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...filmmakers want to portray Vann as a "zero," a nothing--a "nobody home" type of guy. He is merely a reflection of whatever others want him to be: a son to an unhappy old couple; a buddy to a high school football star; Mr. Right to an unmarried postal worker. Yet Fancher also wants the audience to sympathize with the real Vann--a man who is tormented by nonexistent cops; a man whose killing is not always within his control ("You don't always choose what you do. Sometimes what you do chooses you," his voice-over proclaims...
...Having grown up during the Great Depression, I have a great respect for money, even the lowly cent. My supermarket has mechanical ponies that children can ride for a penny. If the penny is gone, who's going to worry about the kids? And with no penny, won't postal rates go up in 5[cent] increments? LEONARD HEIFERLING Aurora, Colo...
...Buford O. Furrow. Currently being held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, he could face the death penalty if he is found guilty of California charges of murder and attempted murder. He also faces federal charges for illegal-weapons possession and the murder of a U.S. Postal Service carrier during the performance of his duties. "There was always an aura of the macabre around him," says Furrow's classmate Merrill. "He fits the portrait of someone who would do this...on the other hand, he doesn't at all." Furrow's one expression of regret last week...
That long taxicab ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas apparently convinced Buford Furrow that running was useless ?- which was 275 miles too late for postal worker Joseph Ileto. But because he is dead, Ileto is now authorities? straightest route to justice. Furrow has been charged with -- and reportedly has confessed to -? the killing of Ileto, along with those five counts of attempted murder, and prosecutors could seek the death penalty. Yet to a shocked public, and possibly to L.A. prosecutors seeking closure, the trial of Buford Furrow will be about hate. The connections to the white-supremacist, anti-semitic...
With almost every imaginable law enforcement agency -? including the Postal Inspection Service ?- on his trail, Buford O. Furrow Jr. slipped the massive L.A. dragnet ... in a taxicab. And then he turned himself in to the Las Vegas FBI, bright and early on Wednesday morning. And a motive? An FBI source told the Associated Press that Furrow simply walked into the office, said "You're looking for me, I killed the kids in Los Angeles," and offered an explanation: "He wanted this to be a wake-up call to America to kill Jews." Authorities say Furrow is cooperating, which is flack...