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Back in Portland, the cops looked like idiots for letting the 18-year-old slip through their fingers, especially after the Oregonian in July reported the Mazatlan trip. They called in the big guns of U.S. law enforcement: America's Most Wanted. Detective Kelly Krohn, a tall, goateed man running the investigation, appeared on the TV show on July 25. Tom saw the segment and freaked. He ran again, to Las Vegas. But he knew it was over. He called his dad from a casino, told him he wanted to come in, and three FBI agents arrested...
...Explanatory reporting: The Oregonian of Portland, for bringing the Asian financial crisis home in the person of a local french fries exporter...
TIME's report on the Followers of Christ case left readers with the mistaken impression that the Oregonian newspaper broke this story. In fact, the first series of reports on the case aired on KATU-TV in Portland two full days in advance of the first Oregonian story. State medical examiner Larry Lewman told KATU first of his allegations in the case, and our initial reports detailed the estimates of the number of children who could have been saved with simple medical intervention. GARY WALKER, News Director KATU-TV Portland...
...prescribes prayer and the laying on of hands to cure physical ills. Unlike most, however, Followers reportedly refuse medical treatment--for themselves or for their children. Emergency workers recall face-offs with church members who tried to persuade them not to take injured fellow worshippers to the hospital; the Oregonian found a state legislator's complaint about Followers children arriving at school with home-set bone breaks. After Lewman took the medical examiner's job in 1986, he encountered far worse and began recording what he calls "painful, torturous deaths that sometimes lasted days, if not weeks...
Finally, after three Followers children died what he considered needless deaths in a seven-month span, Lewman began aiding the Oregonian investigation. He says one shocking case was that of Alex Dale Morris, a four-year-old who complained of fever in February 1989. Fellow Followers laid hands on Alex, anointed him with oil and prayed over him for 46 days. On Day 44, a police officer acting on a tip paid a call but left after the boy himself claimed good health. Alex died two days later; his autopsy revealed an infection had filled one entire side...