The New Yorker Magazine (№ 15th March 2021) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2021-03-14T13:00:00+00:00

buildings, stealing stuff, lighting fires. than four pounds of explosives. They “I should have went to the classes, but In 2003, he broke into a high school also found two guns: a double-bar-they are a little rough for me. I can’t

and set a fire, and was convicted of relled derringer and a .44 revolver, stand being around people.”

second-degree commercial burglary, muzzle-loaders that take black-pow-As Rauda’s behavior grew increas-

a felony.

der ammunition. In California, it’s il-

ingly troublesome, Oswald, who is

Soon after, Rauda was arrested for legal for a convicted felon to buy a sixty-six and lives in the San Gabriel public drunkenness and fighting in handgun of any kind. But, according Valley, struggled to stay in his son’s Agoura Hills, a suburb that backs up to Greg Block, a weapons trainer and life. He told me that he once made to Malibu Creek State Park. In a let-expert witness I spoke to, these guns, a plan to give him an A.T.M. card, ter to the county ombudsman, calling as antique replicas, are essentially but Anthony didn’t show up at their for an investigation, Rauda claimed considered decorative—“wall hang-meeting place. He seemed to want to

that a deputy attacked him. On a dark ers”—and sellers don’t often check a disappear. A few times, Oswald tried road, he wrote, “I was approached by buyer’s criminal history. Among the unsuccessfully to find Anthony in his a sheriff cruiser who asked me to stop, evidence that investigators collected camp. When he arrived, the place al-I did so on the second command. I were Benson’s book “Guerrilla Gun-ways seemed neatly maintained, as if

told the officer I did no wrong.” More smithing” and George Hayduke’s “Get the brush had been cleared with a cruisers appeared, he claimed, block-Even,” which is devoted to the art of machete. But the choice of location ing off the road. “A deputy attacked revenge. In court documents, Rauda was odd. Despite Rauda’s antipathy me by placing both hands on my neck argued that he needed the guns, to toward law enforcement, and the and choking me.”

protect himself from the Lost Hills thousands of acres of nearby wilder-The charges against Rauda were deputies. During the proceedings, ness to choose from, he had decided dismissed, but the conflict with Lost he took a swing at a deputy, which to make his camp in the desolate ter-Hills reverberated. In court documents, he explained later by saying that he rain right behind the Lost Hills Sher-Rauda claims that he feared for his life, was tired of being “harassed” by law iff ’s Station.

and, although he was on probation for enforcement.

the incident at the high school, he

Rauda went to state prison, and

began avoiding his probation officer. was released on parole less than two In January, 2019, Rauda was charged with murder, for killing Beaudette,

His father, with whom he stayed briefly, years later. His mental health deteri-and with attempted murder, for his

told me that he was acting strangely. orated, and he drank: sometimes he’d daughters, who were in the tent when He laughed joylessly, and he had no pass out, and sheriff ’s deputies once he died.

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