Word: serializer
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LAST week, a deranged man took 33 hostages in a bar, killing one man and sexually molesting several women. The location was the University of California at Berkeley. A month ago, a serial killer--still at large--stalked and murdered five students at the University of Florida at Gainesville...
...sits bolt upright, his hands folded neatly on the oak table in front of him. A dark suit and subdued tie reinforce the image of a stern military man, someone just as capable of offering an interrogator no more than name, rank and serial number as he is of impassively handing down a tribunal's verdict. Not even his eyes, hidden behind dark glasses, give anything away...
...apparent pattern of the grisly murders -- the four women were all attractive, petite brunets with shoulder-length hair -- has touched off fears that a serial killer might be on the loose. Nearly 200 local, state and FBI investigators have poured into Gainesville to provide security and hunt for a suspect described by Police Chief Wayland Clifton as a "methodical maniac." Among the visiting sleuths: John Douglas, who helped track such serial killers as Charles Manson, New York's "Son of Sam" in the 1970s and Florida's own Ted Bundy, who was executed last year...
...this novel, based on a true story, Matthiessen is pretty good at mythmaking himself. From the evidence he gives, there is no reason to think the real Edward J. Watson was much more than a serial killer with trading smarts that were offset by lethal outbursts of meanness. But the reader doesn't see much of that side. Oh, Watson beats his son every Sunday and throws a half-caste mistress off his land when she becomes inconvenient. But the narrative, which is told in 36 short chapters by ten locals, mostly mixes awe and dread, along with a certain...
...this works from a KGB officer who'd had the job of sorting files. In every case, the first page of a file was retained. If a person had been executed, an affidavit that the death sentence had been carried out had to be included, along with the serial number of the pistol used...