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Despite his systematic savagery, the slayer either miscounted or forgot the one victim-possibly because he had learned that eight girls lived in the house and did not realize that a ninth, Mary Ann Jordan, was spending the night. "While he was out of the room on one trip," Corazon recounted, "I rolled under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went...
...week's end Speck was found in a Chicago West Side flophouse bleeding from slashes in his right wrist and left elbow which may have been self-in flicted. Police rushed him to a hospital where the alleged slayer was in serious condition...
...Boom Slayer. Roche may have a touch of the typical automan's optimism, but other seasoned economy watchers agree that business is basically sound. "A recession is certainly not imminent," says Harvard Economist John V. Lintner. "Business is very strong." Echoes James Robertson, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board: "Too much is being made of the auto figures and the market performance. When matched with other straws in the wind, neither of these developments means much." Even so, Gardner Ackley, the President's chief economist, says: "Some of the tremendous exuberance has gone out of the economy...
...Catherine gets clouted in the face with a sea shell and knocked down a treacherous embankment. After a lot of voodoo-dee-oo and slipping about in the tropical moonlight, Jessica comes through happily, and a sudden storm conveniently takes care of Catherine's slayer. Now then, what...
...cases that troubled the public conscience was the grisly one of Timothy Evans, who in 1950 was accused of killing his wife and daughter and was executed, although in court he named Prosecution Witness John Chris tie as the guilty man. Three years later, Christie was revealed as the slayer of six women, and a month before his own execution, he confessed to the murder of Evans' wife...