Word: strangler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets, zoom out of the curves. I glide noiselessly through the long December shadows of the trees on the Arborway. I pass you on the expressway, the streetlights bleeding away on the bend in my windshield. Have you heard about the midnight rambler? Have you heard about the Boston. . . strangler...
...detract from her wonderwoman image, Raquel Welch prepared for her most ambitious role-as Myra Breckinridge, the man who changed his sex to turn temptress, in 20th Century-Fox's version of Gore Vidal's novel. At the announcement press conference, Producer Robert Fryer (The Boston Strangler, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) said that to the best of his knowledge only Miss Welch and eight transvestites had tested for the role. "It's a great step forward in my career," said Raquel. "But what will Laugh-In say?" Nothing uncomplimentary-not after the latest publicity shot...
According to defense experts, Jack Ruby was suffering from a "psychomotor variant" seizure when he killed Lee Harvey Oswald. But prosecution witnesses answered that Ruby's brain waves were "normal," with only "very slight" aberrations, not enough to suggest seizures. "Boston Strangler" Albert DeSalvo was an extreme schizophrenic under an irresistible impulse at the moment of his alleged crimes, defense witnesses said; the equally impressive prosecution allies testified that DeSalvo was suffering a "defect of character but not a psychosis...
...young Jordanian also knew how to be D. & D. For almost 24 hours, Sirhan could not even be identified; he did not object to being called John Doe. Nonetheless, Sirhan could become almost garrulous about such unrelated matters as the high cost of childbirth, the Boston strangler and the state of the stock market...
...Boston Strangler -- Believe your worst suspicions. At the MUSIC HALL, Tremont St. near Stuart...