Frank Merrifield, a male from Clinton, Missouri, was spending a winter day at home when three fugitives on the run drifted into his life. The visitors were Robert Wesley Knighton, Lawrence Lingle Brittain, and Ruth Renee Williams, traveling together after stealing a van and leaving Kansas City behind. At Merrifield’s house, the mood looked deceptively ordinary at first: Merrifield was drinking with his friend Ray Donahue, and conversation turned to firearms—enough to make the strangers seem
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