Word: murderes
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Last Thursday, when a federal judge in Mexico City sentenced Raul Salinas de Gortari to 50 years in prison for orchestrating the 1994 murder of his former brother-in-law Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, all Mexico seemed to exhale. Salinas, the older brother of former President Carlos Salinas, has been a symbol of the nation's rot. The coldness of some of his acts--ordering the killing of his own brother-in-law!--was so great that the case somehow transcended its specifics and became a referendum on Mexico's hopes and fears...
When he was first arrested after killing Ruiz Massieu, Aguilar seemed an unlikely hit man. Authorities described him as a bumpkin desperate for the $15,000 fee he reportedly earned for the murder. But Aguilar insists--and underworld colleagues confirm--that he is in fact a member of a sophisticated kidnapping ring that abducts not for ransom but for hire--usually by politicians, businessmen or criminals who want to scare rivals into submission. Aguilar was highly trained for the ring's SWAT-style ops--to fly single-engine planes, for instance, and belay from a helicopter. "We weren't like...
...state probably would have had a tidy case against Peeler, but Snead was murdered before he could testify who had shot at him. That left only one witness, a third-grader whose smile was sunny and persistent, who should have had no cares but to tell his jokes and read a favorite book, Double Trouble in Walla Walla. Instead, B.J. agreed to tell authorities what he knew about guns and blood. Prosecutors planned to call him as the key witness in what was now to be Peeler's murder trial...
...murder rate is down a bit in Bridgeport, but other violent crimes aren't. "There's still a subculture of drugs and guns," says state senator Alvin Penn. "We may develop around it, but that subculture hasn't disappeared." The residents are sick of it. At the funeral, grievers bellowed amens when the Rev. Williams asked the assembled politicians to do more to catch criminals and--here the loudest cheers went up--protect witnesses. Many people here have come to believe that cops abandoned B.J., left him to fend for himself in the same community where the man he would...
WHOM EACH MIGHT DATE NEXT: Tabloids link Paltrow to former A Perfect Murder co-star Viggo Mortensen; Affleck could hook up with Alanis Morissette, with whom he co-stars in an upcoming film (she plays God, a figure traditionally hard to resist...