I went fishing with a good friend of mine and a bunch of his teaching and public school administration buddies from various Arkansas schools.
It was, as always, a very educational experience.
Here's one of the better stories from the camp.
One of the guy's in camp was the principal at a small, rural school in Northcentral Arkansas.
The prinicipal had a hunting cabin and a year or so later, the folks in the news stories linked below moved next door.
The principal got to know these folks. Holsombach came over and drank a couple of beers with him once. He asked Holsombach to "keep an eye" on the place when he was gone, and Holsombach once confronted the principal's younger brother with a rifle until Holsombach found out that he was kin to the principal.
http://www.fairfieldbaynews.com/04-07-04.htm
http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=1791333
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0904/173059.html
In fact, right after the murder (before anyone knew the murder had happened, and before the pair shot the police officer) the principal four-wheelered over to Holsombach's cabin to say "howdy," and when he discovered nobody was apparently home, he used a pair of binoculars to look around, and noticed the big, weird, camo-netted bunker in the back yard.
Later, police and ATF found almost 100 guns, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammo in the sandbag and concrete bunker cut into the Ozark Mountain hillside.
The principal figures at the time he sat on his four-wheeler in the yard and glassed the area, two sets of scope crosshairs were on his chest, and that the ONLY reason he ain't dead is because Holsombach had once had a couple of beers with him before.
The man they murdered was first tortured for three days. He was tied, naked, to a chair, and left out on the back porch for three nights during February.
In addition, he was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and eventually murdered with a sledgehammer.
There was another woman involved, too....a retired LSU professor who had come with Holsombach and his buddy and who lived with them in the cabin.
She was handicapped, and when Holsombach and his friend took Anne Throneberry with them, they abandoned the retired professor in the cabin, and she had to crawl about 1/4 of a mile to an elderly woman's house where she called police.
You never, ever can tell who your neighbors might be. Yee-haw, indeed.
hillbilly
It was, as always, a very educational experience.
Here's one of the better stories from the camp.
One of the guy's in camp was the principal at a small, rural school in Northcentral Arkansas.
The prinicipal had a hunting cabin and a year or so later, the folks in the news stories linked below moved next door.
The principal got to know these folks. Holsombach came over and drank a couple of beers with him once. He asked Holsombach to "keep an eye" on the place when he was gone, and Holsombach once confronted the principal's younger brother with a rifle until Holsombach found out that he was kin to the principal.
http://www.fairfieldbaynews.com/04-07-04.htm
http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=1791333
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0904/173059.html
In fact, right after the murder (before anyone knew the murder had happened, and before the pair shot the police officer) the principal four-wheelered over to Holsombach's cabin to say "howdy," and when he discovered nobody was apparently home, he used a pair of binoculars to look around, and noticed the big, weird, camo-netted bunker in the back yard.
Later, police and ATF found almost 100 guns, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammo in the sandbag and concrete bunker cut into the Ozark Mountain hillside.
The principal figures at the time he sat on his four-wheeler in the yard and glassed the area, two sets of scope crosshairs were on his chest, and that the ONLY reason he ain't dead is because Holsombach had once had a couple of beers with him before.
The man they murdered was first tortured for three days. He was tied, naked, to a chair, and left out on the back porch for three nights during February.
In addition, he was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and eventually murdered with a sledgehammer.
There was another woman involved, too....a retired LSU professor who had come with Holsombach and his buddy and who lived with them in the cabin.
She was handicapped, and when Holsombach and his friend took Anne Throneberry with them, they abandoned the retired professor in the cabin, and she had to crawl about 1/4 of a mile to an elderly woman's house where she called police.
You never, ever can tell who your neighbors might be. Yee-haw, indeed.
hillbilly
