Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning, it was obvious that the cops who were called to investigate what was initially reported as a kidnapping had allowed contamination of evidence that might have been found at the crime scene. Detective Linda Arndt waited hours for a ransom call that never came before ordering a search of the house. She gave that order not to other cops but to John Ramsey, who found his daughter's body in a basement room and carried it upstairs--a complete violation of police procedure. Meanwhile, Arndt allowed friends and neighbors to wander in and out; coroner John Meyer, arriving...
...right. He told the agents that like others who resist government control, he no longer used a Social Security number. He refused to sign a form called "Interrogation: Advice of Rights" because, he said, the word interrogation reminded him of Nazis. But he did give consent to a search of his truck and house, saying that there was nothing in either location that could be construed as bombmaking materials...
That didn't turn out to be quite true. As the interview was under way, other FBI agents conducted the search and brought the results back to the interrogators. Bags of ammonium nitrate--the fertilizer used to make the bomb--were found in Nichols' home. Confronted with this, Nichols said he planned to sell the ammonium nitrate at gun shows in small quantities. Asked why he hadn't mentioned it earlier, he said it was because "it would make me look guilty to a jury...
...least, his career is headed in the opposite direction. When a performer changes his name, he is, in a John Cougar Mellencamp kind of way, either ready for the remainder bin or ready to get serious. The old Marky was never much of a rapper--do a Nexis search and you will not find the adjective Tupac Shakurish used to describe his bland hip-hop work--but in Hollywood these days, he is giving off heat. Wahlberg's performance in The Basketball Diaries (1995) as a drug-addled Catholic school dropout, opposite the De Niro of his generation, Leonardo DiCaprio...
After reviewing police documents, interviewing school officials and peers of both students, the author travelled to Ethiopia in her search to understand Tadesse, because she discovered that "no one in America knew...