Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While all this was going on, a third suspect in the theft, Thomas DeSimone, 32, was reported missing by his wife. DeSimone has a record of cargo thefts and had just served time for a truck hijacking. The FBI believes he was murdered in a dispute among the thieves over distribution of the Lufthansa loot. New York police are not so sure he is dead. Also thought to be a victim of the gang's dissension was Steven Edwards, 31, an ex-convict whose bullet-riddled body was found in his New York apartment...
...addition to the four alarms sounded in Cambridge, the Boston Fire Devartment dispatched three companies and a ladder truck to the fire...
That deal was Giuseppe's undoing. His father thought he had bought Fortunata outright with the truck. Not so, said Giuseppe; Fortunata was just on loan. Seven times, Giuseppedrove to his father's to reclaim Fortunata. Seven times Carmelo went to his son's to retrieve her, paying Giuseppe $36 per retrieval. Finally, Carmelo moved to cut his losses: he took Fortunata to the town hall and married...
That might have restored Giuseppe's peace, but what he did not count on was Fortunata's anger upon learning that she had been traded for a secondhand truck. She blew the whistle, and soon the police were asking questions. They wanted to know if the women were being used as prostitutes; they denied it. The police asked just how Mariannina's husband's pension check was used. The answer was unclear. So now the authorities have charged Giuseppe with pandering and selling his harem's offspring, and they have taken him away. His wife...
...write and reporters who can tell an assault from a battery. "Most people who can do both prefer to work as lawyers because of the money and the status," admits Beckwith. "For some reason, a lawyer working as a journalist is comparable to a doctor driving a garbage truck...