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...parables of feminist self-realization. For Mills, things start to turn around in prison when she learns to depend on no one but herself. "You wanna get out of here?" an inmate tells her. "Grow up!" Fine for her to say. But for TV's women sufferers, the next rapist, murderer or slimy attorney is just around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, The Agony! The Ratings! | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...police in towns separated by hundreds of miles tell when a roaming serial murderer or rapist is at work? The FBI will soon provide a key with its new Combined DNA Identification System (CODIS). The computer program provides a universal registry of DNA traces found in the blood and semen samples the attackers often leave behind. All forensic labs in the U.S. will be asked to use the FBI's system, so that no matter where a person's DNA is tested, the record will be uniform. Using CODIS, authorities can tell if a faceless criminal has been detected elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching Serial Killers in the Spotlight | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...heard that kind of excuse too, that she was not upset enough. There are some survivors who relive each part of the episode like a single camera frame and others who repress it. But each telling is different. With a serial rapist, for example, you know exactly what he says when he approaches each woman, what the language is, what the sexual acts are, how long it took. And yet it's fascinating to see five women at trial testify about a very similar event very differently, depending on each woman's emotional strength, at what point this happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of Convicting Rapists: LINDA FAIRSTEIN | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...rights." Even if the evidence is disallowed, notes Neal Sonnett, a criminal defense lawyer in Miami, "I doubt seriously that there will be very many prospective jurors who will not have heard or read about these latest revelations. The notion that Willy Smith is something akin to a serial rapist is bound to prejudice them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palm Beach Rape Case: Then There Were Three | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...says. Nor does she take kindly to the criticism that the movie bashes men. "I certainly don't hate men," says Khouri, who celebrates her first year of marriage to writer and producer David Warfield this month. "Most guys don't relate to the truck driver or the rapist ((in Thelma & Louise)), and if they do, their problems are bigger than this movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving into The Driver's Seat | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

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