Lead Story
Letty Catchings mounted a challenge last winter to a determination by San Francisco city officials that she was not entitled to her late husband’s municipal pension. Mr. Catchings, who’d worked 37 years for the city’s rail system, died of a heart attack on October 1, 1985–eight days after he had agreed to cooperate with a company bookkeeping change and move his retirement date from September 30 to October 2. (The city has offered to compromise at 50 percent of benefits.)
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Police in Mesquite, Texas, quoted Professor Bill Robert Cathey, 49, arrested for kidnapping a 22-year-old woman, as saying he was really only conducting an “experiment” to turn the victim into a “model woman.” The woman said Cathey held her prisoner for two weeks, chained her inside a closet, and often forced her to kneel in front of him for 45 minutes at a time chanting, “I will obey.”
Police in Shreveport, Louisiana, arrested city employee and part-time coach Jeff Norbury in May for persuading three teenage boys to allow him to measure their penises and to give him semen samples. Norbury allegedly had showed the boys a letter from a California university lauding an athletic program that would increase their chances of making the U.S. Olympic team and saying they needed to supply various fluid samples and body measurements directly to their coach, for forwarding to California.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
