Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas has decided to acknowledge the continuing interest in the site. The city's landmark commission gave approval for a 60-ft. elevator tower that will run to the building's sixth floor, where a historical exhibit will detail the President's murder. The $3 million project is scheduled to open by the fall of 1988, the 25th anniversary of the assassination. "Dallas has come to terms with worldwide curiosity," declared Dallas County Chief Executive Lee Jackson. "We'll present the building to the world and let people draw their own conclusions...
...first Powell's murder appeared to be an isolated incident. But soon afterward, several workers at Drake called local station WCPO-TV to say there had been an unusually high number of unexplained deaths on the wards where Harvey had worked. The station's investigative report on the subject in June prompted a grand jury probe. The bodies of ten people were exhumed by the Hamilton County coroner, and traces of arsenic were discovered in several. Last week WCPO reported that Harvey admitted to police he killed 34 people: 23 patients at Drake, five at a local Veterans Administration hospital...
Harvey faces only one murder charge so far, but several more are expected to be handed up this week. At his arraignment for Powell's murder, Harvey pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. Since then, court-appointed psychologists have turned up no strong evidence of mental illness, and his lawyer says he will probably abandon the insanity defense. The attorney is reportedly trying to strike a deal with prosecutors that will spare Harvey the death penalty. "My son has always been a good boy," Harvey's mother Goldie Harvey McKinney told the Cincinnati Post. "He's still a good...
This summer Hagan was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1986 slaying. His sentencing is set for September. He pleaded not guilty, claiming that the fateful day was blurred by drugs. Witnesses testified otherwise. Like so many other killers churned out each year by the ghetto, Hagan does not really care what happened. He does not care about Kellie Mosier or her family or her dreams of being a model or the fact that she never belonged to any gang. "I done did something, and I'm known," he boasts, smiling broadly as he lounges behind the bars...
Still, even that twisted logic does not explain his cold-blooded murder of Kellie Mosier. A junior in high school, she was working at her first job, behind the counter of an ice-cream parlor. While Hagan was being initiated into gangs at the age of 13, she was still playing with dolls. Resisting pressure at school to join the gangs, she selected friends who shared dreams beyond the streets, and they stuck together for protection. Poised and attractive, she dreamed of being a fashion model...