Love and Hate in the Heartland by Mark Phillips

Author:Mark Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510735002
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Inspired by the Hardy Boys mystery series that I read and reread throughout my childhood, I occasionally sneaked out my bedroom window to search my neighborhood for evil to defeat. But I saw more or less the same scene in house after house, night after night: a man in a comfortable chair in a carpeted living room, his wife and two of his children on the sofa beneath a big framed print of mountains or a lake or the ocean, all watching television, and the man rubbing his eyes and yawning as Lawrence Welk introduced the Lennon Sisters, who sang sweetly into the living room. Not until 1995 could I connect anyone from my hometown with murder and, even then, I didn’t recognize the killer, who had been a toddler when I left Pendleton for good. Yet when the news cameras panned the murderer’s hometown, I did recognize Pendleton. I recognized the church where little Timothy had received First Communion. I recognized our high school and the buses glinting in the spring sunshine as a teacher told the press that McVeigh had been a quiet student of average ability. I pictured and still picture the yellow buses growling past the squat town hall and dusty baseball diamonds and into the neighborhoods where over the thick green lawns the flags flew at half-mast.

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