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In the middle of Sotheby’s April auction of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s estate, Milwaukee lawyer Robert Steuer announced he was searching for an auction house to handle the Jeffrey Dahmer estate (to benefit the families of Dahmer’s 17 victims). Included were such treasures as Dahmer’s refrigerator and freezer, a 57-gallon drum, an 80-quart kettle, four saw blades, a sledgehammer, and chemical-resistant gloves. (Sotheby’s declined to handle the auction.)
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Western Kentucky University student Joe Schmidt, asked by the school newspaper whether Magic Johnson’s return to pro basketball in February would put other players at risk: “It would be an honor to get HIV from playing Magic Johnson on an NBA court. He’s one of the greats.”
In April the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that truck driver Elmer O. Dulen was injured on the job and thus was due worker-compensation benefits. In 1993 railroad equipment that was probably faulty caused Dulen’s truck to be hit by a train, injuring Dulen and killing his female coworker. A witness at the scene, however, quoted Dulen as saying that he and his coworker were having sex at the time of the crash. (Dulen denied he said that but acknowledged that his pants had been pulled down and his coworker had been wearing only a T-shirt.)
Pleading guilty to a $30 million fraud charge in New York City in March was the former owner of two investment companies, Chuckles Kohli.
