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May 18 - May 19, 2024
“We haven’t had a hanging in this county since his.”
“But the person who found Sean Fitch hanged in a tree is the daughter of a man who was hanged?”
“Who knows? Chet Carlson was his name.”
“The E and K in the shield stand for European Kindred,” Zander said slowly. “I’ve come across it in a case before. It’s a white supremacist gang that originated in the Oregon prison system about twenty years ago and spread to the streets.”
“Perhaps the autopsy will reveal he’d been incapacitated in some way.
Maybe he was drugged.”
“The point I’m making is that hate never dies,” Ava continued. “It can go dormant and seem to disappear when it’s actually hiding and evolving, passed from generation to generation. Did you know the KKK was very active in Portland as recently as the 1980s? Someone even called Portland the skinhead capital of the US back then. We can’t say racism doesn’t exist because it’s never personally touched us. It’s here and it can be deadly.”
Pity filled her aunt’s features. “The hate and anger, Brenda. He’s feeding it with those meetings and won’t listen to reason from any of us. No good can come of it.”
Her heart in her throat, she opened web page after web page, finding multiple confirmations. The lovely-sounding phrase was a common slogan of the KKK.
“Probably is the key word there.”
“According to 911, Emily’s call came in at 7:29.”
he had a murderer or two to catch.
“We found Nate had the same GHB as in the Fitches.”
The empty eye sockets of a skull gaped at him.
“I saw them bring her here.”
“Teenager. Early twenties at the latest.”
Tara maybe?
“Got some coins of some sort here, Doc,”
The coins madison remembers?
“She’s African American.”
Cynthia had vanished two weeks before Emily Mills’s father had been hanged.
“I heard gunfire and then a crash!”
He had a killer or two to find,
He already said this. Repetition?
coinlike things in the grass that night,
couldn’t trust anyone. Harlan told me there were several people involved.”
He is the reason Tara is striving to get Emily closer to Portland.
