HUCKLEBERRIES: Twenty-two years of silence
Ron and Rita Marcussen, pictured before they vanished Nov. 19, 1973.
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Velma Marcussen was notified of the discovery of son Ron’s remains in 1995.
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George “Ed” Stroisch returns to the Kootenai County Jail after a 1976 court appearance in his first-degree murder case.
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A Burlington Northern train rumbles down Front Avenue en route to Potlatch’s Rutledge mill in 1975.
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Lt. Dave Dodson of the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department rehydrates after fighting a fire at the old Methodist Church in 2000.
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Fifth grader Casey Fehrnstrom poses in front of the Coeur d’Alene Police Department eagle that he named in 2000.
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Serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, then 25, is escorted from the Shoshone County Courthouse during his 1975 double murder trial.
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From left, Idaho Gov. Don Samuelson dedicates a new section of Interstate 90 in 1970 with help from Post Falls Mayor Cecil Meyer, Post Falls chamber president Bob Bogner, Coeur d’Alene chamber president Archie McGregor and Coeur d’Alene Mayor John McHugh.
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Mrs. Afton Evans watches her TV nervously as her grandson, Dwight, plays for Boston in the 1975 World Series against Cincinnati.
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For two decades, locals wondered what happened to Ron and Rita Marcussen.
Did Ron, 22, murder his 20-year-old wife and flee?
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