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...daughter of a preacher whose church has been taken over by religious zealots. "If rain had come, things might have turned out differently," she says. "That is what I think now. But there were children in Outer Maroo who had never seen rain." Into this withered rangeland came a drifter who dressed in white and called himself Oyster, a random alias he had adopted while working with an aquaculture firm. In his new manifestation he was a religious con man, a charismatic spellbinder who had learned the trick of looking for long seconds into a listener's eyes while reciting...
...London streets is well-written and memorable, but it scarcely seems central enough to the book's plot to justify the title. The time Felix spends on the streets between the murder and his subsequent arrest is quite brief, and the one friendship Felix strikes up with a fellow drifter seems gratuitous, as if a mechanism for adding another death to the slowing plot of the mystery...
...insists that the preponderance of evidence points to a drifter named Ottis Elwood Toole as his son's murderer. In one confession, Toole said he decapitated Adam with a machete and placed the head on the floor of his white Cadillac, which he then drove to a secluded spot off the Florida turnpike. He threw the head off a small bridge. Walsh asserts he even took police investigators to the location. Toole, however, stopped cooperating when, Walsh writes, the police became verbally abusive; he recanted. It might have been possible to run DNA tests to determine whether the blood...
Hendrix was a great admirer of songwriter and performer Bob Dylan's work and was a brilliant interpreter of his songs. The most well-known of these covers, "All Along The Watchtower," is included here along with a version of "Drifter's Escape." To the certain disappointment of many listeners, this "Watchtower" is not even a different take of the song but simply an earlier mix of the version included on Electric Ladyland. Since the differences are subtle at best--the original final version was mixed by Jimi himself while this one bears Chas Chandler's mark--there seems...
...McVeigh was arrested; then his alleged accomplice Terry Nichols turned himself in. Now the FBI had picked up two men on suspicion of being associates of McVeigh's. Maloney, a real estate agent in the Ozarks, recognized the sound of one of the names--Robert Jacks. But then the drifter's face appeared on the screen. "When I saw him on TV," recalls Maloney, "I knew they had the wrong person...