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...back and forth in time, from the Sunday morning, June 22, 1958, when Jean Ellroy's strangled body was discovered near a high school athletic field in El Monte, up to the recent past, when James, her only child, teams up with a retired member of the Los Angeles sheriff's department to investigate the old unsolved murder all over again. In between, Ellroy portrays the harrowing spell, unrecognized by him at the time, that his mother's fate cast over his adolescence and the sort of person and writer he would become...
...loud explosion, seen a large cloud of smoke rising from the woods and then seen Jewell at the edge of the woods, looking "very nervous"; Jewell had told co-workers, "You better take a picture of me now because I'm going to be famous"; Jewell, as a deputy sheriff in Habersham County, owned an olive-drab military-style knapsack very much like the one that contained the bomb, yet he denied this to the FBI; also, as a Habersham County deputy, Jewell had received some training about bombs, particularly pipe bombs; Jewell, who never took breaks, had left...
BORN: May 8, 1941, Youngstown EDUCATION: U of Pittsburgh, B.S., 1963; Youngstown State U, M.S., 1973, M.S., 1976 FAMILY: Wife, Patricia Choppa; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Drug-program director POLITICAL CAREER: Mahoning County sheriff, 1981-84; U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: 1823 Basil Avenue, Poland, Ohio...
BORN: March 5, 1957, St. Clair EDUCATION: Bloomsburg U, B.A., 1980 FAMILY: Wife, Gwen Kieres RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Sheriff POLITICAL CAREER: Schuylkill County sheriff, 1985-92; U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: 302 Mahantongo Street, Pottsville...
Holden was the boy next door--football hero, local sheriff--and now bills himself as a man of the people who can get along with both the rich and poor of the economically polarized Sixth. That personability got him elected twice in a conservative district, but Holden also opposes federal funding for abortions and believes parents should be notified if their child has the procedure...