Not Innocent: The Idiot Magazines (Part 3)

…And here’s the final magazine story about the murder. As the author says near the beginning of the article, “It’s been nearly six weeks…” So, this article was written around the end of March, before the rifle was found and before Cap Oveross was arrested the second time and indicted.

Silverton, Oregon has 3164 residents and one corpse. But if you ask who the killer was, Silverton’ll shrug its shoulders.

SILVERTON’S LOOKING for a murderer.

And it doesn’t look like it’ll find him.

It’s been nearly six weeks since the cops found 49-year-old Erv Kaser dead in his own driveway, slumped against the dashboard of his bullet-riddled Plymouth with a.30-caliber slug lodged near his heart.

It’s been five weeks since they tried to pin the rap on a local carpenter.

And it’s been only a little less than that since they admitted they were stymied.

One cop says they’re caught in an endless circle. Everything they check seems to run back to something they’ve checked before.

District Attorney Ken Brown says the town’s full of rumors. There are plenty of things the cops could investigate.

A newspaper reporter in nearby Salem, the state capital, says something could break any time. It always can.

But