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...were nevertheless weird beyond weird. Particularly in the areas of occult groups I encountered the spiritually wounded: drinkers of dog blood, the video-bugger crowd, people who hang rotting goats' heads up in their kitchens, people who rent corpses for their parties, victimizers of every persuasion ...The probability that uncaught murderers--plus groups who commit human sacrifice and from whom the family drew ideas and support--were running loose in California also crimped investigation. One encountered several nomadic hippie Cassandras whom no official seemed to believe and who told ghastly tales of sacrificial rituals in the mountains...
...zesty raids near Chicago last fall, an environmental guerrilla dubbed "the Fox" enraged polluters and entranced citizens by stopping up factory chimneys, plugging sewers and sloshing corporate offices with smelly river muck (TIME, Oct. 5). Still uncaught, the Fox recently gained an equally anonymous ally: "The Billboard Bandit," a single-minded commando devoted to beautifying the roadside near Monroe, Mich...
...point. Americans widely ignore laws they dislike, whether against gambling or marijuana. The nicest people steal: roughly 75% of insurance claims are partly fraudulent. Uncaught employees pocket $1 billion a year from their employers. To poor offenders who go to jail without bail the system is unfair, and the legal process strengthens that opinion. If a man cannot afford a good lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial, as do 90% of all criminal defendants. He then discovers that for the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences, from which 31 states and the federal...
During three autumn months of 1888, five London prostitutes were murdered and all but one horribly disemboweled by perhaps the most famous uncaught murderer of all time, Jack the Ripper. According to an article published this week in The Criminologist, a British professional journal of police science, Jack may have gone uncaught, but his identity was known to Scotland Yard: "He was the heir to power and wealth. His grandmother, who outlived him, was very much the stern Victorian matriarch . . . His father, to whose title he was the heir, was a gay cosmopolitan and did much to improve the status...
Harvard took over and moved downfield but Tom Wynne missed his third field goal attempt of the game. Then three Brown passes went uncaught, forcing the Bruins to punt with about six minutes left...