Word: slashers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrest of a former University library worker as the infamous Widener slasher has focused attention on Harvard's decision not to require background checks for many of its lower level employees...
Johnson said the Widener slasher had been on the department's "short list" of the 20 most wanted suspects as early as 1991. Harvard police spent more than $50,000 on expensive closed-circuit TVs and video recording equipment. Some cameras were even set up to look like books...
...slasher, however, was able to elude police monitoring devices and was never seen exiting the library with stolen items...
Harvard police investigators at the meeting immediately suspected a connection to the slasher, who had left several notes at the University. One note said he would continue cutting out the insides of books "until the voices tell me to stop...
Marios V. Broustas contributed to the reporting of this story.CrimsonAnne Marie L. EberThis was one of the books destroyed by the Widener book slasher. Police say he is 42-year-old Arlington resident Stephen L. Womack...