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...motives for the bus hijacking. They found it inconceivable that Ed Ray, a kindly, well-liked man who had been driving buses in Chowchilla for 26 years and had hauled many of the parents of the missing children, could be involved. Police also discarded the notion that a lone psychopath could control 27 captives. There was nothing to indicate that somebody bearing a grudge was responsible. Finally, police concluded that no ransom demand was likely to be received. In Chowchilla, a town of 4,550 in the midst of citrus orchards, dairy farms and fields of grain and cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Escape from an Earthen Cell | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...clever by half, and glibness is the one approach that it is totally disastrous to take toward this subject. The film manages to treat the act of rape as if it were just another kind of S-M turn-on. One wearily concludes that like the psychopath Margaux dispatches, the pack of moral morons responsible for Lipstick probably could not stop themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marinade | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...Kozol and Fort, said Bailey, the Government hoped to cause such confusion over the psychiatric testimony "that you'd fold the whole ball of wax and say, 'Well, they disagreed with each other,' and leave it there." Bailey singled out Fort for excoriation, calling him "a psychopath and a habitual liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Verdict on Patty: Guilty as Charged | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...August, 27 patients at the Michigan VA Hospital suffered respiratory arrests that left them unable to breathe without mechanical aid. Some patients were stricken more than once; eleven of them died. So many breathing failures could not be accidental; patients and staff alike began to wonder whether a psychopath or a misguided mercy killer was in their midst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death Follows Art | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...grim reality, however, is that even the skill and dedication of agents like Larry Buendorf cannot guarantee the safety of a political leader against the cunning of a psychopath who is determined to kill−and who knows, far better than Squeaky Fromme, how to operate a gun. There are 47,000 potentially dangerous persons in the Secret Service files, and no one knows how many tens of thousands of others have still not surfaced. With a staff of only 1,300 agents, the Secret Service is hard pressed to fulfill its present duties and to check out every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIOLENCE: THE GIRL WHO ALMOST KILLED FORD | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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