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Frank Jackson knows something about violent crime. As head of the Dangerous Offenders Task Force in Wake County, North Carolina, he's been around his share. Even so, this tape makes him cringe. It's a 911 call made to police the night of July 27. A young woman is phoning for help from her apartment in Fuquay-Varina, about 15 miles from Raleigh. Just before the tape goes dead -- police believe the phone was ripped from the wall -- she can be heard screaming, "Don't harm my baby!" Jackson knows what happened next. Over the next several minutes...
...Kevin Carter backed his red Nissan pickup truck against a blue gum tree at the Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt, he got in and switched on the engine. Then he put music on his Walkman and lay over on his side, using the knapsack...
...heist of over $1 million in jewels from world-famous Tiffany's might have been an inside job, according to the New York police. Two armed men, wearing ski masks, reportedly entered the Fifth Avenue store Sunday night. After binding four security guards with duct tape, the robbers left with almost 300 pieces of jewelry, valued at as much as $1.25 million, and the videotapes from security cameras. Tiffany's opened for business today, and Lloyd's of London has offered a $25,000.00 reward for information on the theft...
...page. It contains this paean to punk love: "Punk rock love is . . . looking at her tattoos while she's asleep. Taking showers together. Playing checkers with cigarette butts. Watching her band play . . . Both of you having the same ex-girlfriend . . . Her giving you 10 rolls of duct tape for your birthday. Her beating up skinheads. Going to the prom on her motorcycle and checking in the helmets at the coat check...
From then on, his career went into free fall. He quarreled with his other Middle East patrons and fled to Eastern Europe, where his flamboyant habits alienated his hosts. On a tape filmed with a hidden camera in Budapest in 1980, he can be seen arguing in Russian with a Hungarian security official, who told him, "Evacuate your operational base in our territory...