Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly its slightly gray rectitude. The tiny country of 10 million is a wildly improbable candidate to be the epicenter of scandal in Europe. But since the summer, it has been rocked by a series of lurid revelations. They include tales of an exceptionally repellent child-sex torture-murder ring, the arrest of a former minister for the Mafia-style political assassination of a rival, official corruption and bribery, all topped off by law-enforcement bungling on a grand scale. Public anger and disgust are so high that when citizens' groups last month organized a demonstration to demand a government...
...jury not to discuss the case with friends or family. The caveat carried a particularly harsh edge as Fujisaki was forced just two hours before to remove a female juror for allegedly attempting to "contact" an attorney involved in the case. In a scene redolent of the Simpson murder trial, the juror, Ann-Marie Jamison, hired an agent and was booked on a national morning talk show soon after the dismissal. The juror picked to replace Jamison is a 20-year-old white female. The change leaves the jury's ethnic makeup unchanged with nine whites, one black, one Hispanic...
...Capote's celebrated nonfiction novel, was released in 1967, a number of critics complained that it lacked a point of view. Unable to capture the real merit of the book--Capote's masterly accretion of detail in telling the true story of a prosperous Kansas farm family's gruesome murder--the film meanders about, touching on unoriginal themes: that men can kill with no good reason, that boys brutalized will grow up to brutalize, that the pure of heart often die in vain...
...morning, June 22, 1958, when Jean Ellroy's strangled body was discovered near a high school athletic field in El Monte, up to the recent past, when James, her only child, teams up with a retired member of the Los Angeles sheriff's department to investigate the old unsolved murder all over again. In between, Ellroy portrays the harrowing spell, unrecognized by him at the time, that his mother's fate cast over his adolescence and the sort of person and writer he would become...
CONVICTED. JONATHAN SCHMITZ, 26, talk-show guest who killed Scott Amedure after Amedure revealed during taping (never aired) of the Jenny Jones Show that he had a crush on Schmitz; of second-degree murder; in Pontiac, Michigan. Schmitz was not told his "secret admirer" would...