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Dec. 29, 1975: Now that John Floyd Thomas Jr. has been sentenced to life in prison in some of the killings blamed on the Westside Rapist, I thought it would be worth running Bella Stumbo's 1975 feature about the then-unsolved crimes. I never met Stumbo, who died in 2002 at the age of 59, but I have heard many stories about her over the years. She was a master of the long personality profile, notably a 1990 nondupe (Colume One) on Marion Barry. The only person to survive a Stumbo piece relatively intact was Police Chief Daryl Gates, according to the late Eric Malnic, who said Gates "just talked her to death." ALSO |
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