I’m not sure why “drifters” became the term that stuck, but we cycled through a number of other descriptions for the three—“young transients,” I wrote in September 2016. The “accused murder trio,” said the San Francisco Examiner in October 2015. “Three young itinerants,” according to the Marin Independent Journal in November 2015; and “murderous vagabonds” in April 2017, for the sentencing.
