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March 24, 2002     

LETS NOT HAVE ANY SECRETS, DARLING: It is unlikely that a California lawyer knew when he married her that his bride was an ex-con with a 113-page criminal record and nearly a dozen aliases.     
After six years of marriage, the attorney suddenly disappeared last September, and his lovely wife started selling off his possessions and cashing checks meant for his clients to the tune of $500,000.     
She told people that her husband was on vacation or in rehabilitation, or that he had joined a cult. She then left town.    
His body was discovered in February, and she was found, very much alive in Florida the following month. She has been arrested for murder.     
The late attorney had become suspicious of his wife. He told a friend, "If anything happens to me, tell the cops Elisa did it."     

IS YOUR "PASSENGER" OK, MA'AM? A woman strapped a full-size mannequin into the passenger seat of her car and tried to drive in the carpool lane of Interstate 405 in Washington, reserved for two or more people per vehicle.     
She would have gotten away with it if not for the accident.     
She was involved in a chain reaction crash that closed the highway for several hours, enabling police to discover her little ploy.     

MOTHER, HOW COULD YOU? After she got married, a Minnesota woman put her strapless wedding dress in her mother's car, not knowing that mom had packed other items in the vehicle to be given to charity.     The $950 dress was also donated accidentally to Goodwill, which sold it for $35. 
The woman is trying desperately to get it back.     

SOMETHING WAS LOST IN THE TRANSLATION: Instead of going to Monterrey, Mexico, to translate for delegates at a U.N. conference there, a group of German linguists mistakenly went to Monterrey, Calif., 1,500 miles to the north.     

GIMME THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION: Inmates at the Jackson County Jail in Oregon are getting a great deal of use out of the Bibles provided them by the state. It isn't spiritual enlightenment they seek. 
They have discovered that the pages are perfect rolling papers for their hand-made cigarettes.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists.html

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