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Nestled in the rolling hills of Lancaster County, the town of Gap is a sprawling collection of clapboard houses, strip malls and a truck stop named Touch O' Home. Horse and buggies mingle with automobiles and, increasingly, Amish kids whizzing by on Rollerblades. It was here, or more specifically at weekend gatherings held on the outlying farms, that the two Amish men were accused of dealing drugs...
...else--75 red circles denoting body parts and belongings along a two-mile stretch of asphalt. Fingerprints were the only key to 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...
Everyone knows everyone else in Jasper. Byrd may have been invited to hitch a ride by one suspect, the truck's owner, Shawn Allen Berry, 23, with whom he shared a parole officer. (Byrd had served time for theft and forgery, Berry for burglary.) The Byrd and King families have been in Jasper for generations. A member of Byrd's extended family had worked as a babysitter for a relative of King's. And yet, if what Berry told police is accurate, his friend King was openly hostile to Byrd and, while beating him, allegedly said he was "starting...
...dumbfounded, honest to gosh." On her follow-up book, the hard part was to exorcise all notions of trying to duplicate the previous success. "The temptation is to just write something like, 'He had a hairy chest, she had big breasts, and everyone got run over by a truck,'" Mitchard says. "You think, people are going to paste me right across the jaw anyway, so why not just get it over with...
...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...