39 • Little Red Wallet

Berkeley, California, is situated on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay. It’s a picturesque college town, known today for being the most liberal city in the U.S.

A decade after the events to be recounted here, Berkeley was the epicenter of the counterculture movement, home to hippies and anarchists who flocked to the Bay Area from around the world.

But before free love and bell bottoms gave this California city an identity that lasts even still, it was just another place in the U.S — where families raised children and worked toward the American dream.

Even then, it was a beautiful city; its air fragrant with wild poppy and eucalyptus ... yet the dream for some here would melt into wickedness.

Even the best home, the best grades, the best life couldn’t save at least one little girl... from something... so big… so bad… a girl who wanted a pet parakeet... and carried a picture of her poodle Hoagy next to photos of her classmate... in her little... red... wallet.

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From the archives of The San Francisco Examiner, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle,  San Mateo Times, Roseville Press-Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, New York Daily News, United Press International,

Book: Shallow Grave in Trinity County by Harry Farrell.

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