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Last month, three men kidnapped a multi-millionaire – the second-richest man in Connecticut, in fact – and plan to hold him for $5 million in ransom. They held him in a motel room for about thirty hours, then finally got cold feet about the whole operation, and decided to let him go… but not before using one of his credit cards to order a pizza delivered.
They’ve all been arrested, of course.
Not yet arrested is a fourth man, not in the motel room with them, who’s been described as the plot’s “mastermind” – not that that’s saying a whole lot.
Six years ago, before I began to cover weird crime news, I thought stories about bank robbers who....
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Lawyers’ questions and witnesses’ responses, as recorded by court stenographers
Q: "Was that the same nose you broke as a child?"
A: "I only have one, you know."
Q: "Now, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated?"
A: "By death."
Q: "And by whose death was it terminated?"
Q: "What is your date of birth?".......
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