The Crime Book

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220 O n a winter morning just after 10am, Betty Bersinger went for a walk next to a vacant lot in a southwest Los Angeles suburb ...

221 A collection of evidence in the Black Dahlia case, including Short’s birth certificate and one of the threatening letters wr ...

222 BLACK DAHLIA Angeles Papers. Here is Dahlia’s belongings. Letter to follow.” Inside were Short’s birth certificate, social s ...

223 Chief suspect Robert “Red” Manley embraces his wife Harriet at the police station shortly after his release. He had an affai ...

224 O n 26 January 1948, a man in his mid-40s wearing the armband of a municipal official entered a suburban branch of Teigin (I ...

225 After Hirasawa’s death, his adopted son, Takehiko (right), fought to secure a posthumous retrial. Takehiko died in 2013, but ...

226 A t approximately 11:30am on 1 August 1966, engineering student Charles Whitman entered the clock tower at the University of ...

227 See also: The Murder of John Lennon 240 ■ The Assassination of John F. Kennedy 316–21 a couch and left her for dead. Brandis ...

228 As a police marksman struggled to target Whitman from a small plane near the tower, the sniper turned around and fired at hi ...

229 At a press conference after the shootings, Ramiro Martinez (left) and the other three police officers who had confronted Whi ...

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232 T he naked, bloody body of actress Sharon Tate was sprawled across her living room floor, a cross slashed into her eight-mon ...

233 In late spring 1968, Manson formed a brief friendship with Beach Boys’ singer Dennis Wilson. While Wilson was driving around ...

234 volatile personality began to make Wilson uncomfortable. Wilson abandoned both the group and the house, and in August 1968, ...

MURDER CASES 235 “Helter Skelter” by killing wealthy white people and framing African Americans for the crimes. On 25 July, Mans ...

236 THE MANSON FAMILY On the refrigerator door, she incorrectly spelled out “Healter Skelter”. The killers then left the blood-s ...

MURDER CASES 237 and fled the Ranch after the murders, was granted immunity in exchange for her testimony. The trial began on 15 ...

238 A DINGO’S GOT MY BABY! THE DEATH OF AZARIA CHAMBERLAIN, 17 AUGUST 1980 M ichael Chamberlain’s account of his wife’s distress ...