Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marathon. In Barren Hill, Pa., caught in a stranger's closet, Burglary Suspect Benjamin Waites said that he "was running away from the stevedores," failed to explain how he happened to be 15 miles from Philadelphia's strikebound waterfront...
...necessarily the girls' beauty that brought their bones to rest in the Cave of the Virgins' Hollow. Among their remains the diggers found fragments of many small pottery bowls. When they also found an enormous pottery cauldron three feet in diameter, they began to suspect that the 40 beauties had met a fate in the cave that was really worse than death. Further study of the skeletons confirmed the suspicion. Each shapely skull had a hole in it, and conical stone axheads found in the debris fitted the holes exactly. Most of the larger arm and leg bones...
...that his father was not addicted to reading Communist propaganda. And, while not denying his sister's lapses of political good sense, he pointed out that his contact with her was slight, and certainly not of the frequent and close variety prohibited by the Air Force with people of suspect loyalty...
...President Eliot, the enemies to his true faith were churches, creeds, priests, anything supernatural, any concern for a life after death, anything that professed to be sacramental. I suspect, for example -though I do not know this-that he would have considered the doctrine central to generations of believers-that Christ came into the world to save sinners-as so much twaddle. His was to be a 'simple and rational faith,' and there was to be no place in it for 'metaphysical complexities or magical rites . . .' This is where President Eliot may have been wrong...
...calls from Johnson. "He was a mixed-up guy," says Hughes, "who has been in crime ever since he was a kid. He likes to talk and I like to sit back and listen." Two months ago, Johnson stopped calling after police started looking for him as a suspect in the strangulation murder in a Los Angeles suburb of one Richard Fagner, who had befriended Johnson...