Word: serialization
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...court's serial bungling help matters. Three times court personnel released privileged information, even posting the accuser's name on the court's website. A transcript of a closed hearing that offered details of her sex life--specifically that another man's semen was found on her body and in her underwear--was mistakenly e-mailed to news organizations. And last week a jury questionnaire that also contained the accuser's name as well as a list of 150 potential witnesses was inadvertently leaked. Karen Salaz, a spokeswoman for the Colorado courts, says she is haunted by the mistakes...
...SENTENCED. CHARLES SOBHRAJ, 60, to life in prison for the murder of an American tourist in 1975; in Kathmandu, Nepal. Also known as the "Serpent" and the "Bikini Killer," the half-Indian, half-Vietnamese Sobhraj is alleged to be one of Asia's deadliest serial killers, preying on Western backpackers on the hippie circuit in the 1970s. Brilliant, charming and fluent in seven languages, he taunted police with their inability to catch or keep him, breaking out of jail four times. He is accused of killing another backpacker in Nepal, as well as five more in Thailand, two in India...
...GENRE Serial-killer thriller
...SETUP Dexter is a forensic analyst with the Miami police department, specializing in the study of blood-spatter patterns. Dexter is also an emotionless serial murderer, driven by a remorseless alter ego he calls the Dark Passenger. He only kills people who deserve it--isn't that nice?--but when another serial killer starts preying on the citizens of Miami, Dexter hears the call of a kindred spirit. Or possibly some very unfriendly competition...
...Nevertheless, though he prefers the stiletto to the sledgehammer, Butler did chronicle a damning parade of errors. It turns out that three of five British agents in Iraq whose reports helped convince London that Saddam was amassing a WMD stockpile were frauds, or mistaken. Because Saddam was such a serial liar, analysts repeatedly assumed the worst. In September 2002, when Blair's government wanted to convince the public to take a tougher line against Saddam, it turned to its top clearinghouse for secret information, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), to produce a dossier on Iraq's supposed...