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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officially as the Broadmoor Institution. Many a Berkshire villager roundabout ardently wishes it would go back to its honest old name: Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Broadmoor's tenants, the villagers feel, are far too dangerous to be treated as mere hospital patients. Take, for example, young John Thomas Straffen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Lovely Afternoon | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...half-witted John Straffen, who had never felt the slightest sense of guilt over any of his crimes, the capture meant simply the end of a lovely afternoon. For the villagers whose homes lie within escaping distance of Broadmoor Institution, it meant something else. Next morning the strangled body of a little girl, six years old, was found in a thicket along Straffen's route from Crowthorne to Arborfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Lovely Afternoon | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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