Word: slayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slayer gets his inheritance because denial would unconstitutionally impose an additional punishment for the crime...
...slayer gets nothing-a rule sometimes criticized as "unwarranted judicial legislation...
Since Vermont statutes do not cover such situations, the probate court merely invoked the old common-law rule that a slayer shall not profit from his crime. Charlotte stubbornly appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court on the ground, among others, that the rule applied only to heirs convicted of murder-not manslaughter...
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...