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...high school years in a doobie-induced haze (mind you, I live a happily successful life now), but I do vaguely recall something from history class about the repeal of Prohibition and the subsequent taxation of liquor playing a significant role in our nation's recovery from the Great Depression. Perhaps if our leaders were willing to show some guts in the face of the so-called moral arguments against legalization, we could make that plan work for us again. Hugh Jones, Seattle...
...Kistner had given up hope of ever finding his great-aunt's killer. The retired police sergeant was just a rookie at the Long Beach Police Department in California when Maybelle Hudson, 80, was beaten, raped and strangled in her Inglewood garage after returning home from choir practice one day in April 1976. The last time Kistner called detectives at the Inglewood Police Department, in 2006, he was told that given the amount of time that had passed since the twice-widowed woman was murdered, the perpetrator was likely deceased or in prison...
...suspect, John Floyd Thomas Jr., had been arrested in late March and charged on April 2 with the rape and murders of two elderly women in the 1970s. According to police, DNA evidence also apparently tied Thomas to the crimes against Kistner's great-aunt. A grimmer scenario loomed, however: investigators now believe that Thomas was behind many more sexually-motivated murders and may turn out to be the most prolific serial killer in Los Angeles history...
...Kistner, who plans on attending Thomas' upcoming trials, the investigation's findings may finally bring some closure to the tragedy of his great-aunt's death. "Especially in my line of business," says the ex-cop, "we like closure; we like happy endings, I guess, if there can be a happy ending to this. You're always looking for the bad guy, especially someone who could do something to an old lady like that." He adds, "I plan on attending the trials when they come up for the personal satisfaction of actually physically seeing him in custody and knowing that...
...good news is that when students finally do return to campuses, cleaning crews will have scrubbed the buildings clean. "The officials say they have scrubbed down the school, which is great because I think schools are a cesspool of germs anyway," Wahl blogged. "I'm curious if the school has put soap back in the bathrooms? Officials took it out of the bathrooms because kids would wreak havoc with it making huge messes. But, my lord, shouldn't it be back in the bathrooms...