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- <title>
- Apr. 27, 1992: Crime Time
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 27, 1992 The Untold Story of Pan Am 103
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- Crime Time
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- <p>A SLAVIC HANNIBAL?
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- <p> He picked up his victims at bus stops and other public
- places, lured them into the woods, killed them, cut them up and
- possibly ate parts of them. Citizens of the former Soviet Union
- have only recently become accustomed to reading about everyday
- crimes in the once rigidly controlled press. Now they are
- following the trial of a man the newspapers have called "the
- century's most depraved mass murderer."
- </p>
- <p> Andrei Chikatilo--identified only as "Ch" in the press
- until his trial began last week--was arrested in November 1990
- after one of the biggest manhunts in the Soviet Union's history.
- The suspect, 56, is a father and grandfather from Rostov-on-Don
- who worked as a teacher of literature before accusations that he
- molested a student led to his dismissal. He is charged with
- killing 53 young men and women in 12 years but has confessed to
- even more. The trial is expected to last several weeks or
- months; if convicted, Chikatilo is likely to get the death
- penalty.
- </p>
- <p>BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A BILLION?
- </p>
- <p> A federal prosecutor called it "the mother of all kiting
- schemes." No exaggeration. New York car dealer John McNamara
- allegedly borrowed $1.75 billion last year alone from G.M.A.C.,
- General Motors' financing subsidiary. The money, he said, went
- to buy and refurbish cars to be shipped overseas. But the
- vehicles didn't exist. McNamara allegedly pocketed the money,
- defrauding GM of $436 million before auditors finally caught on.
- </p>
- <p> Prosecutors say McNamara was running a gigantic Ponzi
- scheme, covering bad loans by taking out bigger ones. He was
- charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, and
- faces a possible prison sentence of as long as 30 years.
- McNamara has pledged most of his wealth--including homes in
- New York and Florida and a private jet--to make bail, set at
- a stunning $300 million.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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