Word: strangler
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...fellow standing behind her. The baby would grow up to be Sebastian Junger, the mega-selling author of The Perfect Storm, the true story of a fishing boat lost at sea. The smiling guy was a handyman named Albert DeSalvo. History would come to know him as the Boston Strangler...
...never one to mince words. As the movie industry's chief lobbyist, he knew how to portray his business's challenges in dramatic terms. Back in the 1980s, faced with new technology that supposedly threatened the studios' bottom line, Valenti once famously compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler...
...DIED. ANGELO BUONO JR., 67, serial killer whose habit of dumping his female victims' nude bodies on hillsides near his suburban Los Angeles home earned him the nickname "Hillside Strangler"; at Calipatria State Prison in Sacramento. Convicted in 1983 of murdering nine young women in 1977 and 1978, Buono was serving a life sentence without parole...
...Heroes,” which I saw a few weeks ago, exposes the New York spirit—a spirit he shares. The two twenty-something protagonists shed their mundane workaday lives to fight crime as real life superheroes, eventually capturing the “SoHo strangler.” They, like Brady and all real New Yorkers, seek to live extraordinarily; they want something more; they need to be unique...
...island both above and below water. There's an extensive coral reef on the sheltered southwestern side, with a healthy population of reef fish and some larger predators such as sharks (mainly black and white tips), stingrays, turtles and barracuda. We also found two sea eagles nesting in a strangler fig in the interior of the island...