Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chase's murder followed months of controversy in which black leaders have sharply criticized the police for using their guns too readily. In 1986 Dallas ranked first among the nation's eleven largest cities in the per capita incidence of police shootings (30, with ten deaths). Such controversial killings, including the shooting of an elderly black woman on her front porch, prompted congressional hearings last year...
Racial roles were reversed in the murder of Officer Chase. Police Chief Billy Prince charged that "constant bashing" of his officers had contributed to Chase's death. Many blacks joined whites in showing their sympathy with the police by tying black ribbons to car antennas and driving with their lights on. Some 3,000 people attended a memorial service in Dallas, including officers from 117 cities...
Leaning on the arms of his captors and clasping a towel to his face to protect his emphysema-weakened lungs against the cold, the frail prisoner hardly looked like a man capable of murder. But as he stepped off a train in Paoli, Pa., last week, William Henry Redmond, 66, was walking back through time to face charges in the April 1951 death of Jane Marie Althoff, an eight-year-old ) who had been strangled near a carnival outside Trainer...
...expected Barco's measures to cripple a criminal enterprise that has used bribery, threats and murder to become a law unto itself. Over the past several years, a Justice Minister, scores of policemen, 21 judges and more than a dozen journalists who refused to be bought off have been murdered. In the case of Ochoa, a leader of the Medellin cartel who is wanted in the U.S., Hoyos was investigating a group of officials, including two judges, who are suspected of accepting bribes to help Ochoa walk out of prison. "Who's in control in Colombia?" asks Ann Wrobleski, head...
Hoyos believed that the Medellin cartel could be broken, but he was realistic about the consequences of trying. A year before Hoyos' murder, a former Justice Minister who had been appointed Ambassador to Hungary was tracked down and seriously wounded in Budapest. Said Hoyos at the time: "No one is safe anywhere against the vengeance of the mafia...