Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...December 1956, Holzapfel and Joseph A. Peel Jr., a West Palm Beach lawyer and a former judge, were arrested for attempted murder. Peel had driven his law partner, Harold Gray, to a tavern, where Holzapfel was waiting. The partner was given a brutal beating but survived. The motive, police charged, was a $100,000 insurance policy on Gray's life. After years of trials, the case was dropped when Peel agreed to resign from...
...case of The Alamo, forever is almost attained in one projection; the film runs three hours and 38 minutes, including an intermission. The first three hours, moreover, are as flat as Texas. Plenty happens: a seduction, an orgy, a murder, a battle royal in a barroom. But it all seems to have happened before, in some other John Wayne western, and in any case most of the action has nothing to do with the Alamo...
...hero is a cool, professional police inspector (Heinz Ruhmann) assigned to investigate the razor murder of an eight-year-old girl in the woods near a small Swiss town. When he breaks the news to her parents, he promises them, in a moment of rare emotional commitment, to bring the murderer to justice. Under pressure from the police, a peddler confesses to the crime, then hangs himself in his cell. But even though the case is officially closed, the inspector is not satisfied. Haunted by the memory of the butchered child and impelled, by his pledge to her parents...
Johnson has not restricted himself to the writing of non-fiction, however. During the thirties he published two novels, Unweave a Rainbow (dealing with "the disappearance of illusion in the process of arriving at maturity") and The Praying Mantis (a murder mystery centered on the anxieties of the killer). At present he is concluding a biography of Sir Walter Scott, which he hopes to finish some time next fall...
...Witness (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Re-enactment of the case of Charles Becker, the New York City police lieutenant electrocuted in 1915 for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. As played by Nehemiah Persoff, Becker will be put on the griddle by real lawyers in a simulated investigation...