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Evil Among Us The Texas Mormon Missionary Murders KEN DRIGGS Paperback. 300 Pages. / 1-56085-138-4 / $19.95 The first hint Irene had about her new husband, Robert E. Kleasen, was when she found him in the bathtub smearing his naked body with the entrails of a freshly gutted deer. She boltedas the two young missionaries who had dinner at his trailer in Austin, Texas, in 1974 should have done. In recounting the events of that autumn night, author Ken Driggs contemplates the human cost: innocent lives and the collective pain of their families and extended communities, as well as the tragedy of Kleasen's own troubled life. Released from death row on a technicality after serving two years, Kleasen was sentenced in June 2000 to three years in Britain on separate charges and was facing extradition to Texas. For Driggs, this raises legal and moral issues about what should be done with such individuals, and what the rest of us should do to protect ourselves from them. |
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