prowess
the definition of prowess is "skill or expertise in a particular activity or field."
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- Feb 2021
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“The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution isnot to convict, but to see that justice is done.
i hope this is foreshadowing that justice will be done
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The latter cases rarely make headlines.
typically the most eye catching headline is what news outlets boost, so a dismissal is not as likely to headline as a conviction
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grabbed me by the arm and, without a word ofexplanation, hurried me down the hall into the office of J. MillerLeavy, director of Central Operations
if someone just grabbed me and not said anything, i don't think i would have just followed suit without asking questions first
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Charlie had told him he could havehis pick. He’d also offered to buy him a dune buggy and a newmotorcycle if he would stay.It was true turnabout. Charlie Manson, aka Jesus Christ, trying totempt a Straight Satan.
charlie really wants him to stick around, in a way could it be a bribe?
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Susan smiledand said she wasn’t worried about that. She was very good atplaying crazy
i'm not too sure that she is playing crazy, she just is straight up crazy
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you can have all the girls you want, all thegirls,’ he says, ‘are all yours, at your disposal, anything
the definition of disposal is "the action or process of throwing away or getting rid of something." he doesn't see the girls as of any value
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Virginia decided not to say anything to anyone. It was just tooincredible. She also decided, if possible, to avoid Susan.
i thought virginia would have to come to her senses about susan's stories, i would have tried to distance myself from her after hearing her take on blood
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all over the country and all over the world, to pickout people at random and execute them, to release them from thisearth.
none of the people they would pick at random consented to being released from this earth, it seems like susan's perception is very skewed
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Had she ever tasted blood? she askedVirginia. “It’s warm and sticky and nice.”
susan's perception of the blood makes me question her sanity
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What Virginia didn’t know was that there were two men namedCharles in the Family: Charles Manson and Charles “Tex” Watson.The complications this simple misunderstanding would later causewould be immense.
i feel the anticipation building
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“I’m dying of curiosity,”
didn't curiosity kill the cat?
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Virginia cautioned her that sheshouldn’t be talking so much; she knew a man who had beenconvicted just on what he told a cellmate.
there's a show on A&E based on people becoming informants for the police, its called 60 days in
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In questioning Susan, Whiteley and Guentherhadn’t told her that it was Kitty Lutesinger who had implicated her,and she presumed the snitch was Bobby Beausoleil.
hopefully no one tells her that kitty put her name out into the investigation
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they got to wondering. According to Kitty, Susan Atkins had admittedstabbing a man three or four times in the legs.Gary Hinman hadn’t been stabbed in the legs.But Voytek Frykowski had
if susan is implicated in voytek's murder that would support their theory of more than one killer
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“Crazy Sadie.” It wasn’t just thatridiculous name. She was much too happy, considering where shewas. She would laugh and sing at inappropriate times
sounds like the name is starting to fit her
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Although they hadn’t seen each other for five years, Ronnie andVirginia had not only been friends and business associates in thepast, going out on “calls” together, but Ronnie had married Virginia’sex-husband
did they stop seeing each other because ronnie married her friend's ex-husband?
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Whiteley and Guenther asked Susan if she would repeat herstatement on tape. She declined.
how could she decline if she had no problem telling them her statement? thats a bit suspicious
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Susan Atkins had been arrested in the Barker raid and bookedunder the name “Sadie Mae Glutz.”
if she used an alias, can she be trusted to tell the truth ?
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would later admit that he and hisfellow officers should have checked with LASO homicide detectivesin mid-August to see if they had any similar murders.
if only they decided to check with LASO homicide sooner, maybe they would have more leads than the ones they exhausted
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Cline didn’t even try to count the stab wounds, there were somany. Her hands were not tied but, like Leno, she had a pillowcaseover her head and a lamp cord was wrapped around her neck. Thecord
this would be considered the killer's signature
"In the discipline of criminal profiling,signature is a term used to describe the behaviors committed by an offender that serve the person's psychological and emotional needs"
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The cord around his neck was attached to a massive lamp,the cord knotted so tightly it appeared he had been throttled with it.His hands were tied behind his back with a leather thong. The objectprotruding from his stomach was an ivory-handled, bi-tined carvingfork. In addition to a number of stab wounds in the abdomen,someone had carved the letters WAR in the naked flesh.
this sounds like a bit of overkill and possibly anger from the killer towards his victim
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“Everything’s O.K.; let’s get out of here.
anytime someone says everything is okay in stories, it is almost never okay
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That Sunday, LAPD not only lost their best suspect to date, anotherpromising lead fizzled out.
hopefully this doesn't discourage them in their investigation
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Dr. Noguchi withheld specificswhen he met with the press
this helps the police with their investigation, so that if a suspect is able to tell the details of the crime that was not released to the public it will be a sign to look further into their statements
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therefore he had been in custody at the time of the Tatehomicides. However, it was possible that he hadn’t been the onlyone involved in the Hinman murder
if there were accomplices in the hinman murder, then it might be easier to find them if they lean on robert
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newsstand on that corner
I'm not sure if i have ever seen a newsstand outside of tv and movies
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the Saturday night freeway trafficthat was speeding toward Los Angeles and environs. Like manyothers that night, they had the radio on and heard th
LA traffic makes me feel exhausted just thinking about it
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nervously peeked over the top, but saw no one.
DeRosa should be doing a more thorough look in the loft
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They had arrived expecting two bodies, but had found three.They were now looking not for more death, but some explanation. Asuspect. Clues.
the crime scene has yet to reveal any suspects right away, just clues like the cut wire
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His head and face were horribly battered, historso and limbs punctured by literally dozens of wounds.
the way his body and face were battered, I would assume that the killer could be someone they knew or someone that had a grudge against them.
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ostentatious
the definition is "attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous"
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Returning home, Jim called the police a second time and, someminutes later, a third.
why did he have to call 3 times? did the police not want to respond?
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The key was secretedon a rafter above the door.
i wonder how many people could know about the location of the key, that can't be a safe place
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he didnotice what looked like a telephone wire hanging over the gate. Healso observed, through the gate and some distance away, that theyellow bug light on the side of the garage was still on
this seems like a sign that someone used the wire to get over the gate
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though he did hear a number of dogs barking
dogs barking in the middle of the night is not usually a good sign
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It was hot that night, but not as hot as the night before, when thetemperature hadn’t dropped below 92 degrees.
I can't imagine trying to sleep and it being over 90 degrees throughout the night
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