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Today a few Algonans fear their town will be indelibly marked by Robert's madness, the way Villisca, Iowa, is by the brutal ax murder of eight residents there back in 1912. But uppermost in everyone's mind is the hope that the Dreesmans will be remembered for all they did, not for the way they died. The hospital addition will help, although Robert almost killed that possibility too, by assuming he could dispose of his family's wealth with his own will, since he would be the last to die. For some contorted reason, he left $1 to each...
...Villisca, Iowa, one Emil Hecke took friends to his barn there to display his mules. He slapped a mule heartily upon the rump, crying: "Here's a real mule!" The mule kicked. Mr. Hecke fell dead...
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