Unlikely Cases

Saturday, June 14, 1947. A New Mexico rancher and his 8-year-old son ride past a wide spread of bright scraps in a pasture: rubber, tinfoil, tough paper and thin sticks, all glittering in the sun. The rancher is in a hurry. His boy wants to stop. "Not now," he says, and they ride on. Three weeks later, that same bundle of junk has a sheriff on the phone, an Army air base making an announcement at noon, and a neighbor swearing she saw a piece that would not cut and would not burn. Some of the pieces carried purplish markings no one could read. What was really lying in that pasture?

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On the morning of Wednesday, September 29th, 1982, a twelve-year-old in Elk Grove Village woke up with a scratchy throat and stayed home from school. Within three days, seven people around Chicago were dead. A nurse who stood in a dead man's house counted the capsules left in a bottle, did the math out loud, and the men around her laughed. The bottles that killed came from two factories hundreds of miles apart, and each one had sat in the front row of a store shelf, waiting for a stranger to pick it up.

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