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It's Odd That Having Holes in your Pants Became Fashionable Right When Everybody Became Super Poor. Yeah... ODD...

I see that RENT is Going UP Nationwide... and Prices on Everything Else is Going Up Too... WHY? and More Importantly... What Can We DO to Reverse This Trend? 

The CURE for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome. meme by gvan42
Let's Stop Collecting California Gas Tax for SIX Months. The State has a Surplus! More money is being collected in Taxes Than is Being Spent. Write to Your Elected Representatives. https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
and Governor Newsom:

I Wonder IF Kidnapping Executives and Holding them Hostage in Secret Prisons Until their Corporations Reduced Prices Would Work? 

In a Practical Review of That Plan... It's Damn Likely to End With Your Arrest and Years of Incarceration... If You Used a Cell Phone to Call in the Ransom Demands the FBI Would be able to Trace WHERE You are Calling From and then They Would Send in the Clowns to Visit You. 

A Secure Method of Communication With the Corporate Head Office Would be Needed... 

Maybe Using The Internet... I Do Not Know Enough about This Subject to make a Valid Suggestion... and... I'm Not Going to Learn... 

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and then MD Said on FaceBorg: 
It’s easy the government flooded the economy with money. Inflation is a government generated phenomenon. One way to pay off the national debt is by devaluing the currency through inflation. It’s a tax on you and me and the government gets away with it because few people understand it. The only way to counter inflation is by investing in risk assets (ie: Real Estate and stocks) but that doesn’t always work. It’s the old axiom too much money chasing too few goods. If you looked at the money supply and the velocity of money you would see the exponential growth. The reason we had little inflation in 2008 was because the money didn’t enter the economy - the banks didn’t loan it out not so this time

and JB Said: 
they say every thing is going to go up - but we get our gas from other countrys - Not the USSR - our food ( corn & weat is grown here, - This is a ploy from our government, california could drop there prices just by dropping that Tax ( $ !.00 ) increase and on top of that the government could also drop it even lower by dropping their tax on it also. We don't know why this war is going on and will never tell the exact reason why ( government never tells us the truth) No war never solves anything - but who am I nothing In there eyes.

SC Repied: 
war seems to only benefit the very wealthy. Every time we have a depression or ressession there seems to be a war. What a rotten way to solve problems. California has become a nightmare place for poor people. We are discussing relocating to Nevada. We are thinking the Reno area. Reno is supposed to be very friendly to the LGBTQ+ community.

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and then NDW Said of FaceBorg: 
Your light is seen. Your heart is known. Your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would
be astonished. If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked.
You are far more wonderful than you think you are. Rest with that. Rest easy with that. Breathe again.You are doing fine. Better than fine. You’re doing great. So relax. And love yourself today.
- Neale Donald Walsch

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Gordy Wrote: 
In Search of Balance ~
~ I wrote this exactly one year ago. My feelings exactly ~
. I am finding the people on FB are separated and ranting at each other, spiking, jabbing, screaming-angry over political issues. I know how easy and funny it is to simply ‘share’ a post, but here I would like to address a few things in my own words.
. What stuns me about the current state of the American state is a number of policies that have been put forth;
. #1) The idea of abolishing the EPA. How can that even be considered? In these times of polluted rivers, oil spills, dwindling fish populations, smog cities, bizarre weather patterns, with a bloom of radioactive water just off the west coast, this is NOT the time to shut down our senses. This angers me to no end.
. When these jackals have passed from the government, I fear the damage they have done in only a few short years will continue to be devastating to our land and culture. Log our national parks? I liken these actions as the same of raping an 11-year-old girl. She is changed for the rest of her existence.
. #2) I detest the inclusion in our government of incompetent inexperienced appointees, with a pre-existing personal agenda, whether religious, or hateful. Buying your way in, or being a best buddy is not an appropriate resume’.
. #3) I oppose and reject the current arrogance, as like the immature posturing of an 8th grade boy. I see the evident bad attitudes of not working together in compromise, to accomplish a better world for our grandchildren.
. #4) I further deplore the low level of empathetic care, the promulgation of hate in this land and the world. As a representative of our country, that attitude is disgusting.
. From evidence I see that Republicans continually vote Yes for these negative things. In what way are they serving the people of this land? How do they justify their actions? Do they not see that they are damaging the very Republic they cherish?
. How can they even consider deactivating a plan to keep people healthy? In what way is this beneficial?
. Making fun of these people is very easy… calling each other names...that is a cheap shot. That is not the issue. I honestly don’t expect things to drastically change, as evidence indicates the majority of humanity is rather dull. But for those of us who are aware, those on the cusp of change, it sure would be nice if we could all get in the kitchen and get something done.
. I vote we not wallow in the past, but work together to get out of this existential mud hole. Thought into action.
. Thank you for your time ~ Gordy

And so... Here's my little story about Pete Seeger.
By way of introduction, I confess that the Seeger family looms large in my collection of momentous moments.
I've had the incomparable joy of sitting with Mike and Peggy, swapping songs and laying out a sweet third harmony. A sparkling happy time. I also met Pete a number of times and can say without reservation that the man changed my life immeasurably.
I was just starting out as banjo boy of 12 when my parents loaded me up in the station wagon and we drove over to Berkeley for this concert in a big building. It was something about banjos.
Well, I had never been in such a gathering before...it was like seeing the mother ocean for the first time.
Here was this thin unpretentious man that walked out on a bare stage, dropped his coat on the floor, and stood there in a plaid shirt talking and singing. Somehow I was impressed that he didn't have an instrument stand or a table, he'd just lay his banjo on the floor when he'd switch to guitar. My body pulsed large and small as the whole room sang. I didn't know what I was doing or what was happening, but we were all singing in intricate harmonies , dynamics, and counterpoint. It was SO beautiful, my heart almost burst. I looked around enveloped in the color of joy...
He was just the friendliest fellow I had ever met. My folks encouraged me to speak with the promoters on the way out, and they gave me his address! So I scrawled him a little letter of "Thanks, and I really liked that one song you did." Pete wrote me back! and included the words of the song.
I can't articulate how powerful that was for me. I want to be a nice-guy banjo-guy when I grow up.
"As the twig is bent, so grows the tree."
The last thing he said to me years later was; "Gordy, keep on keepin' on."
I have.

Open Door ~
. Well, that wasn't difficult. I found out how to delete contact with some of those annoying FB people. I actually feel lighter.
. I anguished over it...as I want to be open with all. Who am I to judge?.. yet here they are EVERY SINGLE DAY saying something negative and argumentative. Pouring hate and bile into my life.
. Then at once I recalled years ago when I had literally no lock on my door. Yes all were welcome, I fed a lot of folks. ...and some came back to steal my tools, my generator, my bike, and my clothes. (My clothes, fer gawd sake!) So there are some I need not feed.
. Slow learner, eh?

I am of the age, the times when Ram Dass spoke directly to me. I was starry-eyed from Colusa and met him in L.A. when in college. This is to the point.

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
~ Ram Dass

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Bubble UP! Economics: 

LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans and Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... The Total Will Remain the Same! We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy. All Boats Float in a Rising Tide!

Even if Billionaires Pay Taxes, They'll Still be Billionaires! With Increased Sales Due to the BUBBLING Economy, Profits Will Increase... Making Stockholders Happy... EVERYONE WINS! Including Jeff Bezos Because We'll be Buying Stuff at Amazon!

meme - Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome


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Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. All Those people will spend the extra money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never! 

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...

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A rarely noticed Side Effect of the Failed War on Drugs. It Makes most teenagers HATE the POLICE. And that becomes a lifetime of NON-COOPERATION With LAWN FORCEMENT.

Since the majority of people in the USA have smoked Marijuana and since Criminals hate cops therefore the majority of Americans Hate Cops. The term NARC is an insult due to CRAZYLAWS [tm]. Teenagers are not easily fooled. The LAW says that Marijuana is a Schedule ONE Illegal Drug with NO KNOWN Medicinal Value. AND at the same time Medical Marijuana is Legal in Many States... OBVIOUSLY, SOMEONE IS LYING. 


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While the Police are needed to solve ACTUALLY DANGEROUS CRIMES... Like Murder, Rape and Property Theft... Their effectiveness is diluted by The INSANITY of Marijuana Laws. Money that could be used to do VALUABLE TASKS is spent on Arresting Farmers, dealers and smokers of the Kind Bud... and then Taxpayers pay and pay and pay for Prisons... $40,000 per year per prisoner... 

What if we release ALL CANNABIS PRISONERS and used the empty jail cells to house the homeless? Jails are already set up to provide food, shelter, showers and medical care... Just remove the bars and start helping Americans. What if the Government stopped behaving Stupid? The released prisoners have a proven record of entrepreneurial spirit and they could use that talent to create new American Businesses... If you have experience building an import corporation, THAT'S A BULLET POINT ON YOUR RESUME. 

Doctors Select which drugs to prescribe using Federal Laws to guide them. I asked MY doctor for a prescription for Marijuana and he said: Our clinic is funded by the Federal Government as a RURAL HEALTH PROVIDER and if I prescribe Marijuana, I'll lose Funding. So, no matter what the actual medical need, no matter what the peer reviewed articles in the JAMA says, no matter what HIS OWN PERSON EXPERIENCE with the effectiveness... DA MAN SEZ NO, NO, NO... A better system would be for Doctors to make medical decisions. Hey, they could possibly KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING... Ya THINK? A Dozen years at MED School... Decades seeing real people... actual use themselves? But NO... Elected Lawmakers Choose which drugs to prescribe and... THEY OFTEN CHOOSE POORLY. OXYCONTIN IS LEGAL AND KILLS MILLIONS. Tobacco is Legal and Kills Millions. Alcohol is legal and Kills Millions. ROUNDUP weed killer is legal and kills... NOTICE A TREND? Lawmakers appear to be being bribed by corporations that profit from whatever they are writing laws about. Obvious Corruption. 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FAILED WAR ON DRUGS. "It seems like, every time we declare a 'war on' we make the problem worse. I wish we would declare a War On Hot Chicks! We would have them on every street corner, giving themselves away."

In the Beginning, God created the Kind Herb and it was good. Then he created the Opium Poppy and it was NOT so good. and the Coca plant and the Coffee plant and God grew mold on rye and Magic mushrooms and peyote and Mimosa Bark and FREAKING PSYCHEDELIC TOADS! What was God Doing? Creating all this? Well, as Benjamin Franklin said... "BEER IS PROOF THAT GOD LOVES US AND WANTS US TO BE HAPPY."

Meanwhile... A Mad Dog decided to Declare a War on Drugs! Harry Anslinger convinced the Elected officials that Marijuana was the Devil's Weed and REEFER MADNESS was born. Migrant Mexican American farm workers smoked Marihuana [the word is Spanish... note that the letter "J" is pronounced like the English letter "H:" - Just like Jose...] and Harry frightened the PUBLIC with a Hispanic Panic! Laws soon followed... and Both HEMP and Marihuana were made Illegal. HEMP was used to make CANVAS SAILS for Boats and the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus wouldn't have happened without CANNABIS... the WORD Canvas is derived from the word Cannabis... Anyway... During World War Two the Government declared "Hemp for Victory" as Ropes, tents and duffle bags needed for the war effort were made out of HEMP. Thankfully, in 2019 Hemp is legal and grown in the USA. It's also used to make soap. Most Famously, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap... a Popular item with hippies in the Sixties... In a law that defies sanity, at one time in the evil past, it was legal to Import Hemp from Canada by the Ton but Illegal to grow it in the USA. So the actual plant was NOT found harmful BUT THE ACT OF FARMING WAS... Canadian Hemp=Good, American Hemp=Bad. I wrote to my Senator Diane Feinstein asking her to help legalize hemp and she wrote back stating... Hemp is illegal because people can refine the plant to make THC, a drug... I had pointed out in my letter that people were IMPORTING HEMP from Canada but I guess she only actually read the subject line... OBVIOUS RETARD. No one actually grows HEMP to make drugs, they Grow Marijuana! It can contain 40% THC while Hemp is about 3%... Why would anyone bother growing hemp for drugs? Diane didn't grasp this concept... Not too smart. 

Ironically, during Alcohol Prohibition, Marijuana was Legal. Jazz clubs had "cigarette girls" that sold pre-rolled cigarettes to customers... I do not know if they were really selling REEFER as well as Tobacco... I do know that there were many 1920s Jazz music Songs like "Reefer Man" and "The Viper" that show that the Golden Age of Jazz was Stoned! Lyrics to The Viper Song: "Dream about a Reefer, Five foot long, a little bit hot but not too strong... You're high but not for long If You're a VIPER.When your throat gets dry you know you're high, everything's dan-dan-dandy... walk on down to the Candy store, bust your little mouth on Peppermint Candy!" 

Global Warming is threatening the COFFEE CROP. Evidently, the plant does not grow well with increased temperatures and drought/floods... The Locations that currently produce COFFEE are experiencing reduced yields. OH NO! Billions of people drink Coffee Every day! Danger-Danger! My favorite addictive drug becoming scarce and more expensive? Now this Climate Change stuff is getting serious. FIX the Freaking Problem!

I did a "Scientific" study of drugs and their effect on my ability to pay chess. I owned a Chess computer that allowed me to set different difficulty levels. The Computer could be programmed to play smarter... or not! At level one, I won all the time. At level seven I lost all the time. SO, it took drugs and played the computer. On Coffee I played at a Higher level. I was smarter on that drug. On Marijuana, I played at a Lower Level... Dumber... on Alcohol, Lower Level... on LSD, I couldn't play at all because the game seemed trivial... HEY, I was talking directly to GOD and Games People Pay simply was not significant. My experience with Marijuana is that I enjoy events more. Dancing at a Rock concert is MORE FUN STONED. I went to an Allman Brothers Concert during a time when there was no marijuana available and I found that the Music was too loud and the guitar solos were too long and seemed pointless. YES, I experienced reality and reality was not much fun! Sex is More Fun and My girlfriend enjoyed my enhanced virility. She would go steal marijuana from her father and give it to me and not smoke it herself. She risked BEATINGS from her ENRAGED Father but... it was worth taking that chance... because my performance was better... I bet they don't teach you THAT in High School Drug Abuse Class! I have also found that FOOD Tastes better. I remember at a party a girl dipped a chip into standard WINCO onion Dip and WENT "Berzerker" describing how that dip was the most wonderful thing she had ever eaten! In Reality, it was just standard onion dip. I Can make a better dip than that! Simply buy a package od Lipton Onion Soup Mix and a Pint of sour cream, mix well and serve... POW! That's a flavor! And it's crunchy! On another occasion I lost a hundred pound of weight due to massive marijuana use. As a matter of Fact, I'm not hungry during the First Hour after smoking. Kinda Nauseous... Well, one winter I smoked constantly for seven months. Smoking about once every hour all day every day from waking until sleep. Therefore, I was not hungry very often and I ended up eating Taco Bell Burritos and Soft Tacos and drinking Coke once a day just before bedtime... That diet worked! as Traditionally I am a fat man. One blessing is that I enjoyed running and playing soccer... I was light on my feet!

There is a LOT of Disinformation, Misinformation and outright LIES told by the RULING CLASS and their Puppets, The Government. They want you to OBEY, CONSUME, Fight in their wars, work like a slave in their factories and office buildings and mostly, let them remain in control of the Corporations and Government. "Think For Yourself and Question Authority" said Dr Timothy Leary. That's NOT the quote rebroadcast endlessly by the Corporate Media. They always say "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out!" and they always forget the REST OF THE QUOTE! Check it out, do research on the internet... the LAST part of that quote is "Drop In, Take Over!" OH! That's a Totally Different Message. What Happened in the World was... The Children of the Obedient Corporate Working Man of the 1950s evolved into the Flower Child of the Sixties. YIPPIE! The Flower Children REFUSED TO OBEY our Corporate Masters. I remember talking to my Uncle about the Korean War. He said: "When the Government said go fight, you went." Well, My Generation Said: "Hell NO! We Wont GO! - Hippies became interested in Ecology and Feminism and Civil Rights and Communal Farming in Rural Locations and Writing Lyrics and Playing the Guitar and Dancing and Macrame and Tie Dye Clothes and Fine Art Painting and Travelling on a Magic Bus and Camping and Mystic Crystal Revelations and The Minds True Liberation and the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius... and NONE of that made the Ruling Class Happy. You can't sell many Haircuts to a Long Hair. You can't sell a war to a draft dodger. That home in the Suburbs with a White Picket fence an 2.3 Children and a Corporate-Corporate JOB... well, that's not very appealing after you have STOOD ON THE TOP OF YOUR OWN MOUNT SINAI AND SPOKEN TO YOUR OWN BURNING BUSH. I remember sitting in a field watching the sunrise and EXPERIENCING Exactly what Buddha said he did... The Ruling Class FEARS Enlightenment Simulator Drugs like LSD, Peyote and Psilocibin... People just don't conform after "Bathing at Baxters."

READ MORE AT: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

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Me Singing This Song...

Yuba City by U Utah Phillips
(A Farming Town between Chico and Sacramento on Highway 99 in California...) 
Based on a True Story...

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I came into Yuba as soon as I read
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Of all of those twenty-five hobos found dead
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I came in to find out if one of the slain
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Could have answered to my brother's name
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It might be your brother, I just couldn't say
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We hire lots of floaters who work by the day;
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Now I see his photo they might be the same
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But I never did ask him his name

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Chorus: If I had a list and if I only knew
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I'd write down their names and sing them to you
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And when I got done, I'd sing them again
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So you'd all know each one had a name
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He had a room and ran out on the rent
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Hired on a crew, I don't know where he went
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If I knew his boss, I might make a claim
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But I never did write down his name

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He stopped for a drink every now and again
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Didn't look no different than hundreds of men;
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You know these old winos, they all look the same
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No reason to ask him his name
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It might have been Shorty, a feller I knew
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We bunked in the empties when the season was through
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You know, I been thinking, it sure is a shame
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I never did ask him his name

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We always abandon the old for the new
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And second-hand people get thrown away, too;
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I know it won't help, but still it explains
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Why no one remembers their names

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Juan Vallejo Corona (February 7, 1934 – March 4, 2019) was a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter CountyCalifornia in 1971. At the time, his crimes were among the most notorious in U.S. history. Until the discovery of Dean Corll's victims in 1973, he was the deadliest known American serial killer.

Victims[edit]

All of Corona's victims were middle-aged Caucasian male drifters between the ages of 47 and 64 (except 3), most of them had criminal records and all but one were stabbed or slashed with a knife or machete.

Victims (charged)
NumberNameAgeDeath DateMethod of Killing
1John Joseph Haluka52February 25, 1971 – May 11, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
2Sigurd E. "Pete" Beierman62February 25, 1971 – May 11, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
3John Doe (4th victim found)UnknownFebruary 25, 1971 – May 11, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
4John Doe (7th victim found)UnknownFebruary 25, 1971 – May 11, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
5William Emery Kamp62February 26, 1971 – May 12, 1971Shot in the head w/ a 9 mm.
6Clarence Hocking53February 26, 1971 – May 12, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
7John Doe (10th victim found)UnknownFebruary 26, 1971 – May 12, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
8John Doe (12th victim found)UnknownFebruary 26, 1971 – May 12, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
9Albert Leon "Scratchy" Hayes58February 27, 1971 – May 13, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
10Warren Jerome Kelley62On or around March 30, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
11John Henry Jackson64May 3, 1971 - May 14, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
12Joseph J. Maczak54April 26, 1971 – May 21, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
13Mark Beverly Shields56On or around April 28, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
14Donald Dale "Red" Smith60April 30, 1971 – May 11, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
15James Wylie Howard64May 1, 1971 – May 13, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
16Sam Bonafiede (a.k.a. Joe Carriveau)55On or around May 6, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
17Edward Martin Cupp43May 9, 1971 – May 13, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
18Charles Levy Fleming67On or around May 11, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
19Jonah Raggio Smallwood56On or around May 12, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
20Elbert J.T. Riley45On or around May 12, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
21Lloyd Wallace Wenztel60May 14, 1971 – May 22, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
22Paul Buel Allen59On or around May 15, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
23Raymond Reand Muchache47On or around May 18, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
24Kenneth Edward Whitacre40On or around May 19, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
25Melford Everett Sample59On or around May 21, 1971Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.


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