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Here’s a scary scene,
almost 25 years ago before Joaquin Phoenix walked into the woods beyond the "Village":
On Dec. 30, 1978, then-State Trooper Tom Cloud was
on his knees digging at the frozen ground with a
tablespoon in the middle of a sprawling estate in
Chadds Ford. Beside him was Chester County Detective
Larry Dampman.
"It was a surreal scene," said Cloud, now a private
investigator in West Chester.
Battery-powered lights, such as the ones used in a
photo studio, cast an eerie glow over the hilltop
area. A bonfire was going nearby. Dozens of police
milled about. Investigators scraped away dirt
carefully, so as not to damage what they were looking
for.
Finally, resistance to the digging softened. The
police had found what they were there for -- and the
stench was overpowering. Slowly, spoonful by spoonful,
the bodies of three young men were unearthed.
The bodies of Jimmy Johnston, 18, the stepson of Bruce
Sr.; Wayne Sampson, 20; and Duane Lincoln, 17, had
been piled like firewood, one on top of the other.
Their faces were unrecognizable. One wore a Tweety
Bird shirt.
Read
the whole article
http://www.cfrinv.com/press_8.22.99.htm
I don't know how many people working on this film knew the woods next to "The Village" set was the site of a
triple homicide by the notorious Johnston Brothers gang. Look up the movie
"At Close Range" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090670
for a Hollywood version of this crime family. Christopher Walken
played the "Bruce Johnston" character in the film...one of the
people convicted for the murders.
Hmmmm ... so Christopher Walken in them woods ...that IS scary!!!!!!!
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