Word: drifters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They frequently crash. In Townies a young drifter murders a college girl, less out of rage than helplessness; her announcement that she would no longer sleep with him in her dorm room makes him strike out at his own rejection-filled life. In Killings a man on the eve of graduate school is fatally shot by his girlfriend's estranged husband. A month later the father's grief still grows: "It was a cool summer night; he thought vaguely of the Red Sox, did not even know if they were at home tonight; since it happened...
...ended one of the most bizarre kidnaping cases in California history. Timothy White, the five-year-old, had been abducted in Ukiah on Valentine's Day, while on his way home from kindergarten. Police charged that he was taken by a drifter named Kenneth Parnell, 48, who cropped the boy's blond hair and dyed it a darker color, then brought him home to his one-room cabin near Manchester. The boy's parents never received a ransom note. Parnell did not want money: he allegedly had stolen Timmy to provide a "brother" for Steve Stayner, whom...