Lead Stories
Michael David Rostoker, 41, an electronics-firm CEO, was arrested in San Francisco in September, allegedly on his way to meet a 13-year-old Vietnamese girl whom customs agents say he intended to marry. According to the agents, Rostoker had spent $150,000 on the girl and her family, and his E-mail messages to her exhorted her to stay thin, learn English, and have sex with him “often.” A week earlier Patrick J. Naughton, 34, an executive with Infoseek, was arrested in Santa Monica and charged with arranging to have sex with an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl over the Internet.
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Creme de la Weird
The Number One Test
Things apparently more precious than human life: dirty clothes (34-year-old woman was shot to death by a man who wanted them, New York City, April); toilet paper (33-year-old man was shot to death after chastizing a man for being stingy with it, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, July); a shoe (a woman was shot to death after snatching it when a man took it off to remove a pebble, Columbus, Ohio, March).
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
