Word: murderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into serious trouble. In January, Bianchi was arrested and charged with strangling two young women, whose bodies were found that month stuffed into the rear of a car in Bellingham. Last week Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates announced that he had enough "hard physical evidence" to seek murder charges against Bianchi for ten of the 13 murders ascribed to the notorious "Hillside Strangler...
...Whose founder and only candidate, Columnist Auberon Waugh, is running against Liberal M.P. Jeremy Thorpe in his North Devon constituency. Thorpe's trial, on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder a man who claimed to be the M.P.'s lover, has been postponed until after the election...
...terrorist attack was the third effort by Palestinians to infiltrate Israel within a week, and Israelis were enraged at the latest civilian deaths. At the funeral for the Nahariya victims, Premier Menachem Begin declared: "A fitting revenge for the murder of children has not been devised yet by the devil himself." Later he declared that the death penalty should be imposed against terrorists who use extraordinary cruelty. That penalty has not been used since Adolf Eichmann's execution...
...Swami Omkarananda, a self-proclaimed teacher of mankind and head guru of a "Hindu-Christian" sect known as the Divine Light Center. The charges against the 49-year-old swami and what the prosecution called the hard core of his 80 followers ranged from theft and trespassing to attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. But most serious of all, the cultists had disturbed the peace of Winterthur...
...Tommy. This is the work that turns the crime of passion into an art form. This is the story of a young boy's lapse into a blind, deaf and dumb state, induced by witnessing his father's murder. This is the story of a boy who suffers repeated assault to emerge as pinball champion, guru, and finally, a victim of his own followers' violence. This is the show that almost appeared in Dudley House. However, a Master's wrath (piqued by an oversize stage) forced a sudden relocation to the Currier fishbowl...