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In the worst mass murder in New York City history, ten people, including eight children, were shot dead, execution-style, in a Brooklyn apartment last week. In New Hampshire, Christopher Wilder's cross-country odyssey of kidnap, rape and murder ended in his shooting death during a struggle with...
Villalobos has long been the leading guerrilla exponent of such a strategy. As a teen-age student leader, he began in 1971 to form clandestine left-wing groups to foster his own version of "armed struggle"; the units eventually specialized in kidnaping and urban terror. Villalobos created a major scandal...
DIED. Ronald O'Bryan, 39, the so-called Candy Man killer, who was convicted in 1975 of poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween sweets; by execution (a lethal injection of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride); in Huntsville, Texas.
Execution of Justice by Emily Mann. Dan White was a Viet Nam paratrooper, then a policeman, a fireman and supervisor of San Francisco's Eighth District. On Nov. 27, 1978, he shot and killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first avowed homosexual elected to high city...
Compelling facts do not always cohere into riveting drama. But Mann, author of the social documentary play Still Life, has shaped the trial transcript and other relevant comments into antiphonal form: the lament of a hard-nosed cop will be answered by a raucous drag queen; the surreal anguish of...