Word: murderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing right. I quit to get away from the harassment." Eventually he found work as a range detective with the Mojave County sheriffs office, and that led him to a job doing "crime reconstruction" at county headquarters in Kingman. His analyses of bloodstains and footprints at murder scenes and burglaries sent scores of killers and thieves to jail...
...Warren suddenly dashed down the street, with Patrolman Thomas Bowe close behind. In the scuffle that followed, Bowe's revolver went off and Warren fell, fatally wounded. Bowe's attorney argued that the shooting was accidental, and last week a jury acquitted the officer of murder...
...Tokyo. The sex directives are part of a 45-page code of conduct issued to 6,840 members of the Saitama police force. The handbook, which also includes strictures against drinking and bribe taking, was prompted by the rising crime rate among police in Japan. Following the rape-murder of a college student by a bachelor cop last year, one Tokyo newspaper sagely observed that despite the police force's proud record of professionalism, "under the uniform there is nothing but naked flesh...
...into madness. The literal journey is taken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), an officer who is commanded to travel upriver from Saigon to Cambodia. His mission is to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once exemplary Green Beret who has now gone crazy and set up a kingdom of murder in the darkest jungle. "There is no way to tell [Kurtz's] story without telling my own," Willard explains early on. Coppola apparently hoped that by dramatizing both Kurtz's and Willard's descents into savagery, he would arrive face to face with the moral horror...
...each stage, even topping the seemingly unbeatable light show with a more bizarre finale. Coppola, while creating progressively weirder war scenes, runs dry before he reaches his crucial imaginative leap: Kurtz's fastidiously designed compound looks as tame as a set in an oldtime jungle horror movie. His murder, which is archly intercut with the ritual slaughter of a carabao, is the film's only poorly shot death scene. Apocalypse Now's much talked-about discarded ending - another air raid - would not have illuminated this murk...