Word: truro
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DIED. CATHERINE WOOLLEY, 100, writer of 87 children's books including The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy and the Gus the Ghost series; in Truro, Mass. So prolific that her publisher advised her to take an occasional pseudonym, she often used her grandmother's name, Jane Thayer...
...Truro has no main street, no stoplights, no trash pickup. Though the area bustles with writers and artists in the summertime, it is quiet, even suffocating, in the off-season. "In the winter, we pay too much attention to each other," a local told the Boston Globe after the murder. None of that attention had turned lethal since 1969, the year of the last homicide. "When you have an unsolved murder in your town, there's this free-floating anxiety," says Truro resident Maria Flook, who wrote a book about the killing...
...been supportive. Fred Simonin, owner of the Highland Grill, where residents go to get Krispy Kreme doughnuts and pizza, readily complied, accepting a swab as he stood behind his counter. "Does it bother me? No. I don't plan on raping or killing anyone," says Simonin, in his orange Truro baseball...
...made his regular trip to the dump on a recent Sunday, a friend going the other way tried to wave him off. "They're down there!" he warned. "Aw, man," Kaelberer said. He had heard about the DNA sweep, and he didn't like it. He had lived in Truro for 33 years precisely because this kind of nonsense didn't happen here. Still, he had decided to surrender. "What are you going to do? You got a truck full of garbage," he says. "This is a small town. It's not worth getting on a list...
Given the history of Massachusetts' crime lab, it's hard to imagine Truro's DNA samples getting processed anytime soon. It took several months just to get the DNA from the initial suspects processed in the Worthington case. But D.A. O'Keefe insists, without elaborating, that the effort will have "ancillary benefits." The rush of attention has clearly got the town talking again...