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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1982
Page
7
Columnist Dick Case surveys Central New York headlines in the Herald Journal American. He highlights a Middlesex village trial, a mysterious fund, vandalism on Syracuse's North Side, and broader local news trends in his Sunday, Monday, and Friday columns.
Kenneth Bianchi, the Hillside Strangler, finished nearly six months of testimony in the mass murder trial of his adoptive cousin Angelo Buono. Bianchi confessed to 10 killings, pleaded guilty to five, and to two similar murders in Bellingham, earning life sentences in exchange for his testimony. Buono faces the death penalty if convicted.
Boston theaters dim lights to honor Thomas Edison and a century of electric stage lighting. The Bijou opened December 11 1882 with 644 incandescent lamps, becoming America’s first electricity lit playhouse. An actor will place a plaque at the Opera House site.
In Arlington Texas Lucille Barthke was outside when a blue ice shard about 10 inches diameter crashed through her roof after falling from the sky. FAA officials said the piece likely came from an airplane laboratory system and noted a potential leak in a lavatory pump. Barthke reflected on how a sudden strike could have injured or killed someone. The agency is tracing the origin of the ice fragment.
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