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...moved into a house adjacent to his parents' and the crematory. Two weeks ago, his wife had a baby girl. Friends say he liked to buy Tommy Hilfiger clothes and new cars. He politely chatted with neighbors when he took his car to Test & Tune and ate at Wanda's Restaurant. Over the past four years, he brought three bodies to a nearby crematory, telling co-owner Glenda Wilson his equipment was down and he needed a favor, she says. She always complied, free of charge. The Marsh clan went about the business of living, all the while surrounded...
Junior Sarah Ahlquist will steady the defense in the net. In front of her at the blueline, seniors Wanda Mason and Aviva Grumet-Morris will work to stop the opposing offensive line...
...approached, Wanda Jean Allen, 41, behaved unlike the many other death- row inmates represented by her attorneys. That may be because the high school dropout was hit by a truck as a child, suffered a head injury and was stabbed in the head. She suffered from possible brain damage, and in two IQ tests scored 69 and 80. "A resignation usually sets in at this stage, but not with Wanda," lawyer Steve Presson said. But in her life, "normal" and "rational" seldom popped up on Allen's radar screen...
...slow," a former classmate said at the Oklahoma City home of Allen's mother. Mary Allen herself is marginally articulate. She sat barefoot in her parlor, crying at the mention of Wanda while a roach tiptoed over a grandchild's sneaker. A relative with Tourette's syndrome--one of several kin with disabilities--called, and the speaker phone broadcast a tirade in which he threatened a member of the defense team. "It's hard to believe," Presson said, "but Wanda Jean is the brain trust of that family...
...Wanda's older brother Charles Bucklew has only a few clues as to what might have caused his sister's self-banishment, including her drinking in the midst of their nearly teetotaling Lutheran family. Wanda, who no doubt has her own analysis of the split, never explained; her siblings never asked. And she could not be located by TIME reporters in Key West and New York. "There may be some reason out there that if you knew, it'd bring you to your knees, and you'd say, 'Oh, my God!'" says Bucklew. "But I don't know...