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Because innocent defendants want to clear their names, silence in court implies guilt, said Judge Brian Capstick, who represented the British view...
...sludge from a downstate chemical factory, and so for at least a couple of summers, he sprayed tens of thousands of gallons of a dioxin-laced goo all over town. The agent of the town's destruction was a man named Russell Bliss. "Do I blame Bliss?" asks Joe Capstick, who lived in Times Beach 14 years and, after the town's demise, moved down the road. "Sure. Hell, yes. Hell...
...paradigm for life in Times Beach. They remember, now, all the dead birds around town, and the stillborn kittens and puppies. Michael Reid, 19, remembers that he and other children loved to bicycle behind the dioxin truck, skidding and sliding in the thick oil slick. Joe's wife Penny Capstick remembers falling down in it. They all remember the children tracking it in. "I can remember Jeri Lynn as a child sitting by the road just kicking her feet in the stuff," says Marilyn Leistner, who lives near by. "Just kicking and kicking in the stuff." The richest memories have...
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