This is the list that I wrote for Oklahoma's execution roster since the nationwide reinstatement of capital punishment in the late 1970s. Something that should be mentioned is that given the nature of many death penalty related crimes, many of the descriptions contain very disturbing details. Please read at your own risk.
Florida's list is next, and I'll post my list for Texas once I've completed it. With Texas, I've currently finished 464 entries out of the 587 cases to date. That will probably take 7 or 8 posts for it all to be released, so I'll probably do two posts a day with Texas to avoid spamming the sub. At the end of this year, I'll repost the states that have conducted further executions with the updated information.
As with Missouri and Virginia, Reddit's maximum character count limitations forced me to divide Oklahoma's list into two separate parts. Here is the link to part 2.
The currently 124 executed offenders, cases 1 to 62:
1. Charles Coleman (~1950s-1990, lethal injection): A month after he was released on parole in 1979, Coleman broke into a house. While sacking it for any valuables, the homeowner’s brother and sister in law, 68 year old John and 62 year old Roxie Seward, walked in on him and were both shot dead. Coleman stole Roxie’s purse, several packets of frozen meat, and the homeowner’s watch during the burglary, and was arrested shortly afterwards. However, Coleman managed to escape custody, and went on a rampage that involved several burglaries, auto thefts, slitting the throat of a policeman in a failed murder attempt, the shooting death of 49 year old Russell Lewis Jr. in a carjacking, and the abduction of a deputy. The kidnapped deputy was rescued following an armed standoff with other police officers. Coleman had an extensive history of animal cruelty, armed robberies, assaults, and carrying concealed weapons convictions dating back to when he was 11 years old. He was also heavily suspected in the murder of his teenage girlfriend’s father, but was acquitted by the courts despite the prosecution’s strong belief in his guilt.
2. Robyn Parks (1977-1992, lethal injection): During a gas station robbery, Parks shot and killed Abdullah Ibrahim, a 24 year old Bangladeshi immigrant that worked as the attendant. According to Parks, he murdered Ibrahim for catching him using a stolen credit card.
3. Olan Randle (1980-1992, lethal injection): Randle invaded a home and shot the occupants, 41 year old Robert Swinford, Sinford's fiance 42 year old Averil Bourque, and Bourque's friend 38 year old Julia Lovejoy, dead. He took a pocket knife and several watches from the victims.
4. Thomas Grasso (~1970s(?)-1995, lethal injection): While living in Oklahoma, Grasso strangled 87 year old Hilda Johnson, the best friend of his girlfriend's grandmother, to death with her Christmas lights. He took $8 from her purse, several coins that added up to $4, and a television set that he sold for $125. Grasso then moved to New York, and strangled 81 year old Leslie Holtz for his social security check. The trialing arrangements caused some controversy, as the New York governors at the time were anti death penalty, and tried to prevent Grasso's extradition in favor of giving him a life sentence in their jurisdiction. Grasso had several previous convictions for theft and was fired multiple times for stealing from his jobs.
5. Roger Stafford (~1974(?)-1995, lethal injection): Stafford was condemned for killing at least 9 people in two separate robbery incidents with his brother and ex wife, though his ex wife claimed that he was involved with as many as 34 murders nationwide. The first convicted incident was when he and the ex wife carjacked and fatally shot a couple, 38 year old Melvin and 31 year old Linda Lorenz, and their son, 12 year old Richard. A few weeks after the Lorenz murders, Stafford stormed a restaurant and gunned down 6 employees, 56 year old Isaac Freeman, 43 year old Louis Zacarias, 17 year old Anthony Tew, 17 year old David Lindsey, 16 year old David Salsman, and 15 year old Terri Horst. One of Stafford's additional attributed victims was 20 year old Jimmy Berry, who was killed in the hold up of an Alabaman McDonalds, but he wasn't charged by the state due to his death sentences in Oklahoma.
6. Robert Brecheen (1983-1995, lethal injection): Breechen was involved in a feud over money with 59 year old Mary Stubbs and her husband. In an attempt to take what he perceived was owed to him, Breechen carried out a night time burglary of their home. While rummaging through the house, Breechen stumbled upon old Marie in her living room and shot her to death. The gunshots and screams awoke her husband, and he chased him away with his own gun.
7. Benjamin Brewer (1978-1996, lethal injection): Brewer raped his neighbor, 20 year old Karen Stapleton, in her home and stabbed her to death
8. Steven Hatch (1979-1996, lethal injection): Hatch and another assailant, Glen Ake, forced themselves inside the home that Richard Dougass, a 43 year old reverend, shared with his wife, 36 year old Marilyn, and their two children, 16 year old Brooks and 12 year old Lesile. The pair tied up the family and raped Lesile in front of her parents and brother. All four family members were shot, and Hatch and Ake ran off with $43 and the parents’ wedding rings. Richard and Marilyn were both killed in the shootings, while their children survived the attack. Ake was also initially condemned for the attack, but his sentence was overturned and resentenced to life following mental health concerns, and passed away from undisclosed natural causes in 2011.
9. Scott Carpenter (1994-1997, lethal injection): In a convenience store robbery, Carpenter stabbed the owner, 56 year old A. J. Kelley, in the neck, and hid the body in the minnow room. He filled his truck with $37 worth of gas from the pumps and drove away from the scene. His execution caused some controversy, as it was reported that Carpenter gasped and spasmed for 11 minutes after being injected.
10. Michael Long (1997-1998, lethal injection): Enraged that his coworker, 24 year old Sheryl Graber, refused him sex and started screaming for help, he stabbed her over 31 times. Long also shot and killed her son, 5 year old Andrew, for being a witness.
11. Stephen Wood (1992-1998, lethal injection): While heavily intoxicated, Wood stabbed two other homeless men, 46 year old Charles Stephen and 34 year old Charles Von Johnson, dozens of times each. He was given a life sentence for both of their murders. During his incarceration, Robert Brigden, a 59 year old former minister that was serving a 40 year sentence for molesting several girls between the ages of 4-14 in his congregation, moved into his unit after refusing to go into protective custody. Woods killed Brigden in a stabbing attack, and his sentence was escalated to death by the courts for it.
12. Tuan Anh Nguyen (~1982-1998, lethal injection): By all accounts, Nguyen was jealously possessive over his wife, 21 year old Donna. During one of their arguments over his behavior, he stabbed Donna, her 6 year old nephew Joseph White, and her 3 year old niece Amanda White, in their home and left the bodies to be found by the children’s parents. He fled to Arizona, groomed a 14 year old girl into an illicit “relationship”, and impregnated her. After he convinced her to move in with him, Nguyen physically and sexually abused the girl until she fled and went to the local police for help. Nguyen was then deported back to Oklahoma to face trial for Donna and the White children’s slayings, and was sentenced to death for them.
13. John Duvall (1986-1998, lethal injection): During a fight with his wife, 30 year old Donna, Duvall stabbed and suffocated her to death with a pillow.
14. John Castro Sr. (1983-1999, lethal injection): Castro carjacked Beulah Cox, a 31 year old Oklahoma State University student, after she picked him up hitchhiking and shot her to death. A few months later, Castro held up a restaurant with an empty pistol, and attacked the manger, 29 year old Rhonda Pappan, after forcing her to open the register. During their struggle, Pappan was fatally stabbed, and he took off with her purse. During his mid teens, Castro was allegedly molested by his mother. Castro's attorneys made the argument that his glimpses of Cox's buttocks reminded him of his mother's reported abuse, and he was triggered into attacking her for it.
15. Sean Sellers (1985-1999, lethal injection): In 1985, a then 15 year old Sellers tried to buy beer from a convenience store, but the clerk, 32 year old Robert Bower, denied him due to being underaged at the time. Sellers gunned him down in a fit of rage. A year later, Sellers shot and killed his mother, 32 year old Vonda Bellofatto, and stepfather, 43 year old Paul, in their sleep. Due to being 16 at the time of his conviction, Sellers remains the youngest condemned offender to have his sentence carried out in the post Furman era. He also attracted national media attention for claiming that his crimes were the result of demonic possession.
16. Scotty Moore (1983-1999, lethal injection): Moore was fired from a motel for undisclosed reasons. In retaliation, Moore and a cousin (whom he was dating at the time), assaulted the motel, and gunned down the desk clerk, 42 year old Alex Fernandez. According to court documents, the pair took a total of $97 in the robbery.
17. Norman Newsted (1984-1999, lethal injection): Newsted tricked Lawrence Buckley, a 26 year old cab driver, into picking him up. He shot Buckley dead and took his wallet. In an attempt to cover his tracks, Newsted placed the body inside the cab, and drove it into a creek near a local church. Despite his best efforts, Buckley’s cab and remains were discovered a day later by the church’s pastor.
18. Cornel Cooks (1982-1999, lethal injection): Cooks and his accomplice broke into the home of 87 year old Jennie Ridling. She was gagged, raped, and suffocated to death with gauze wrappings. According to autopsy reports, the pair abused her for over 2 hours. They then sacked the house for any valuables and left with her checkbook.
19. Bobby Ross (1983-1999, lethal injection): While robbing an inn, Ross fatally shot a police officer, 30 year old Steve Mahan, that tried to intervene.
20. Malcolm Johnson (~1970s(?)-2000, lethal injection): Johnson invaded the apartment of 76 year old Ura Thompson and sexually assaulted her. Thompson either died from having her chest compounded during the abuse or was suffocated by Johnson’s hands covering her nose. He seized several possessions such as furs, typewriters, purse, watch, rings, and a hand mirror, which were discovered by police in his residence during an unrelated investigation of a firearms possession charge. Johnson had an extensive criminal history, which included several convictions of rape, armed robberies, and burglaries. The case attracted controversy when it was discovered that the lead chemist in the investigation misconducted several of her other cases, and forged some of the evidence used in the trial. Despite the other overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Johnson’s supporters took the opportunity to push a narrative of his innocence.
21. Gary Walker (~1960s-2000, lethal injection): Walker abducted, raped, and murdered at least 5 women, 36 year old Margaret Lydick, 35 year old Jane Hilburn, 32 year old Janet Jewell, 25 year old Valerie Shaw-Hartzell, and 24 year old DeRonda Roy, and non fatally assaulted several other women and teenage girls. The victims were mostly strangled to death with their bras and panties. Some of them were forced to withdraw hundreds of dollars from ATMs before they were killed. He also strangled a man, 63 year old Eddie Cash, with an electrical cord while robbing his home. Walker had dozens of previous convictions for burglary, carjacking, drug possession, and carrying concealed weapons. Some of his earliest arrests occurred when he was a teenager.
22. Michael Roberts (~1988-2000, lethal injection): A career burglar, Roberts was condemned for murder of 80 year old Lula Brooks. She was raped and her throat was slit by an intruder in her home. Roberts' death sentence and execution has been contested, as he was convicted on his later recounted testimony alone. He claimed that the investigators tricked him into confessing with the promise of a plea deal that was allegedly withheld from him.
23. Kelly Rogers (1990-2000, lethal injection): Rogers’ girlfriend lured 21 year old Karen Lauffenburger into her apartment with a fake pizza order. They accosted her when she arrived with the delivery. After the couple forced Lauffenburger to hand to over the $40 she earned from the night's pizza deliveries and withdraw $175 from an ATM, Rogers raped and stabbed her to death. The body was left in Lauffenburger’s apartment and was found by her boyfriend.
24. Ronald Boyd (1986-2000, lethal injection): During a robbery spree of several gas stations and supermarkets, Boyd engaged in a shootout with the responding officers. A Master Patrolman, 32 year old Richard Riggs, was killed in the exchange.
25. Charles Foster (~1980s(?)-2000, lethal injection): Foster suspected a grocery store owner, 74 year old Claude Wiley, of making sexual advances at his wife. He arranged for her to entice Wiley to their home with an order. When he arrived with the delivery, Foster stabbed and bludgeoned him to death with a baseball bat. He a history of convictions involving threats and violence, though my sources didn’t disclose any specific details.
26. James Robedeaux (1978-2000, lethal injection): In 1978, Robedeaux strangled his first wife, 30 year old Linda, and plead guilty to a second degree murder charges. He was released after serving 6 out of a 25 year sentence despite an escape attempt. In the following year, he began a relationship with 37 year old Nancy McKinney while he married a different woman. During an argument, Robedeaux beat McKinney to death, dismembered her body with a saw and machete, and scattered the remains across the state. While being investigated for McKinney's murder, he was arrested for choking and beating his estranged second wife. The cases were incidental and kept separate by the courts.
27. Roger Berget (~1985-2000, lethal injection): Berget carjacked and abducted 33 year old Rick Patterson with an accomplice, and shot him dead. He also admitted to the beating death of a roommate, 40 year old James Meadows, on the behalf of the man's wife. As a trivial side note, Berget's brother Rodney was executed in 2018 by the state of South Dakota for killing a prison guard [for more information, please see Rodney Berget's entry under the South Dakota section of my states with less then 10 executions post].
28. William Bryson (1988-2000, lethal injection): To collect a $300,000 life insurance policy, Marilyn Plantz recruited her boyfriend Byrson and his friend to kill her husband, 33 year old James. Byrson and his friend ambushed Plantz in his house as he was coming home from work and beat him to death with a baseball bat. With the intentions of staging an accident, Marilyn ordered the pair to burn the body in the couple's pickup truck.
29. Gregg Braun (1989-2000, lethal injection): Across several states, Braun shot and killed 4 women, 48 year old Geraldine Valdez, 31 year old Gwendolyn Miller, 28 year old Mary Rains, 27 year old Barbara Kochendorfer, and one man, 54 year old Pete Spurrier, while robbing stores.
30. George Wallace (~1970s-2000, lethal injection): Known as "the Mad Paddler" due to his habit of spanking abducted preteen and teenage boys with a wooden paddle, Wallace kidnapped his victims by posing as a police officer. After duping his targets into thinking that they were being arrested, Wallace restrained them with handcuffs and leg chains. The captives were then sexually abused and shot or stabbed to death. His crimes were exposed when an 18 year old man he abducted escaped from him despite being shot and stabbed numerous times. By his own admission, Wallace murdered 18 year old Thomas Reed, 15 year old William Domer, 14 year old Mark McLaughlin, 14 year old Jeffrey Foster, and 12 year old Alonzo Cade.
31. Eddie Trice (1987-2001, lethal injection): Trice snuck into the home of 84 year old Ernestine Jones and raped her. After he beat Jones to death with numbchucks, he terrorized and extorted her cognitively disabled son of $500 with threats of killing him if he told anyone of the murder. The son was also assaulted with a hammer, and he received injuries to his right eye, right cheekbone, and his right forearm.
32. Wanda Allen (~1981-2001, lethal injection): In 1981, Allen got into a fight with her live in girlfriend, 21 year old Dedra Pettus, and shot her dead. Despite giving a bungled story about her being accidentally killed in a shootout with Pettus’ ex boyfriend to the investigators, Allen managed to secure a 4 year sentence for manslaughter after pleading guilty to a plea deal, and was released after serving two years. While incarcerated, she started dating a fellow inmate, 29 year old Gloria Leathers, and continued their relationship outside of prison. The couple’s relationship was marred with extreme domestic violence on Allen’s end. In one incident, Allen struck Leathers with a rake. In 1989, while they were arguing in front of a shopping center, Allen shot and killed Leathers. Leathers herself also had history of violence, and had a conviction for stabbing a woman to death. Allen and her defense team tried to use Leathers’ previous convictions to make a self defense argument, but that was shot down by the courts.
33. Floyd Medlock (1990-2001, lethal injection): 7 year old Katherine Busch went to visit her family's old apartment, which Medlock was residing in, by herself. Busch knocked on the door and Medlock let her inside after she begged for food. He then choked and sexually assaulted the girl, dunked her head in a toilet bowl, and stabbed her to death. The body was hidden in a nearby dumpster. Busch's grandmothers were staunch pro capital punishment and anti death penalty activists respectively, and their public feud over Medlock's sentence and execution attracted some media attention. Medlock also had an extensive criminal history despite being only 19 at the time of Busch's murder, and was previously arrested several times for indecent exposure, arson, armed robbery, and marijuana possession.
34. Dion Smallwood (1992-2001, lethal injection): Smallwood walked into the home of his ex girlfriend's adoptive stepmother, 68 year old Lois Frederick, without invitation. He had a tumultuous and often violent relationship with her adopted stepdaughter that she strongly opposed, and they broke up under her pressure. After an argument, Smallwood knocked Frederick unconscious with a croquet mallet, locked her in a car, and burned her alive in it.
35. Mark Fowler (1985-2001, lethal injection): To get back at his ex employers for firing him, Fowler and his partner, Billy Fox, stormed a supermarket that he used to work out. The pair rounded up 3 employees, Chumpon Chaowasin, a 44 year old Thai immigrant, 33 year old Rick Cast, and 27 year old John Barrier, at gun point. Their hostages were shot, clubbed, and stabbed to death, and they took over $2,7000 in cash and checks.
36. Billy Fox (1985-2001, lethal injection): Fox assisted the above mentioned Mark Fowler in robbing a supermarket and murdering 3 of its employees
37. Loyd Lafevers (1985-2001, lethal injection): Lafevers and his accomplice, Randall Cannon, kidnapped 84 year old Addie Hawley from her home. She was raped, trapped in the trunk of a car, and burned alive in it. Although she was rescued, Hawley died from her injuries 6 hours later. The pair stole Hawley's wedding ring and Lafevers gifted it to a stripper. As Hawley's nephew was a Colorado state senator, her murder gained some attention from media outlets.
38. Dorsie Jones Jr. (1979-2001, lethal injection): While drinking at a bar, a barmaid chastised Jones for carrying an unconcealed gun. He shot at her in a fit of rage, but missed and injured his female companion instead. Jones then turned his attention to the other patrons and fired on them. 48 year old Stanley Buck Sr. was killed in front of his 19 year old son, who was also wounded in the shooting.
39. Robert Clayton (~1980s-2001, lethal injection): Clayton attacked 19 year old Rhonda Timmons while she was sunbathing near her apartment. She was raped, stabbed, kicked in the head, and strangled to death with her swimming suit. Her husband found Timmons' body laying next to their infant daughter, who was left unharmed. Clayton had a previous rape conviction in Tennessee and a robbery conviction in Texas.
40. Ronald Fluke (1997-2001, lethal injection): Out of despair that his gambling addiction drove his family to near poverty, Fluke shot and killed his wife, 44 year old Ginger, and their daughters, 13 year old Kathryn and 11 year old Susanne, while they were sleeping in their bedrooms. He initially attacked Ginger with a hatchet, but turned to shooting when she fought back.
41. Marilyn Plantz (1988-2001, lethal injection): The married girlfriend of William Bryson. As mentioned under Bryson's entry, Plantz arranged for him and his friend to kill her husband James to collect his life insurance policy.
42. Terrance James (1983-2001, lethal injection): While awaiting trial for a theft of government property charge, James and two accomplices strangled a fellow inmate, 25 year old Mark Berry, with wire out of their suspicions of him being a snitch. They then hung the body in an attempt to make it look like a suicide. Berry was another party in the theft of government property case, and James and his accomplices believed that it was his testimony that got them arrested.
43. Vincent Johnson (1991-2001, lethal injection): Johnson gunned down 44 year old Shirley Mooneyham in her home. The prosecution believed that Mooneyham's boyfriend arranged the killing to collect a life insurance policy, but he was acquitted at trial.
44. Jerald Harjo (~1980s-2001, lethal injection): Harjo snuck into the bedroom of 64 year old Ruth Porter, raped her, and suffocated her with a pillowcase. He then snatched Porter's car keys and drove off with her van. His past criminal history was extensive, and was in prison numerous times for burglary and autotheft.
45. Jack Walker (1988-2001, lethal injection): Disgruntled with the custody dispute over their then 3 month old son, Walker stabbed his ex girlfriend, 17 year old Shelly Ellison, and her uncle, 30 year old Donald, 32 and 11 times with an ice pick during a confrontation at their home.
46. Alvie Hale Jr. (1983-2001, lethal injection): Hale kidnapped 24 year old William Perry to extort a $350,000 ransom from his banking family. When the negotiations failed, Perry was shot dead, and Hale buried the body on his father's property.
47. Lois Smith (1982-2001, lethal injection): Smith, her son, and a female accomplice abducted her son's ex girlfriend, 21 year old Cindy Baillee, from an airport out of fear her testifying of his involvement in the drug trade. Baillee was taken to Smith's ex husband's house, and stabbed in the throat by her ex boyfriend while driving to their destination. Inside the home, she was taunted by Smith with a gun, and was shot 7 times in the chest and 2 times in the back of the head. While her son was reloading the gun, Smith jumped on and crushed Bailee's throat.
48. Sahib Lateef Al-Mosawi (1992-2001, lethal injection): Following a dispute over their newborn son's name, Al-Mosawi's estranged wife, 26 year old Inaam Al-Nashi, fled to the apartment of her uncle, 45 year old Mohammed. Al-Mosaw attacked the pair in the apartment and stabbed them to death. Inaam's sister was also stabbed, but she managed to escape with her life. The couple and their families were refugees from Iraq that were displaced by the First Persian Gulf War, and they fled into the United States.
49. John Romano (1985-2002, lethal injection): Romano and his accomplice David Woodruff robbed and murdered two of their acquaintances. One of the victims, 63 year old Lloyd Thompson, was attacked in his apartment. Thompson was held down by the pair while they stabbed him 22 times and served his spinal cord. The other victim, 52 year old Roger Sarfaty, was tied up, beaten, stabbed 5 times, and strangled to death in a jewelry store he owned. In the robberies, Romano and Woodruff stole several pieces of jewelry from Sarfaty, and took most of Thompson’s quarter collection.
50. David Woodruff (1985-2002, lethal injection): As mentioned under John Romano's entry, Woodruff took part in the robbery murders of Lloyd Thompson and Roger Sarfaty.
51. Randall Cannon (1985-2002, lethal injection): Cannon assisted Loyd Lafevers in abducting, sexually assaulting, and burning Addie Hawley alive in her car. Although he was acquitted of molesting Hawley, Cannon was still condemned for his part in the kidnapping and murder.
52. Earl Frederick Sr. (~1989-2002, lethal injection): Frederick beat Bradford Beck, a 41 year old veteran that was crippled during his service in the Vietnam war, to death in his home after befriending him. He ransacked the house and dumped Beck's body in a field. A second murder, the robbery and shooting death of a Texan man, 77 year old Shirley Fox, was also tied to him. However, authorities in Texas withheld from prosecuting Fredrick due to his death penalty trial and conviction in Oklahoma. Both Fox and Beck had physical disabilities, which led prosecutors to the conclusion that Frederick intentionally selected and depredated on disabled men.
53. Jerry McCracken (~1980s(?)-2002, lethal injection): McCracken and his accomplice shot up a bar, killed 3 patrons and the bartender, and made off with $350. The victims that lost their lives were 41 year old Carol McDaniels, 37 year old Timothy Sheets, 34 year old Steven Sheets, and 27 year old Tyrrell Boyd. Months before the mass shooting, McCracken was paroled after serving time for stabbing 3 people in a bar fight.
54. Jay Neill (1984-2002, lethal injection): During a bank robbery, Neill disemboweled and nearly decapitated 3 tellers, 42 year old Kay Bruno, 25 year old Joyce Mullenix, and 19 year old Jerri Bowles. A group of 4 customers, consisting of 33 year old Ralph Zeller, a married couple, and their 14 month old daughter, unwittingly walked in on him, and he herded them into a backroom to be shot. Zeller was killed, the couple were wounded, and Neill left the daughter unharmed due to running out of bullets. Neill's boyfriend was given a life sentence for the robbery and murders, despite not being directly involved.
55. Ernest Carter Jr. (~1989-2002, lethal injection): After being fired from an autoshop, Carter robbed it with an accomplice, and fatally shot a security guard, 35 year old Eugene Manowski. The pair stole the shop's tow truck, and later tried to burn it with Carter's girlfriend to destroy any traces of the crime. Carter was also previously accused of burning a friend to death in the previous year, but the charges were dismissed.
56. Daniel Revilla (1987-2003, lethal injection): While babysitting his girlfriend's son, 13 month old Mark Gomez, in their home, Revilla broke the boy’s ribs in a beating and scalded him with boiling water. When he brought the boy to a hospital, Revilla gave a story that he accidentally hit Gomez’s head with a door handle, which was quickly seen through by the staff. According to the accounts of his girlfriend and her family, Revilla was violently abusive to Gomez, and they recounted incidents of him trapping the boy in a kitchen drawer, dunking him in cold water, folding him into a pull up bed, and hanging him by his ankles with duct tape.
57. Bobby Fields (~1990s-2003, lethal injection): Fields shot and killed 77 year old Louise Schem while burglarizing her home. She had tried to shot him with her .25 calibre pistol, but he wrestled the gun away from her, and gunned her down with it. His intentions was to steal Schem's television set to sell for cocaine, but left empty handed after losing his nerves with the struggle and murder. According to court documents, Fields had a previous robbery and assault conviction, and several arrests for drug possession.
58. Walanzo Robinson (1989-2003, lethal injection): A member of the Gangster Bloods street gang, Robinson shot and killed 26 year old Dennis Hill, an affiliate of a rival gang, in a turf war over drug sales.
59. John Hooker (~1971-2003, lethal injection): As a teenager in 1971, Hooker attended a party at a friend's house, and got into an argument. In a fit of anger, he fatally shot 18 year old Alta Lang, and wounded two other partygoers. Due to the witnesses refusing to cooperate with the investigation and being unable to prove any calculated intentions, Hooker was given a manslaughter conviction, and released a few years later. After he was paroled, Hooker started dating Sylvia Stokes, and fathered several children with her. Their troubled relationship lasted for 8 years, and ended when Stokes filed a protection order against him. In retaliation, Hooker lured Stokes and her mother, 53 year old Durcilla Morgan, into his apartment and stabbed them both to death.
60. Scot Hain (~1980s-2003, lethal injection): Hain carjacked and abducted a couple, 27 year old Michael Houghton and 22 year old Laura Sanders. After taking $565 and some bags of clothing, he forced them into the trunk of their car at gunpoint, and burned them alive in it. He had several previous arrests for robbery, and was involved with a number of rapes and attempted kidnappings months before the Houghton and Sanders' murders.
61. Don Hawkins Jr. (1985-2003, lethal injection): Hawkins kidnapped 29 year old Linda Ann Thompson and her two daughters, aged 4 years old and 18 months old, from a mall. Although his original intentions were to ransom off Thompson and her children, Hawkins gang raped the captive woman with his cousin and his girlfriend's teenage nephew, and drowned her in a lake. Thompson's children were spared and simply left with a babysitter. Hawkins and his accomplice then went on a nation wide rampage with his accomplice that involved the abductions and rapes of several grown women and teenage girls, hanging 31 year old David Coupez of Colorado in his home while robbing him, and countless other robberies.
62. Larry Jackson (~1984-2003, lethal injection): In 1984, Jackson shot and killed his girlfriend, 19 year old Freda Washington. He accepted a plea deal that dumbed down the charges to second degree murder, and was given a 30 year sentence for it. During his incarceration, Jackson started a relationship with 29 year old Wendy Cade. Despite her promises of marriage after his release, Cade left him for another man, and they got engaged. When Jackson was assigned to a prison work crew, he snuck out and went to confront Cade. Reportedly, the two had bought alchool, cocaine, and cigerates together and had sex in Cade's apartment. However, they got into an argument, and he slashed Cade's throat and stabbed her 31 times with box cutters. Jackson then left with her jewelry, watch, and the keys to her jeep.

"I played major league baseball for parts of 10 years, and I played in the magnificent city of New York, and as a child in St. Croix that was beyond dreams. Yes, I am a happy man." -- Horace Clarke
The worst stretch of Yankee baseball since the Highlander days, the mid 60s to the mid 70s, is remembered by those who lived through it as the Horace Clarke Era. Unfairly or not, the bespectacled switch-hitting middle infielder from the U.S. Virgin Islands came to symbolize all that was wrong with the Yankees in those sad years.
Horace Meredith Clarke grew up on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was just the fifth player from the U.S. Virgin Islands to play in the majors, and the first Yankee. His father had grown up playing cricket, and because there were no youth baseball leagues on the island, young Horace played softball. He said he didn't see his first baseball game until around age 13, when he saw some U.S. Navy sailors playing.

“We were poor kids in St. Croix. We played on a field which was right on the ocean and had no fences. We couldn’t afford baseballs. So the coach made the lefthanded batters hit righthanded and the righthanded batters hit lefthanded. This was so they couldn’t hit the ball so far. It saved us from losing the baseballs in the ocean.”

Clarke was spotted by a Yankee scout in the Caribbean and assigned to the lowest run of the Yankee farm system -- the Kearney Yankees in Class D ball. Imagine being an 18-year-old kid from St. Croix in the Caribbean, and arriving in Kearney, Nebraska in the spring of 1958. The culture shock must have been overwhelming. Maybe not surprisingly, Clarke hit a disappointing .225/.322/.283 in 187 at-bats. He said the biggest adjustment wasn't the cold weather, but night games played under the lights, something he'd never done before.
The following year Horace was in the Florida State League, and he thrived in the warmer weather, hitting .293/.375/.366 in 571 at-bats. He also stole 34 bases that year. The year after that, he was back up north, playing for Fargo in the Northern League, and hit .307/.389/.369 in 537 at-bats. The following year was Amarillo in the Texas League, where he hit .300/.364/.429.
Then the next three years in the International League, where he hit .281/.345/.352 in 1,494 at-bats while playing shortstop and second base.
But despite Clarke's promise, he was blocked by Bobby Richardson. By the time Clarke had reached Triple-A at age 24 in 1963, the 27-year-old Richardson had already been a four-time All-Star, a two-time Gold Glove winner, and had won three World Series rings... plus the MVP for the 1960 World Series, the only time in baseball history a player for the losing team won the award!
But the Yankees knew Richardson was planning on retiring, so they kept Clarke waiting in the wings. He opened the year with the Toledo Mud Hens, then the Yankees' Triple-A team, and then after a month he finally got the call to the show.
Fifty-nine years ago today, on May 13, 1965, Clarke was sent up to the plate in the 7th inning as a pinch hitter to make his major league debut in a game the Yankees were losing, 4-1, to the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park.
Clarke, facing Dave Morehead, beat out an infield single. It was a promising beginning. But, as if scripted to be symbolic of his career, Clarke's success was short-lived as the next batter bounced into a fielder's choice. Forced out at second base, Clarke watched the rest of the game from the dugout. The next day he'd get the start and go 0-for-4.
Hitting .250/.298/.269 at the end of June as a utility infielder, Clarke was sent back down to Toledo for two months to get more regular playing time. It helped. When he returned on September 3 -- coincidentally, also against the Red Sox -- he went 3-for-5 with an RBI. Overall that month, Clarke hit .273/.298/.327, and for the season, .262/.298/.299 in 115 plate appearances. But the Yankees, the reigning A.L. champions for the past five seasons, finished a shocking 77-85, all the way in sixth place.
That off-season, Phil Linz -- the harmonica playing utility infielder -- was traded to the Phillies, opening up a roster spot for Clarke. Richardson, though only 31, had told the Yankees he would retire at the end of the 1966 season, and the Yankees wanted him to mentor Clarke as his successor.
Clarke started just seven games over the first half, but a series of injuries forced him into regular service. Over the second half, he played almost every day, hitting .276/.334/.404 in 300 plate appearances. He was mostly used at shortstop, where his defense wasn't great, but in 16 games at second base he looked good enough that the Yankees were confident he could be a regular there. Yankee fans were no doubt a little sad when Richardson officially announced to the press on August 31 that it was his last season, but at least we knew who would be playing second base the following year.
Indeed, second base was the least of the Yankees' problems. New York finished dead last at 70-89 in 1966, the team's worst performance since 1925, as injuries fell Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Elston Howard, and Whitey Ford.
Entering 1967 as the starting second baseman, Clarke hit a solid .272/.321/.316 (94 OPS+) in 633 plate appearances while leading the league in fielding percentage, assists, and range factor as a second baseman. He also stole 21 bases in 25 tries, a second-best .840 SB%. His 3.7 bWAR that year was better than any season Richardson ever had -- his career high was 3.2 bWAR in 1962.
The following year, the Yankees finished 83-79 -- above .500 for the first time in four seasons -- but a whopping 34.5 games out. Clarke had one of the worst years of his career, hitting .230/.258/.254 (60 OPS+) as he played through injuries all year.
He rebounded in 1969 to .285/.339/.467 (101 OPS+), with 33 stolen bases. It was, statistically, the best season of his career (3.9 bWAR). But once again the Yankees were terrible -- 28.5 games out.
In 1970, Clarke again disappointed, hitting .251/.286/.309 (68 OPS+). The Yankees won 93 games that year, but it amounted to naught as the Orioles ran away with the pennant, going 108-54 to win it by 15 games. In fact, it was pretty much over by July, with the Yankees 7 games out at the All-Star break.
It was around this time that Yankee fans began focusing their frustration on Clarke. One New York sportswriter routinely referred to him as "Horrible Horace". Miscast as a leadoff man -- he had a career .308 OBP -- and criticized for "bailing out" on double plays, manager Ralph Houk years later offered a tepid defense of his second baseman:

“I know I got a lot of criticism for playing Horace Clarke as much as I did, but he was a lot better ballplayer than anyone gave him credit for. He did a lot of things good but nothing great, and that was his problem. Besides, I didn’t have anyone else.”

The lack of a replacement was certainly an issue. In 1971, there was talk in The Sporting News about a prospect named Fred Frazier being the heir apparent to Clarke at second base. That year, Frazier hit a disappointing .261/.316/.313 in Triple-A; the next year, .216/.302/.281. The year after that, he was in the Orioles organization. He never made it out of the minors.
In fact, Clarke was the only constant in the Yankee infield in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Yankees during the, ahem, Horace Clarke Era had holes everywhere, with a revolving door at first base, third base, and shortstop. For five years, from 1967 to 1971, Clarke was the Opening Day starter at second base; during that same stretch, there were five different third basemen, five different third basemen, and three different shortstops. Between 1967 and 1973, he started 1,017 games at second base, or 90% of all Yankee games.
But that, explained Yankees PR man Marty Appel, was kind of the problem. "Fans especially didn’t like the second baseman, the beleaguered Horace Clarke, whose major flaw seemed to be longevity. It wasn’t his fault that no one better came along, and he was a better player than the fans gave him credit for. But because he was out there, year after year, he came to stand for this disappointing run by the club."

"I always did my best. I always played as hard as I could. I never was concerned about how the fans reacted to me." -- Horace Clarke

The following year Clarke hit .250/.321/.318 in 696 plate appearances, but the Yankees again were out of it, finishing 82-80 in 1971.
Yankee fans had been miserable since 1965, but frustration with the team in general -- and Clarke in particular -- reached a boiling point in 1972. It had been seven years since the Yankees had been in the post-season, and 1972 was the first year the Yankees had the playoffs within our grasp since winning the pennant in 1964. (The "closest and latest" the Yankees had been since the 1965 season was 9 games out of 1st place on September 8, 1970.)
On September 12, 1972, the Yankees were a half-game out of 1st place at 74-64, with 17 games left to go in the season. The Red Sox were in 1st at 73-62, the Orioles tied with New York at 74-64, and the Tigers a half-game behind at 73-64. Over the rest of the season, the Yankees went a heartbreaking 5-12, while the Tigers won 13 out of 19 to win the A.L. East.
There was plenty of blame to go around for that collapse, but Yankee fans were particularly irate at Clarke, who hit .225/.267/.296 during those final 17 games.
To his credit, Clarke never complained about the boos from fans or the criticism in the press. As quoted by Dick Young in the New York Daily News in 1972:

"Sure, I would feel bad when I saw in the papers that, 'the Yankees can never win the pennant with that guy at second base.' But why get mad. I figure that's his opinion, and he's entitled to it. I must have been able to do something. Don't tell me a ballplayer can fool a manager for seven years."

Years later, Thurman Munson said his adversarial relationship with the media was based on how Horace Clarke was treated.
In 1973, the 34-year-old Clarke hit .263/.317/.308 (80 OPS+), his defense was no longer among the league leaders, and the Yankees were once again double-digit games behind by Labor Day.
It was finally time to move on. That off season, the Yankees acquired 23-year-old utility infielder Jim Mason from the Texas Rangers and installed him as the starting shortstop for the upcoming 1974 season; Gene Michael, the Yankees' on-again, off-again shortstop since 1968, was moved to second base; and Clarke to the bench. It wasn't exactly an earth-shattering move -- Mason was coming off a season in which he hit .206/.273/.290, and Michael .225/.270/.278. If anything, the two represented a substantial downgrade from Clarke's numbers. (By bWAR the previous season, Clarke was still the best option of the three, 0.6 compared to Mason's -0.7 and Michael's -0.9.)
After hitting .234/.294/.255 in 53 plate appearances as a pinch hitter and spot starter, on May 31, 1974, the Yankees finally ended the Horace Clarke Era by selling his contract to the San Diego Padres along with minor league pitcher Lowell Palmer for $25,000. At the time of the deal, Clarke was still the Yankees' best option at second base as Mason was hitting .214/.287/.307 and Michael a putrid .134/.224/.179!
Six weeks later, the Yankees tried to address their second base problem again by acquiring former All-Star Sandy Alomar from the Angels. Alomar, who fathered major leaguers Sandy Jr. and Roberto, played for the Yankees for the next two and a half seasons, hitting .248/.287/.302... again, worse than Horace's career average of .256/.308/.313.
And yet getting rid of Horace Clarke immediately turned around the Yankees' fortunes. With Horace, the Yankees were 23-27, the worst record in the American League; without him, a second-best 66-46. New York finished 89-73, just two games behind the Baltimore Orioles.
The Yankees finally found a solution to the second base problem on December 11, 1975, trading previously forgotten Yankee Doc Medich to the Pirates for Dock Ellis, Ken Brett, and a 20-year-old prospect named Willie Randolph.
Meanwhile, Clarke went to San Diego and hit .189/.255/.200 in 99 plate appearances. He was released at the end of the season and retired. He was a frequent attendee at Yankee Old Timers' Games, and promoted baseball in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He died at age 81 on August 5, 2020, from complications due to Alzheimer's disease.
The Clarke Side

• Horace's nickname was "Hoss". Yankee play-by-play man Bill White loved to draw out the "s" sound.
  
• Clarke had a reputation of being timid on double plays -- the team's pitchers thought he was apt to hold onto the ball and hop aside rather than try to get off a throw if it meant getting barreled over by the runner. (And in those days, runners came in hard -- just ask Willie Randolph!) Yankee pitchers complained to the press about it, and fans started watching for such plays. Any time the 175-pound Clarke didn't complete a double play, the boo birds came out. To be fair, despite his reputation as being afraid of contact, Clarke led the league in double plays turned as a second baseman in 1969 and again in 1971, and finished in the top five every year he was a regular.
  
• Clarke was the last Yankee to live within walking distance of Yankee Stadium, at the Grand Concourse Hotel. His commute to work was a three-block walk... which could be a problem sometimes. Sportswriter Dick Young reported Clarke had an awkward moment when a fan, "this kid, maybe 11 or 12," walked up and asked: "Hey Hoss, how come you can't make the double play?" Clarke replied: "Well, we can't all be stars. I guess I'm just a lousy ballplayer."
  
• Clarke had an unusual batting stance, a throwback to the Deadball Era. He stood with his legs far apart and he choked up high on the bat. Not surprisingly, he had just 27 home runs in 5,243 career plate appearances... but apparently all of them were of the over-the-fence variety.
  
• The first of those 27 home runs was a grand slam! It was off Floyd Weaver of the Cleveland Indians on September 21, 1965. The two-out grand slam in the 4th inning helped power the Yankees to a 9-4 win.
  
• And Clarke's second career home run? Another grand slam! It came on July 16, 1966. Clarke came up with the bases loaded and one out in the top of the 10th of a 5-5 game. Clarke crushed Jack Aker's offering to deep right to clear the bases and give the Yankees a 9-5 lead; Pedro Ramos pitched a perfect 9th to preserve the victory. Whitey Ford, who had entered the game in the 9th inning in relief, got the win. Clarke's first and second home runs were the only grand slams of his career!
  
• Aker was later Clarke's teammate with the Yankees from 1969 to 1972, and the sinkerballing reliever was one of the pitchers who criticized Horace about bailing out on double plays.
  
• Long before John Olerud made it cool, Horace sometimes wore a batting helmet while playing the field. He never explained why; some speculated it was because he'd once been hit in the head by a thrown ball.
  
• Clarke said he grew up listening to Yankee games on the radio, and Phil Rizzuto -- a similarly undersized infielder -- was his favorite player. Horace was 11 years old when the Scooter won the A.L. MVP in 1950.
  
• Mickey Mantle, his knees shot, moved to first base for the final two years of his career. Clarke, the regular second baseman both of those seasons, said that Mantle told him to get every ball he could. Horace led the league in range factor as a second baseman both of those seasons.
  
• The Sporting News reported on March 14, 1970, that Clarke had a "novel twist" during salary negotiations for the upcoming 1970 season. He told the Yankees he'd take less money in salary if they helped him secure a $1 million loan for a construction project in the Virgin Islands. Sportswriter Dick Young speculated: "It's a very simple gimmick. First you get the Yankees to lend you $1 million for an investment. You bank it at seven percent. That brings in $70,000 a year. Then you negotiate your contract with the independent feeling that you don't have to play baseball for a living." Clarke and the Yankees eventually agreed on a more conventional contract at $32,000 -- and no loan.
  
• Check out Horace Clarke's leadoff single on Opening Day in 1970, called by Phil Rizzuto! #23 playing first base for the Yankees is not Don Mattingly, but previously forgotten Yankee John Ellis.
  
• Clarke set the major league career record -- since tied by Joe Mauer -- of most no-hitters broken up in the 9th inning. Both players did it three times in their career... but Clarke did it three times in the same season! He had 9th inning singles to break up no-no's by Kansas City's Jim Rooker on June 4, 1970, Boston's Sonny Siebert on June 19, 1970, and Detroit's Joe Niekro on July 2, 1970. No other hitter has broken up more than two no-hitters in the 9th inning in his career, according to the book Baseball's No-Hit Wonders by Dirk Lammers, but Clarke amazingly did it three times in 24 games spread over 28 days. Mauer's 9th inning heartbreakers came over a six-year stretch.
  
• Clarke went 5-for-6 with an RBI in the second game of a doubleheader on April 19, 1970 -- and had 11 other games where he had four hits. In terms of fantasy scoring, his best day was either May 21, 1969, when he went 4-for-6 with three runs scored and three stolen bases, or July 22, 1971, when he was 4-for-5 with three runs scored and three RBIs.
  
• Clarke was involved in one of the most surreal moments of baseball history on the final day of the 1971 season. The Yankees were playing the Washington Senators -- not the original Senators, who had moved to Minnesota to become the Twins in 1961, but the expansion team founded that same year to replace them. Rangers owner Bob Short, who had bought the team three years earlier, announced he was moving the team to Arlington, Texas, to become the Rangers. (Coincidentally, in 1957, Short had bought the Minneapolis Lakers and, three years later, moved them to Los Angeles.) The final home game of the Senators at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., was on September 30, 1971 against the Yankees. The game was tied, 5-5, but the soon-to-be Rangers scored a pair in the bottom of the 8th to take a 7-5 lead. In the top of the 9th, Felipe Alou and Bobby Murcer grounded out to bring up Horace Clarke. Before he could get to the plate, however, a fan ran onto the field and pulled up first base, prompting hundreds more fans to run onto the field in search of their own souvenirs. Clarke and the Senators ran off the field and the umpires called it a forfeit in favor of the Yankees.
  
• Horace wore #20 all 10 seasons he was with the Yankees. It was never a particularly popular number before him, as the only player who wore it more than a few seasons was Tiny Bonham (1940-1946). Bucky Dent wore #20 from 1977 to 1982, and previously forgotten Yankee Bobby Meacham from 1983 to 1988. Another previously forgotten Yankee, Mike Stanley, wore it from 1992 to 1995, then Jorge Posada had it until Stanley returned in 1997 and reclaimed it. After Stanley left the Yankees, he asked Posada to take it back, saying that number should belong to a catcher. And now it always will, as it was retired for Posada in 2015.
  
• His obituary in The New York Times noted that among major leaguers from the Virgin Islands -- "a relatively small roster" -- Clarke still holds the records for games played, hits, runs, RBIs, and stolen bases.
  
• After he retired, Clarke helped promote youth baseball in the U.S. Virgin Islands. One of the players he mentored was Jerry Browne, who played 10 years in the majors between 1986 and 1995 with the Rangers, Indians, A's, and Marlins. In his SABR biography, Browne credits Clarke with teaching him baseball fundamentals.
  
• According to the book Where Have All Our Yankees Gone? by Brian Jensen, Clarke played a uniquely Caribbean instrument called "the vibes." "The vibes is like a xylophone, marimba-related type sound. It's a keyboard-type related instrument." Clarke said he played the instrument during his Yankee days, but -- unlike Bernie Williams, who frequently strummed on his guitar in the clubhouse -- only during the off-season. "When I was with the Yankees, ya know, the instrument that I had, the vibes, I was doing it, ya know, but never in the clubhouse, though. Once you are in the clubhouse, it is all work, ya know. That was never so much allowed. I had the instrument all the years that I was a Yankee but I was involved with baseball. That was my full time and I didn't have full time to play music but, ya know, in the off-season I would have a vibe and try to learn a song by hearing from a tape or a record and that's what it was." After retiring, Clarke played the instrument with a local band called Out of Nowhere.
  
• Of the 15 major leaguers to have been born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the only other Yankee was Elrod Hendricks, a backup catcher for the Bombers from 1976 to 1977. Jabari Blash, born in St. Thomas, gets an honorable mention for the three months he spent as a Yankee during the 2017-2018 off-season. Blash was acquired from the Padres for Chase Headley on December 12, then traded to the Angels for a PTBNL or cash considerations. I guess we got the cash, because apparently no player was ever named.
  
• There's a Horace Clarke High School in Jamaica, but it's not named after the Yankee. It's named after the Horace Clarke who was a member of parliament in Jamaica from 1972 to 2002.
  
• Also not him: Horace Clarke, a teenager shot and seriously wounded by a Blackfeet Indian named Owl Child on August 17, 1869. Clarke's father, Malcolm, was killed in the same attack, which was purportedly revenge for Malcolm Clarke having attacked him two years earlier... which Malcolm claimed he'd done because Owl Child had stolen horses from him... which Owl Child said he'd done in revenge for yet an earlier dispute. The pursuit of Owl Child resulted in a massacre of at least 170 people, mostly elderly men, women, and children. As for Owl Child, he escaped to Canada and was never seen again.
  

"I remember the first game I played in Yankee Stadium in 1965. There were more than 40,000 people in the stands. I had just come from my country where there are 30,000 people in the entire country. That was some adjustment." -- Horace Clarke

Overall, Horace Clarke hit .257/.309/.315 in 5,144 plate appearances as a Yankee. His numbers aren't quite as bad as they appear, as he played during one of the lowest offense eras since deadball... an 84 OPS+. That ranks him ahead of fondly-remembered Yankees like Shelley Duncan (81 OPS+), Rick Cerone (80 OPS+), Miguel Cairo (80 OPS+), Bucky Dent (72 OPS+), and... Bobby Richardson (77 OPS+). And while many complained about his defense, his defensive metrics -- such as we have for his era -- indicate he was at least an average defender. He led the league in range factor three times, in fielding percentage once, in assists six times, and in double plays twice.
People tend to think about Clarke -- if they think about him at all -- as either a terrible player, representative of the teams he played on, or a good player who was wasted on bad teams. The truth is somewhere in the middle. As sportswriter Maury Allen said, he was "an average big-leaguer on below-average Yankee teams."
And in fact, Clarke's 16.0 career bWAR as a Yankee is twice as much value as the player he replaced, Bobby Richardson (8.0 bWAR). But Richardson was a fan favorite, while Clarke was scorned. But of course... Richardson won three rings. And Yankee fans love a winner!

"New York is New York. You don’t win, you’re going to hear about it. I was in the middle." -- Horace Clarke

Had Clarke come along a few years earlier and been part of the early 1960s dynasty, he might be remembered fondly as a scrappy infielder, a Tony Kubek or a Bucky Dent or a Scott Brosius -- a good but not great player who had some memorable moments.
Instead, Horace Clarke defines an era of futility.

1. Dale Cooper in The Black Lodge [ Episode 2]

“You may be brave in this world Cooper, but there are other worlds.”
Dale and Laura, 25 years later. It’s time to Dale leave the Black Lodge. In this scene, Laura ‘s essence is sent to a Alternative Reality where she is named Carrie Page and her parents are Leland and Sarah but she doesn’t remember the name Laura. Since the beggining, The White Lodge wanted Bob’s head and the Blue Rose Task Force wanted Judy’s Head. It matchs with the end of season 3, anyway. I think the goal is she be killed again, by Judy. On Episode 18, Cooper finds her and wants to take her home, to her family, for she is a missing girl named Laura. Her return leads to Judy’s death in somepoint of the history. It explains why they can’t find her family.
The Arm said: “Your doppelgänger needs to back BEFORE you leave.”
Bob said to Darya he will not back to Black Lodge because he has a plan [Dougie Jones]. Dougie Jones was pulled back and Dale Cooper came out. Once it happened, we have two Dales in the same reality and on Episode 4, Mike said to Dale “ You were tricked. One of you must die.” So it shows that there is no doubt that in the end of season Bob died, not sent to BL.
1.1 Dale Cooper Inside Glass Box.
a) What is it?
A magic trap built by a scientist that believes in occultism [ As we can see in an example in The Secret History of Twin Peaks – Jack Parsons] with Bob Cooper’s Money[The anonymous billionare]. But do we have two billionares? Who paid half million to kill Bob? It is possible that was FBI. But, when Freddy Sykes said to James Hurley that a man in the sky said to him to go to Twin Peaks and when he arrived at the airport to buy the ticket, “the ticket were bought,already”. Who paid? Or The White Lodge Paid or they used someone to pay [ Major Garland Briggs when he was among us or the FBI. Dale Cooper knew Freddy when they met]
The White Lodge dragged Bob Cooper to the White Lodge and sent him to Twin Peaks Sheriff Departament where Freddy Sykes was arrested with his green gloves [what coincidence]. The White Lodge had everything under control all the time despite FBI, Officers, Blue Rose efforts. Gordon Cole received Ray Monroe SMS for FBI paid that Hal Million but didn’t pretend to be Jeffreis. Albert didn’t know Gordon’s plan so it was Phillip Jeffreis who called.
When Cooper tried to leave Black Lodge, a doppelganger of the Arm said “Non-Exist-ence” and he was caught by the Glass Box before sexual activity. He was sent to the Purple Sea [ The Non-Exist-Ence Place] where he was pulled out by eletricity and replaced Dougie Jones in Racho Rosa.After that, minutes later, a thing appeared when the couple were having sex.
Dougie Jones was missing several days, for he had a football bet. When he was replaced for Dale Cooper, many men were around to kill him and explode his car. They were hired by Lorraine that was hired by Duncan Todd that obeyed Bob Cooper orders to kill Dougie Jones. I believe that he was aware that The Black Lodge was agains’t him, like Mike used to be.
On Episode 6, was sent a Red Card to Duncan Todd who sent a white envelop with a black dot to a Little Man, to kill Lorraine and Dougie Jones.On Episode 5, we see Lorraine sending a message to someone named Argent that means “money” in french, that can also means Argentina.And then, a black box, a receptor turns on a red light. When Bob Cooper was in jail, he makes a call to this same receptor and then it dismantle itself.
Note: In Alchemic, the symbol of Argent is Two Twin Triangles (Twin Peaks) HERE
a.1) Dougie Jones
In Rancho Rosa, two men in a red car are awaiting for Dougie come out. A house near them [ Episode 5] has a symbol that can be encontered in the Map that leads to Black Lodge. Up above the door of that house there is Saturn Symbol [ Named Lead in Alchemical List Symbols] [you can see it here https://symbolsandmeanings.net/alchemy-symbols-signs-their-meanings-elemental-symbols-list/\]. Saturn is one of the planets needed to open Glastonbury gate [ Season 2 Episode 22] “where King Arthur where buried”.Dougie lived in the house with a red door at 25140 Lancelot Court, near Merlin's Market. On Episode 3,when Dale Cooper replaces Dougie, the symbol is a Crux and a retangle and it is the symbol of Potassium. It’s spiritual meaning is open or close gates [https://symbolsandmeanings.net/alchemy-symbols-signs-their-meanings-elemental-symbols-list/\] [ The fact that Potassium deals with the opening and closing of stomata lets me know that in a metaphysical sense it deals with communication which is an aspect of the spirit body. Stomata is the Lung of the Plants. https://ifestropicalfruitandherbdistribution.wordpress.com/metaphysical-relation-to-potassium-and-opening-and-closing-of-stomata/\]. The house with these symbols are inhabited by the drugged woman who screams one-one-nine.When asked why the woman repeats "one-one-nine,", Mark Frost merely stated that “The people who have one foot in the other world have a pronounced tendency to speak backwards."
Source: HERE
As happened before with Mrs. Chalfont and grandson, now is the drugged mother and her son. Note that they are the same design pattern “ The Giant and the Little Man”. Also we see this pattern in Otis’s house: A big man and a small one in a wheelchair.
b) The Purple- Sea or Mauve sea
The purple sea is a great, mauve-tinted body of water, home to several different supernatural beings. There is a Fortress where The Giant and Senorita Dido live. There lives Naido or Diane, Cooper’ Secretary.
This place might be inspired by the "Mauve Zone" from the writings of Kenneth Grant – A thelemist. Grant described the Mauve Zone as a self-contained world at the very edge of reality between what human beings can experience and "non-existence"[ What The Evolution of The Arm Doppelgänger said when Cooper tried to leave The Waiting Room: “ Non-Exist-Ence” Episode 2] Magical manipulations of human reality could be done there by alien beings that could be considered as monsters, it could be visited in a particular kind of sleep, it sent messages to human reality via phenomenon like UFOs and one of the main entities associated with it is called "the daughter."
Note: In Episode 3, The actress who played Ronnette Pulaski appeared in the Mauve Zone but in the credits she is named “ An American Girl”. She said to Cooper: “Be Hurry, my mother is coming.”
So, she is the image of “The Daughter”.
Grant also emphasised on the role of the nuclear bomb in an "occult revival" or increase of magical phenomena after World War II.
Source: HERE
c) Major Garland Briggs
When Douglas Milford brought Briggs to Twin Peaks to a Very Confidencial Work he made clear that he will be the chosen one to be The Guardian of The Forest and keep his works with the Supernatural.
"Only moments ago, while writing the previous passage, Cooper called, as I had requested. He’s on his way to the house right now--the bell just rang, he’s here. Betty is letting him in…
12:05 PM MARCH 28, 1989
“He just left. Something’s wrong. The message holds the answer, just as I thought, but I’ve misinterpreted it. Protocols are in place. I must act quickly.
I’m heading to the LPA alone."
* M * A * Y * D * A * Y * - Last Page of The Secret History Of Twin Peaks
“We know that the man whom Sheriff Truman found in the sycamore grove after Agent Cooper’s disappearance was not, in fact, Agent Cooper, but his Double. We know that when Cooper’s Double checked himself out of the hospital the next day, it paid Briggs a visit at his home. We know that Briggs had been expecting a visit from his new Blue Rose “control,” after the death of Doug Milford, and he may have assumed, or even been told, that Agent Cooper was going to be that control. During the Double’s visit, Briggs became alarmed by their interaction and wrote about it in his final entry of the dossier. Given his intuitive capacities, it’s
not too great a supposition to assume that Briggs realized, at some point during their meeting, that the man in front of him was not Agent Cooper—and that this was the reason for the Mayday call that he wrote as the last words in the dossier. We can also assume Major Briggs realized that, rather than confront the Double, he’d best keep that realization to himself, but, given what we have since learned about the Double, it’s fair to suppose that it saw through Briggs’s intention.” - Major Briggs Dossier from Final Dossier.
In his autopsy , we learned that Major swallowed a ring: To Dougie with Love, Jane-e. Dougie Jones was wearing the Jade ring in his left hand.Jane-e is Diane’s younger sister – the Dale’s secretary. The ring would lead FBI’s Blue Rose Task to Dale Cooper through out Diane and find Good Cooper. Also, on Episode 8 we are told that he had a conversation with Bob Cooper, one day before his death. His wife said that he told her : “Bobby, Hawk and Sheriff Truman will appear to inquire after Dale Cooper.When it happens, give this to them.”. Clearly, Major Briggs saw many things in the future but not Dale’s Double until minutes before his death, when Dale Cooper left the Black Lodge.
Note: On Episode 7, Tammy Preston saw that Bob Cooper’s fingerprint wasn’t normal and doesn’t match with 25 years old Dale’s Fingerprint. The exact finger whose fingerprint was flipped is the “Mound Finger, The Spiritual Finger” as Gordon said. Is the Ring Finger from the left hand – To the Blue Rose Task, this finger is named VERY. When Gordon talked to Bob Cooper, he said: “ I yrev very happy to see, you my old friend”. Both Gordon and Albert noticed the Black Lodge language.
d) Are we having problems with delays on the time?
On Episode 9, we have Time issues here, for in Twin Peaks, Sheriff Truman said that October ,1st is “In two days for now” but in the same episode, in Buckhorn is September 20.
It explains that black box in Argentina where Bob and Lorraine were in touch? For they were in delayed times? I had the feeling since the beggining that things were happining on backwards but it was just a feeling. Or not….
On Episode 10, this conversation happened:
Chad: I'll bet you're a girl who appreciates a beautiful day.
Lucy: That depends on what time it is.I mean, sometimes there's not even enough time to think of anything.One time, Andy was even thinking that the clock had stopped,and then we realized that we didn't even know what time it was.It seemed like forever.
We also can see throughout the Season many delays or reverse moviments like in Episode 14, the funny situation with Wilson, the FBI guy from Las Vegas. His boss says the golden phrase: “Wilson, how many time have i told you…. That it is what we do in the FBI!!!”. You can see, while he hits the table that it reverses 4 times.
We can see delays in the face of the father whose son shot the gun in the car. Bobby Briggs saw that the boy and the father are different things. Watch it in Episode 11 on 22:22 min.

1. Jade- The Sex Worker

If you remember, in season 2, Jade is a character of a Soap Opera. The Jade Stone is a Symbol of cure and David Lynch used Jade codiname as a reference to Madeleine while Emerald, the brightest stone, is Laura. Jade and Emerald were twins.
Jade, the Sex Worker, helped Cooper and sent his key to Twin Peaks.
She also said, when saw Twin Peaks Grand Nothearn Hotel Key and no keys of the Car: So it mean that Jade will give you two rides!
Then, they passed in a Street named Sycamore, and Cooper Said: Jade gave two rides.
Note: In Caballah, Green Colors Means VICTORY.
“The 7th Sephirot( number) of Victory, Green colored Netzach. Netzach is called victory because it’s a victory to have made it this far in emanation. The victory over the beauty of ego, the victory over the self. The victory of experience as well a positive pleasant feeling of victory over the mind. Netzach is controlled by Arch Angel Haniel.”
It probably show us that even with Laura (Emerald) and Maddie( Jade) dying, we had victory. Dale Cooper wears green while living as Dougie Jones because he is victorious.
Source: HERE

1. Laura Palmer never died

Because of what Cooper did [ entering in his former room 315 at the Hotel Great Nothearn from where that humming sound comes from.] he changed the history of Laura. According to Final Dossier, Ronette Pulaski indeed was with Leo Johnson and Jacques Renault buT she said that Laura was at the woods and never stayed with them, for Cooper appeared in the woods [ Episode 17]. Then, she was reported as a missing person and her father commited suicide 1 year later, in her disappearence birthday. Laura never died but it doesn’t means that she never was raped by Bob or her mother isn’t Judy. Everything happened but never died.
When it happens, the scene goes to Black Lodge, when Mike asks: “Is it the future or is it the past?” and then, no Laura Palmer appears in there. Everything was rewrited.

I've been researching a lot about the 1950's era of the NBA and I am just curious why there is a dearth of material or praise about Yardley. There are some tidbits, like how Bill Sharman says he has a great jumper (seen here: https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/nba-hall-of-famer-stanford-star-dies-2733810.php )
As compared to, say, the likes of Bobby Wanzer who was a legendary pioneer but not as accurate a shooter or as prolific a scorer as Yardley was (seen here:
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wanzebo01.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/y/yardlge01.html ), other stars who seem to have lesser scoring ability and lesser accolades have more material written about them.
A standout to me was how he's NOT even mentioned in the 25th anniversary commemoration (seen in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhgru71MNeo&ab_channel=1avardac ) . The Pistons mentioned are Larry Foust and Mel Hutchins.
My theory: Yardley's not as highly regarded because he peaked when the shot clock was new and rode the statistical surge around it. I think the older generation who watched pre-shot clock stars like Wanzer or Carl Braun (for example) believe they could've done well if such stars had their peaks during the shot clock era like Yardley (instead of peaking during the pre-shot clock era).
Another possible theory I have is maybe to sweep under the rug his accusations that Andy Phillip, his Pistons teammate, rigged the 1955 Finals (seen here: https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/2265588/on-this-date-in-sports-april-10-1955-nba-finals-thriller ). As seen in the 25th anniversary video, there is zero mention of that or the other controversies (involving Jack Molinas and Alex Groza).
However, it doesn't quite fully explain why there are barely any tributes about him considering that he is also a legend in a prestigious school (Stanford). I can't even chalk it to him having a short NBA career considering that most early legends of the NBA have short careers.
May someone here illuminate why this is so? Thank you!

Hi, I'm still learning to play (Texas Hold'em, mainly) and decided to sit down and try to learn hand ranges.
After looking around about what a hand range is, I came across a hand range chart from Automatic Poker. I don't know if they are bad, good or great, but I was trying my first time with a "Range editor" and I can't really make sense of the "short hand" used by that website. First let me reproduce a table with the "pre-flop range chart" and then complain/make my question.

Pre-flop range chart

	Early position	Middle Position	Cut Off	Button	Small Blind	Big Blind
Open Raise	3x: 66,AJT,XQT	2.5x: 55,AT9,XJ9	2.5x: 22,A72,XT8	2x: 22,Ax,X76	2.5x: 22,Ax,X76	Isolate Limpers: 66,AJT,XQT
4-Bet	2.5x: KK+	2.5x: KK+	2.5x: QQ+,AK	2.5x: JJ+,AK	2.5x: JJ+,AK
Call 3-bet	JJ-QQ,AK	TT-QQ,AQ+	88-JJ,AQ	66-TT,AJT,XQJ	66-TT,AJT,XQJ
3-Bet		3x: KK+,T9s-87s	3x: KK+,T9s-87s	3x: KK+,T9s-87s	4x: KK+,T9s-87s	4x: KK+,T9s-87s
Resteal				3x: QQ,AK,A5s-A2s,T9s-87s	4x: QQ,AK,A5s-A2s,T9s-87s	4x: JJ,AKQ,A5s-A2s,T9s-87s
Call Raise		88-QQ,AQ+	77-QQ,AQ+	55-QQ,AQT,XQJ	88-QQ,AQ+	88-QQ,AQ
Call Steal				44-JJ,AJT,XQT	66-JJ,AT9,XQT	22-TT,AT,XJ9

And then, the author tries to clarify the shorthand coding for the hand ranges, clarification that I fail to understand for the most part:

To save space on the charts, I use a common hand range shorthand. It may take a bit to master, but once you do you will appreciate the simplicity.
Here are the guidelines:
- If applicable, pairs come first. You will either see a single pair, like 66 for example. This means 66+ and includes all pairs from 66 up to AA. If you see a range, like 88-JJ, that means 88, 99, TT, and JJ.
- If you see a single hand listed, it includes both suited and unsuited and all hands greater. For example, X9 is all non-pair hands where the kicker is at least a 9. This would include K9s+, Q9s+, J9s+, T9s+, T9s, K9o+, Q9o+, J9o+, T9o+, and T9o+.
- XJT means all hands with an unsuited kicker Jack or better and all suited hands with a Ten kicker or better. So 55+, ATs+, ATo+, KTs+, KJo+, QTs+, QJo, JTs

I don't understand:

• the Xxx notation, why would 55+ enter the notation of XJT, 5 kicker isn't better than J nor T, what gives?
• The NMO notation, is any card N with kicker either M+ or O+? suited or off suited? why not just NO then? That means any card N with kicker O or better, but what do I know, right? I seriously don't understand that shorthand.
• What's up with ranges in bold? What I'm supposed to do different if my cards are in the range stylized in bold? Act bold?

Further clarification of each row usage is given, you can check the landing page for the charts to know more.
Please help me understand, I want to put the ranges in the editor and begin practicing but this short handing thing is a stumble block. Thank you!

In episode 1672, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian behind the comedy special Spiritually Filthy, Mort Burke, to discuss… RFK Jr. Lands Endorsement From Political Heavyweight Kevin Spacey, Hamas Agrees To Ceasefire Deal--Israel Rejects And Now Things May Get Even Worse, Safety Schmafety: Boeing Locks Out Its Firefighters, Puppycide Lady Is Now Getting Destroyed By Her Own…Sad, AI Katy Perry Attends Met Gala and more!
footNOTES

• RFK Jr. Lands Endorsement From Political Heavyweight Kevin Spacey
• RFK Jr Super PAC will sue Meta after campaign infomercial temporarily blocked
• Kevin Spacey tweets support of RFK Jr. ad narrated by Woody Harrelson
• Hamas Agrees To Ceasefire Deal--Israel Rejects And Now Things May Get Even Worse
• Hamas Accepts Cease-fire Deal, Israel 'Examining' Proposal; IDF Enters Rafah
• Safety Schmafety: Boeing Locks Out Its Firefighters
• Boeing locks out its private firefighters around Seattle over pay dispute
• Boeing Locks Out Firefighters While Negotiating With Machinists
• Puppycide Lady Is Now Getting Destroyed By Her Own…Sad
• AI Katy Perry Attends Met Gala
• Katy Perry's own mom fell for her Met Gala AI photo. Do you know what to look for?
• LISTEN: F**k by Lola Young

Yeah, so wow, I did not expect The Stones to win by such a blowout. I picked that song as well, but I thought it’d be a bit more competitive between The Four Tops and The Righteous Brothers. Still, a well-deserved win.
‘66 is one of my favourite years for popular music, but honestly, the Top 6 is probably the weakest one of the Beatles era (1964-1970). It’s still pretty damn good (with one exception). Originally, “California Dreamin’” was the No. 1 song on the year-end chart, but Billboard revised the list later on and this wound up being the No. 1 song. I went with the revised list since it made more sense given the chart activity of 1966. It was a tough decision because this Top 6 isn’t as good as the original Top 6, but for accuracy’s sake, I went with this.

1. “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” (Sgt. Barry Sadler) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWjkeXKPQOI

Oh boy, this song. This is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the United States Army Special Forces. Written and performed by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, it was one of the few popular songs of the Vietnam War years to cast the military in a positive light. Many consider this song one of the worst songs to have ever reached #1. Reading up on Sadler, doesn’t seem like a great guy either.
Personally, I don’t hate this song, but the fact that this was the No. 1 song of the year when we have so much great music that’s making the charts is depressing.

1. “Cherish” (The Association) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9tAdPN3FZ4

This is the first of two No. 1s for the Californian sunshine pop group The Association. It was written by band member Terry Kirkman. For the single released, the song was sped up and one of the two "And I do cherish you" lines near the end was removed. This was done to hold the track to the three-minute mark, as AM radio programmers disliked playing songs that went longer than that (the album version is 3:25). However, even with the edit, the song still ran over. Instead of editing further, producer Curt Boettcher intentionally listed "3:00" on the label as the song's running time.
Their other No. 1 will be appearing in the ‘67 poll (“Windy” is one of my favourite songs of all time, though “Never My Love” is my favourite song by them). I think “Cherish” is a great song, despite some slightly questionable lyrics. I love The Association - a very underrated group that’s been sadly forgotten.

1. “(You’re My) Soul And Inspiration” (The Righteous Brothers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzrPs-hLKmM

The 2nd and final chart-topper by the Righteous Brothers. It was the group's first hit after leaving their long-time producer Phil Spector and after leaving Spector’s Phillies Record label, and was written by Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, who had co-wrote their first chart-topper with Spector. The song was arranged by Jack Nitzsche, who had arranged many of Phil Spector's records. Righteous Brother Bill Medley produced the song and imitated Spector's "Wall of Sound" technique with reverbing pop-orchestration and a soaring female backup choir. This was their last Top 10 hit until the mid-70s.
Somedays, I think this song is better than “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”. Such a good song.

1. “Reach Out I’ll Be There” (The Four Tops) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUZ3INx3-KA

Written and produced by Motown's main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song is one of the most widely-known Motown hits of the 1960s and is widely considered one of The Four Tops' signature songs. It was also a UK No. 1. Dozier said that they were strongly influenced by Bob Dylan at the time. For the recording, the writers and producers intentionally put Levi Stubbs at the top of his vocal range, according to Abdul Fakir of the Four Tops, "to make sure he'd have that cry and hunger and wailing in his voice." After the recording was completed and on hearing the final version, the group begged Motown head Berry Gordy not to release it because they thought it was odd for them. However, Gordy insisted that it be issued as a single.
Just an amazing song. What a masterpiece. It gets my vote. I think it’s the winner for this poll.

1. “96 Tears” (? and The Mysterians) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im6dMLdXI28

A No. 1 hit, and a garage rock classic, this song is known for its signature organ licks and bare-bones lyrics. "96 Tears" is recognized as one of the first garage band hits, and has even been given credit for starting the punk rock movement. The follow-up song, "I Need Somebody", peaked at #22 later that year, but no other U.S. Top 40 singles followed. Various reports have suggested that Question Mark first wrote the song under the title "Too Many Teardrops" and then "69 Tears", but then changed the title, fearing that radio stations would not play the song. However, Question Mark denied this in an interview, stating that the number 96 has a deep philosophical meaning for him. Sure buddy.
I LOVE this song. So catchy. Todd should cover this for one-hit wonderland because this song absolutely rules and I want more people to know about it.

1. “Last Train To Clarksville” (The Monkees) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA-KO04_KgM

The first of three No. 1s for The Monkees, a pop group created by TV and music executives to imitate and emulate the style of The Beatles for a TV show and recording, “Last Train to Clarksville” was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart and was an attempt to emulate The Beatles’ songs such as "I Feel Fine," "Day Tripper" and "Paperback Writer". The lyrics tell of a man phoning the woman whom he loves, urging her to meet him at a train station in Clarksville before he must leave, possibly forever. There is no explicit reference to war in the song, but its last line, "And I don't know if I'm ever coming home," was an indirect reference to a soldier leaving for the Vietnam War.
Great song. My least favourite of their three chart-toppers, but still a gem.
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Rounding out the Top 10 is “Monday, Monday” (The Mamas and the Papas) (No. 7), “You Can’t Hurry Love” (The Supremes (No. 8), “The Poor Side of Town” (Johnny Rivers) (No. 9) and “California Dreamin’” (The Mamas and the Papas) (No. 10).
Please make sure to listen to the entire Top 6 before voting.
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Hey everyone! This seemed to be a well-received post last time I did it back at the beginning of April so I figured I'd update it again. To be honest, I'm hoping doing more of this stuff will eventually reach EA's eyes so that they can be better about balancing theme teams next year, but I understand it's a ridiculous long shot. Just some general points before I go over all the teams.

• I'm not writing down players that get all team chems. Every theme team benefits from that scenario whereas I'm trying to point out the imbalance for some of them
• I'm only focusing on top-end cards from programs. Try as EA might, set fodder does not actually make a theme team better unless they somehow have discounted abilities
• I included the 98 ROH players in this because at the time they were among some of the best cards in the game. I did not include the 95s because even though the boosts would make them among the best, the penalty of including crap abilities offset that in my mind
• I included the S6 champions when maybe I shouldn't have. Bobby Wagner is absolutely a staple and should be used by most teams, whereas Lane Johnson's abilities were garbage and will make him quicksell fodder -- but I didn't think it was right to include some and not all to remain unbiased as possible
• Draft Night cards are not included. It should be self explanatory that the players drafted to teams will benefit that theme team exclusively

Starting after the March 23 ULs here's the breakdown of top-end cards for each theme team:
Seahawks - 14 top program cards - 4 LTD - Jadeveon Clowney (WW), Evan Brown (WW), Brian Bosworth (Reels), Duane Brown (WW), Devin Hester (ROH), Greg Olsen (ROH), Jamaal Adams (AKA), Bobby Wagner (S6), Tyler Lockett (Draft), Jerry Rice (UL), Kam Chancellor (AKA), Richard Sherman (AKA), Bruce Irvin (AKA), Russell Wilson (AKA)
Rams - 9 top program cards - 1 LTD - Cooper Kupp (WW), Eric Dickerson (ROH), Norman Cromwell (ROH), Jackie Slater (ROH), Aquib Talib (AKA), Bobby Wagner (S6), Jalen Ramsey (Draft), Todd Gurley (Draft), Johnny Hekker (AKA)
Cardinals - 8 top program cards - 2 LTD - Matt Prater (WW), Dan Dierdorf (UL), JJ Watt (ROH), Tyrann Mathieu (ROH), LaMarr Woodley (ROH), Joey Porter (ROH), Larry Fitzgerald (Draft), Buddha Baker (Flux LTD)
49ers - 7 top program cards - 2 LTD - Deon Sanders (UL), Nnamdi Asomugha (Reels), Randy Moss (UL), Nick Bosa (WW), Jerry Rice (UL), Richard Sherman (AKA), George Kittle (Flux)
Eagles - 10 top program cards - 1 LTD - Nnamdi Asomugha (Reels), Michael Vick (ROH), Brian Finneran (ROH), Demarco Murray (UL), Saquon Barkley (WW), Lane Johnson (S6), Brian Dawkins (UL), Mark Bavaro (UL), Jordan Davis (WW), Darius Slay (Flux)
Giants - 6 top program cards - 3 LTD - Jamie Gillian (AKA), Darren Waller (WW), Evan Brown (WW), Lawrence Taylor (ROH), Saquon Barkley (WW), Mark Bavaro (UL)
Cowboys - 6 top program cards - 1 LTD - Demarcus Ware (UL), Deon Sanders (UL), Demarco Murray (UL), Daron Bland (WW), Demarcus Lawrence (S6), Jake Ferguson (Draft)
Commanders - 6 top program cards - 2 LTD - Deon Sanders (UL), Scary Terry (AKA), Kirk Cousins (AKA), DeAngelo Hall (ROH), Bobby Wagner (S6), Champ Bailey (Draft)
Lions - 10 program cards - 1 LTD - Amon-Ra St. Brown (AKA), Matt Prater (WW), Evan Brown (WW), Daunte Culpepper (UL), Kerby Joseph (Draft), Calvin Johnson (UL), TJ Hockenson (WW), Jack Campbell (WW), Bruce Irvin (AKA), Darius Slay (Flux)
Vikings - 9 top program cards - 3 LTD - Za’Darius Smith (WW), Roman Reigns (Reels), Randy Moss (UL), Kirk Cousins (Crews), Stefon Diggs (WW), Daunte Culpepper (UL), Harrison Smith (S6), TJ Hockenson (WW), Cordarelle Patterson (Flux)
Bears - 5 top program cards - 0 LTD - Devin Hester (ROH), Greg Olsen (ROH), Tommie Harris (ROH), Bruce Irvin (AKA), Cordarelle Patterson (Flux)
Packers - 1 top program card - Za'Darius Smith (WW) back on April 3
Falcons - 14 top program cards - 2 LTD - Matt Prater (WW), Deon Sanders (UL), Kirk Cousins (AKA), Bud Dupree (WW), Tony Gonzalez (ROH), Michael Vick (ROH), Eric Dickerson (ROH), Devin Hester (ROH), DeAngelo Hall (ROH), Brian Finneran (ROH), Todd Gurley (Draft), Bruce Irvin (AKA), Cordarelle Patterson (Flux), Foyesade Oluokun (Flux)
Saints - 5 top program cards - Cameron Jordan (Crews), Demario Davis (WW), Tyrann Mathieu (ROH), Chris Harris (AKA), Drew Brees (S6)
Panthers - 4 top program cards - 0 LTD - Greg Olsen (ROH), Bruce Irvin (AKA), Robert Hunt (WW), Johnny Hekker (AKA)
Bucs - 4 top program cards - 0 LTD - Rob Gronkowski (Reels), Aquib Talib (AKA), Derrick Brooks (UL), Richard Sherman (AKA)
Raiders - 14 top program cards - 7 LTD - Darren Waller (WW), Howie Long (Reels), Fred Williamson (Reels), Nnamdi Asomugha (Reels), Randy Moss (UL), Bob Golic (Reels), Eric Dickerson (ROH), Devin Hester (ROH), DeAngelo Hall (ROH), LaMarr Woodley (ROH), Daunte Culpepper (UL), Jerry Rice (UL LTD), Bruce Irvin (AKA), Cordarelle Patterson (Flux)
Broncos - 9 top program cards - 4 LTD - Matt Prater (WW), Demarcus Ware (UL), Aquib Talib (AKA), Chris Harris (AKA), Courtland Sutton (WW), Champ Bailey (Draft), Brian Dawkins (UL), Quinn Meinerz (WW), Russell Wilson (AKA)
Chiefs - 6 top program cards - 3 LTD - Travis Kelce (AKA), Fred Williamson (Reels), John Amos (Reels), Tony Gonzalez (ROH), Tyrann Mathieu (ROH), Tyreek Hill (AKA)
Chargers - 4 top program cards - 0 LTD - Tommie Harris (ROH), Rodney Harrison (UL), Chris Harris (AKA), Asante Samuel Jr (AKA)
Dolphins - 8 top program cards - 1 LTD - Evan Brown (WW), Joey Porter (ROH), Daunte Culpepper (UL), Jalen Ramsey (Draft), Tyreek Hill (AKA), Jaylen Waddle (AKA), Bruce Irvin (AKA), Robert Hunt (AKA)
Jets - 5 top program cards - 1 LTD - Demario Davis (WW), Duane Brown (WW), Michael Vick (ROH), Jamaal Adams (AKA), Garrett Wilson (Draft)
Patriots - 8 top program cards - 2 LTD - Rob Gronkowski (Reels), Randy Moss (UL), Bob Golic (Reels), Rodney Harrison (UL), Aquib Talib (AKA), David Andrews (WW), Jerod Mayo (UL), Cordarelle Patterson (Flux)
Bills - 2 top progrm cards - 1 LTD - Stefon Diggs (WW), Greg Rosseu (Draft)
Steelers - 13 top program cards - 4 LTD - Hines Ward (Reels), Fred Williamson (Reels), Terry Bradshaw (Reels), Mean Joe (UL), Ed O’Neil (Reels), Bud Dupree (WW), Michael Vick (ROH), Troy Polomalu (ROH), Joey Porter (ROH), LaMarr Woodley (ROH), Ryan Shazier (Draft), Russell Wilson (WW), Cordarelle Patterson (Flux)
Ravens - 7 top program cards - 3 LTD - Deon Sanders (UL), Darren Waller (WW), Za’Darius Smith (WW), Justin Tucker (WW), Tyler Linderbaum (Draft), Lamar Jackson (AKA), Geno Stone
Browns - 6 top program cards - 2 LTD - Denzel Ward (AKA), Evan Brown (WW), Za’Darius Smith (WW), Bob Golic (Reels), Demario Davis (WW), Mark Bavaro (UL)
Bengals - 3 top program cards - 3 LTD (Nike set) - Joe Burrow (WW), Geno Stone (WW LTD), Ja’Marr Chase (Flux LTD)
Titans - 7 top program cards - 1 LTD - Will Levis (WW), Jadeveon Clowney (WW), Randy Moss (UL), Bud Dupree (WW), Andre Johnson (ROH), Demarco Murray (UL), Amani Hooker (Flux)
Texans - 7 top program cards - 1 LTD - Jadevon Clowney (WW), Stefon Diggs (WW), Duane Brown (WW), JJ Watt (ROH), Andre Johnson (ROH), Tyrann Mathieu (ROH), Tank Dell (WW)
Colts - 4 top program cards - 0 LTD - Burt Reynolds (Reels), Eric Dickerson (ROH), Andre Johnson (ROH), Quentin Nelson (Flux)
Jaguars - 3 top program cards - 0 LTD - Tony Boselli (UL), Jalen Ramsey (Draft), Foyesade Oluokun (Flux)

President Biden and President Trump have both made it clear that they will not disclose the remaining JFK files, in direct violation of the law.
Let's hear what President Biden had to say first.
The president’s certification, issued at 6:36 p.m. on the Friday before the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, when it would not draw much attention, has frustrated researchers and historians still focused on the most sensational American murder of the 20th century. But they suffered a setback on Friday when a federal judge refused to block Mr. Biden’s order.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/politics/biden-jfk-assassination-papers.html
Now, let's hear what Presient Trump had to say on the topic.
"Even he, Trump, held back 20 percent of the documents," Stone told Jack Posobiec of Human Events, part of the GOP nonprofit Turning Point USA. "When I had the occasion to ask him about that, I said, 'Why didn't you let it all out?'.
"He said, 'I can't tell you, it's so horrible you wouldn't believe it. Someday you'll find out.' That was the sum total of it and he didn't want to talk further about it. He kicked the can down the road to President Joe Biden."
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-told-roger-stone-he-wont-believe-whats-classified-jfk-files-1811156:
Now that we're done establishing these facts, they're unambiguous. No one can make an argument that either Trump or Biden will release the JFK files.
Therefore, if you really care about this issue, there's only one course of action. You must vote for Bobby Kennedy.
Especially on Reddit, people will slam this guy. They'll try to make you feel small and stupid for even considering voting for him. But that's how disinformation campaigns work. Everyone here should know this playbook well.
Let's take a look at what Bobby has to say on this topic.
“What is so embarrassing that they’re afraid to show the American public 60 years later?” Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as an independent candidate, said in a statement Monday.
“In the spirit of transparency, in the spirit of democracy, we, the undersigned, call upon President Biden to obey the 1992 act and release the Kennedy assassination documents to the public,” the petition says.
The White House did not respond to an email Tuesday from Spectrum News asking about Kennedy Jr.’s request.
Source: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2023/11/21/robert-f--kennedy-jr--calls-for-biden-to-release-last-of-jfk-assassination-records
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Crawling through Return's twists and turns, Agent Phillip Jeffries appears to have been present a lot, up to being one of the main characters in the story, just not looking like he did in Fire Walk with Me but on a wild ride of physical transformations for a reason unknown. Oftentimes, tracing his doings appears so vaguely guided that when conclusions are totally fantastical, their seemingly pointless frivolousness makes the whole attempt to figure out the story come across as a mess before an eventual purpose in all that starts to show up.
So they are both supposed to be Phillip Jeffries?
Two abrupt conclusions with little useful value, as it seems, are that the Ray sitting in a diner with Mr C, Darya and Jack in P2 was Phillip Jeffries. Another is that Sheriff Frank Truman, the assumed brother of Harry Truman, was also Jeffries. Separately, these ideas look pointless, but they were probably meant to make sense together.
Let's see how that would work out. In P2, while sitting in the diner, Ray was helping Mr C get certain "information".

Ray: "And I'll follow up on that contact of mine, hopefully get the information you need."

Mr C suspected some foul play was going on.

Mr C: "Kind of funny that she'll only give it to you."

Ray suggested the coveted "information" was held by Hastings's secretary.

Ray: "She's Hastings' secretary. She knows what he knows."

Later in P13, it was revealed what it was that Ray had got from the secretary.

Ray: "You want the coordinates I got from Hastings? Rather, his pretty secretary, Betty? Do you really think I'm gonna give them to you? You really think you could even trust the numbers I give you?"

Then, he suddenly changed his mind and gave Mr C the coordinates on a small piece of paper.
Let's see how Ray's storyline would align with the Sheriff's and how that would then make its own kind of sense.
Following up his contact.
In P4, Sheriff Truman followed Bobby on the corridor and then called his name. This was their first scene together. Turning a figure of speech to a concrete action, perhaps this was indicative of Ray following up the "contact" of his, quite literally.
The purpose of the contact, presumably now identified as Bobby, was to help Jeffries / Ray lay his hands on the "information". In P9, Bobby took the Sheriff to see his mother, Betty Briggs. Coincidentally, she shared the name with William Hastings's secretary who was also said to be Betty.
Betty made it clear that without a "Sheriff Truman" being present, she would not have given a specific old item left behind by her late husband. Since the original Sheriff Truman, Harry, wasn't available, she accepted Sheriff Frank Truman as the substitute.

Betty: "Right after Agent Cooper left that day, Garland pulled me aside, and he said that one day ... our son Bobby, and Hawk, and Sheriff Truman - I didn't know it would be this Sheriff Truman - He said that they would come and ask me about Special Agent Dale Cooper. -- He just said, 'When they come to ask you about Agent Cooper, you give them this.'"

She'd only give it to him.
Betty then handed the Sheriff a hidden tube. The moment was marked as something to think about with a typical glitch as she handed the tube to him with her left hand but after a cut he took it from her right. Then they all started laughing as she went to get them some coffee.
Frank is kind of funny.
The clue it being "kind of funny" that only Ray would get the coordinates may have been about him disguised as Frank while deceiving her. The most famous Frank in Lynch's works is the psychopathic Frank Booth in Blue Velvet, here in possible reference to the infamous laughing gas scene. Lynch himself tells how he finds it "hysterically funny", well knowing that his is not a commonly held view.
A large number of retrospective details suggests that Return might have integrated several of Lynch's works - those that were completed but also those that he only planned - together so that they all became parts of the same story. Thus, it might be that Jeffries and Frank Booth were ultimately meant to be the same person.
Inside the tube, there were instructions on a small piece of paper about how and when to get to a certain place that only Bobby would know about. The paper remained in the Sheriff's possession and was not seen again.
In P14, following the instructions, Bobby led the Sheriff first to Jackrabbit's Palace. From there, they walked to a small golden pool deep into the forest. Now, the Sheriff would have known where the place was, exactly, and could pass the information on to someone else.
The coordinates on a piece of paper.
In P17, Mr C followed the coordinates to the same pool. Thus, the instructions on the little piece of paper from the tube were equal to the coordinates. Like the coordinates, also they were called as "information" by Hawk in P13.

Hawk: "The information that Major Briggs gave got me thinking."

Thus then, it seems that if the idea about the Ray in the diner and the Sheriff both being Phillip Jeffries was figured out as intended, Bobby was the likely "contact" he had to get the information. Disguised as Sheriff Frank Truman, Jeffries would have manipulated Bobby to help him get the coordinates from Betty who appeared as his mother. How much of that storyline was nothing but a fantastical dream is something to think about but quite possibly all of it, like Cooper's juxtaposed face told us in P17 and how Jeffries himself pleaded in Fire Walk with Me.
Now, we could figure out what it was about when Ray first acted like he wouldn't give Mr C the coordinates but then suddenly gave them anyway. As it seems, the situation was about Jeffries giving Cooper some information. That was what Albert told had happened "years ago" when he confessed his involvement in some shady activity in P4.

Albert: "I authorized Phillip to give Cooper some information. -- He called me. -- I thought Cooper was in trouble, at least that's what Phillip said. 'Urgent,' he said. Cooper needed this information urgently."

Jeffries was authorized to give Cooper some information.
Indeed, Mr C needed the information right there and then, holding the presumed Jeffries at gunpoint. Apparently, on another level of existence, as Jeffries got authorization from Albert, that reflected on his alter ego Ray so that his mind abruptly changed and he handed over what Mr C "urgently" needed. But how did that just happen?
You can ring him now. Tell it's urgent.
This was probably enabled by the green ring Ray put in his finger a moment earlier: when you have the ring, you could ring. This was hinted already in Fire Walk with Me when Agent Desmond was looking for the missing green ring, and the Deer Meadow's Sheriff replied there was "a little ring" in their phone.
After getting the coordinates, Mr C wanted to know where Phillip Jeffries was. But Phillip Jeffries would have been right there in front of him, even if in this story he might not have been aware of himself any more.

Mr C: "Ray, where's Phillip Jeffries?"

Ray: "Last I heard, he was at a place called the Dutchman's, but it's not a real place --"
Mr C lifted his pistol and shot a bullet through Ray's head.

Mr C: "I know what it is."

A "dutchman" is a kind of repair in which a broken part in an element, usually something made of wood, is replaced with a piece of the same material so that the outcome is as seamless as possible. Lynch being an avid carpenter, this might be what we needed to think about.
The room above the Convenience Store.
The place where they were, the upper level of the Farm, was implied to have been a manifestation of the room above the Convenience Store where the spirits met in Fire Walk with Me, both with wooden floors and makeshit coverings on the windows. The wooden armwrestling table would have been an equivalent of the formica table that had The Arm and BOB seated opposite to each other, just like Renzo and Mr C were in P13.
For an unknown reason, the surface of the formica table was broken so that a round piece was missing. Perhaps that was where the green ring had originally been cut from. This would link back to the idea about Jeffries calling Albert with the ring as Mr C placed two mobile phones on the table. Muddy told him there was no reception there but he may have known how to fix that.
Fixed it with a dutchman.
We got multiple good shots of the table's worn-out but otherwise flawless wooden top as if we needed to notice something. The twist probably was that there was nothing to notice: if it was the same table as its formica counterpart - even if having a reimagined appearance for the purposes of this story - the broken part had not carried over, possibly because someone had already fixed it. A fix like that would have been a great dutchman's patch because there was no sign of it ever having been broken.
Thus, the place by the table where they were would have been "the dutchman's", the room above the Convenience Store, the place that was not a real place because there was no second floor above the Convenience Store, like seen in P15. And so, just as Ray connected Jeffries's whereabouts to the dutchman's, Mr C realised they were one and the same and did to him what he planned to do to Jeffries, putting a bullet in his head.

Tennessee had a busy April with the Spring Game, big visits, and landing 2 commits in the 2025 class. Let's take a look at the class and team rankings during the final month of high school before the summer.:

2025 Commitments

2025 Team Ranks: Nat'l #14 SEC #7 (OK&Tex Now Included) - 90.43 Avg (#16#8)

Name	Position	Height	Weight	Class	Star	247Comp Rank	POS Rank	Rating	Commit Date
George MacIntyre	QB	6'5.5	190	2025	5	16	3	0.9908	1/22/24
Ethan Utley	DL	6-3.5	265	2025	4	159	21	0.9352	3/28/24
Radarious Jackson	WR	6-2	195	2025	4	260	29	0.9103	4/22/24
Jack Van Dorselear	TE	6-5	230	2025	4	282	14	0.9061	1/7/24
Justin Baker	RB	5-9.5	205	2025	3	429	33	0.8867	10/25/23
Sidney Walton	S	6-1	187	2025	3	446	36	0.8850	4/18/24
Dylan Lewis	CB	5-11.5	185	2025	3	576	57	0.8778	10/12/23
Joakim Dodson	WR	6-0	178	2025	3	642	106	0.8739	2/10/24
Tyler Redmond	CB	6-1	175	2025	3	659	64	0.8731	11/19/23

2025 Top Targets

Name	Position	Height	Weight	Class	Star	247Comp Rank	Rating	Notes
David Sanders Jr.	OT	6-6	270	2025	5	2	0.9991	Tenn in Top 6. OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, South Carolina
Caleb Cunningham	WR	6-3	180	2025	5	12	0.9933	OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Mississippi State, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss
Jaime Ffrench	WR	6-1	185	2025	5	18	0.9892	Visited on 3/17 and OV scheduled for 6/14. Tenn "Top 3" after visit Primary competition: FSU, Miami, Ohio State, Texas
Trey McNutt	ATH (CB)	6-0	180	2025	4	24	0.9867	Visited twice in '23. Primary competition: Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon
Andrew Babalola	OT	6-6	280	2025	4	26	0.9844	Visited on 2/3/24. Primary competition: TBD
Josh Petty	OT	6-5	262	2025	5	29	0.9837	Grew up liking Tennessee - visited 3 times in '23. OV scheduled for 6/7. Primary competition: Georgia and Georgia Tech
Faheem Delane	S	6-2.5	195	2025	4	30	0.9832	Not yet visited. Primary competition: Maryland, Ohio State, Oregon
Jared Smith	Edge	6-6.5	235	2025	4	42	0.9762	OV scheduled for 6/14 Primary competition: TBD
Jordan Young	S	6-0	184	2025	4	45	0.9723	OV scheduled for 6/21 - cousin of Byron Young. Primary competition: Clemson, FSU
Zion Grady	Edge	6-4	225	2025	4	56	0.9701	OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: TBD
Bo Jackson	RB	6-0	205	2025	4	72	0.9621	UT named to Top 12 on 4/2/24
Eric Winters	S	6-2	200	2025	4	79	0.9581	UT named to Top 4 on 4/19/24 Primary competition: Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Miami
Lagonza Hayward	S	6-1	200	2025	4	97	0.9521	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Alabama, FSU
Jontae Gilbert	CB	6-1	185	2025	4	101	0.9503	OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Clemson, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, UCF
Ty Jackson	LB	6-2	200	2025	4	108	0.9489	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: FSU, Georgia, Penn State
Damien Shanklin	Edge	6-4	230	2025	4	109	0.9478	OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Notre Dame, Texas
Da'Saahn Brame	TE	6-6	235	2025	4	113	0.9467	Visited on 3/23. Planning OV. Primary competition: Alabama, Ole Miss, Oregon
Cameron Sparks	ATH/WR	6-3	205	2025	4	115	0.9464	Top in-state WR - visited multiple times. Primary competition: Auburn and Georgia
Travis Smith Jr.	WR	6-4	191	2025	4	119	0.9453	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Alabama, Auburn, Georgia
Christian Garrett	DL	6-3.5	285	2025	4	134	0.9416	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Alabama, Clemson, Georgia
Marcus Harris	WR	5-11.5	180	2025	4	141	0.9397	OV scheduled for 6/7. Primary competition: Alabama, Oregon, Texas
Phillip Bell	WR	6-2	195	2025	4	150	0.9378	Just visited on 4/1, OV scheduled for 6/18. Primary competition: Penn State, Ohio State, USC, Washington
Juan Gaston	OT	6-7	345	2025	4	159	0.9400	"Vols in Top 3" - Visited twice in '23. Primary competition: Georgia, Oregon, South Carolina
Mariyon Dye	Edge	6-5	255	2025	4	175	0.9317	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Georgia, Miami, Ohio State
Cortez Harris	Edge	6-2	200	2025	4	190	0.9278	OV not yet scheduled. Primary competition: Maryland, Penn State, Virginia Tech
Jayden Woods	Edge	6-3	240	2025	4	206	0.9234	UT in Top 5 on 4/18. OV not yet scheduled. Primary competition: Florida, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin
Jadyn Hudson	S	6-2	175	2025	4	208	0.9232	Offered in 2023. Primary competition: TBD
Bryce Jenkins	DL	6-5	315	2025	4	219	0.9185	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Maryland
Jaylen Williams	DL	6-6	265	2025	4	230	0.9160	OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Alabama, Michigan, Nebraska
Jaelyne Matthews	OT	6-5	290	2025	4	247	0.9123	OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Georgia, Maryland, Rutgers, Miami, Syracuse
Jaylan Morgan	S	6-0	180	2025	4	263	0.9098	In-state S - visited 5 times in '23. Plays 7-on-7 with MacIntyre & Sparks. Crystal Ball to Tennessee by Steve Wiltfong
Dontrell Glover	IOL	6-2	315	2024	3	280	0.9064	OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Florida State, Georgia
Onis Konanbanny	CB	6-1	180	2025	4	287	0.9046	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Miami, Penn State, UNC
Waden Charles	ATH	6-2	185	2025	4	293	0.9032	Miami commit. Miami & Florida Schools
Chauncey Gooden	IOL	6-4	320	2025	4	296	0.9028	In-state IOL - Visited 6 times - 3 times in '23. Primary competition: Clemson
Jay'len Mosley	S	6-0	190	2025	4	308	0.9011	In-state S - visited twice in '23. Grew up liking Tennessee. Primary competition: TBD
Brandon Brown	DL	6-1.5	286	2025	4	317	0.9001	Texas commit. OV scheduled for 6/7. Primary competition: Texas, USC
Thomas Blackshear	WR	6-1	197	2025	4	322	0.8988	Visited once in '23. Former teammate of Jake Merklinger. Primary competition: Georgia and FSU (Top 3)
Bobby Kanka	DL	6-4	255	2025	4	370	0.8928	OV scheduled on 6/21. Primary competition: Michigan, Michigan State
Darius Afalava	IOL	6-5	320	2025	4	384	0.8910	OV scheduled for 6/7. Primary competition: Utah, Washington
Kaden Strayhorn	IOL	6-3	295	2025	4	424	0.8875	Visited once in '23 and camped in '21. Primary competition: Alabama, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Texas
Terrance "Deuce" Edwards	CB	6-1	180	2025	3	472	0.8836	Visited once in '23. Primary competition: Clemson, Louisville, Oklahoma, Virginia Tech
Ja'kayden Ferguson	WR	6-1	160	2025	3	474	0.8833	Visited twice in '23. Primary competition: TBD
Mal Waldrep	OT	6-5	320	2025	3	483	0.8828	OV scheduled on 6/21 Primary competition: Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida
Tre Poteat	CB	6-1	175	2025	3	500	0.8820	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Iowa State, Michigan, Wisconsin
Logan Powell	OT	6-4	280	2025	3	512	0.8813	OV not yet scheduled. Primary competition: Alabama, Arizona State, Oklahoma
Todd Robinson	RB	5-11	195	2025	3	525	0.8800	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Alabama, Florida State, Georgia
Noah Flores	TE	6-4	230	2025	3	573	0.8781	Tennessee in Top 5. Primary competition: Arizona, Hawaii, Penn State, Washington
Charles House	DL	6-3	288	2025	3	592	0.8768	OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Georgia, Florida, FSU, Miami, LSU
Brandon Caesar	DL	6-4	255	2025	3	659	0.8731	OV scheduled for 6/21. Primary competition: Kentucky, Ohio State
Jacobe Ward	IOL	6-4	335	2025	3	670	0.8726	Vols in Top 10. OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Auburn, LSU, SCAR
Jayden Loftin	Edge	6-4	235	2025	3	766	0.8678	OV scheduled for 6/7. Primary competition: Minnesota, Penn State, West Virginia
Kris Thompson	LB	6-0	215	2025	3	936	0.8583	Visited on 2/3/24. Former teammate of Kaleb Beasley and Edwin Spillman. Primary competition: TBD
Antoni Ogumoro	IOL	6-4.5	315	2025	NR	NR	NR	UT "definitely at the top" after 2/3/24 visit. OV scheduled for 5/3. Primary competition: Kansas State, Missouri, North Carolina
Shekai Mills-Knight	RB	6-1	217	2025	NR	NR	NR	Teammate of George MacIntyre. OV scheduled for 6/14. Primary competition: Miami, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Oregon

Recruiting Notes

• TARGET LOSS: 2025 4* LB Abduall Sanders Jr. committed to Alabama on 3/21/24
• TARGET LOSS: 2025 3* ATH Daune Morris has committed to USC at 4/7/24
• TARGET LOSS: 2025 3* Edge Anthony Addison has committed to South Carolina on 4/12/24
• TARGET LOSS: 2025 4* LB Jaedon Harmon committed to Alabama on 4/14/24
• TARGET LOSS: 2025 4* WR Isaiah Mozee committed to Oregon on 4/17/24
• TARGET LOSS: 2025 3* DL Caleb Williams committed to South Carolina on 4/21/24
• TARGET LOSS: 2025 3* CB Dajon Hinton committed to Arizona State on 4/28/24.
• TARGET LOSS: 2025 4* RB Marquise Davis committed to Kentucky on 5/1/24.
• Tennessee is scheduled for 37 OV's in the first 3 week of June (WK1: 4, WK2: 17, WK3: 16).

FT: Coventry City 1-2 Ipswich Town

Venue: The Coventry Building Society Arena
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LINE-UPS
Coventry City
Bradley Collins, Joel Latibeaudiere (Callum O'Hare), Bobby Thomas, Jay Da Silva, Milan van Ewijk, Ben Sheaf, Liam Kelly (Jake Bidwell), Haji Wright, Josh Eccles, Ellis Simms, Kasey Palmer (Aidan Dausch).
Subs: Ben Wilson, Kai Andrews, Dermi Lusala, Jamie Allen, Luke Bell, Matthew Godden.
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Ipswich Town
Václav Hladky, Cameron Burgess, Sam Edmundson, Leif Davis, Axel Tuanzebe, Omari Hutchinson (Jack Taylor), Massimo Luongo, Sam Morsy, Kieffer Moore (George Hirst), Nathan Broadhead (Jeremy Sarmiento), Wes Burns (Kayden Jackson).
Subs: Cameron Humphreys, Conor Chaplin, Christian Walton, Lewis Travis, Luke Woolfenden.
MATCH EVENTS via ESPN
8' Goal! Coventry City 0, Ipswich Town 1. Kieffer Moore (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wes Burns.
64' Goal! Coventry City 1, Ipswich Town 1. Haji Wright (Coventry City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kasey Palmer.
65' Substitution, Ipswich Town. George Hirst replaces Kieffer Moore.
65' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Jeremy Sarmiento replaces Nathan Broadhead.
69' Goal! Coventry City 1, Ipswich Town 2. Cameron Burgess (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by George Edmundson following a set piece situation.
75' Sam Morsy (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
80' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kayden Jackson replaces Wes Burns because of an injury.
85' Substitution, Coventry City. Callum O'Hare replaces Joel Latibeaudiere because of an injury.
85' Substitution, Coventry City. Jake Bidwell replaces Liam Kelly.
90'+4' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Jack Taylor replaces Omari Hutchinson.
90'+6' Substitution, Coventry City. Aidan Dausch replaces Kasey Palmer.
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FT: Coventry City 1-2 Ipswich Town

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Coventry City
Bradley Collins, Joel Latibeaudiere (Callum O'Hare), Bobby Thomas, Jay Da Silva, Milan van Ewijk, Ben Sheaf, Liam Kelly (Jake Bidwell), Haji Wright, Josh Eccles, Ellis Simms, Kasey Palmer (Aidan Dausch).
Subs: Ben Wilson, Kai Andrews, Dermi Lusala, Jamie Allen, Luke Bell, Matthew Godden.
^{____________________________}
Ipswich Town
Václav Hladky, Cameron Burgess, Sam Edmundson, Leif Davis, Axel Tuanzebe, Omari Hutchinson (Jack Taylor), Massimo Luongo, Sam Morsy, Kieffer Moore (George Hirst), Nathan Broadhead (Jeremy Sarmiento), Wes Burns (Kayden Jackson).
Subs: Cameron Humphreys, Conor Chaplin, Christian Walton, Lewis Travis, Luke Woolfenden.
MATCH EVENTS via ESPN
8' Goal! Coventry City 0, Ipswich Town 1. Kieffer Moore (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wes Burns.
64' Goal! Coventry City 1, Ipswich Town 1. Haji Wright (Coventry City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kasey Palmer.
65' Substitution, Ipswich Town. George Hirst replaces Kieffer Moore.
65' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Jeremy Sarmiento replaces Nathan Broadhead.
69' Goal! Coventry City 1, Ipswich Town 2. Cameron Burgess (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by George Edmundson following a set piece situation.
75' Sam Morsy (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
80' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kayden Jackson replaces Wes Burns because of an injury.
85' Substitution, Coventry City. Callum O'Hare replaces Joel Latibeaudiere because of an injury.
85' Substitution, Coventry City. Jake Bidwell replaces Liam Kelly.
90'+4' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Jack Taylor replaces Omari Hutchinson.
90'+6' Substitution, Coventry City. Aidan Dausch replaces Kasey Palmer.
90'+12' Josh Eccles (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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FT: Coventry City 1-2 Ipswich Town

Venue: The Coventry Building Society Arena
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Coventry City
Bradley Collins, Joel Latibeaudiere (Callum O'Hare), Bobby Thomas, Jay Da Silva, Milan van Ewijk, Ben Sheaf, Liam Kelly (Jake Bidwell), Haji Wright, Josh Eccles, Ellis Simms, Kasey Palmer (Aidan Dausch).
Subs: Ben Wilson, Kai Andrews, Dermi Lusala, Jamie Allen, Luke Bell, Matthew Godden.
^{____________________________}
Ipswich Town
Václav Hladky, Cameron Burgess, Sam Edmundson, Leif Davis, Axel Tuanzebe, Omari Hutchinson (Jack Taylor), Massimo Luongo, Sam Morsy, Kieffer Moore (George Hirst), Nathan Broadhead (Jeremy Sarmiento), Wes Burns (Kayden Jackson).
Subs: Cameron Humphreys, Conor Chaplin, Christian Walton, Lewis Travis, Luke Woolfenden.
MATCH EVENTS via ESPN
8' Goal! Coventry City 0, Ipswich Town 1. Kieffer Moore (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wes Burns.
64' Goal! Coventry City 1, Ipswich Town 1. Haji Wright (Coventry City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kasey Palmer.
65' Substitution, Ipswich Town. George Hirst replaces Kieffer Moore.
65' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Jeremy Sarmiento replaces Nathan Broadhead.
69' Goal! Coventry City 1, Ipswich Town 2. Cameron Burgess (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by George Edmundson following a set piece situation.
75' Sam Morsy (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
80' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kayden Jackson replaces Wes Burns because of an injury.
85' Substitution, Coventry City. Callum O'Hare replaces Joel Latibeaudiere because of an injury.
85' Substitution, Coventry City. Jake Bidwell replaces Liam Kelly.
90'+4' Substitution, Ipswich Town. Jack Taylor replaces Omari Hutchinson.
90'+6' Substitution, Coventry City. Aidan Dausch replaces Kasey Palmer.
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Sopher McDophers 5 - 4 Reykjavik Valkyries

TEAM	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	H
SMD	1	2	2	0	0	0	5	8
REK	1	2	1	0	0	0	4	10

S10E07 presented by Smiggie Balls
WP: Bartholomew Crumblepuff
LP: Juniped Panda SV: Atlas Quin
PotG: Dingers McGee
HM: Trogdor Fhqwhgads, John McDonald Jr., Zelk Antilles
 

Scoring Plays

Team	Inning	Play	Score
SMD	T1	1-0	Dingers McGee HR.
REK	B1	1-1	Seth Kablamo 2B. Trogdor Fhqwhgads scores from third.
SMD	T2	3-1	Tatsuyoshi Kazunami HR. Spike Suzuki scores from third.
REK	B2	3-3	Trogdor Fhqwhgads HR. Harry Peritestes scores from first.
SMD	T3	4-3	John McDonald Jr. 1BWH. Smitty Hoppenscotch scores from third.
SMD	T3	5-3	Plack Attack 1B. Dingers McGee scores from third.
REK	B3	5-4	Calvin Ball 3B. Seth Kablamo scores from second.

 

Box

#	McDophers	Pos	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA	#	Valkyries	Pos	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
1	Smitty Hoppenscotch	CF	3	1	1	0	0	0	.333	1	Trogdor Fhqwhgads	SS	4	2	3	2	0	0	.429
2	Dingers McGee	1B	2	2	2	1	1	0	.588	2	Homer Knocker	CF	4	0	0	0	0	2	.214
3	John McDonald Jr.	3B	3	0	1	1	0	1	.286	3	Thor Heyerdahl	C	3	0	0	0	1	1	.286
4	Dan Gerzone	2B	3	0	0	0	0	1	.143	4	Hank Murphy	LF	3	0	1	0	0	2	.273
5	Plack Attack	C	3	0	1	1	0	2	.471	5	Seth Kablamo	DH	3	1	2	1	0	1	.400
6	Holden Tudix	LF	1	0	0	0	0	0	.308	6	Calvin Ball	RF	3	0	2	1	0	1	.429
6	Dark Brother	LF	2	0	1	0	0	1	.278	6	Isaac Snowbender	PR	0	0	0	0	0	0	.462
7	Spike Suzuki	RF	2	1	1	0	1	0	.333	7	Jack Alpha	3B	2	0	0	0	1	0	.167
8	Tatsuyoshi Kazunami	SS	2	1	1	2	0	0	.500	8	Larold	2B	2	0	0	0	1	1	.308
8	Reservoir Butler	SS	1	0	0	0	0	0	.563	9	Harry Peritestes	1B	3	1	2	0	0	0	.375
9	Texan Two Gloves	DH	3	0	0	0	0	0	.222

 

Game Notes

2B: Trogdor Fhqwhgads 2, Seth Kablamo 2
3B: Spike Suzuki, Calvin Ball
HR: Dingers McGee, Tatsuyoshi Kazunami, Trogdor Fhqwhgads

Baserunning

SB: Smitty Hoppenscotch
CS: Isaac Snowbender  

Pitchers

McDophers	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	6	Valkyries	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	6
Bartholomew Crumblepuff	2.2	7	4	2	5	1.64	Bobby Portis	2.0	3	3	0	1	3.60
James St. Louis	2.1	2	0	1	3	0.00	Juniped Panda	1.0	5	2	0	1	6.00
Atlas Quin	1.0	1	0	0	0	2.16	Zelk Antilles	3.0	0	0	2	3	3.20

 

Inning Summary

TOP 1	TOP 2	TOP 3	TOP 4	TOP 5	TOP 6
Hoppenscotch - FO	Attack - K	Hoppenscotch - 1B	Kazunami - GO	McGee - BB	Brother - K
McGee - HR	Tudix - FO	Hoppenscotch - SB2	Two Gloves - GO	McDonald Jr. - K	Suzuki - BB
McDonald Jr. - FO	Suzuki - 3B	McGee - 1B	Hoppenscotch - GO	Gerzone - FO	Butler - FO
Gerzone - GO	Kazunami - HR	McDonald Jr. - 1BWH		Attack - K	Two Gloves - FO
	Two Gloves - GO	Gerzone - K
		Attack - 1B
		Brother - 1B
		Suzuki - DP21

BOT 1	BOT 2	BOT 3	BOT 4	BOT 5	BOT 6
Fhqwhgads - 2B	Alpha - PO	Heyerdahl - GO	Fhqwhgads - 2B	Ball - 1B	Peritestes - 1B
Knocker - K	Larold - K	Murphy - K	Knocker - K	Snowbender - CS2	Fhqwhgads - FO
Heyerdahl - K	Peritestes - 1B	Kablamo - 2B	Heyerdahl - BB	Alpha - GO	Knocker - FC
Murphy - 1B	Fhqwhgads - HR	Ball - 3B	Murphy - K	Larold - GO	Heyerdahl - FO
Kablamo - 2B	Knocker - GO	Alpha - BB	Kablamo - K
Ball - K		Larold - BB
		Peritestes - PO

  "

In Return's opening episode, there was a little riddle around Otis Redding. First, the Horne brothers quoted his song Respect.

Jerry: "Are you banging her yet?"
Ben: "Oh, Jerry! R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Respect. She's a beautiful soul. And she's married."
Jerry: "That never stopped you before. Sock it to me. Sock it to me. Sock it to me. Sock it to me."

Later in the episode, Mr C parked his 2015 Mercedes-Benz S 550 Coupé and forced himself past Buella's doorman Robby by socking it to him. Inside, there was a man sitting by the door.

Otis: "Well, lookee here."

Mr C showed him some respect.

Mr C: "Otis."

A moment later, Robby got back in for some more, and Mr C socked it to him again. Robby fell unconscious on the floor. Upon leaving with Ray and Darya, Mr C turned to acknowledge Otis once more, ignoring everyone else.

Mr C: "See ya, Otis."

Lookee here at these flayed jackrabbits.
Otis urged to "lookee here". He was framed together with what looked like jackrabbit skins hanging on the wall. Regarding how there later in P14 was a rotten tree stump named by Bobby as the Jackrabbit's Palace, we probably needed to make something out of jackrabbit skins, guided by Lynch's Rabbits that had a humanoid rabbit called as Jack, literally a man inside a rabbit suit.
To get a jackrabbit skin, the animal needs to be flayed first. Later in P5, Steven Burnett got another kind of flaying when Mike Nelson asked him to his office for some very harsh feedback.

Mike: "You think you're some sort of hotshot?"
Steven: "Excuse me?"
Mike: "This resume is one of the worst written I've ever seen, and you didn't even fill out this form properly. Not even close. It's incomplete. It's worse than sloppy. I wanted to see you to tell you that if you ever want to find work anyplace, then you better get your act together, do things properly, and start showing some respect for a possible future employer, because based on this shit, you'd never get hired here, and I would never recommend you for any work, anyplace. Now, you can get up and get your ass out of here."

Mike's demand for respect hinted the connection from one flaying to another may have been recognized as intended. Steven got his resume, walked out of the room and slammed the door closed. A man waiting in the lobby turned to look at him.
There was a cut to Mike who was looking towards the entrance. We heard another slamming sound but we didn't actually see Steven leave. Mike gave a comment that felt out of place.

Mike: "What an asshole."

Steven might have been incompetent and but he wasn't behaving like an "asshole". But perhaps that wasn't about Steven but about the uncredited man who was standing in the lobby, also in the line of Mike's sight.
Going back to Buella's place, when Mr C approached her house, Robby was just coming out of it. Through the open door, we could see Otis sitting inside. When Robby went back in and got it socked to himself again, his rifle remained theatrically across his unconscious body. A quick closer shot of him and his rifle was a bit dark but the firearm very much looked like a Stevens 311.
A jackrabbit can also be called as just jack. To jack means to rob, connecting jackrabbits and Robby and thus also Robby and Steven, flayed like the rabbits.
The \"asshole\" (3) has arrived.
These seem to add up to a typically outrageous twist that the scene between Mike and Steven continued in P1, with Mike now as Otis and Steven as Robby who had just got flayed, hence the jackrabbit skins next to Otis. Steven would have got smacked in the face by the man with the suitcase in Mike's lobby, the assumed "asshole", Mr C's equivalent in that scene.
This would connect Mr C to another man with another kind of Mercedes-Benz, the Polish Accountant, who started a conflict with Hutch and Chantal about his blocked driveway in P16.

Chantal: "We're not even close to your fucking driveway, asshole. Go fuck yourself!

It should have been on the way already.
These two German cars would also be narratively linked through Andy's Rolex seen in P7. The wristwatch fit the Log Lady's riddle about a star turning and the time presenting itself, the star being the three-pointed Mercedes-Benz logo that matched the hands on Andy's watch when turned a bit clockwise.
An option for a high-school graduate.
On Mike's desk, there was what looked like the word "OXFORD" on a document over which he threw Steven's resume, with only its last two characters "RD" fully visible. After a cut, the resume had jumped to a different place, the usual inconsistency suggesting we needed to pay attention.
We got these same letters also in the previous scene when Jerry was having his "Respect" talk with Ben.

Jerry: "R&D, brother Ben. It puts me in a groove, and where it stops, nobody knows."

"RD" were the initials for Ray and Darya that Mr C was getting from Buella, them being "back there somewhere", which was also where Mike's office was.
He got R&D back there somewhere.
Another word for the kind of flaying that Mike gave to Steven is flogging whereas "RD" is also the common abbreviation for a road. This would suggest the place - whether it appeared as Mike's office or Buella's lair - was linked to the logging road on which Andy went to wait for Farmer to get the "whole story" in P7.
He had to clear his driveway first.
All kind of things seem to have happened on that logging road. Arriving there, Andy was probably taken by Farmer's alter ego, the Fireman, for the session seen in P14 whereas an entirely different person took Andy's place on the road. This person was possibly the Polish Accountant from P16 whose Mercedes-Benz connected to Andy's Rolex and whose last whereabouts in Lancelot Court appeared similar to the logging road. When this Andy then walked to his car and started driving along the logging road, it seems fitting that his Rolex eventually became another kind of Mercedes-Benz while the man himself changed into Mr C. There would probably have been a few detours on the way before that happened, but eventually he would have reached Buella's house.
This may have been where the Polish Accountant was actually headed. To get there, he would need to have passed through the magical roadside jump point that was blocked by Hutch and Chantal's van, that being the "driveway" he meant. These two may also have jumped there from another part of the story, using that same magical gateway that took them to Lancelot Court.
Since the Polish Accountant seems to have been Agent Phillip Jeffries, this would suggest that the Mr C who got Ray and Darya was also Jeffries, explaining how these two got involved with him. At this point, Jeffries would have been in control of Cooper's doppelganger, but he'd lose the doppelganger at a later point to someone else.
If these were the conclusions we needed to make, Steven would have been back to Mike's office sooner than he expected, this told to us as him now lying unconscious on the floor in front of Otis - that is, Mike Nelson.
From the Rabbit City, after flaying and socking.
Socked twice, Steven might have learnt some respect that Mike demanded. The story being true to the absurdity of forces of existence, it seems that what happened next was Mike agreeing to give the younger man a job and these two turning into Buckhorn police Chief Mike Boyd and Detective Don Harrison from Rapid City, the word "rapid" sounding the same as rabbit, in reference to Otis's rabbit skins. The name Don would have been in reference to what looked like the word "OXFORD" on Mike's desk since a college head in Oxford is called a don. On his way out, Steven was taking his tie off, and Harrison didn't wear one. When Harrison and the other Mike first appeared in P1, they walked next to a window between two rooms, just like Mike's office had.
Hotshots.
Harrison may have become more respectful, but he still behaved like a hotshot. Another kind of hotshot is a nighttime freight train that was shown before a scene in a diner in P2, with a car passing by the motel's exterior shot continuing the train's movement. Mr C, Ray and Darya had been joined by some Jack who wasn't otherwise introduced, unless then the shot of the hotshot was his intended introduction, suggesting he was Steven.
If the Jack in the diner was meant to be Steven, then the scene would have taken place before his "flaying" - that is, he still had his "jackrabbit" skin on since he was Jack. This would have been some time before Mr C went to Buella's to get Ray and Darya who awkwardly and obediently joined him without any personal items at all.
That man hadn't eaten for days.
In the diner, now a much more talkative Ray had a brown leather jacket that he wore this one time only. He didn't seem to have touched his already small meal. Then, Mr C gave him an ominous reminder.

Mr C: "If there's one thing you should know about me, Ray, it's that I don't need anything."

This would link to the later scene in the same episode when Mr C started kneading Jack's face like it was dough, implying that Jack was "nothing" because he wouldn't knead anything, the pronoun used as a meta reference to Phillip Jeffries who didn't really exist any more, like Cole put it in P17.
After Jack got kneaded, it seems he lost his head and turned into the decapitated well-risen body found in Ruth Davenport's apartment: the coroner named the corpse as John Doe, connecting it to John's diminutive Jack whose face Mr C kneaded like he was dough. Yet, in the diner, it was pointed out Jack had eaten a lot whereas the coroner said the headless man had not eaten for days.
Earlier in the story, he got more hair.
Ray's leather jacket connected him to the Polish accountant who also wore a similar jacket. The Accountant's grey tie and purple shirt were also reflected in Ray's purple-grey striped shirt.
Because this Ray didn't eat and because Mr C warned specifically him about what he later did to Jack hinted there were further switch-ups in this wild conga line of surreal twists so that the Jack by the garage was actually the Ray from the diner. By then, Jack would have got flayed, and Ray had put Jack's "skin" on himself.
If this winding path had indeed been followed as intended, this Ray would also have been Jeffries while the Mr C in the diner was someone else.
Ray revealed he had a secret "contact" that he was going to follow to get the information Mr C wanted from Hastings's secretary. Finding that contact would help us figure out what happened next.

The expanse of rocky shores, pristine beaches, and stunning sapphire waters are a point of pride for Oregonians in every corner of the state. In summer, the coast is warm and inviting, a refuge from the sweltering heat of inland communities. The sunlight shimmers off of the indomitable Pacific's rolling waves, making the horizon sparkle like a gemstone. But the mighty ocean is merely slumbering. When autumn arrives, it awakens, sending gargantuan waves laden with detritus onto the once crowded shores. Thick fog hangs over every surface, and the rain falls in windswept torrents. Douglas firs sway overhead, sentinels that have stood watch over the land for decades if not centuries. The fury of nature is frequently on display, and it provides a different sort of breathtaking beauty.
The coast is inviting. Many an Oregonian goes, whether for a weekend getaway, a stay in a rental property, or a holiday camping trip. But such a wild and untamed jewel of nature hides mysteries, veiled within the Pacific fog. One of these has haunted investigators, locals, and three grieving families for the past three decades.
On October 13th, 1992, two sets of skeletal remains were discovered in an isolated, wooded location just off of U.S Highway 20 near Newport, Oregon. They would be identified as two missing girls who had disappeared earlier that year-- 19 year old Sheila Swanson and 17 year old Melissa Sanders. Though no specific cause of death was released, the medical examiner asserted that the two had met with foul play. Sheila and Melissa had gone missing while on a camping trip with the Sanders family that past May. They were both from Linn County, in Oregon's Willamette Valley, which was a several hour drive back up Highway 20. Though some authorities had considered the girls runaways, Sheila's mother insisted that such a thing was impossible. Sheila had epilepsy and hadn't taken her medication with her-- something she most assuredly would have done had she left of her own free will. The discovery of the remains were undeniable proof that something horrific had happened to them after they had briefly left their camping site at Beverly Beach State Park. Though authorities chased all sorts of possibilities, the case very quickly became cold with no witnesses, no suspects, and few appreciable clues as to the girls' activities that day.
In 1994, a police station in Newport was subject to an unusual sight-- namely a man carrying around a human skull. After he had set it down, the man explained that he'd found the skull near an abandoned car east of town, a car which had become a well known spot for local kids partying. Strangely enough, some kids who had been at the site just a few days before the skull was discovered denied seeing anything of the sort there. The lack of any reports regarding the lurid find at a spot known for congregation led the police to a peculiar revelation. Someone had dumped the carpet-wrapped skull at that location within a day of the man discovering it. Dental records revealed that the skull belonged to Kelly Disney, a 17 year old Newport girl who had disappeared in 1984. Kelly, after an argument with her boyfriend, had left his car and began walking along Highway 101-- and though spotted by several people including a sheriff's deputy, soon after disappeared completely. Though large scale searches were held, no trace of Kelly was found until her skull was dumped 10 years after she vanished.
16 year old friends Jennifer Esson and Kara Leas were walking home from a friend's house after a night out in January 1995. After heading towards Highway 101, the pair were never seen again. A logger, traveling down a densely wooded road near Newport, came across their bodies several weeks later. Someone had strangled them to death, dumped them in the woods, and covered the bodies with brush in a presumably half assed attempt to conceal the crime. It was a shocking case, that left the local community in shock and in grief. Much like the cases of Melissa, Sheila, and Kelly, it soon went cold with nary a lead or suspect in sight.
The Suspects
When these cases were reexamined in the mid to late 2000s by the Newport Police Department, there were suspicions that a single offender may have been responsible for all five murders. In fact, a compelling suspect came up. He had been in the area before, had a disturbing history of committing horrific acts, and had actually died in custody several years before at the OSP. He was a Texan born drifter by the name of Bobby Jack Fowler.
Fowler was an itinerant man, who went from city to city, working different odd jobs to make ends meet. He had been married, had fathered several children. But one of the few constants in his life seemed to be his incessant drive to commit crime, both petty and violent. In 1969, Fowler had killed a couple in Texas, but was only convicted of improper use of a firearm. He hopped from state to state, sometimes getting arrested but never spending too much time behind bars. He reportedly had a bad meth and speed habit, and was known to have committed a handful of violent crimes including sexual assault. 1974 was the year when a young woman named Colleen MacMillen had been found murdered on a logging road in central British Columbia. Fowler would later be tied to this murder and several others in the province through DNA. He had imprisoned and beaten a woman in Tennessee, but frustratingly received little to no actual punishment. In 1995, Newport Police responded to a woman who had fallen from a balcony. She was terrified, naked, bleeding, and has ropes tied around her ankle. She testified that the man in the apartment she had just escaped was responsible for abducting, sexually assaulting, and brutalizing her. That man was Bobby Jack Fowler, and finally he would be given a meaningful sentence that would ultimately put a permanent end to his reign of terror-- 16 years in the Oregon State Penitentiary.
Police were convinced that Fowler was their phantom serial killer-- and his history made the hypothesis far from unrealistic. But police would discover a new suspect-- specifically in the case of Sheila and Melissa.
From the 1960s until the 1990s, Oregon's stretch of U.S Highway 20 was stalked by a monstrous predator whose bloodlust and perversion knew no bounds. The Oregonian has an incredible piece on this man, titled Ghosts of Highway 20, but it's important that I briefly summarize who he was. The long cold case of Kaye Turner, a mother who was killed while jogging, had long been tied closely to a mechanic by the name of John Arthur Ackroyd. Ackroyd was tied to a sexual assault decades prior. He was the prime suspect in the disappearance of his daughter, Rachanda Pickle, whose body was never found. Vital to our mystery is that he hung around in the same circles, oddly enough, as Melissa and Sheila. The day after they had disappeared he had come into work bloody, claiming he had gutted a deer. He was supposedly aware of Melissa and Sheila's camping trip and even offered to let them party at a property he had near Newport. An item found near the skeletal remains was a tool frequently used by mechanics. Vitally, the girls were found in a wooded area off of Highway 20, which Ackroyd had centered his life around. He lived in towns like Sweet Home and Santiam Junction. Kaye Turner, who he was later convicted of killing, had been killed near Black Butte along the highway. Most disturbingly, Ackroyd was posthumously tied to the murders of a young couple found in a wooded area just off of the highway. There was a chance that he was a prolific and relentless serial killer. But tellingly, the district attorney in Newport was nearly about to charge Ackroyd with the double murder, citing circumstantial evidence and witness testimony about his behavior the day after. But he elected not to, as Ackroyd would be in prison for the rest of his natural life.
So if Bobby Jack Fowler potentially killed Jennifer and Kara, and John Arthur Ackroyd potentially killed Melissa and Sheila, then what of Kelly Disney?
Some assert that Robert Ellis, her older boyfriend, was the culprit. She has argued with him that night, and he was obviously in the area. He had, at least, a conceivable motive to commit the murder. But in my amateur opinion I don't quite buy it. Why would he dump the skull in a semi-public area a decade later? If he had committed the murders as a spur of the moment decision, then surely he wouldn't cause renewed attention to fall on the case years afterwards. Fowler is a reasonable suspect, but I frankly believe Fowler could be a suspect for dozens of unsolved crimes all over America in some fashion. Ackroyd could not have been involved, as he was serving a life sentence for the murder of Kaye Turner when Kelly's skull was dumped. Of course, it could be anyone. Some random itinerant killer like Fowler. A trucker who happened to be passing by in both 1984 and 1994. Or a local, who committed the crime and decided to relive it by discarding a morbid memento.
We can hope with advanced investigative techniques these days that one day each family will be able to find a sense of closure and comfort in at least knowing who took the lives of their daughters. Until that day, we can't let these cases fade into obscurity.
Additional Reading
https://projects.oregonlive.com/ghostsofhighway20/melissasheila/
https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=7103702&page=1
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/10/who-killed-kelly-disney-1984-cold-case-gets-new-life.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-highway-of-tears-murder-solved-with-improbable-dna-sample/
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/serial-killer-linked-to-ore-cold-case-murders/283-71727682