Two daily newspapers and four weekly newspapers keep me fairly well aware of what's going on throughout the area.?ÿ Today had a convergence of a sort.
One story was reporting that a teenage boy had won a noteworthy car race in Oklahoma over this past weekend.?ÿ I already knew that as I met with his parents yesterday to receive guidance as to how I was to split their property into two pieces.
Another story told of a city manager in one of the larger cities in the State had been non-renewed after only two years on the job.?ÿ Smart people out there.?ÿ It took the dummies in a nearby city five years to come to the same conclusion.?ÿ I had conducted about one survey job per year for the city while he was local.?ÿ Prior to his appearance, it had been several jobs each year for many years.
Another story reported a relative had discovered a man dead.?ÿ The Kansas Bureau of Investigation was called in.?ÿ They declared the death to be a homicide.?ÿ Yup, one of my former clients on three different jobs.?ÿ Same age as me.?ÿ His older brother had been my Driver's Ed. teacher.
There was a human interest type story including a picture of a flathead catfish caught in 1966 that weighed over 86 pounds and held the State Record for over 20 years.?ÿ A multiple former client was the one who provided the photo to the newspaper.?ÿ Two people caught the fish.?ÿ My client knew their names but wasn't positive as to how to spell one of the names.?ÿ The news writer did enough research to confirm the spelling.?ÿ But, in the process, he learned something rather impressive about the son of that fisherman.?ÿ The son manufactured electric chairs.?ÿ Yes.?ÿ That kind of electric chair.
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/jun/26/the-man-who-made-the-last-chair-youd-ever-want-to-/
I surveyed this client's property and marked the line between him and his neighbor. 10 days later, this happened:
https://helenair.com/article_bf6f2bbc-0d45-51ed-8721-f8748fe41d14.html
Surprisingly enough, we got paid for our services right after the "gentleman" bonded out of jail. As I recall, he ended up losing his place in a lawsuit?ÿ
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
The neighbor did it.?ÿ He's a former client, too.
They news story above of a former client being killed has been updated to report the neighbor has been arrested for it.?ÿ The good news is that I have not surveyed the common property line for either of them.?ÿ I am certain this is not a survey-connected murder.?ÿ Both fellows are local businessmen who have done well.?ÿ The accused operates a very lucrative metal salvage business.?ÿ The deceased operates an auto salvage yard a few miles away.?ÿ Wow!
@squirl?ÿ Rough neighborhood.
Now I can finish up a survey for a certain County Commissioner, a current and former client, that has the accused owning all surrounding property.?ÿ There was a screwup in a deed that causes a 16-foot issue.?ÿ Stupid people writing deeds.
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UPDATE to the UPDATE
Confusion reigns.
The news story has been clarified.?ÿ The accused is the FATHER of my former client.?ÿ Senior and Junior.?ÿ Junior owns the house and land where Senior lived (until arrested) next door to the deceased former client.?ÿ Junior claims Senior had been battling dementia.?ÿ Never thought to remove certain weapons from the home.?ÿ Apparently the deceased had a video camera that caught the dastardly act for all to see.
Back in the early 90's I was working in Engineering design while still running the survey crews on the projects I worked on.?ÿ We had a client and his wife come in for us to do a site plan for the wife to build a bakery.?ÿ The husband was a Rabi, the wife, one hell of a baker.
They came to us to do the site plan work because we did the same for one of the biggest synagogues in the area, about five years prior.?ÿ They came in for update meetings and tweaks to the plans once or twice a month and the wife was sure to bring in four or five of her cakes every time they came to the office.?ÿ I've never been a sweets fan, but her cakes were the absolute, hands down, best I ever had.
A few years roll buy, the bakery was such a success that they had us work on a second location.?ÿ Shortly after the second location was opened, the Rabi had his wife murdered by misfit hitmen to hide his affair with a prominent female radio personality.?ÿ It was one of those who done it stories that made national news.?ÿ After a few years, the Rabi was convicted of capital murder, along with the bungling hit men.?ÿ In comes another twist!
A few years down the road after my wife passed, I met a woman (now an ex) that was a State Correctional Officer, we married, and she really did not talk much about what she did.?ÿ We both followed the story before we met because, back them, she basically baby sat for convicts on the prison ward on the top floor of a hospital in Trenton, NJ.?ÿ The Rabi ended up with cardiac issues and was transferred to the ward she worked in.?ÿ Protocol was two-armed COs with any murderer.?ÿ The radio personality had distanced herself from him at the onset of the investigation but he somehow managed to start another romantic location with a woman that worked for the local County Health Department.?ÿ In my days in the field doing soil borings and perc tests, she was there to witness most of them, and it was hard to stay focused on the work because she was smoking hot.
His name was Rabi Fred Neulander.?ÿ Search it if interested in the case.
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He could get out in two years.
One summer my boss hired a guy ifrom his church. ?ÿHe was a little out there and I thought of him as crazy Eddie. ?ÿA couple of years later he pedaled his bicycle 70 miles and killed a Justice of the Peace with a hatchet. ?ÿTurned out crazy Eddie really was crazy.
When I was a little feller about seven or eight my grandmother rented out most of her house to a family while she lived in a small portion of the house.?ÿ There were two kids, the husband and wife.?ÿ I think the boy was about four at the time.?ÿ The husband was a cruel SOB who beat his wife and kids on a regular basis and demanded they all be his servants.?ÿ Fortunately, they moved somewhere else in town after a few months.?ÿ Roughly 10 years later, the daughter had left the parents' home and the son had moved in with a family who?ÿ had a kid in his class.?ÿ One day he received a phone call with his mom screaming his dad was going to beat her to death this time.?ÿ Somehow the son found a way to get across town, ran into the house where the dad was beating the mother with a broom handle and shot him dead on the spot.
had an ALMOST client a year ago.?ÿ flipped his lid on cost only after we'd been out and spent two days shooting in boundary to resubdivide his place.?ÿ as i usually do earlier in the process, i googled the guy's name after the phone call where he went left...
"Man accused of trying to stab Taco Bell employee after being denied drive-thru service"
@squirl?ÿ Rough neighborhood.?ÿ
Boy, I'll say...I'll be up there July 4th weekend, I'll be sure to keep my head down as I drive through.
T. Nelson - SAM