Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people, 19 of them children. Last Friday the decision about whether or not Timothy McVeigh was responsible for the crime was placed in the hands of the jurors, who were to be sequestered until they reached a verdict. If they found McVeigh guilty on any one of the 11 murder and conspiracy counts against him, he could face the death penalty. Juries are notoriously unpredictable, but given the thinness of the defense and the strength of the prosecution, an acquittal would be a major surprise. According to a source close to the defense, as the case went to the jury...
...tough, funny, sometimes brilliantly written first novel, he can't quite shake the habit. The Good Brother (Simon & Schuster; 317 pages; $23) could not be simpler or more direct in its narrative plan: a good man, Virgil Caudill, caught in a crushing predicament not of his making, commits a murder that seems unavoidable, abandons his home in the Kentucky hill country and survives precariously in Montana. The pages that narrate this contain no misdirection, no writerish word tasting, not even a flashback or shift in point of view, just fierce attention to the moment at hand. It is hard...
...bring more direction to the JONBENET RAMSEY murder probe, the Boulder, Colo., district attorney, ALEX HUNTER, has quietly merged his agents with the Boulder police and moved them into a "war room" of three offices in Boulder's Justice Center, equipping it with shredders, secure phones, computers and a high-tech alarm system that guards against eavesdropping microphones. A nine-member team of detectives and assistant prosecutors will work out of the suite, which has a private entrance. The union between these sometimes antagonistic agencies was instigated by Hunter as a go-for-broke effort to bring greater focus...
CONVICTED. JESSE TIMMENDEQUAS, 36, sex offender whose trial for killing Megan Kanka, then 7, provoked the passage of a federal bill requiring that communities be warned of the presence of sexual felons; of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder; in Trenton...
...tenure at Harvard, Taylor has handled some of the most controversial legal matters facing the University, including the Dunster House murder-suicide, the Evening With Champions embezzlement scandal and a number of scientific misconduct cases. She has worked to build consensus between feuding parties within the University, interacting closely with deans and other department heads...