Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...western Indiana hamlet of Hollandsburg, four young robbers brandishing shotguns broke into a mobile home where a mother, her son and three stepsons were watching early morning television. As the climax to a robbery that netted only $30, the bandits ordered the boys, ranging in age from 14 to 22, to lie face down on the floor, then systematically shot all four in the head. The mother, Mrs. Betty Spencer, 43, survived only because her wig was blown off by a fifth shotgun blast and the robbers mistook it for the back of her head...
...Detroit, pot-smoking Jesse Coulter, 42, was so overcome by the combination of grass and the televised version of Roots that he picked up a sawed-off shotgun and ordered Wife Rita to drive with him 260 miles to Cincinnati. There the two took eight hostages in a home for unwed mothers and held them for twelve hours, demanding to see the son they had given up at the same home 20 years earlier. Coulter finally surrendered after a young detective, pretending to be his long-lost son, persuaded him to end the siege...
...trigger that touched off all these violent outbursts? Probably not. Yet a number of psychiatrists speculated that a powerful influence might have been the episode that occurred two weeks ago in Indianapolis. There, a 44-year-old auto salesman named Anthony Kiritsis wired the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun to the neck of a mortgage executive and held him hostage for 63 terror-filled hours (TIME, Feb. 21). When Indianapolis TV stations acceded to his demand that he be put on the air, Kiritsis crowed: "I'm a goddam national hero." He was scarcely that-and Indianapolis authorities...
...from prosecution. The following day county officials agreed-on the condition that Hall would immediately be released. But Kiritsis waited another day, while his lawyer looked over the immunity agreement, before pronouncing himself satisfied. Then, beaming in what he thought was triumph, he marched Hall-still wired to the shotgun-into a lobby crowded with newsmen and police...
...obscenity-filled 23-minute monologue before the TV cameras, Kiritsis declared himself "a goddam national hero." Later he said that he had "really pulled one over" on the cops, confessing that he had no dynamite in his apartment. He finally released Hall, then defiantly fired his shotgun out a door. When the gun jammed as he tried to shoot again, police grabbed...