Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Drug use among the city's young men is blamed for a sharply rising murder rate--a record 438 homicides were committed last year against 369 the year before...
Then last week Stuart's younger brother Matthew, 23, told police that the day before the murder, Charles arranged to meet him after the childbirth class. When Matthew arrived for the rendezvous, Charles tossed a bag through his open car window to his brother and sped off. Later Matthew went out to the Pines River in Revere, outside Boston, and tossed the bag into the water. Last week divers recovered Carol Stuart's Gucci bag, wallet and makeup kit from the river. Matthew also turned over to the police Carol's diamond engagement ring, which supposedly had been stolen...
Three days after his wife's murder, Stuart collected an $82,000 insurance payment. Some reports claimed that he had also taken out more than $500,000 in extra life insurance; others alleged that Matthew and Charles had earlier plotted to fake a burglary of the couple's house, during which Carol would be killed. A Boston television station reported that on the night before he died Charles confided to a family friend that he killed his wife for the insurance money. He wounded himself in the abdomen when his plan to shoot himself in the foot went awry. Other...
Supporting Noriega became steadily more difficult as he rigged elections, was accused of ordering the murder of opponents, and was subjected to journalistic exposes of his drug running and arms smuggling. But the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration stood by him, even as the DEA developed the evidence leading to his indictments. The State Department was split between a get-Noriega faction and diplomats who were nervous about the potential loss of intelligence assets in Panama. By the time of the indictments, though, it was obvious that Noriega had gone out of U.S. control. Investigators assert that...
Facing U.S. drug charges, the deposed Panamanian leader could raise embarrassing questions: What did the President know, and when did he know it? -- How a wily papal nuncio in Panama City outwitted an unwelcome guest. -- A baffling shift in a murder case stirs racial tension in Boston...