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...killer was quickly identified as George Hennard, 35, an unemployed seaman with a reputation as an oddball. An intemperate recluse who apparently hated women, Hennard was thrown out of the merchant marine in 1989 for possessing a small amount of marijuana. He lived alone in his mother's stately brick house in nearby Belton, where he delighted in screaming obscenities at passing females and harassing neighbors with threatening letters. But Hennard's strange life-style could not begin to explain the enormity of his act. Said police chief Francis Giacomozzi: "There was nothing we recovered to show he was capable...
Normal people, beginning their careers, often plan toward what they hope to be doing in 20 years. But journalists aren't that normal -- and besides, how could Barrett Seaman have known in October 1971 that he would spend his 20th anniversary with our company in rural Wise County, Va., watching Oliver North, the ramrod Marine who mesmerized America during the 1987 Iran-contra hearings, campaign for Republican candidates? But for Barry, who excerpted North's autobiography, Under Fire, for this week's issue, getting a close-up look at the author in action was critical to understanding his enduring appeal...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Barrett Seaman, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Barrett Seaman, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Barrett Seaman, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White...