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Chilling Theories. The abduction was staged at 4:15 p.m., and it was shortly afterward that Dairyland Superintendent Lee Roy Tatom began receiving calls from parents saying, "Hey, the little guy isn't home yet." Assuming that the bus had broken down, Tatom sent people out to check the route. They found nothing, and Tatom, now thoroughly concerned, called police. Not until 7:30 did a local pilot sight the bus, hidden in the slough. Police sped to the site and found the bus deserted; the only real clues were two extra sets of tire tread marks near...
...American woman visiting relatives in Buenos Aires was awakened recently by screams in the night. "I thought I was dreaming," she recalled afterward. "I imagined that I was in New York and it was only a rape or murder, and I wasn't going to get up. But then I looked out my window and saw a car without license plates, with all four doors open. A man was pushing a woman into the front. Then all the doors closed at once. The car drove off, followed by another. Next day, a doorman explained that such things often happened...
Raymond was released in 1970, but soon afterward charged with murder. His alibi was that on the night of the crime he was dining and discussing "the law in general" at London's Gay Hussar restaurant with none other than Driberg, current Labor Party House Leader Michael Foot, and the latter's brother, Sir Dingle Foot, a former Solicitor General in the Labor government. Raymond was acquitted of the murder, but received three years in prison for impeding the arrest of a criminal. In 1972 he skipped from Dartmoor prison while on a home leave and was later...
...physical layout of the target and the schedule of the security men, if there were any." Headquarters' approval was qualified: "As long as full security is assured, go ahead." According to the official, this meant "go ahead, but if you're caught, it's your ass." Afterward, in the field agent's report to Washington, the information gained from the break-in would be attributed to a well-placed informant...
...naturalistic style he pioneered, including adaptations of Lear and Hamlet. "The Garrick" had wanted to appear last of all in his greatest creation, the engagingly villainous Richard III, but his health was not up to it. Said he: "I dread the fight and the fall; I am in agonies afterward." Instead, he appeared in Mrs. Susannah Centlivre's The Wonder, a romantic comedy, then stepped out on the empty stage. His large, dark eyes mournfully scanning the audience, he acknowledged, "This is to me a very awful moment." His friend and mentor Dr. Samuel Johnson agreed. Noting that...