Part 19 ~ A Daring Attempt at A Double Robbery

The news papers here had called it "A 37 State Crime Spree of Murder and Mayhem".  We were about to hear their story first hand...

We spoke at length with the arresting police officer. And learned so much more about the two young men from our town and the horror of their crime spree. The officer told us about the night of their arrest. He said they appeared to be ready for war. It sent shivers down my spine to say the very least.

He told us they had gotten a "Suspicious vehicle" call. Another officer had responded to the call and went to check it out. He saw a car in a 'Dairy Queen' parking lot. there was a young man sitting in the drivers seat. Then another young man came running out of a back door of a motel next to the 'Dairy Queen'. the officer ran after the man who ran into a wooed area behind them. the officer lost him so he doubled back to the car in the parking lot. When he came up to the vehicle he noticed the driver was gone and there was a man in the passengers seat. He drew his gun and came up from behind an saw the man had a gun in his lap and his finger on the trigger. The officer pointed his gun in the window and told him not to move or he would shoot. The man gave up.

While this was going on the friend of the man was in the 'Dairy Queen' trying to rob it. But he was now surrounded . The officer told us he had given them a little trouble but he too gave up. The officer added,  that with cache of weapons and ammo they were carrying there could have been a blood bath. But they didn't fight and were arrested.

He said he felt it was it so far fetched that the prosecutor here was trying to say that our sons were some how linked with these two. He wanted the F.B.I to do a profile on these two, because he was sure if they had. They would find that these two just might be the worst 'team serial killers'  in U.S. history. He felt that these two had robbed and killed many more then they were confessing too. I too felt that they had committed more then we would ever know. Another shiver down my spine. It was like I was in a horror movie or a nightmare that I just couldn't wake from.