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Within two days the Peruvian authorities charged McNamara with the murder of two government officials who were killed in a 1987 Sendero Luminoso attack near the Andean town of Vilcashuaman. The evidence against her was flimsy: the two survivors of the assault said it was led by a tall gringa, local slang for any non-Indian woman from the Peruvian coast. Both victims met McNamara and said she was not the killer, but to no avail. Though McNamara claimed she was in Puquio, a town more than 200 miles away, when the murders occurred, records from the hotel where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Behind Bars with the Senderistas | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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