Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME chose to use an old wives' slant in reporting this story: the bad father who once committed murder passes an inherent urge to kill on to his son. Bunk! How outdated! What juicy food for the hungry minds who love to believe such nonsense...
...former friends were jailed. Last week, gripping the bars of their cells with white-knuckled hands, they stared in cold hatred at their betrayer as he was led off to tell more of his story in court. "I'm innocent!" screamed one. But Serafino Castagna, on trial for murder, only shrugged. "We were all innocent," he said, "when we sucked our mother's milk. Now we have sucked the blood of the Mafia, and we are all guilty...
...similar "confessions"-Dr. Sam nevertheless agreed for the first time since the slaying to take a lie detector test himself. Shown a picture of Wedler, he said he had a "vague feeling" that Wedler was the "bushy-haired intruder" he claimed had attacked him on the night of the murder...
...aspect of Russia's tragedy is seen in the inner conflict of this passionately loyal man who, amid mutiny and despair, does not know what his new loyalties ought to be. The doomed family has its socialist, too-idealistic Nicolas Arapov. When the soldiery, whom he pities, pitilessly murder their Czarist officers, he is shocked at their cruelty, even though he has already been set on the road to Bolshevism by his tougher Red mentor, who knows that the idealists "will be destroyed by the reality of the streets...
...Other Father. One day last week the Philadelphia police picked up the three teen-agers as they were returning from Germantown, took them to City Hall, where they readily admitted the murder, signed confessions. There was no difficulty in establishing Marty Daniels' motive for plotting the murder: he hated his father. But what were Ray Edwards' motives? Even to the hardbitten cops, Ray's explanation was a shocker. Why had he fired the rifle? Edwards replied blandly: "Because [Marty] asked me to." Any other reason? "Well, I had the urge to kill...