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Delfonic McCray, 13, was big for his age, 6 ft. tall. He liked basketball and girls, and kept love letters carefully folded in his Michael Jackson wallet. He and a friend were on their way to a Chicago Bulls basketball game and stopped at a housing project on the west side of Chicago to see a girlfriend. As they approached the back entrance of a graffiti-scarred tenement, a group of youths taunted them. Delfonic approached tentatively, then turned and ran. One of the youths casually drew a .22-cal. handgun and shot him. "We had a good kid coming...
...July when the tan 1980 Toyota station wagon owned by Hinckley Police Chief Mel L. Wiley, 47, turned up at Cleveland's Lakefront State Park on Lake Erie. Park rangers noticed it around 4 a.m. one Tuesday. The locked car contained Wiley's neatly stashed clothing, a towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul play...
...despite the reluctance of the two kids, off to England they go, with visions of greeting the Queen in their head, touristy American clothes on their bodies, and lots of "Pig in a Poke" money in their wallet...
Kurt Carlson, 38, Rockford, Ill., roofing contractor. When he realized a hijacking was in progress, he pulled the identification from his wallet that showed him to be a major in the Army Reserve and stuffed it underneath his seat. Unfortunately, Carlson had an official U.S. Government passport. He says, "They identified me as being diplomatic. They saw it as either CIA or FBI." Carlson was beaten severely over a period of 4 1/2 hours. "They started hitting me on the back of the shoulders with an arm of a chair that was torn off." He remained in mortal danger until...
...hundred and eighty dollars worth of merchandise, including a Sesko watch, a duffel bag and a brown wallet were taken from Blodgett Pool lockers Sunday between 2:30 p.m and 3:30 p.m. No suspects were reported...