Hell’s Angels: Masters of Menace
IT WAS THE WINTER OF 1976 when the twins and their mother first appeared in the Oregon village of Laurelwood. They moved into a small cottage under the ponderosa and kept to themselves. The mother, a sad-eyed woman of twenty-five, worked intently inside the cottage. She rarely left, except to drive her two six-year-old girls home from first grade each day.
The young family seemed scared, on the run perhaps, but with the spring thaw, they began to relax. The woman started making friends with some people from town, the dark-haired twins got to play outside after school, and the secret of their mother’s project even slipped out.
She was writing a book, an autobiography of her life back in California with the Hell’s Angels. It was a story with names and places. How the Angels had forced her into prostitution, kept her on drugs, brutalized her. How she finally had escaped from them and turned state’s evidence.
The twins were too young to know all the details. But they understood that their mother was hiding from some men, and they knew the faces of those men. Or at least the men thought so.
It was the summer of 1977 when the family’s pursuers found the Oregon hide-out. The men entered boldly and exacted revenge from the mother with a bullet behind her ear. Then, to make certain no one would ever identify them, the businesslike hit men squeezed off three more shots at close range — one for the nineteen-year-old local boy who was visiting the family and two for the twins, who were found lying facedown on their blood-soaked beds.
Who killed Margo Compton, her two children and the local youth? No one knows for sure. The police have some prime suspects, of course, but the murder, like so many previous murders attributed to the suspected assassins, has never been solved…
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