Hitman’s advett brings lawsuit
NZPA-AP Houston Relatives of a woman killed by a hitman have filed a SUSIO7 million ($205 million) lawsuit against “Soldier of Fortune” magazine, accusing it of running thinly disguised advertisements for professional killers. Marjorie and Glenn Eimann, of Texas, and their grandson, Gary Wayne Black, aged 17, filed the lawsuit in court yesterday. The suit contends that the para-military magazine was negligent in allowing the advertisements to be circulated. It seeks SUS7.S million ($l4 million) in actual damages and SUSIOO million ($l9l million) in punitive damages against “Soldier of Fortune,” and its publisher, Omega Group Ltd, based in Colorado. The couple’s daughter, Sandra Kay Black, was killed in 1985 by a man who waited in her home for several hours and
then shot her twice in the face as she parried groceries into the kitchen. Her husband, Robert Black, has been sentenced to death for arranging the murder so he could collect SUSIOO,OO9 ($190,000) in insurance money and marry his lover. John Hearn, of Indiana, testified at Black’s trial that the husband offered him $U510,099 ($19,000) plus expenses for the killing. The Eimanns’ lawyer said Mr Hearn said he could be reached only through his “Soldier ofFortune” advertisement A copy of the magazine, with Mr Hearn’s advertisement circled, was discovered in the Blacks’ house after the killing. ’ Robert Miller, legal representative for the magazine, denied any wrongdoing by “Soldier of Fortune.”
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