Word: slasher
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Crime: A Prince and the Slasher...
...every moment of Johnson's tenure was scandal-ridden. He over-saw many successful investigations, most notably the capture of the so-called "Widener slasher" after an exhaustive five-year search...
These days washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy, like Newt the slasher, Bill the waffler and Jesse the crank -- Helms, that is, not Jackson. But the scariest of all the hobgoblins may well be a fellow African American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the four years since George Bush chose him to fill the "black seat" vacated by Thurgood Marshall, Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely...
...domestic-jobs program. Congressman Floyd Spence, who chairs the National Security Committee and hails from a South Carolina district bristling with military facilities, proposed in February that Congress boost Pentagon spending $125 billion more than Clinton had proposed for the next five years. But Spence ran into spending slasher John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee. A frustrated Spence even accused Kasich of "siding with people who want to destroy our nation's defense." Kasich prevailed, but knows his own limits. He will fight proposed spending for the B-2 but will leave it to others to stop...
Police said that Womack was responsible for the spree of book-slashings at the Widener library from 1990 to 1992, which cost the University millions of dollars in damages and tens of thousands of dollars in surveillance in an effort to catch the slasher...