The twists and turns leading from the scene of a double-murder 20 years ago in Edgar County through the state and federal courts keep getting stranger and stranger.

FLASHY TO THE RESCUE -- from The New Yorker

November 11, 2005 - New York Times

A month ago, students at Champaign Central High School performed in The Laramie Project, a play based on the 1998 murder of a young gay man, Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

The 1986 murders of newlyweds Dyke and Karen Rhoads and nagging questions about who did it remain a cancer on their hometown of Paris, a small town in Edgar County.

I'd be happy to recommend an excellent book [] if you make it worth my while.

I hate to be too breathless about these things, but I can't resist passing along the latest I heard about Jim Edgar's back-and-forth

http://cbs2chicago.com/ryantrial/

9/10 News-Gazette column

As hard as it is to imagine, former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar is looking more and more like he's really going to run for the Republican nomination for governor.