Word: schrager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When his new car stalled one night near a mailbox in Queens, N.Y., William Schrager, 30, idled the engine for a while and then started driving slowly. Seeing the suspicious-seeming car with its short, dark-haired driver, two policemen in a cruising patrol car stopped him. A man of his description was being sought in connection with a series of sexual assaults. Schrager showed some identification, but he had no papers to prove his claim that he was an assistant district attorney. The cops decided to take...
...that night and into the early morning hours, Schrager was put in station-house lineups; usually the other men were all policemen who were taller and heavier than he. To his astonishment, two women identified him after they were told to "see if you can pick out the right one." The nightmare grew worse when a Long Island girl was brought to his arraignment and also identified him as the man who had molested her. Next a Brooklyn girl picked him out of another lineup...