Tom Wolfe said back in the mid-1980s that writing fiction was too hard because the true stories were already more bizarre than anything that a writer’s imagination could conjure up. I’m sure I could conjure up this story, but it’s still bizarre. Here’s a link to the media account of this tragic tale.
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