Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case against Williams was an ever tightening web of circumstantial evidence presented to a jury that sat through testimony from 197 witnesses and examined 728 pieces of evidence. Robert Henry, a gardener, said he had seen Williams walking hand-in-hand with Cater two days before Cater's body was found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Police say that, shortly after a splash was heard, Williams was spotted driving slowly across a bridge not far from where Cater's body was found. A.B. Dean, 80, the last person who reported seeing Jimmy Ray Payne alive, said Williams...
...person who could kill over and over for no apparent reason would have to have a split personality, be a Jekyll and Hyde." The fiber evidence, the portrait of the young man's conflicted personality and the witnesses who saw him with the victims formed a conclusive web, he argued. "In most cases circumstantial evidence is even better than direct evidence because it doesn't rely on one set of eyes or one person...
...Watergate made only too evident, no one could possibly prearrange every conversation during every waking hour over a period of years. The spider got entangled in its own web. Even had Watergate not occurred, the tapes would have damaged Nixon's reputation severely. Had the tapes trickled out posthumously, as planned, Nixon would have managed the extraordinary feat of committing suicide after his death...
...more among the 29 blacks murdered in Atlanta during the two years preceding his arrest. Lacking any confession, not to mention a single eyewitness or a murder weapon, prosecutors had to argue their case on circumstantial grounds. Last week the prosecution rested, after attempting to lay out an intricate web of Witness connections between Williams and the murder victims...
...White's lovely fable Charlotte's Web, the literate spider Charlotte saves a pig named Wilbur from execution by spinning blurbs about him in the barn doorway: SOME PIG, RADIANT, and so on. The astonished farm folk put away their thoughts of slaughter; they no longer regard Wilbur as pork, but as a tourist attraction, and even a celebrity who enjoys the favor of higher powers. Sweet Wilbur will survive to grow old in the barnyard. He gratefully sighs, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer...