http://www.metafilter.com/tags/RayMartinez Posts tagged with 'RayMartinez' at MetaFilter. Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:34:38 -0800 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:34:38 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/53466/Charles%2DWhitman%2Dand%2Dthe%2DUT%2DTower <a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/csc/6393feature.php">96 Minutes... 40 years later.</a> Texas Monthly has an article that, through <a href="http://www.austinprop.com/Whitman.htm" title="A personal account of the story.">eyewitness</a> accounts, tells <a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/whitman/" title="An excellent recounting of the story from the CourtTv Crime Library">the tale</a> of <a href="http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/WW/fwh42.html">Charles</a> <a href="http://www.statesman.com/specialreports/content/specialreports/whitman/index.html" title="A killer's conscience: Trove of police evidence to be made public Dec. 18 reveals Charles Whitman's malevolent yet mundane psyche By Mark Lisheron">Whitman</a>. Forty years ago today--before 9/11, Columbine, Oklahoma City, "going postal"--Whitman perpetrated an act of public <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19961126222026/stumedia.tsp.utexas.edu/webtexan/tower2/images/copy.gif">terror</a> that impacted the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19660812,00.html">national</a> <a href="http://www.cah.utexas.edu/exhibits/SixtiesExhibit/large/images/07whitmn_large.jpg">conscience</a>. It all began when he <a href="http://alt.cimedia.com/statesman/specialreports/whitman/letter1230.pdf" title="A copy of the note he left beside his mom after killing her.">killed his mother</a>. Then he started typing a letter that, after he killed his wife, <a href="http://alt.cimedia.com/statesman/specialreports/whitman/letter.pdf">he finished hand-writing</a>. Then he went to <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/tours/mainbuilding/old-new/" title="Main Building at the University of Texas">the Tower</a> with <a href="http://alt.cimedia.com/statesman/specialreports/whitman/inventory.pdf" title="Police Officer's Inventory of Items taken to the Tower by Whitman">a small arsenal</a> and began the slaughter. Over 96 minutes <a href="http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/02/49/63/image_4663492.jpg" title="A map of the casualties">he killed 13 more people and wounded 34 others</a> until off-duty Officer <a href="http://www.rangerray.net/index.asp">Ray Martinez</a> made it to the top of the tower and<a href="http://alt.cimedia.com/statesman/specialreports/whitman/martinez.pdf" title="Officer Martinez's Police Report"> killed Whitman</a>. (more inside) tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53466 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:34:38 -0800 1966 Austin CharlesWhitman guns massmurder murder RayMartinez terror Texas UniversityOfTexas UT Whitman dios