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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

More Than Fiction

Posted by on October 19 at 13:33 PM

If you haven’t done so already, you must read the story about the assaulted Seahawk in today’s Seattle Times. The discovery of the dummy in the convicted killer’s bed (not long before the convicted killer’s corpse was discovered by a jogger in Seward Park—his death being connected with his assault of the Seahawk in the final hours of his life), represents one of the those fantastic moments when reality surpasses the stuff of fiction. (Quick note: the dead man found in Seward Park was convicted in 1994 “for shooting another man five times following a dispute over a craps game in Seattle’s Pratt Park.”)