Word: slasher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slasher, who used a knife and his hands to rip out pages, left notes threatening violence if anyone tried to stop...
Harvard police had long suspected that the slasher was a library employee because he was able to elude monitoring devices and was never seen exiting the library with stolen items...
Thefts and mutilations have cost the College's libraries thousands of dollars. In one celebrated but as yet unsolved case, a suspect known only as the "Widener slasher" destroyed dozens of books over a period of years. Harvard police spent tens of thousands of dollars investigating, in vain...
There is one other element recognizable from our own time: a serial killer is at work. He (she, perhaps?) is a slasher who abducts and mutilates boy prostitutes and escapes over rooftops. One observer proposes the startling notion that a misty swirl of radical, unsettling new theories about the workings of the human mind could be used by detectives to create a / psychological profile of the murderer. The man who offers this theory is an alienist (people who commit bizarre acts are said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James...
Library security has become an even more prominent issue since a book slasher struck the Widener stacks in 1991. But secret security cameras placed by University police on ceilings, shelves and in the books themselves cost Harvard at least $50,000 andfailed to catch the vandal. The cameras have sincebeen removed...