Word: serializing
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...mean streets they are known as "strawberries," young women, usually prostitutes, who trade sex for drugs. Since August 1985 police have discovered the bodies of at least nine strawberries; each woman had been shot to death with a small-caliber handgun. Last week lawmen found a suspect in the serial killings. In a twist right out of a lurid TV movie, he turned out to be a sheriff's deputy...
...When serial murderer Ted Bundy was executed last month, Detroit-area editors and news directors followed one of journalism's most unshakable maxims: develop the local angle. In the case of Bundy, the local hook was Caryn Campbell, a 24-year-old nurse from Dearborn, Mich., whom Bundy murdered in Colorado in 1975. But what was second nature to most journalists was yet another horrible reminder for the Campbell family. "Any article or news report about Ted Bundy always included Caryn's name and the fact that 'her nude and frozen body was found in a snowbank,' " wrote her sister...
...first glance, it seems that many of the barbs that have been hurled at the medium are warranted. Serial callers espousing offbeat or racist theories can often get on the air before producers catch on to their voices and their schtick. Radio personalities like New York's Howard Stern do indeed thrive on verbal violence, personal attacks and explosive behavior...
BUNDY was one of the most gruesome serial killers in memory. In 1980 he was convicted of the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. Leach had been abducted, mutilated, slain and abandoned in a pig sty. In 1979, Bundy was found guilty of the murders of two Florida State students, whom he bludgeoned and strangled in their sorority house. All told, Bundy was suspected of over 30 murders in Florida and the Pacific Northwest...
...Bundy was never what a serial killer was supposed to be like. He didn't hear voices or look like a violent sociopath on the Charles Manson model. He wasn't raised in the streets, learning crime as a way of life. The Bundy case throws sociology texts out the window; Ted Bundy was a nice...