Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staffer to hop on the story as if the next body might be his own. When Richardson himself scored the biggest local beat of the decade-a 32-column exclusive on the prison love notes exchanged by Beulah Overell and her boy friend while awaiting trial for the yacht murder of her parents in 1947-he bragged that the $1 Examiner was selling on the streets of Los Angeles for $1 a copy...
...Thanks a Lot." Rounding up more than 40 known teen-age gang members in the area, the cops sifted their way down to the suspect 17. Nine of the gang, 15 to 18 years old, were held for murder. The remaining eight, all under 15, were charged with juvenile delinquency. One of these, a 14-year-old boy known to his pals as "The Little King," proudly bragged to detectives that he plunged his knife deep into Farmer's back "to get the feeling of a knife going through bone." As he withdrew his blade, he told the dying...
...Roof. Next, Namboodiripad & Co. set out to cut down the authority of the Kerala state police force. "The police," said Namboodiripad, "have always been used to suppress mass movements of workers and peasants." He ordered them to stand on the sidelines except in cases of "murder, rape, arson or assault...
...deeper worry: "This is like telling the world that in Japan you can do anything if you are drunk. Perhaps we should advertise Japan abroad not as the land of Mt. Fuji and geishas but as a paradise for alcoholics." About twelve Japanese a year win acquittal on murder charges by proving they were drunk or drugged (a plea that is no defense at all in U.S. courts). Announced the Justice Ministry: "Revision of Article 39 is being considered...
...Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary, 52-year-old Nathan Leopold, convicted 33 years ago with Richard Loeb for the thrill murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, waited impassively for the decision that could commute his 85-year sentence to 64 years, free him by the year's end with time off for good behavior. When the news came that Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had refused clemency, the pudgy, ailing onetime child prodigy told reporters, "I stand at the open graveside of my hopes." Later he said he would make a third appeal for parole...