Sightseers jam Park City
My favorite part of the article:
Tonya Voorhees said she felt like a hostage in her home, which she left just once this weekend to pick up cigarettes. She said she sold many of them for $1 apiece to sightseers who had gathered outside her home.
For those of you who've never had the pleasure, Park City is a suburb north of Wichita.
It's...
uh...
hmm...
There's a Wendy's there? And lots of...
uh...
Trashy people? I'd apologize for such a blanket, stereotypic statement, but I'm pretty sure that none of the trailers in Park City are equipped with modems. I know the library there has internet access, but the residents using said computers are not spending their free time looking at weblogs, they're busting their ass, studying as hard as they can, trying to gain the body of knowledge necessary to get a good job and move the hell out of town.
Park City also has a grocery store - I've (thankfully) spent very limited time there. My friend is less fortunate, having worked at the grocery store for years, preparing produce for BTK to peruse and purchase. He remembers seeing the accused BTK at the store - it's kind of hard to miss a guy in full dog catcher gear walking through the isles - but I'm sad to say does not have any awesome stories regarding the man accused of killing 10 people. There's a lesson here: even serial killers can buy oranges
without making a big fuss.
(Sorry, now I'm distracted, just dreaming up possible scenarios that could have taken place in the produce section. "Fuck you, this lettuce is wilted! These apples are bruised! There's too much silk remaining on this ear of corn! I'll kill you! I'll kill you like I killed those people from 1974 to 1991!")
While I'm prattling about BTK, let me take this opportunity to capture hits from curious individuals looking for information about WICHITA MAYOR CARLOS MAYANS. In fact, let me stack the deck a bit here: mayans carlos mayans mayor of wichita wichita mayor mayans representative mayans mayor city of wichita dennis rader BTK rader wichita
Wichita mayor Carlos Mayans is a good guy; however, I'm not sold on his politics, and he cheats at basketball. Refereeing aside, he's a mess on the boards, has a terrible first step, and his jumper is severly lacking. At least he avoids flagrant fouls, which is more than can be said for his relatives.
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The grocery store owner speaks! Taken from today's Wichita Eagle online:
Rader was a regular
For years, Rader has been a familiar face at the Leeker's grocery store
at 61st North and Broadway, said the store's 74-year-old owner, John
Leeker.
"He's in our store every day," Leeker said, either buying groceries
with his wife or using the store's post office.
Leeker said he wasn't aware of any surveillance of the store involving
a BTK suspect. The in-store post office doesn't have video cameras
monitoring it, and the drive-up mailbox outside the store isn't monitored by video
cameras, he said.
Rader has been linked to the store for decades. He worked in the meat
department in the early 1970s; his mother and wife were bookkeepers
there.
Leeker can't reconcile the Rader he has known with a man who has just
been accused of being a serial killer.
"I would consider him a gentleman," Leeker said. "He was always
acknowledging you with a smile.
"We just can't comprehend what's happened.
"You couldn't pick him out of a crowd. He was one of us."
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