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...lover. On Aug. 21, 1968, they were shot to death as they lay in the front seat of a car parked in the countryside. In the back seat, the woman's six-year-old son slept undisturbed through the slaughter. The victim's husband was convicted of the murders and sent to prison. The man was innocent, as became clear six years later, when the Monster struck again, killing another couple in similar fashion. Ballistic tests showed that the murder of the second couple was committed with the same .22-cal. Beretta automatic pistol. In both instances, the killer used...
...with a sharp instrument. One day later police received an envelope addressed with letters cut from a newspaper. Its grotesque contents: part of the woman's genitalia. On the morning the bodies were discovered, a copper-jacketed Winchester bullet was found in front of a hospital near the murder site. The proximity of the bullet, and the possibility that surgical gloves and a scalpel were used in the killing, led police to question the hospital staff. No one was charged, though...
...Seward Jr.'s messy 1965 divorce, before which his wife had shot a private detective sent to monitor her extramarital trysts, not to mention the mishaps of Daughter Mary Lea, who once charged that her second husband had a homosexual affair with their chauffeur and plotted her murder. Then there were publicized allegations about a grandson injecting the family dog with heroin, and his brother planning to blow up a police station...
DIED. Ray Milland, 79, Welsh-born actor whose intelligent, graceful and urbane professionalism distinguished both dramatic and comedic roles in more than 120 films, including Easy Living (1937), Beau Geste (1939), The Major and the Minor (1942), The Big Clock (1948), Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970), as well as most memorably The Lost Weekend (1945), in which his searing portrait of a desperate alcoholic earned him an Oscar; of cancer; in Torrance, Calif. Once one of the best handgun and rifle marksmen in the British army, the dashing Milland stumbled into acting in minor roles, went...
...biggest successes--by flouting film-industry conventions, taboos and the studio system with such films as The Moon Is Blue (1953), which treated seduction wittily and used then banned words like virgin; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which graphically depicted drug addiction; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where...