Deja Vu All Over Again 0
I listened to this story on my way home Thursday:
Just seven days after they set off, they were savagely attacked: While they camped in Oregon, a man ran over their tent with his truck, then set upon them with an ax.
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In 1992 — 15 years after the attack — Jentz went back to Central Oregon. No one had ever been charged with the crime. She wanted to find out why — and to repair her fractured sense of self.
Jentz was in for yet another shock when she returned to the community where the attack took place: When she started talking to local residents, they said the same thing: “We know who did this.”
And now I see this story on the AP wire:
Deputy Rich Niebusch has said the women possibly died in a random attack and urged anyone hiking on nearby trails to be extra cautious.
Everett, Washington, where the latter attack took place, is in central Washington, not that far north of central Oregon.
It leads me to think of this case, which happened while I was living in this part of the world, not far from the scene, so it got a lot of publicity here.
Now, I don’t think that there is any similarity among these cases, except that some fruitcake decided to kill some unsuspecting persons for no reason that any rational person will ever understand.
The only lesson I see is that unpredictable evil is always near us.
