Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abroad, but the brutal shooting of a poverty-stricken, scrap-picking Japanese woman by Private William Girard has made enemies instead. Insult has been added to injury now that Girard has become the recipient of that modern legal farce, the suspended sentence. Girard not only has got away with murder, but he has cost Uncle Sam precious good will...
...ends in Chicago, and of their only mourners, a writer improbably named Parkhearst Cratty and a wealthy matron most commonly called "greatwoman." Again the theme is one that could be comic-the adventures of a yokel in a big city. Again, the working out is pure terror, with murder of the body and desolation of the soul at the end. Author Purdy dislikes to be considered morbid and argues that "despair in art shows concern." All his stories are grotesque, but caught in them, like the tremble of a bird in cupped hands, is the undeniable flutter of life...
...spearheaded by 5,000 hard-core Communist guerrillas-Led by a Prague-trained Communist named Ruben Um Myobe, first secretary of the Red-front Union of the Peoples of the Cameroons (UPC), the terrorists burst out of the jungles, burn grass huts, shanghai thousands of natives into the forest, murder those who will not go. Their demands are for immediate independence (France has promised only "eventual" independence), and through an exiled medical doctor and Red-trained politician named Felix Moumie, the UPC has carried those demands into the corridors of the United Nations in New York...
Gein's explanation of the Worden murder and mutilation: "I was sort of in a daze-like." Under questioning, with the aid of the state crime laboratory's lie detector, he admitted one other murder: the shooting of Mary Hogan, 54, a divorcee tavern keeper who had disappeared from nearby Bancroft three years before. Her face mask could not at first be identified among the remains. All the rest, Gein insisted, he had got by opening fresh graves in nearby cemeteries (he watched the obituaries for prospects). Usually he took only the head and some other parts of the body...
Instead of covering an auto wreck, Ben Reddick soon learned, he had been present for the last act of a murder. The fishstand owner who had come close to drilling Reddick had just pumped three bullets into his wife. He had turned on the gas jets in their apartment and was gunning for a neighbor when the building exploded. Pursued by the crazed husband, the neighbor saved his life-and almost cost Reddick his-by diving to the ground at the newsman's feet...