Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three years later came some startling new evidence: in the garden and wall of Christie's seedy London flat, police found the bodies of seven women. Among them was the corpse of Evans' wife. At his trial, Christie confessed to Mrs. Evans' murder...
...shirt and dark trousers, she said, had two gold teeth, and drove a blue 1958 Chevrolet with Texas plates. Mexican police immediately began a massive man hunt for all Americans who had crossed the border at Laredo on Oct. 12. In a dusty village 130 miles northwest of the murder scene, they picked up Simmons-and immediately freed him as the wrong...
...headlined a "confession" by another man-a psychotic Texas physician who had been arrested near Múzquiz for running around naked while shooting up an Indian village with a .22 rifle. Not only did the doctor roughly answer Hilda's description, but on the day of the murder he had been seen carrying a .22 pistol only six miles from where the shooting occurred. According to newsmen and the Múzquiz police chief, the doctor repeatedly stated that he had killed "three children" on the Monterrey highway because "they laughed...
...judge, U.S. officials drove the demented doctor across the border (after putting him in a straitjacket) and deposited him in a Waco mental hospital. Since released, he is now practicing in Houston. Bullets from his assorted weapons have never been matched against those used in the Villagómez murder, and no solid evidence links him to the Villagómez crime. Nor has any American in living memory ever been extradited to Mexico...
...innocence, had two Mexican lawyers, neither of whom spoke enough English to communicate with their bewildered client, one of whom is now a fugitive facing embezzlement charges. Though the defendant voluntarily took two lie-detector tests, which are sometimes admissible in Mexican courts, the inconclusive results were ignored. The murder gun was never found; a clear tire mark at the scene did not match Simmons' tires; hundreds of curiosity seekers obliterated all fingerprints on the death car before police thought of checking it for fingerprints...