Word: slasher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard has its very own slasher...
...Slasher. The word evokes images of the nineteenth-century mass murderer Jack the Ripper, sporting a shiny silver knife and a bloodthirsty eye. Stories of the legendary killer still linger into the late decades of the twentieth century, pervading dime store novels and Grade-B horror movies...
Little did anyone suspect that Stephen L. Womack would be accused of being a slasher. And not just any slasher. Harvard police say Womack is the Widener slasher they have been pursuing for four years...
...Slasher. The word conjures up images of brutal murders committed in cold blood. A modern day "Jack the Ripper" roves the stacks of Widener, razor in hand, searching for his next victim...
Slashing as a crime is so glamorous, so easily sensationalized. Perhaps the timid Womack, if he is indeed guilty of what he has been accused, wanted to find an easier way to obtain the exciting title of "slasher." At least a way that wouldn't involve killing people...