Word: slayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WELCOME TO DALLAS'S wax museum. There's a good number of people coming in today. Inside the museum (door to the right) are the exhibits of wax figures of some of the most famous people from our history. Included in the exhibits are Lec Harvey Oswald, the alleged slayer of President Kennedy; Jacqueline Kennedy, the beautiful former first lady; and Bonnie and Clyde, the famous killers...
...biggest manhunt in New England history, bloodhounds bayed through the woods around the Bridgewater State Hospital, 25 miles south of Boston, where he had been held; police, on foot, in cars and a helicopter, searched the area for DeSalvo and the two other inmates-a wife slayer and a robber-who had fled with him. The trio had used a key they made in prison to unlock their cell doors. DeSalvo's brothers were arrested and charged with being accessories after the fact; within recent months DeSalvo had transferred $2,600 in veterans' and Social Security payments...
Died. Jack Ruby, 55, convicted slayer of Presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald; of a pulmonary embolism; in Dallas (see THE NATION...
...slayer is made a "constructive trustee," receiving full title to the estate-while the victim's other heirs get all of the actual benefits...
After choosing the third alternative, the Vermont court explained: "The slayer should not be permitted to improve his position by the killing, but should not be compelled to surrender property to which he would have been entitled if there had been no killing." As for Charlotte's manslaughter argument, the court ruled that slayers convicted of involuntary manslaughter may fully inherit their victims' estates because the crime involves no intent to kill. Not so for those convicted of voluntary manslaughter, which does involve intent to kill. Result: Charlotte wins the title without the cash, which still goes...