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Brent Spiner in The Aviator (2004) dir. Martin Scorsese
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Brent Spiner in The Aviator (2004) dir. Martin Scorsese
Most serial killers that have evaded capture keep doing their deeds because the police have no idea who their real identity is, but rarely do they have the exact person who keeps falling through the cracks with each crime. Ever since a young age, Robert Gross found himself stalking women, stealing panties, and being coddled by a set of parents who demanded law enforcement be lenient on the basis of him being a “nice boy.” He even burned a hole in the crotch of a girl at only eight years old. Having a penchant for massage parlors, an adult Gross would demand sexual favors, then harass the workers who resisted. Wanda Conkling, an employee of one of these places, fell victim to a deadly pattern of him getting back at former partners with violence, exhibiting his power over them. She reconciled with her abusive husband and the both of them were murdered.
Neighbors and investigators alike knew Gross’ shining reputation, but a task force assembled chose the theory of Wanda’s husband being the target, not her. Victims were piling up, and Cheryl Morris, a waitress, went missing. He was suspected in the death of his aunt, plus many more stalking cases. Arson emerged as well, Robert burning down a friend’s house who crossed him and a car bomb scheme went wrong seemingly brought an end to all the mayhem. Police found Gross, covered in burns after trying to explode a house, and thought finally a charge would stick. A search of his house found stashes of cocaine, another possible allegation to seal his fate.
Once sentenced only for the fire and drugs after vital murder evidence appeared to be falsified, he got back out and went to another massage parlor. Keying the cars, strutting around naked, even assaulting the women there, all of the task forces from fifty years of terror combined their knowledge to take Gross down. Connecting him to a new murder of another parlor worker, Ying Li, they then combined it with the rest, including Morris, whose strangled body had been found. Time will tell whether this final attempt, backed by horrified women and officers who never gave up, brings Robert Gross to the rest of life behind bars.
A serial killer in Kansas City, never caught for a murder, attacked women over a period of five decades. Robert J. Gross is the subject of a
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The “Star Trek: The Next Generation” Actor Brent Spiner (Android Lieutenant Commander Data) as Robert Gross and Leonardo DiCaprio (Howard Hughes) 2004 in “The Aviator”.
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Author Robert Gross of Golden Bell/Sunday Morning Comics
Author Robert Gross of Golden Bell/Sunday Morning Comics
The final interview from the Golden Bell crew, Robert Gross is a cofounder of Golden Bell and Chief Content Officer.
Name: Robert O. Gross Latest Release: The Sunday Comics Genre: Anthology/Various Email: [email protected]
A lifelong fan and supporter of arts and entertainment, Robert wanted to tell stories since watching his first VHS copy of Star Wars. Whether it’s comics, books, animations…
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Author Robert Gross of Golden Bell/Sunday Morning Comics
Author Robert Gross of Golden Bell/Sunday Morning Comics
The final interview from the Golden Bell crew, Robert Gross is a cofounder of Golden Bell and Chief Content Officer.
Name: Robert O. Gross Latest Release: The Sunday Comics Genre: Anthology/Various Email: [email protected]
A lifelong fan and supporter of arts and entertainment, Robert wanted to tell stories since watching his first VHS copy of Star Wars. Whether it’s comics, books, animations…
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Review of: Gross, Robert, The Minutemen and Their World, 1976
The Minutemen and Their World, by Robert A. Gross, is a history of the revolutionary war, told from a viewpoint that analyzes and describes the day-to-day lives of ordinary townsfolk in Concord, and the political and social changes in the town leading up to the beginning of the war and throughout it. Such is the claim that the book makes, as it tries to be a “unique” and “groundbreaking” approach to history that looks at events in a different light than history textbooks. However, the book does not seem to live up to the standard it has set for itself. Throughout the text, Gross contradicts himself, runs off on tangents, rambles, and generally butchers the idea that he had originally set out to write. This makes for a very dry and unenjoyable read, and provides many a reason to find fault with this particular volume of history.
The book sets out to describe the events in the town of Concord leading up to and during the Revolutionary War, and admittedly accomplishes this task, albeit in a very roundabout way. The text starts off with a prologue, providing a setting and background for the meat of the book as it describes the geography of the land in and surrounding Concord, as well as a general basis of the life of a farmer living in or on the outskirts of town. In the following chapters, Gross attempts to provide a, perhaps chronological, accounting of events and changes in the town as tensions between the colonies and Britain grow tense. The chapters seem to be set along a timeline of events, but at the same time each chapter appears to try to address a certain topic or area of life that affected Concord during this time. Either of these methods would be effective in accomplishing the task Gross tries to, however, both methods combined ends up creating a very confusing and counter-productive end result. The book addresses topics such as religious conflict, political conflict, and town-specific tensions that affect the vote of the town towards nation-wide matters such as the Stamp Act and other grievous punishments that were afflicted upon the colonies during this time, as well as accounts of real battles, both literally and figuratively, on and off of the battlefield.
In general, The Minutemen and Their World is a very dry and confusing read. In specific, the writing style in ineffective, the organization is confusing and haphazard, and the content contradicts the thesis in a multitude of places. Gross’ writing, although not bad in it’s own right, is very counter-productive to the concept he set out to write the book under. The book, as stated in the preface, was intended to be a more personal and enjoyable study of the town of Concord during Revolutionary periods. Gross’ style of writing is much too formal and dry for this idea, and comes off as extremely academic and stuffy. If a reader wishes to “connect” to the townspeople of Concord during this time, Gross’ writing does nothing to help this. The book’s organization, as addressed in the previous paragraph, is extremely confusing. The events seem to be set in a chronological order, whereas the chapters are ordered by specific topic. This method alone jumbles the facts and events, but even apart from that, the information jumps around constantly, and Gross will go from discussing the town’s pastor to one man’s quarrel with the rest of the public, with not much or none at all segway in between the two topics. Finally, the content itself is contradictory and, in some places, not entirely accurate or supported by research. Near the end of Chapter 3, on page 66, Gross states that “concordians were Republicans, not Democrats.” The fault with this lies in the fact that the very concept of Republican and Democrat did not exist in this time period. Gross may very well be trying to make a connection to modern-day politics and explain the mindset of the town, although this does not seem to fit with the circumstances. He does not explain that this is his intention when he makes the aforementioned statement, and this comparison seems quite unnecessary in lieu of the context on this page, where he goes into detail on the town’s political mindset and ideals anyway. In fact, on just the next page, he goes back to talking about Whigs and “the Whig community” with no clear transition from the two sets of political parties. Interestingly enough, the paragraph in which he mentions Republicans and Democrats also seems to be the only, or one of the only, paragraphs in the book in which he does not end it with a citation, seeming to suggest that he has no real evidence to back up this point. This is one of the many contradictions and redundancies in this work.
In short, Robert A. Gross set out with a task to accomplish it, and a rather creative and unique way to go about this task. However, his style of writing and poor organization were ill-fitted to the idea at hand, and Gross would have been better off collaborating with a more effective writer in making this idea happen. Despite the many shortcomings, The Minutemen and Their World is in fact a unique approach to the history of this well-documented area and time period, and is full to the brim of information, if one is willing to wade through the layers of dry writing it is encased in.