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Dilger's 8-ft. cannon was in the back of his Dodge pickup truck when he pulled into a gas station in Arlington, Va. After filling up his gas tank, he started showing the weapon to his friend Joseph Donahue, a former Army pilot. Suddenly the gun slipped and discharged a shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture...
...odyssey from freedom in Africa to slavery and emancipation in Virginia, Dorothy Spruill Redford could trace her family only as far back as her grandparents. But Haley's genealogical pilgrimage impelled her to one of her own. For Redford, 43, a brisk, hard-driving welfare department supervisor in Portsmouth, Va., the quest would last a decade and grow into an obsession, an irresistible desire to light up the dark past...
...Baum, 44. Likewise the Democratic leader of the Maryland senate, Clarence W. Blount, 65; a chef from New London, Conn., Archie Dunbar, 24; an elder of the Gospel Temple Church of Christ in Manhattan, Joseph Baum, 65; one of Redford's high school classmates, Herman Bonner, 45, of Portsmouth, Va., an aircraft-maintenance manager who did not know he was kin to Redford until she began her research; and the owner of a trophy-making firm in Hillside, N.J., William Dennis Boughton, 52. Says Boughton: "I'll be going to see the joy of others...
Bryant accused the Hare Krishnas of child abuse, drug dealing and systematic violence. He charged that the Krishna temple near Moundsville, W. Va. -- a 4,000-acre community called New Vrindaban that features an Oz-like palace decorated with gold leaf -- was becoming like the Rev. Jim Jones' notorious People's Temple...
...officers like Sheriff Donald Bordenkircher of Marshall County, W. Va., decided that Bryant's stories contained everything but substance. They dismissed his fear of being on a Hare Krishna hit list -- until he was murdered. Now authorities are reconsidering some of Bryant's tales. California police have charged Thomas Dresher, 37, a former Krishna devotee from New Vrindaban, with Bryant's slaying. Meanwhile, police in West Virginia have uncovered evidence to charge Dresher and an ex-sect member, Daniel Reid, 31, with murder in connection with the 1983 disappearance of yet another Krishna, Charles St. Denis...