Word: womacks
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Most notably, former library employee Stephen L. Womack was charged last month with slashing millions of dollars worth of rare books from Harvard libraries. Prior to his employment at Harvard, Womack already had a decade-long history of mutilating books, according to officials at Lexington Public Library...
...book slasher, Stephen Womack...
...Womack, who is also a part-time student at Northeastern, stole from their Library book collection, allegedly tried to extort money from the school, and also threatened to blow up a bank if ransom money were not left for him at Widener Library. In addition, he sent anonymous letters to Widener Library and Northeastern's Snell Library saying that if they did not fire their Jewish employees, he would bomb their buildings...
Johnson is right. In the Womack case, even though police had suspected the slasher was a University employee, it took nearly four years and $50,000 in expensive security surveillance equipment--not to mention the loss of millions of dollars of valuable books--before the suspect was apprehended. And while the police were able to retrieve some of the stolen books and manuscripts from Womack's house, they will never be able to retrieve the thousands of pages already destroyed at this man's hands...
University officials have described Womack as an aberration, assuring the rest of the University community that there is no reason to overreact and impose checks on its new employees. "This person obviously has mental problems, and you don't make policy based on that", said Harvard College Librarian Richard De Gennaro. "This is just one person who happened to be a very bad apple...