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Rudolfo Naranjo, 49, died of a heart attack as he was cleaning out a safe in the middle of robbing the Bill Miller Bar-B-Q restaurant in San Antonio in August. His two accomplices dragged him toward the back door and yelled for employees to call an ambulance but then decided to leave Naranjo behind and flee with their $60 booty.
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Herbert G. Fisher, the former official Virginia state archaeologist, serving 20 years in prison for murdering his wife, was discovered in August trying to dig his way out of Gloucester County Jail.
Anthony Galante, 31, a New York City computer analyst, was accused by police in July of having made 30,000 obscene phone calls in New York and Connecticut. His preferred scheme was to tell a woman that he was holding a family member hostage and that she should stand outside her house naked as he drove by. Police estimate Galante was successful in one out of every 100 phone calls.
