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Harvard police say Womack is the Widener slasher, who from 1990 to 1992 terrorized Harvard library and security officials with a series of carefully planned attacks against the University's book collection...
...case of the Widener slasher consumed thousands of hours of police time and hundreds of thousands of dollars of University money. It was perhaps the most notorious crime in recent University history...
...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...