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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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November 5, 2000 OOPS! A police detective in Phoenix, seeking a female burglary
suspect who had fled Arizona, asked Florida police to check out an
address where the woman, Linda Sue Andrews, might be living. When Linda
Sue Hardester answered the door, and the cops discovered she had the
same birthday as the woman they were seeking, they assumed she was the
right Linda Sue. She wasn't. HE SEEMED SO NICE, AT FIRST: Gabriel Garza Hoth was seeming as
unlucky in love as a man can be. In 1991, the Mexico City man's wife,
Soledad Valdes, died of an apparent heart attack. The following year,
his girlfriend Marcela Munoz Palacios, was shot to death. In 1997, his
fiancee, Ana Gloria Gomez, was also gunned down. Police became
suspicious when they discovered that these women's lives were insured
for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that Garza Hoth, who by then
was being called the Black Widower, stood to benefit. THE KIDS WON'T MAKE ANY TROUBLE: Many young couples in
Srinagar, India, go to the lush Botanical and Mughal gardens on the
shore of Dal Lake where they make kissy-kissy and engage in other
related activities ifyouknowwhatImean. Anyhoo, police have been
interfering with the lovebirds as such behavior is not in keeping with
strict rules of Islamic purity, but the harassment has sparked
complaints from the "Young Lovers Association." HE'S BACK: Police said that Rodney Heath, apparently a
creature of habit, tried to rob the Commercial Bank of Delphos in Gomer,
Ohio, three times in a month. The first two times, he succeeded, they
said, but, after the second robbery, bank employees kept the door to the
front lobby locked, and sent customers through the drive-through. He was
unaware of this, police said, since he was not a customer, and came to
the bank only to rob it. He came to the lobby door already wearing a ski
mask, and fled when he couldn't get inside. He was apprehended a short
time later. BUT, I COULD HAVE CHANGED HIM, YOUR HONOR: At the time of his
unexpected death in a motorcycle accident in London, Jason Dalziel,
married only 13 months, was already cheating on his wife. In fact, his
mistress was on the back of the motorbike when it crashed. (She
survived.) As a result of the infidelity, the judge in the lawsuit
deciding on his widow's insurance compensation, cut the sum awarded to
her from $580,000 to $203,000 to reflect that the marriage was in
trouble.
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