Word: nob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leveller priests on the assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills, or from the splendors of Westwood or Nob Bill, ferried in radial punctureproof silence to those lushest immortal gardens of bones which match each heavenly city of America. Whatever the name they are all Forests of Yawns, Kingdoms of Yawns, the end of Dawns. Terminals...
...coeds from the University of California campus and nearby Cabrillo College disappeared. They were found weeks or months later, decapitated. In all, seemingly random murders took the lives of 19 people around Santa Cruz, including a priest who was stabbed to death in his confessional booth. In the Nob Hill area of San Francisco, a number of Oriental women were assaulted, raped and cut up with knives. One was murdered; another barely survived 22 wounds...
...first break came in February, when Santa Cruz police arrested Herbert Mullin, 25, a slender, former mental patient, who is accused of killing ten of the Santa Cruz victims. Last week police in California and Colorado caught up with two other men, one believed to be the Nob Hill rapist and the other the butcher of Santa Cruz's coeds...
...Good Friday, John Phillip Bunyard, 27, a handsome truck driver from Nob Hill, kidnaped a 19-year-old girl from the parking lot of a casino in Stateline, Nev., raped her and tied her to a tree. Hours later, police caught up with Bunyard driving the victim's car, but he escaped. There ensued a two-day, 500-mile chase back and forth across California. During that odyssey, Bunyard raped one more woman, shot two others, kidnaped several families and escaped twice more from the police. He was finally captured in the foothills of Mariposa, but not before...
With his bail set at $ 1,000,000, Bunyard has so far been charged with only two counts of murder, two counts of assault on police officers and two counts of kidnaping. But a collection of knives found in his Nob Hill apartment, plus a positive identification by one of the area's Oriental rape victims, has led police to believe that they have finally found the Nob Hill rapist...