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\u201cI\u2019m an old-fashioned cop. I don\u2019t waste time talking about it. We use the facts to solve cases: keeping watch on what\u2019s going on in town, sorting through evidence, talking to witnesses and then thinking it through. It\u2019s not my job to fix how people feel about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herb Wyman, Sheriff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEveryone assumed that the deaths of Billy Willard and Melanie Flowers had to be a mistake or was, in some way, because they were young lovers who shouldn\u2019t have gotten together in the first place. No one imagined the real story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Parker, editor of the Sweet Water Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen there is trouble in town, we leave it to Sheriff Wyman to take care of it and keep the streets safe. That\u2019s all I\u2019ve got to say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Griffin, owner of Jake\u2019s Salvage and the Stop n Snack diner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen there is trouble in town, we leave it to Sheriff Wyman to take care of it and keep the streets safe. That\u2019s all I\u2019ve got to say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Griffin, owner of Jake\u2019s Salvage and the Stop n Snack diner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOh, I disagree with you, Mr. Madison. I certainly do. This is a new decade. We have to look forward and take care of Mother Nature, social justice and most, of all, to saving the children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorothy Paddington, librarian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen the rules are broken, there must be punishment. Someone has to pay so that order can be restored. It\u2019s just the way things are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankie \u2018the Cheese\u2019 Ricotta, businessman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cListen to me, brothers and sisters, our town is going to Hell in a handbasket, and that satchel is the godless path our children are on. What with jive music on transistor radios and them sneaking off to Hooverton to see an immoral movie. It\u2019s no wonder that a farm girl finds herself in trouble when a rich college boy fills her head with all kinds of ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyril Bogman, pastor of Faith Baptist Church<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOur village is usually a peaceful and normal place. Law-abiding citizens go to church on Sundays and a night on the town is a hot dog and a minor league baseball game. We get up, go to work and raise our families like we should. Here in 1960, it is the kind of town where everyone knows each other. We keep away from the crime in the cities. Unsavory characters are not welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kermit Foster, pharmacist and mayor of Sweet Water Springs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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