"Now," said the prosecutor, "if you see that same man in the courtroom to day who came to your bedroom door on Wednesday night, July 13, 1966, would you please step down and point him out?"
It was a classic courtroom line. Yet when Assistant State's Attorney William Martin from Chicago put the question last week in Peoria, 111., the words cast a galvanic spell over the room. In response to the prosecutor's question, Corazon Pieza Amurao, 24, stepped down from the witness stand. The pretty petite (4 ft. 10 in.) Philippine girl, who alone survived the massacre last summer...
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