our family is greatful for the verdict. Thank God." Outside...
...winning family." And by good, solid, winning, he usually had Ennis in mind. The very last episode of The Cosby Show, which aired in 1992, showed Theo Huxtable graduating from college. It was a preview of the graduation of Ennis just weeks later. In fact, before last week's murder, Cosby was pushing to have the character played by Doug E. Doug on his new show go to work at a center for disadvantaged youth, a role that would parallel work done by Ennis. Said Cosby: "I love him. I trust him with my life, with my wife's life...
There were other murders in Los Angeles that day. Corrie Williams, a senior at Centennial High School in Compton, was killed riding a bus in South Central in broad daylight, in a place people expect such things to happen. It was allegedly committed by gang members, who, a Los Angeles Times survey found, commit about half the nearly 2,000 homicides in the city each year. As L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan was calling the Ennis Cosby murder "priority No. 1," Bill Cosby linked his son's death to the Compton case. In a phone call, he told police chief Williams...
...murder mysteries get tawdrier with the telling. And probing the netherworld of Los Angeles for Ennis Cosby's killer is unlikely to produce an exception. In the end, the tale of fathers and sons that made it so compelling may be merely a small part of some endless legal epic. But that facet may prove to be the most enduring one. Ennis Cosby was Bill Cosby's legacy. And his son's legacy may be a young man in New York City. When Walter Stephen Douglas heard of the murder, his heart was not really with the celebrity dad most...
MEDIA, Pennsylvania: Opening arguments in the murder trial of multimillionaire John E. du Pont began in this Pennsylvania hamlet this morning, dredging up the bizarre circumstances that led to the shooting death of Olympic wrestler David Schultz last January 26. Schultz, a gold medalist in 1984, had been living and training on du Pont's estate with his family when du Pont inexplicably shot him dead as Schultz' wife looked on. Du Pont barricaded himself in the family mansion, holding out against an army of police officers for two days. Du Pont's past bizarre behavior is the basis...