Word: slashers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Between 1991 and 1992, the slasher left notes threatening violence if anyone tried to stop him from mutilating books. One note left at Harvard said he would continue cutting out the insides of books "until the voices tell me to stop...
University Librarian Sidney Verba '53 yesterday estimated the damage caused by the slasher at hundreds of thousands of dollars, but other library officials said a more accurate figure is "several million...
Harvard spent more than $50,000 on the surveillance system between 1991 and 1992 in its effort to catch the slasher. The University police stationed officers in the Widener stacks 24 hours a day and required all students and faculty entering the stacks to sign...