Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story said the Dahlia's little black book had led Brown to a suspect "who is now a student at Harvard." It was a good story and a clear news beat. The Traveler sold out at House dining hall newsstands that night...
...former student, now an accountant in Boston, is not a suspect in the case, although he has been questioned before because he knew the murdered woman. Los Angeles police are in the process of checking back over all previous testimony in an effort to solve the four-year-old murder...
...that the reports, which stated that he had conferred with University officials about the brutal killing of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in January 1947, were "lies . . . and had no basis in fact." The reports alleged that an entry in Miss Short's diary had led Brown to a suspect who "is now a student at Harvard...
...play to have its points. But it swamps them in high-toned irrelevancy. It insists on becoming emotional, even spiritual. It prefers tear jerking to spine-tingling. It keeps slowing down to exhibit one of those suspicious half-wits that, by now, only another half-wit would suspect. As a whodunit, it suffers partly from not knowing its business, partly from not knowing its place...
Professor Redlich does not know whether "truth drugs" are used in totalitarian countries to get confessions; they may not be necessary. "We suspect," he says, "that many of the striking confessions in police states were obtained from severely neurotic, guilt-ridden and self-punitive persons. Such persons are likely to confess without much pressure; but even the less severely disturbed persons with guilt-producing fantasies will confess if ... weakened by prolonged, grueling and humiliating interrogation...