Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife's screams. He set off the piercing burglar alarm atop their 17-room mansion in Kenilworth, a suburb of Chicago. When he entered the bedroom of his 21-year-old twin daughter Valerie, the girl lay agonizingly near death-her face, chest and stomach mutilated by stab wounds. In the seven years since the slaying, Illinois state police have interviewed more than 14,000 people, spent over $300,000, and painstakingly pursued 1,317 leads. Last week the search zeroed in on one of these, lead No. 273, and for the first time, investigators were all but certain...
Died. Albert DeSalvo, 42, confessed "Boston Strangler"; of multiple stab wounds; at Walpole State Prison in Massachusetts. DeSalvo was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1967 for armed robbery, assault, and sex offenses against four women. Although he admitted during his trial to the strangling of 13 women between 1962 and 1964, he was never charged because of a lack of supporting evidence; later he recanted. Stabbed 16 times by an as yet unidentified slayer, DeSalvo is the fifth Walpole inmate to be murdered this year...
...called stoning of Barba may or may not have occurred as eyewitnesses reported--a gang of black youths was seen throwing rocks near Barba shortly before his death--but it has been clear since the night of Barba's death, when the autopsy was released, that he died of stab wounds. Two youths were arrested and charged for robbery and murder on the following day. Yet, eager to carry the story of Boston's second "white murdered by gang of blacks," The Boston Globe, The Herald-American, The New York Times, The New York Daily News and other national newspapers...
...deluge of coverage which followed Barba's death threatened to tip the precarious balance in the Roxbury and Dorchester areas. Although on the following day most papers reported that Barba had died of stab wounds, they continued to play up any incidents of interracial conflict which occurred and returned to the Wagler incident for more "in-depth" coverage. Saturday's papers was a battle of one-ups-manship to see which paper could offer the most colorful background story of the Wagler death, including a simulation of Wagler's one block run to the liquor store--minus the flames...
Dean Epps and the PBH executive committee agreed last Tuesday to ban further NCLC meetings at PBH after NCLC members clashed with people identified by Cambridge police as members of De Mau Mau, a black Vietnam veterans' group, at an NCLC forum Monday night. Seven people were hospitalized with stab wounds after the battle...