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The longest week: Recalling a Waterloo slaying
Romelle Slaughter
Jul. 13, 2011 7:46 am
My grandfather was finishing up watching television on a late humid-soaked Sunday night, July 12, 1981. My grandparents lived in a well-kept home where my mother and her siblings grew up in on the east side of Waterloo, Iowa, near downtown. As he was getting ready to go to bed, Grandma and him heard several loud “bangs," to which they thought a car had blown out its tires.
Little did they know, the epicenter of the biggest story in Waterloo history would be in his neighborhood.
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