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- <text id=91TT2036>
- <title>
- Sep. 16, 1991: American Notes:Crime
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 16, 1991 Can This Man Save Our Schools?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- CRIME
- Nothing to Cheer About
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Wanda Webb Holloway may be the ultimate stage mother. Last
- week a Houston jury found the 37-year-old suburban housewife
- guilty of concocting a bizarre scheme to assure her daughter
- Shanna a place on the high school freshman cheerleading squad by
- killing the mother of her chief rival, Amber Heath. With flawed
- but cold-blooded logic, Holloway concluded that Amber would be too
- distraught over her mother's death to compete against Shanna for
- the coveted position.
- </p>
- <p> When Holloway approached her former brother-in-law, Terry
- Harper, to find a professional hit man, Harper informed the
- police and secretly recorded 45 minutes of conversation in which
- Holloway planned the crime. On the tapes, she is heard
- instructing Harper to "go for it," as she handed over a pair of
- diamond earrings as a down payment, two days before her arrest.
- That evidence prompted the jury, after nearly three hours of
- deliberation, to sentence Holloway to 15 years in prison and a
- $10,000 fine for the attempted murder.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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