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Government sources denied a story in New York Newsday that a search of Truitt's Norfolk, Va., apartment after the Iowa explosion had netted detonating caps and a copy of the book How to Get Even Without Going to Jail. According to the newspaper, another copy of the book and a detonating device supposedly were found in Hartwig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Aboard the Iowa | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

These competing theories surfaced as the Naval Investigative Service conceded it has failed, in its review of the training, equipment and gunpowder involved, to find a technical explanation for the explosion. The idea that the blast was no accident arose largely from a report that Truitt and Hartwig had been such close friends that in 1987 each had made the other the beneficiary of a life insurance policy for $50,000, with double indemnity in case of accidental death. According to Hartwig's sister Kathleen Kubicina, 36, of Cleveland, the friendship ended last year when Truitt married. While Truitt last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Aboard the Iowa | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...Truitt, on leave from the Iowa, flatly denied that he or Hartwig was a culprit. At a press conference with his wife last week, he claimed that the rumors proved that the Navy was "at a loss" to explain the tragedy. Said the sailor: "They're just looking for a scapegoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Aboard the Iowa | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

When investigators asked, Truitt denied that he had a homosexual relationship with Hartwig. He said they were best friends, who, as teetotalers, did not mingle with the hard-drinking sailors and as a result got "razzed" a bit. Kubicina similarly denied that her brother was homosexual or had ever shown signs of any suicidal despair. Said she: "My brother died a hero. Now they're making him out to be a homicidal, suicidal maniac. It's incredible, these bizarre tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Aboard the Iowa | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

While Hartwig's letters showed he had been saddened when he lost Truitt as a pal, she said his spirits had soon picked up when he found out his next assignment would be as a driver at the U.S. embassy in London. In a letter written three days before the explosion, she said, he was "totally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Aboard the Iowa | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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