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Want more? Mike Pingree also writes a separate Looking Glass column for the Boston Herald. Past Columns (The Archives)
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October 8, 2000 ONE TEACHER HE'LL REMEMBER: To help celebrate one of her
student's fifteenth birthday, Melissa Dorr, a 30-year-old middle school
teacher, took him to the movies and had sex with him in the theater. She
admitted that at her trial, and also that they did it again a month
later in a city park in Troy, N.Y. A year after that, the boy got in
trouble with the law and went to live with Dorr and her husband. How
convenient. WHAT CAN THEY DO TO ME ANYWAY? Police, investigating the 1978
murder of a Colorado woman and her two children have been trying,
without success, to get her husband, Robert Spangler, to talk to them
since they reopened the case in 1994. When they heard he had terminal
cancer, they tried again. This time, Spangler, now 67, the vice
president of an irrigation company, spilled his guts because he has only
a few weeks to live. He not only admitted to the 1978 murders, but says
he pushed his second wife into the Grand Canyon 15 years later. He said
he shot his first wife and children to death because he was tired of
family life, and that he killed his second wife because it was easier
than getting a divorce. A LONG AND TEDIOUS PROCESS: Four women robbed the Iowa State Bank and fled the scene just as the dye pack a teller had slipped into the money bag exploded. When police captured them in a Des Moines apartment, they were using nail polish-remover to erase the red dye from the stolen money. SEEMED LIKE A FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD: Police in the parched
suburb of Hoover, Ala., are having a very easy time finding violators of
the city's lawn-watering ban. People are turning in their neighbors left
and right. MOTHER OF THE YEAR: Grace Phiri was walking along the Masaiti
River in Zambia with her young daughter when a crocodile snatched the
girl from the riverbank and took her into the water.
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