David_Lohr
10-16-2006, 01:19 PM
River claims another life in Wisconsin college town
By E.A. Torriero
Chicago Tribune
Oct. 16, 2006
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Past midnight the downtown bars are humming with university students sucking down brews on five-buck unlimited beer night. One patron stumbles outside twirling around a lamppost. A few tanked-up guys howl and whistle at women.
Two blocks away, on the frigid banks of the Mississippi River, a stone-sober student patrol wearing orange vests and sporting flashlights and radios linked to the police is on the lookout to prevent another heartbreak.
Full News story:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/15771369.htm
Also, be sure to sead Seamus McGraw's Crime Library story: ONLY THE RIVER KNOWS:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/unsolved/la_crosse_wisconsin/
By E.A. Torriero
Chicago Tribune
Oct. 16, 2006
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Past midnight the downtown bars are humming with university students sucking down brews on five-buck unlimited beer night. One patron stumbles outside twirling around a lamppost. A few tanked-up guys howl and whistle at women.
Two blocks away, on the frigid banks of the Mississippi River, a stone-sober student patrol wearing orange vests and sporting flashlights and radios linked to the police is on the lookout to prevent another heartbreak.
Full News story:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/15771369.htm
Also, be sure to sead Seamus McGraw's Crime Library story: ONLY THE RIVER KNOWS:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/unsolved/la_crosse_wisconsin/