they determined, would commit a similar crime to the murder of Julie and Lollie and also in Shenandoah National Park. To make the story believable, they fabricated issues of the Washington Post with what appeared to be legitimate news stories detailing the murder of two unidentified women and a forest fire believed to have been perpetrated by their killer in an attempt to destroy evidence of the crime. Mike McCarthy sent Rice the clippings, along with an ominous assertion that he had to flee the country. The Richmond FBI then enlisted the agency’s Sensitive Operations and Support Group with
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