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Stephen Shapiro

14 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read

happened in my senior HS year in my hometown.
How many real locations will be used?

eu.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/202…

To be honest, my recollection is that this did not cause a moral panic, since it was widely assumed that the husband had done it, what did unnerve folks more were the earlier Alphabet Killings:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_…

as my sister fit the age group of the victims, as was the case with many of my friends, there was a lot of worry for a few years, this faded but the culture of cross-town hitch-hiking vanished, never to return.
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A somewhat mediocre movie on this is:
The Alphabet Killer (2008) in which neither Eliza Dushko or Timothy Hutton really do themselves justice.

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I want to commemorate Kenneth Jacobson, who recently passed at 92.
Like many I knew Ken from @actupny, where he calmly chaired the tempestuous Treatment & Data committee during my time.
Ken's in the black jacket here;
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ACT UP was one of the rare American organisations where people didn't ask immediately what your "profession" was, so many were unaware that Ken was an accomplished composer, including a song that Sinatra choose for his standard book: "Golden Moment"

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@ColbyCollege

There's been no obituary for Ken, but here's an oral interview from his undergrad @ColbyCollege
mainejews.org/docs/Colby/Ken…
It's painful, though to me that even as late as 2010, Ken was asked (and graciously let pass by) questions like this:
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