Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before finding Ramirez's fingerprint, investigators had been baffled by the lack of a discernible pattern in the attacks. Serial murderers usually seek out a particular kind of victim, but the Night Stalker assaulted people ranging in age from 16 to 84. He had killed men and women, Asians as well as whites. In two cases he reportedly left behind written messages. Police confirmed that the killer had a distinctive trademark, but to avoid copycat assaults, they were tight-lipped about what...
...Nazionale, the petty-crime rate has actually dropped slightly, owing to increased police vigilance. One golden * oldie that still works: thieves slightly puncture a rental car's tire, and when a flat develops on the Autostrada del Sole, they pull alongside, offering to help change the tire. Before a victim can say grazie, his luggage is out of the trunk and speeding down the road. Bolder thieves on the outskirts of Seville, Spain, smash the car windows of cathedral-bound sightseers stopped at traffic lights and snatch purses in the resulting panic. London's light- fingered sophisticates are so prevalent...
...rose from their seats, pulled out revolvers and fired repeatedly at Longowal. As his bodyguards fired back at the assailants, another young man sprang forward and pumped more bullets into the fallen Sikh leader. Longowal was rushed to the hospital. That evening he died without regaining consciousness, yet another victim of the violence that has claimed some 4,000 lives in Punjab over the past three years...
...trials on the basis that the judge had violated their due process rights in his instructions to the jury. They argued that the judge was wrong in refusing to tell the jurors that, in order to convict on rape charges, they must find that Hussain and Lefkowitz knew the victim did not want to have intercourse...
...essence of the offense of rape is lack of consent on the part of the victim," Brown's decision continued. "'No' must be understood to mean precisely that...