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...innocent charm somehow coexists with Chester's other landmarks, the Menard prison and the Chester Mental Health Center next door. Of the town's 8,400 residents, more than 3,000 are incarcerated. Some of the mental hospital's residents are quite disturbed: one patient was recently convicted of murder for slicing up his mother and two sisters...
...worked out a half a dozen methods to kill someone," says a 1993 letter to a judge. "I don't want to do this. But if I must to end a lifetime of torture, I believe I can." A 1996 letter claims he had "solicited [a local woman's] murder from two Iranian nationals ... The contract is already purchased." Similar letters went to "maybe 100" people, Yoder says. He says he often wrote them with a carbon sheet underneath and sent copies to prosecutors. In 1996, Yoder even sued a prosecutor for not charging him; a judge had to remind...
Michael is a silent man. He keeps his murderous secrets from his family, which leads a pious middle-class life. But little boys want to know what their fathers do for a living. So one night his young son (Tyler Hoechlin) sneaks a ride in Daddy's car and witnesses a murder committed by Rooney's natural son Connor (Daniel Craig). Connor does not trust Michael Jr.'s ability to keep a secret, so to ensure silence, he begins wiping out the entire Sullivan family. The survivors, the two Michaels, must now run, to Perdition (where the boy's aunt...
...name was salmon, like the fish: first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Go ahead, read it again. Almost everything that makes The Lovely Bones the breakout fiction debut of the year - the sweetness, the humor, the kicky rhythm, the deadpan suburban gothic - is right there, packed into those first two lines, under pressure and waiting to explode. Part coming-of-age tale, part mystery, part ghost story, Alice Sebold's first novel (she's also the author of a memoir, Lucky) is the tale of an ordinary girl who is raped, murdered...
...Asahara, now 47, has spent the past seven years in a Tokyo jail cell. In court one day recently, facing murder charges in connection with, among other crimes, the gas attack, he bobs his head up and down, looking tired and confused. His hair, once wild and frizzy, is now cut short, his Rasputin-like beard trimmed respectably. Every move he makes is closely watched by his remaining disciples?wide-eyed men and women who flock to the courtroom to bask in the aura of the man they still consider their spiritual father. "He never did what you expected...