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...Cynthia Hinds. She was naked, and like Chapman, she had been strangled. An hour earlier, Reichert had been coming home from church with his wife Julie and three small children. Now he was standing on the bank of the Green River thinking out the first steps in a murder investigation, trying to ignore the flies biting his skin...
...next two decades, investigating these deaths would become Reichert's life. The man whom cops would call the Green River Killer was to murder at least 49 women. Some investigators think he killed as many as 90, which, if true, would make him the biggest serial murderer in U.S. history. At his peak in '83, he was murdering as many as five women a month...
...what became known as the Maxi-Trials in the mid-1980s, Sicilian prosecutors tried hundreds of Mafia suspects en masse for crimes ranging from murder to criminal association. The sweeping strategy hit Cosa Nostra in the trenches, marking a critical victory for such crusading magistrates as Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. It was also great theater. Crammed together into a custom-made, bunker-like courtroom, the accused seemed straight from a Hollywood casting call for Mob thugs: often unshaven, sweaty and in short-sleeved leisure shirts, the Mafia men pointed fingers and hollered threats from inside steel cages that ringed...
...capo dei capi of Cosa Nostra after his boyhood buddy from Corleone, Riina, was arrested in 1993 and subsequently sentenced for masterminding the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations. (Last week Italy's top appeals court annulled the convictions of 13 mafiosi who had also been found guilty of Falcone's murder and ordered retrials.) Investigators say that Provenzano - who has been a fugitive since 1963 and is believed to be hiding out in the hills near Trapani on the far western tip of Sicily - decided that the Mob needed to cool its killer instincts after the state cracked down in response...
...wonders if that's why it received a possibly unprecedented 13-min. standing ovation from the tuxedoed Cannes crowd. Or could it be that the movie seemed to ... hate America? (Actually, it doesn't; Moore is as baffled as the rest of us by the obscenely high U.S. murder rate.) Iran may still be on the U.S. short list of states that support terrorism, but it also supports the most vital national art cinema of the past decade. Last year every Iranian film seemed to be about Afghanistan and its flood of emigrants into the Islamic Republic. This year another...