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Murder Most Foul  by Larner 3 Review(s)
BranwynReviewed Chapter: 15 on 11/25/2011
The small town gossip strikes a chord with me. I lived for a time in Kent, Ohio, and neighbors would regale me with stories about the students killed in the May 4th shootings. How the ER doctors found lice on the bodies. And the two girls were sluts. And the only mistake the National Guard made was not killing all of the protesters. I was deeply shocked by the strength of the vitriol so many years after the events. Maybe there is something about that small town environment that brings out the credulous and vicious in human nature.

Author Reply: I agree. However, in the state of Washington, in Seattle, of all places, a couple were sent to prison for allegedly sexually abusing their daughter and their neighbor's child--and it was categorically proven that the crime for which they were sent to prison for seventeen years never even happened. It doesn't just happen in small towns.

TariReviewed Chapter: 15 on 9/16/2011
I am so glad you are posting your chapters close togther. The unraveling of the convictions is fascinating to read. It's amazing how gullible people can be.

Author Reply: Well, the last chapters are posted now, so that's an end to that, at least. Yes, people can be mightily gullible indeed. Hope you enly reading this through to the end, Tari!

Szepilona10Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 8/28/2011
Another interesting look in to the murders, the accused murderers, and the victims. The children offer a unique perspective to the tragedy. He might be annoying at times, but I couldn't imagine losing my little brother. It would be awful.
God Bless!

~Szepilona10~

Author Reply: So it is when a sibling is lost.

A friend and his sister, when they were quite small, went out to try the sled on their own, and could not stop themselves before the sled went on upon the river. B lived, his sister died in the river. To this day he is still haunted by her loss, and he is in his late fifties now.

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