Woolley, a 52-year-old father of three, went outside to break it up, the Post Register reported. Mason’s wife was the town’s only teacher in its two-room schoolhouse, the Post Register reported at the time. Shaken up by what happened, and the lingering publicity, his wife reportedly left town for Challis, Idaho. And most of the witnesses and even original investigators had left town. “All logical investigation had been considered,” Kent Madsen, FBI special agent, told the Post Register in 1986.

Source: Washington Post October 23, 2019 10:11 UTC