All. A gunman is holding more than 30 hostages at a high school. Eight people have been shot, including at least four students. We can only make an appeal to the gunman. Stop. Theres been enough already. An all white jury acquitted four White Police Officers of assault in the videotaped beating of black motorist rodney king. I was scared. I was scared for my life. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. The officers struck him with batons between 53 and 56 times. It was one of the first cases where there was actual video of a case of alleged Police Brutality. For 13 months, the city of los angeles has been a pressure cooker, building up to the rodney king trial. We, the jury, in the above entitled action find the
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Than 30 hostages at a high school. We can only make an appeal to the gunman, stop, theres been enough already. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. The officers struck him with batons between 56 and 66 times. For 13 months, los angeles has been a pressure cooker. We find the defendant
while the nations eyes are glued to los angeles. Police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. Fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, if the president of Exxon Corporation is missing from his home. His wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. They had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she always did around 7 30. Miss his car never got to the end of the driveway, and there was no sign of him, the guy had just gone poof. Friends say riso is just like the house they live in, solid. If youre a cynic
the streets, spectators in akron, ohio, are lining up to catch a glimpse of notorious serial killer jeffrey dahmer arriving to stand trial for the first murder he committed. dahmer is already serving life terms in wisconsin for 15 murders. ohio prosecutors say dahmer killed his first victim in ohio where he was raised. part of what made him such a monster was his ordinariness. i think that s what scared people a lot about him is he looked like you and me, and that s pretty scary because his deeds were unspeakable. the trial begins nearly ten months after the nation was exposed to the grisly discovers at dahmer s apartment. what they discovered upon their arrival was almost unspeakable. numerous pieces from as many 15 human bodies, including three heads preserved in a refrigerator. it s been two and a half months since he was convicted of 15 murders in milwaukee.
a hazardous materials team breathing from air tanks confiscated a number of items from the suspect s apartment. among them police say photographs and drawings of dead, mutilated bodies. sidney reso disappeared yesterday, but this case is being handled under the assumption of foul play. at lindhurst high school at this hour the s.w.a.t. team is still in place. parents are waiting to get word. murder, kidnapping, hostages, major stories playing out in america while all eyes are on the riots raging in l.a. at least 27 people are now dead since it all began following the acquittal of four police officers in the rodney king beating trial. on friday, may 1, there were still a lot of hot spots, but the authorities were better organized. and my assignment was we got word that rodney was going to make a statement. an enormous assemblage of media gathered around this yard area around this podium, because we hadn t heard from him. i just want to say, you know, can we all get along?
jeffrey dahmer, cannibalism, murders, lobotomies, defleshing. now dahmer is facing judgment for the final outstanding murder charge in ohio. as gruesome as his crimes were, many showed up at the summit county courthouse as early as midnight last night to be one of the 35 spectators allowed to see the proceedings firsthand. it s just really interesting to me. it s not often somebody famous comes to akron. i just want to see what s going on and how it s handled and things like that. he had letters from women proposing marriage to him. he got mail like he was a rock star. i haven t seen anything like it. i haven t seen anything since that. while the trial unfolds in akron, it s been three days since exxon executive sidney reso was kidnapped and no one has heard from him. the media wanted answers and a lot of the time we just didn t have them. it s enormously frustrating. frankly, i remembered so many