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...family affair," Dale Coffelt says, recalling the Saturday that JoAnn McGuckin, 45, pulled up to see him in her aging Chevy Suburban. "She just showed up with all the kids." Well, not all. Six of her eight children were packed in the SUV. But so was the body of her husband Michael, 61, dead that day from the final malnourishing stages of almost a decade of multiple sclerosis...
...McGuckin and her family were dedicated recluses on the outskirts of Sandpoint, Idaho, a state noted for recluses. The clan chose to meet with few people, mostly charity workers, from whom they had collected food baskets a couple of times a month since 1998. Michael had been unemployed since falling ill; no one else made a living; the water pump for their decrepit home near Lake Pend Oreille had broken down. The kids, Sheriff Phil Jarvis believes, subsisted on lake water and "lily-pad soup." But even JoAnn knew to seek out Coffelt on that May 12. After...
...need to keep the world at bay. When the authorities took her away last Tuesday, four days after Coffelt got her to bury her husband, the kids went to battle stations. A police deputy drove up to take the children into protective custody. "Where's Mother?" asked Benjamin McGuckin, 14. The officer said she was in a hospital with chest pains and he was there to take them to see her. The boy refused to believe him and, according to Sheriff Jarvis, ran into the house yelling "Get the guns!" The kids set the dogs loose, and the deputy left...
Also: Robert G. McGahey, III; John H. McGuckin, JR.; John A. McKinnon; Richard H. Meadow; Matthew D. Miller; Peter J. Millock; Kenneth M. Minkoff; Stephen M. Morris; Thomas A. E. Moseley, III: William C. Mullen; Mark R. Nelson; Stephen A. Ness; Hugh W. Nevin, Jr.; Peter D. Nurkse; Richard N. Papper; John M. Parson...
Goals: Davis 3, Gerry 2, Winmill; Almy 6, McGuckin 4, Walsh. Fouls: Davis 2; Almy...