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4 LEGEND WITH A BULLET By ROBERT SAM ANSON

In his reign as the mad genius of rock 'n' roll, Phil Spector had pulled guns on John Lennon, Dee Dee Ramone, and various girlfriends. Wasn't it inevitable that somebody would end up dead?

16 NIGHTMARE ON ELWOOD AVENUE By BRYAN BURROUGH

How did Maria Cruz, a 35-year-old analyst for Barclays Capital, wind up buried beneath a concrete slab at an old mansion in Newark, New Jersey? The evidence pointed to her laser specialist, who was impersonating a doctor.

24 THE LADY VANISHES By MIMI SWARTZ

The woman whose 1963 landmark case helped take prayer out of schools, Madalyn Murray O'Hair disappeared with her son, her granddaughter, and more than $625,000. Her tortured trail— and an update on what happened.

34 THE MAN IN THE ROCKEFELLER SUIT By MARK SEAL

By snatching his seven-year-old daughter from her mother's custody, the man calling himself Clark Rockefeller blew the lid off a lifelong game of impersonation, and shed light on some skeletal remains dug up in a California backyard.

48 THE KILLING TRAIL By BUZZ BISSINGER

Eight brutal murders in Texas in the mid-1990s echoed the bloody heyday of the Ku Klux Klan. But the victims were not black; they were homosexual men who were stalked, terrorized, and killed by teenage boys.

60 THE RUNAWAY DOCTOR By BUZZ BISSINGER

When luxury-loving Dr. Mark Weinberger vanished, he left in his wake a wife saddled with more than $6 million in debts, a father headed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of patients

who say he misdiagnosed them and performed completely unnecessary sinus surgeries.

How "TheNoseDoctor" of Merrillville, Indiana, was finally captured in a tent in the Italian Alps.

72 MAD ABOUT THE BOYS By BRYAN BURROUGH

Until he fled the country, accused of embezzling more than $300 million, Lou Pearlman was famous as the impresario behind the Backstreet Boys, 'NSync, and a host of other boy bands. Turns out

his investors weren't the only victims, colleagues reveal: Pearlman's passion for boy bands was also a passion for boys.

96 BILL COSBY DBUGGED ME. THIS IS MY STOBY By BEVERLY JOHNSON, as told to Allison Samuels

The legendary supermodel thought it was an audition for a part on The Cosby Show. And then she realized it wasn't. More than 50 other women have a similar story to tell.