CRIME HISTORY – Young beauty shopkiller sought notoriety

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On this day, Nov. 12, in 1966, honor roll student Robert Smith massacred five people at an Arizona beauty parlor to make a name for himself.

Smith, 18, walked into the Rose-Mar Beauty College in Mesa and fired a shot into a mirror. He ordered five women and two children to lie in a circle so they looked like the spokes of a wheel.

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