Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Cosby, in his initial public response to the murder of his son, seemed aware of this. The man who single-handedly updated the middle-class patriarch as a TV icon, who made the small screen safe again for displays of frank morality, loving discipline and gruff exasperation, may have sensed straightaway that the death in his family made him a kind of reluctant griever in chief. So instead of asking for sympathy, he offered it--to families who'd experienced similar tragedies. Cosby seemed more concerned about his audience's pain than his own. Considering the permeable borders between...
...bullet. Still, the whole thing didn't quite compute for me. Gunfire was never a part of The Cosby Show. Roadside homicide didn't figure in. According to the same dramatic logic that ruled out rape on Gilligan's Island and domestic violence among the Brady Bunch, murder on Cosby just wasn't possible...
...Dallas headquarters, who accused school officials of "reacting to emotion." He says the company works out its "trade area restrictions" based on crime statistics. Nevertheless, he says, two Pizza Hut drivers have been killed on the job in the past six weeks--both in presumably safe areas. One murder occurred in Sacramento, California, the other in Salt Lake City, Utah. Regularly scheduled deliveries of the sort Pizza Hut bid on in Kansas City, Doughty claims, can be done safely with more than one driver--something, he says, the firm doesn't do for spot orders. But the company probably...
CHARGED. BRETT A. SAWYER, 38, a private detective, and LAWRENCE SHAWN SMITH, 36, a photo-lab technician; with selling crime-scene pictures taken after the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey; in Boulder, Colorado. Sawyer confessed he paid Smith $200 for the photographs, which he sold to the Globe tabloid...
...Skirball Center Drive, just off the freeway ramp, the body sprawled next to the Mercedes convertible might have been just another victim of random murder and robbery in Los Angeles. Then a strange recognition took place, and America shuddered. The video image was banished from CNN only 20 minutes after it first aired--too horrible to gaze upon, too terrifyingly intimate to contemplate. The body on the roadside was Ennis William Cosby, 27, the only son of Bill Cosby...