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Från boken Prison Sex: Practice and policy av Christopher Hensley

Jewish Mafia – Carpenoctem

Organized crime in America was born of the amalgamation of the two most powerful ethnic crime groups in the underworld of the early 1930s – the Italian mafiosi and the Jewish gangsters.[…]

School Killers – Crime Library on truTV.com.

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In the late 1990s, it seemed like an epidemic had hit American schools: Children were acquiring guns and bombs, and then going to school to kill teachers and classmates. Various cultural influences were targeted for blame, such as Stephen King’s novel, Rage, a film, The Basketball Diaries, and the Pearl Jam video, “Jeremy.” Violent videogames also entered the discussions, as did the influences of cults like Satanism. Yet a look back reveals some of the earlier incidents as well. The following is a timeline of school violence that grabbed national attention:

• January 1979 — Brenda Spencer, 17, got a rifle for Christmas and used it to shoot into an elementary school across the street from her home in San Diego, California. Eight children and a police officer were injured, and two men lost their lives protecting the kids. When the six-hour standoff finally ended, Brenda explained with a shrug, “I don’t like Mondays.”
• March 2, 1987 — Nathan Ferris, 12, was an honor student in Missouri, where he finally got tired of being teased. He brought a pistol to school and when a classmate made fun of him, he killed the other boy. Then he turned the gun on himself. He had warned a friend not to attend school that day, signaling his plans, but no one had listened to this overweight loner.

Stephen Abbot & Jamie Rous (AP)

Night Stalker: Richard Ramirez, famous satanic serial killer – Crime Library on truTV.com.

The bride wore a calf-length, white wedding dress with long lace sleeves.   The groom wore a starched set of prison blues, the pants a little too long, the shirt tails hanging out.  She was glowing; he was nervous.  The ceremony took place on October 3, 1996, in the large, gray-walled main visiting room of California’s San Quentin Prison.  According to Jim Doyle writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, the bride, Doreen Lioy, age 41, was a freelance magazine editor with a bachelor’s degree in English and an I.Q. of 152.  The groom, serial killer and rapist Richard Ramirez, was on Death Row, awaiting execution.

Seven years earlier in 1989, Ramirez had been convicted on 43 counts, including 13 murders, and the authorities have good reason to believe that he had committed several others.   For over a year starting in the spring of 1985, the residents of Los Angeles County lived in fear of the anonymous “Night Stalker” as he was called, forcing many to alter their nighttime habits, install better locks on their doors and windows, and invest in electronic security systems.  The newspapers dubbed him the Night Stalker because he always attacked at night like a vampire.

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