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...issue was the case of Erwin Charles Simants, a mentally disturbed handyman who was charged with murdering six members of a family in the small town of Sutherland, Neb...
Time capsules are as popular now as they were on July 4, 1876. In Seward, Neb., a discount hardware store owner named Harold Davisson last year interred a 1975 Chevrolet in a crypt of concrete and steel. This year he is adding a blue Kawasaki motorcycle. Also in the vault are a Teflon frying pan, a bolt of polyester fabric, a zipper, a pair of bikini panties and a man's aquamarine leisure suit...
...Starkweather murder spree, which inspired the 1974 movie Badlands, began in January 1958, in Lincoln, Neb. For no apparent reason, the 19-year-old bandy-legged high school dropout shot to death Caril's mother and stepfather and clubbed to death her two-year-old half sister in the family's rundown frame house. The two teen-agers quickly went from killing to killing, all without motive. The victims: a 70-year-old bachelor farmer, a teen-age couple, a well-to-do industrialist, his wife and his maid, and a traveling salesman. The epidemic of shootings turned...
...moving up to the shrinelike cases that hold the documents. Honeymooners Karen and Philip pause for long moments. Bonnie, a senior on her class trip from Starbuck, Minn., traces with her fingertip the familiar signatures: G. Washington, B. Franklin. Principal Dennis Trump, shepherding 40 students from South Sioux City (Neb.) High, says with fervor, "It's a feeling of splendor to see the things you hold dear. All the meaning and truth of the whole idea come together...
...bodies of a farm family in Sutherland, Neb., lay in their blood, dead from gunshot wounds; a ten-year-old girl and her grandmother had been raped after their deaths. As word of the grisly murders spread last October, major news organizations descended -some literally-on the scene. NBCTV, for example, sent a chartered helicopter whirling north from Denver. The journalists started out expecting to get a major crime story; instead, they ended up with a courtroom confrontation between the conflicting rights of a free press and of a defendant to a fair trial...