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...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...
...city lashed out. Commentators complained that Tom's friends hadn't turned him in during the Mazatlan trip--"Portland, we have a problem," a columnist lamented. Prosecutors were even harsher. Five of the six people involved have now pleaded guilty, and because of mandatory-sentencing laws, most have received at least four years. Even Celia Reynolds, who reluctantly drove Tom and Ethan to and from a supermarket robbery (and somewhat less reluctantly took a share of the proceeds afterward) will spend a full two years in prison for her role...
...Tom's case is likely to be over soon, and he will begin his sentence. He's trying to stay optimistic, stay Tom. He writes friends joking letters--he says he tells the days apart by watching a different daily parade of freaks on Jerry Springer. But lately he has been housed in a jail dorm with depressing and depressed people, folks on medication and not all there. It can be harrowing...
That emotion is familiar to Pamela Hartley. She still is the manager at the Rustica, where she was eating a late dinner that ghastly night when Tom and Ethan burst in. One of them pointed a gun at her and told her to "open the f______ drawer." The experience is with her every night at the restaurant. "You know, people say they were kids, or they weren't really going to shoot, or whatever," Hartley says. "But they were in a very violent state of mind, screaming, just all over the place. They wanted everyone to think they would hurt...
Among the girls' allies is state senator Tom Hayden, who has taken up the issue of toxins in schools. Says Hayden: "They're very focused, very educated, very driven to understand the way the system works around them." The girls have been regulars at hearings the senator has held. Los Angeles plans to build 51 schools over 10 years--some of them possibly on old industrial sites...