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...long as our courts continue to be lenient, we must accept the 21,000 murders committed each year in this country. Murder has become as American as football and apple pie. The serial killers are surely guilty, but so are the parole boards that release these men into society to strike again...
...business. Presidents and prominent members of their Cabinets can often make more money writing about their time in office than they earned in salary while serving. Publishers are eager for such books, in part because they can make extra profits and garner valuable publicity with the sale of first serial rights to magazines. But as authors, what do the newsmakers own and when do they...
...week's end the publishers had not decided, but were leaning toward seeking further review. Edward Miller, general counsel for Harper & Row, insisted that an important issue is at stake. Said he: "Copyright is the basis of the business we're in, and first serial rights are an important source of income for us." Whatever the final outcome of the case, publishers are considering new tactics to avoid such battles. Some warn that galleys of major books will be offered to fewer bidders with more stringent security restrictions. Others, like Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, think...
...their confessions are even partially true, Lucas and Toole could be textbook examples of a new breed of killer: the serial murderer, whose victims are numerous and whose crimes are geographically far-flung and committed over a period of many years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that serial murderers are behind some 35 death sprees currently under investigation. Alfred Regnery, administrator of the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, estimates that of the 21,000 murders committed in the U.S. last year, several thousand can be attributed to this kind of psychopath. "The serial murderer doesn...
Unlike the serial murderer, the mass murderer, as criminologists define him, confines his spree to one general area and strikes over a relatively short period of time. A prime alleged example: Angelo Buono Jr., the so-called Hillside Strangler, who stands accused in the deaths of ten young women during the Los Angeles winter of 1977-78. Last week he was found innocent of one murder but guilty of two others. The second guilty verdict, returned on Saturday, could subject Buono to California's death penalty. -By Alessandra Stanley. Reported by David S. Jackson/Houston, with other bureaus