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...morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly scene. Before killing Miglin, someone had wrapped him in plastic and brown paper and wound his face with masking tape, leaving only a hole for his nose. He was then repeatedly slashed and stabbed, and his throat was cut with a gardening saw. Afterward the killer or killers reportedly fixed a ham sandwich and shaved with the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH AT EVERY STOP | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

Just as the guerrillas playing fulbito (minifootball) were bellowing "Goal!," the floor exploded under their feet. Five were killed instantly, and the others scrambled for their weapons and toward the stairs. At the same moment other plastic-explosive charges blasted more openings from the tunnels into the interior of the residence. Still others blew open on each side of the building's exterior, and one ripped up the back garden. "The whole house shook like cardboard," an army lieutenant says, and smoke billowed into the sky as automatic weapons clattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THEY DID IT | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...perspective" and so joined the insurance industry. "I never realized how out of control the claims are," pens Ramon, "especially for patients who are going to die anyway." Ramon adds that he recently returned from a medical conference where he encountered RALPH FINEGOLD, BOB LATOUR and SHEILA GROENING, plastic surgeons all. Sheila had done Ralph's hair transplants, apparently with great success: Ramon reports that Ralph spent the entire weekend surrounded by would-be Mrs. Finegolds. Lucky dog! The whole thing was pretty ironic since years ago, Ralph had done Sheila's breast reduction to similar effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLASS TRASH | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Motorists raise a middle finger as they pass Koskovich's home on High Street (where Sam Donaldson's limo was parked last week and where a sign reads IF YOU ARE A NEWS REPORTER PLEASE GO AWAY, THANK YOU). There Bertha Lippincott cracked open the door, as the plastic sheeting over the front window rattled in the wind. Sobbing, she protested her grandson's innocence: "There were four other names given that were involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANKLIN, N.J.: DELIVERED TO THEIR DEATHS | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...intense self-doubt; behind their united front lurked dissatisfactions and secrets that eventually unraveled the whole idyllic package. And on April 11, Dorris, 52, was found dead in a Concord, New Hampshire, motel room. He had swallowed a lethal combination of pills and vodka and had tied a plastic bag over his head--a suicide method reminiscent of that used by the Heaven's Gate cultists weeks before. "To whomever finds me, sorry for the inconvenience," his suicide note read in part. "I was desperate. I love my family and my friends and will be peaceful at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN IMPERFECT UNION | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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