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MARY JOE FRUG - OR MURDER AT "HIGHER INSITUTIONS OF LEARNING" - 1992

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THIS DESERVES ITS OWN PAGE BECAUSE IT IS JUST THE GLARING TIP OF THE ICEBERG. THERE ARE FEW FACTS, BUT YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THEM CAREFULLY.

read this and ask yourself, does this sound like a "contract hit"?

SHE WAS NOT JUST VOCAL, BUT VEHEMENT IN HER THESIS THAT MALE CHAUVINISM IN ALL IT'S BRUTAL FORMS  DOMINATES LEGAL INSTITUTIONS.

CAN IT BE PROVED THERE WAS A CONNECTION BETWEEN HER VIEWS AND HER DEATH? NO.
IS IT OVERWHELMINGLY SUSPICIOUS?
                                                        YES.

FIRST CONSIDER A FEW POINTS:
(1) HOMICIDE WITH NO APPARENT MOTIVE IS ONE OF THE RAREST OF CRIMES.
(2) SERIOUS ASSAULT WITH A KNIFE IS ALSO LESS COMMON. ALMOST INVARIABLY IT IS A SPONTANEOUS ACT IN THE MILIEu OF THE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED.
(3) AS TO GENERAL ATMOSPHERE, THIS "CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH" GOES WAY BEYOND INSENSITIVITY TO THE
                                                 HORRIFIC.

HE "WOULD HAVE FOUND IT UNDER HIS DINNER PLATE."

always remember this.

original aricle on the murder ofarticle on frug in the new york times.