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- <title>
- Aug. 20, 1990: American Notes:Investigations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 49
- American Notes
- INVESTIGATIONS
- A Murder in the U-Haul Family
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- <body>
- <p> At about 2 a.m. last Monday, Eva Shoen, 44, was shot to
- death in her family's mountain resort home outside Telluride,
- Colo. The killing had the signs of a professional hit: the
- gunman managed to slip into the house without disturbing seven
- guard dogs and Shoen's sleeping children. But what was the
- motive? Police have not ruled out a possible link to the feud
- between Shoen's husband Sam, 45, and other family members who
- are battling for control of the Phoenix-based U-Haul
- International truck-rental empire (1989 sales: $1 billion).
- </p>
- <p> The power struggle began four years ago when patriarch L.S.
- Shoen began turning the U-Haul dynasty over to his 12 children.
- Since then, son Sam has become embroiled in an interfamily
- management dispute that reached the level of fisticuffs at a
- 1989 meeting. The elder Shoen is now attempting to regain
- control of the company and bring the feud to an end.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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