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It's correction time with Margie Boulé
The story of Goldschmidt and the little girl is actually creepier than you thought
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Yoo-hoo, Therese. You still there?
Lord knows, I’ve tried.
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Was Goldschmidt being blackmailed?
If it weren’t for the lives damaged and lost, or the murder of Michael Francke looming in the background, this would be what they used to call a French…
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Neil Goldschmidt in the Land of the Dead
Just two weeks ago, as Neil Goldschmidt’s ghost began drifting toward its next station in the Land of the Dead, there was a revealing, and actually…
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19. A laptop on the front seat
Back in August when I started this series on what is now quite officially the unsolved murder of Michael Francke, I suppose I had some vague hope that…
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18. The gun under the pillow
Michael Francke’s home in Oregon was on an acreage outside Scotts Mills, a tiny country town about twenty miles east of Salem.
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17. "If you want to know who did it, he's over there"
A week after the trial Kevin got a call from Tom McCallum, the head defense investigator, asking him if he’d be interested in a copy of the state’s…
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16. Waiting for the other shoe to drop
It’s May 1991 and Gable’s trial is about to begin.
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15. Next time this could get real ugly
It’s the fall of 1990.
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14. Enter the Prince of Darkness
The unpleasant truth – based, if nothing else, on the rulings of two federal appeals courts which found that the Oregon State Police and Marion County…
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13. Suspect is armed and dangerous, approach with caution
When Liz’s story hits the news the state police swoop down on her apartment and try to convince her she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
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12. "That's him!" she says. "That's who I saw!"
So welcome to Salem, capital of the great state of Oregon, late summer 1990.
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