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CAPTURED. BRIAN NICHOLS, 33, rape defendant accused of killing the judge presiding over his trial; by police, after a massive, 26-hour manhunt; in Atlanta. Nichols allegedly wrestled a gun from a sheriff's deputy at the Fulton County Courthouse and fatally shot Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes, a stenographer and another deputy. Nichols then stole a series of cars--allegedly killing an off-duty federal customs agent in the process--before a woman tipped off police that he had been holding her hostage in her apartment...
...girl walks only in straight lines, talks like a lisping machine gun and has pigtails pulled so tight she looks as if she's going to explode. Another kid is a portly know-it-all with a sinus condition and a special trick of spelling his words silently in advance--by tracing them on the floor with his foot. Then there's the overachieving Asian girl who objects to being introduced as someone who speaks five languages. Actually, she says a bit resignedly, it's six. And, she wonders, do the notes about her also "say that I only sleep...
...Length of time within which the FBI is required by law to destroy the record of a gun-ownership application after it has been approved...
...sister Kathryn was stabbed and strangled to death three months after the Otero murders. After lunch on a warm April day in 1974, the Brights came home from taking their sister Karen to the bank. A man in a black stocking cap, camouflage jacket and black gloves was waiting, gun in hand, in the front bedroom. "He told us he was wanted in California and was headed for New York," Bright recalls. "He said all he wanted was money and a car, and he wouldn't hurt...
Some afternoons he would wander through backyards in the neighborhood, tranquilizer gun ready, chasing stray pets. He did it as if he were the action hero in a hunt-'em-down video game, tracking the creatures with an aggression that for a 7-year-old boy might have been charming, if a bit creepy. In a grown man, it was just weird. The true 7-year-olds knew it too--kids in the area made up a game called Hide from Dennis, taking cover whenever they saw his white van approach...