Word: strangler
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...truth, Lucien Leger, 27, looked disappointingly unlike most Parisians' spine-tingling image of I'etrangleur, the Jekyll-and-Hyde strangler who had hogged the headlines and taunted the police for 40 days. "The Machiavelli of crime," as France-Soir had dubbed him, turned out to be a colorless, bespectacled little (5 ft. 4 in., 130 Ibs.) male student nurse from the shabby suburb of Villejuif. His hobby was writing banal verse, which he set to borrowed music; he even paid to have his songs recorded and issued in a jacket flatteringly decorated with his face and name...
Developing Image. To convince Chief Inspector Samson that he was indeed I'čtrangleur (the strangler), the criminal filled his various messages with details that only the murderer could have known. Jean-Luc had told him, the killer reported, how he had run away from home after lifting 15 francs from his mother's purse. He was tired of doing his homework (his last assignment: to conjugate the verb rire, to laugh), and when he left his parents' house on Paris' middle-class Rue de Naples, he was wearing a tan corduroy jacket and carrying a Bugs Bunny comic book...
...bucketed a dazzling layup, which would have out the lead to nine, but the All-American was called her charging and the two points nullified Van Breda Kelff had conniptions on the sideline, and the look in Bradley's eyes meet have resembled the expression of the Boston Strangler when he has a nylon stocking in his hand...
Sunday, Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald point blank, the Boston strangler struck again in Lawrence. In Washington, the rain continued. The Sunday New York Times carried the following filler: "Because of poverty and food shortage in many countries, the World Food Congress estimates that 10,000 persons are dying daily from malnutrition or starvation...
Other skits included a commentary on Boston's "mad strangler," who emerged as a confused neurotic with a home life as sad as the hoods in West Side Story...