The ordinary kind of odd
Cynthia Rearden Her wedding dress was ready but she would never get the chance to walk down the aisle. On June 20, 1999, thirty-one year old Cynthia was ready for a night at the bar. She had walked to Hayloft Tavern because her car was broken down, but with a leather jacket over her little …
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Before you get too deep, this was intended to be a short post that became a small book. Only the strong will survive to the end, so don't even consider reading if your feeble mind can't take all the black ink about to bombard your eyeballs. For the last five years, a little non-profit coffeehouse …
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Have you ever looked at someone and thought, "wow, they royally screwed up their entire existence. How can I do the same?" Well, wonder no more. These things! Net on a stick! Before we get on with ruining your life, let's start with a metaphor. Metaphors are great for ruining lives. Imagine you're in a …
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A hallmark of being in your twenties is driving a series of unreliable, questionable vehicles. A friend of mine had one car in particular that was little more than a street-legal golf cart. It was held together by equal parts luck and necessity. Her muffler fell off on the freeway, her windows would periodically drop …
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Robyn Kenworthy She told her mother she wanted to come home. September 28, 1988 and 20 year old Robyn Kenworthy was once again trying to kick her heroin addiction. She needed to get off the Seattle streets and planned on taking a bus home from Aurora Avenue. Looking back on the conversation, Judy Kenworthy said …
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The skin wasn’t perfect, by any means, but it was free. The edges of the hide were tougher than they should have been and Mortimer Dixie had already identified a dozen puncture marks. The buck had met the front end of a pickup about a week ago and the driver, who had always fancied the …
Snohomish country, sandwiched between Skagit and King county in evergreen Washington state, has over sixty pending cold cases. Some stretch all the way back to the sixties while others are less than a year old. Improvements in forensic analysis as well as unique approaches in building awareness have shed light on a handful of these …
