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...conclusion of the second, Bundy's mother told him, "You'll always be my precious son," according to today's Morning News Tribune of Tacoma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Serial Killer Bundy Executed in Florida | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

...addition to praying, a remorseful Bundy, 42, also placed two last calls to his mother in Tacoma, Wash., to say farewell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Serial Killer Bundy Executed in Florida | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

...what he or she was doing there. "One may have some plausible explanation for fingerprints," explains Timothy Berry, a prosecutor in Orlando. "But blood, semen, uprooted hair, skin under the fingernails of the victim are something else." The information can be so damning that it precipitates a confession. In Tacoma last December, a bus driver pleaded guilty to rape, although the victim, a 57-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease, does not remember the crime. DNA analysis established that semen on the woman's undergarments belonged to the accused. On the other hand, genetic fingerprinting can be equally powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Convicted by Their Genes | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...deal negotiated by Senator Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, the tribe has agreed to drop its claims to Tacoma in exchange for 900 acres of land and a trust fund that could generate as much as $10,000 annually for every adult, plus $61 million for a salmon fishery and a marine terminal. Each adult will also receive a $20,000 cash grant. Says Frank Wright, a Puyallup administrator: "Now we have something that is ours, something we can grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Northwest: This Land Was Our Land | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

When travelers are asked to rank airports according to convenience, the winner is often Seattle-Tacoma International. Spacious and easy to navigate, Sea-Tac is the 23rd largest U.S. airport in terms of passenger traffic; it handled 14.4 million people last year. Passengers are whisked from the central terminal to outlying gates by a rubber-tired subway that travels at 26 m.p.h. The airport owes its roominess to a five-year building program, completed in 1973, in which two giant, remote terminals were constructed to accommodate jumbo jets. As a result, Sea-Tac has become a popular connection point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seattle-Tacoma International. Airport: Not Enough Places to Land | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

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