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Awareness of the plight of the "kids from the creek" began in Utah about four years ago. Volunteers working with street kids and runaways began to notice a new breed of homeless teen who didn't have the survival and social skills other teens had. But long before public awareness began to rise, Brenda Jensen, a co-director at Hope Organization, took runaway boys into her home. She fled the FLDS 30 years ago and married a fellow exile from another polygamist group...
...There's an assumption in Hollywood that the western is a homeless genre," says Mangold, "that it doesn't have a built-in audience. The adults who might want to go don't go to the movies, and the young ones are locked into the superhero world." Mangold also sees "a Hollywood bias against the America between New York and L.A. The movie industry is basically built serving 14-year-old males, and they aren't interested in rural America...
...notebook, each square marked with a date: 61 were filled in, three short of the entire chessboard. The police say they cannot find evidence for that number of bodies dead at Pichuzkin's hands. Many of the grocery-shelf stocker's presumed victims were among Moscow's homeless, lured into a game of chess in a suburban park with glasses of vodka and mournful tales of Pichuzkin's beloved but deceased dog; then they were clubbed on the head with a hammer and tossed into a sewage pit to drown, if they were not dead already...
...police, who arranged for the airing of the confession, were at first skeptical of Pichuzkin's stories. But three of the homeless men he chucked into the sewer survived; and one was lucid enough to identify Pichuzkin and to corroborate his modus operandi. And Pichuzkin's final victim - a co-worker at his grocery store - was skeptical enough about his tale of wanting to show her his dog's grave in the park that she told her son where she was going and gave him Pichuzkin's cellphone number. Pichuzkin was also caught on a subway surveillance cameras with...
...other hand, has been less sympathetic. Television anchors constantly remind viewers that Khan faces charges of shooting endangered animals, in a separate incident, and is also in the final stages of a trial over an incident in which he is alleged to have run over and killed a homeless person while driving under the influence of alcohol...