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...benefit of the doubt, at least in public; extreme stress or medication could make the test results inconclusive, they noted. But some neighbors, too, began to wonder. Catherine Frost lives across the street from Smith's tidy little brick house. She heard about the crime on the police scanner she keeps in her bedroom. She supported Smith in the crisis, but the story nagged at her. "Ain't no carjacker going to put a lady out in front of a home," says Frost. "They would take them out in the country where there's no telephones." Frost finally called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Deceit | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...takes full credit for press bashing. She nearly lifts out of the down- filled cushion when she remembers how unfair it was when journalists made her husband out to be an elitist by erroneously reporting that he didn't recognize a supermarket scanner. But she remarks on the novelty of using a juicer and discovering that you can order carryout for dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: the White Gloves Come Off | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

Yesterday's primary was the last time. Beginning with the general election in November, Chicopee's paper ballots will be tallied by an electronic scanner...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: In Chicopee, Ballot Counting No Longer Manual | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

Inside the hideout were a loaded .45 automatic handgun, a .32 revolver, plastic masks, wigs and fake mustaches and beard, burglary devices, ski hats, latex gloves and "a scanner to monitor police transmission and a book to help decode them," according to the Globe report...

Author: By Kun-chin Lin, | Title: Cambridge Police Help Nab Killers | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...verge of a major announcement this week, perhaps related to Fedbuster. Ablott was sifting through some 100 phone messages from the anonymous "We-Tip" hotline of the sheriff's department and was interested in interviewing a 22-year-old man arrested in Laguna Beach in possession of a police scanner, phony fire department IDs and a fire fighter's uniform. Meanwhile, three members of the Arson Profiler Program are quietly pulling 18-hour days at the ATF offices in L.A.'s World Trade Center. Founded in 1986, the program has dispatched staff members around the country to conduct Silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clues in the Ashes | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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