Jimmy Savile: How Could His Crimes Go Unnoticed?

By RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press
Fri, 10/26/2012 - 8:43am

LONDON (AP) -- Jimmy Savile was one of the best-known faces on British television. So how was he able to become one of the country's worst child sex predators without ever being caught?...

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