Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party rule came in 1964, when Republican Winthrop Rockefeller polled 43% of the vote against Governor Orval Faubus. G.O.P. hopes soared higher still last spring, when after nearly twelve years in office the still-formidable Governor decided to step down at year's end to rest and-some suspect-to mount a campaign against Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright in 1968. Last week's gubernatorial primaries gave the G.O.P. its most propitious omen yet. While Rancher Rockefeller easily captured his party's nomination, the Democrats showed themselves deeply divided when it came to choosing a successor...
...Miami last week, seven men charged with rape were released with out trial; in Los Angeles, a confessed murderer under sentence of death went free. In Cincinnati, a silent robbery suspect was let go - and promptly committed another crime...
...hotel reporting that a Puerto Rican prostitute had told the manager: "There's a man up there with a gun." The roomer identified himself as Richard Speck, a name that did not yet ring a bell with the officers, though they had a tentative physical description of the suspect. As for the gun, he said that it belonged to the girl. Though most policemen would instinctively detain a man in such circumstances, the cops merely confiscated the weapon-a .22-cal. revolver (the murderer had carried a "small black pistol"). Hours later, police matched up the gun incident with...
...notorious for their rough handling of prisoners in the past, Chicago police treated Speck with a solicitude extended to no other prisoner in their memory. Bowing to the U.S. Supreme Court's dictum-handed down in the historic Escobedo case, which involved the Chicago cops themselves-that a suspect may not be questioned without a lawyer's advice, police let more than a week elapse without attempting to interrogate Speck. Such new-found deference evoked caustic comment from several sources, among them Author Truman Capote, whose bestseller In Cold Blood is an exhaustive anatomy...
...duty at the dead nurses' apartment got the impression that he was talking to Cook County Coroner Andrew Toman, and he started spilling all the gory details of the crime-until he saw Toman walk into the room. Whereupon he slammed down the receiver in embarrassment. Somehow, Suspect Richard Speck's mother in Dallas got the idea that she was talking to a lawyer hired to defend her son. She gushed information meant to help build his case. The banner headline over Romy's story read FAMILY'S STORY OF SPECK'S LIFE; there...