Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the whistle blows at 3 o'clock in the hydrant factory, a redhead named Opie races away in a pickup and begins a second back-breaking job to help pay for the dream house he is building on seven lakeside acres of peace and quiet...
...Byrd's identity. The night before, the 49-year-old African American, on the way home from a family reunion, had apparently hitched a ride on a truck with three white men. They drove him to a wooded area, where he was beaten, chained by his ankles to the pickup and dragged down the road for at least two miles, maybe three. His body fell to pieces. Among the remnants, someone had dropped a cigarette lighter with the Ku Klux Klan insignia...
...Billings meth connection. A few months earlier, south of Billings, in Hardin, an admittedly cranked-out 17-year-old, Jonathan Wayne Vandersloot, whose head hadn't touched a pillow in days, allegedly shot dead his sleeping grandparents, scooped up some jewelry, guns and cash, and took off in their pickup. Vandersloot's first trial ended in a hung jury. Prosecutors plan to retry him this fall...
...prosecutors -- ever more incensed by what they see as a brutal racially motivated crime in which three white supremacists chained and dragged a black man behind their pickup truck, decapitating him -- are scrambling to build a case that will allow them to ask for the death penalty. And blacks in this small sawmill town of 8,000 are beginning to ask: How deep does this river...
...Angeles' ubiquitous TV newschoppers, Daniel Jones, 40, a Long Beach maintenance worker, acts out his made-for-TV theatrics. He has spread out a banner for the helicopters to see: HMOS ARE IN IT FOR THE MONEY!! LIVE FREE, LOVE SAFE OR DIE. And then, retreating to his pickup truck, he pets his dog, leaves it in the cab and sets the vehicle on fire. Partly aflame, Jones runs into the highway he has commandeered. Pulling off his burning pants, he picks up a shotgun, places its butt against a wall, bends his head to the barrel and pulls...