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...always paid the rent and never bothered anybody. His friends and neighbors say Buford O. ("Neal") Furrow loved children. He was a good pal to his stepson. A co-worker even insists that Furrow's kindness and reliability overshadowed the fact that he was a proud white supremacist. That's not unusual in the corridor that runs from the coast through the wilds of Washington State to neighboring Idaho, where tolerance and intolerance share a fragile coexistence. Nor should it have mattered that Neal Furrow had a familiarity with guns in a region where hunting is a pastime...
...been a teacher (educated, it seems, in schools funded by U.S. foreign aid); unlike them, though, he admitted that he had "done very bad things in my life." More recently, he claimed, he had been working for international relief organizations, helping out in local camps. "He was our best worker," said a refugee official when told that the man who had tried to protect children from typhoid was the notorious torturer who had once written "Kill them all" over lists of nine-year-olds...
DIED. JOE DIMAGGIO JR., 57, the reclusive and penurious only son of the baseball legend; apparently of natural causes; in Antioch, Calif. A sometime junkyard worker, he was estranged from Joe Sr. A cousin said, "He lived in the shadow of his father and could not rise above that...
That long taxicab ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas apparently convinced Buford Furrow that running was useless ?- which was 275 miles too late for postal worker Joseph Ileto. But because he is dead, Ileto is now authorities? straightest route to justice. Furrow has been charged with -- and reportedly has confessed to -? the killing of Ileto, along with those five counts of attempted murder, and prosecutors could seek the death penalty. Yet to a shocked public, and possibly to L.A. prosecutors seeking closure, the trial of Buford Furrow will be about hate. The connections to the white-supremacist, anti-semitic...
...killed the kids in Los Angeles," and offered an explanation: "He wanted this to be a wake-up call to America to kill Jews." Authorities say Furrow is cooperating, which is flack-speak for confession, though they have not yet officially connected him to the murder of a postal worker an hour after the day-care rampage...