Town note
Three Points is also known as Robles Junction, and the community's motto is 'Three Points slash Robles Junction, two names, one community'.
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FILE 62 / 22 March 2018 / 145 MIN / full
James: 'We're going to three points Arizona, also known as Roblis Junction'; south central Arizona, 40 minutes from Tucson, 45 miles from the Mexican border, in Pima County about 0:06:18
Three Points is also known as Robles Junction, and the community's motto is 'Three Points slash Robles Junction, two names, one community'.
about 0:09:02The town is in south central Arizona, a little east, 40 minutes from Tucson and south and east of it, and 45 miles from the Mexican border.
about 0:07:25It is in Pima County, has two zip codes (85735 and 85736, as heard) with the dividing line through the middle of town, uses area code 520, and covers 46.42 square miles.
about 0:08:02The town was founded in 1882, the time of the Tombstone era.
about 0:09:22Three Points is also known as Robles Junction, and the community's motto is 'Three Points slash Robles Junction, two names, one community'.
about 0:09:02The town is in south central Arizona, a little east, 40 minutes from Tucson and south and east of it, and 45 miles from the Mexican border.
about 0:07:25It is in Pima County, has two zip codes (85735 and 85736, as heard) with the dividing line through the middle of town, uses area code 520, and covers 46.42 square miles.
about 0:08:02The town was founded in 1882, the time of the Tombstone era.
about 0:09:22Bernabe S. Robles was born in 1857 in Bavia Cora, Sonora, Mexico (as transcribed) and at the age of seven crossed into southern Arizona with his mother on donkeys.
about 0:09:36The family opened a market in Tucson; Robles then started a ranch in what is now the Three Points area, spent time in Florence, and took a mail route from Tucson to Gunsite, Arizona.
about 0:11:14Robles relocated to Robles Pass near Cat Mountain while looking for a shorter route to Gunsite; his brother Jesus homesteaded 160 acres in the Three Points area and the brothers dug a well for a watering stop and stage station.
about 0:13:30Robles gave up the mail route and moved to the watering station, which became the Robles Ranch; his family later moved back to Tucson but he stayed and died in 1945.
about 0:14:39The old ranch house is now the Three Points Robles Junction community center.
about 0:14:57Accounts describe Robles as hard-working but harsh: he acquired large tracts of land by lending money to ranchers and taking their land when they could not repay.
about 0:15:12A Tucson Weekly article opens 'Here we go again, said the anguished voices, another black eye for three points', and recounts a 19-year-old unemployed butcher who kidnapped three illegal immigrants and tortured them to extort money from relatives in Mexico, with another man, Barry Joseph Van Brocklin.
about 0:16:05Activist Marian Whitfield is quoted as saying Tucson thinks of Three Points as drugs and crime and bodies in the desert stuffed into car trunks, and that some neighbourhoods are straight out of Steinbeck.
about 0:17:00The article says the area is good country for hiding from ex-wives and husbands, the law and civilisation, and a Three Points clinic doctor says people move there because they do not want to be told what to do and do not trust the government.
about 0:19:05The article describes signs for well pump repair, bees, no trespassing, and double-wides for $1,000 down, and Taylor Lane off Highway 86 as 'the grapes of wrath' with wreck trailers, junked cars and choking dust.
about 0:21:04A neighbourhood of about 500 homes was called one of the worst wildcat subdivisions in Arizona by the Wall Street Journal: no paved roads, sewers, sidewalks, and often no addresses, exempt from basic county building requirements.
about 0:22:2740%
Biggest faith: Catholic, 21.36%
about 0:25:34White 64% · Black 0.28% · Asian 0.0% · Hispanic 34%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
exactly average
Violent crime
▲ about 20% higher
Listing: two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,000 square foot trailer
about 0:28:29Listing: four-bedroom, two-bath, 1,400 square foot house
about 0:29:14Listing: four-bedroom, four-bath, 3,500 square foot house
about 0:29:20"5,313"
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"up 144%"
Comparison: "since 1990". Direction: above.
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"46.2"
Comparison: "almost ten years older than the average". Direction: above.
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"more males than females"
Comparison: "not normal". No direction stated.
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"a little less than normal"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: below.
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"way more than normal"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: above.
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"almost double"
Comparison: "the average". Direction: above.
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"64%"
Comparison: "63% is the average". No direction stated.
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"0.28%"
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"0.0%"
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"34%"
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"52%"
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"45%"
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"40%"
Comparison: "50-50 is the normal". Direction: below.
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"21.36%"
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"3%"
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"about 0.5% (heard as 'five, nine percent'; Jimmie says 'point five')"
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"0.03%"
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"about $35,600 a year"
Comparison: "$54,000 regular". No direction stated.
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"about 65%"
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"about a third"
Comparison: "of what it is normally". Direction: below.
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"93"
Comparison: "100 is par and average". Direction: below.
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"77"
Comparison: "100 is par and average". Direction: below.
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"$142,600"
Comparison: "$185,000 normal". No direction stated.
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"between $40,000 and $150,000"
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"$980"
Comparison: "about $50 lower than the national average". Direction: below.
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"$29,900"
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"$135,000"
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"$289,000"
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"exactly average"
Comparison: "average". Direction: about the same.
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"about 20% higher"
Comparison: "average". Direction: above.
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Three Points, Arizona, also known as Robles Junction, is in Pima County, about 40 minutes south and east of Tucson and 45 miles from the Mexican border.
Armstrong was born in 1973 and grew up in rural Oklahoma, with a record of burglary and theft from his teens. A marriage licence announcement in April 1994 named him and a Tammy K. Kur. Armstrong, his sister Farah Armstrong and a friend, Tommy Taylor, burgled the home of Rob Fisher in Kato, Texas.
They shared an apartment in Tucson. Farah met Frank Williams, they became engaged in July 1997, and they took their own apartment.
By then Williams managed a Jiffy Lube at North Oracle Road in Tucson and Farah managed a Peter Piper Pizza on about $34,000 a year. In January 1998 they visited the Armstrong parents in Oklahoma, where Farah said she wanted to marry Williams and clear her burglary warrant so she could live in Oklahoma again. Her mother phoned the Tucson apartment a few days later and left Armstrong the number of the Oklahoma district attorney. They dug a large grave on the property about a week beforehand. The snake plan failed when Farah saw the shotgun and went back inside.
The couple arrived at dusk. They took Farah's jewellery and searched Williams's pockets, wrapped the bodies in the blanket and covered their upper bodies with plastic bags. They then dragged them behind Farah's truck to the grave, filled it with dirt over the bodies, and dumped the bloody couch and recliner in the desert. He spent the next day cleaning the trailer and fled in Farah's teal green Ford Ranger with Oklahoma plate BSD 311.
When Williams and Farah did not collect their wages, a friend found their dogs and snake unfed and reported them missing. The bodies were not found until 15 June 1998, four feet down and about 350 feet from the mobile home. On 9 January 1999 Armstrong saw America's Most Wanted and wanted to leave. She cooperated, and on 18 January gave a taped statement to a Pima County Sheriff's detective. On 17 January a SWAT team surrounded the Sunchase Apartments at Rocky Lane for seven hours and stormed apartment 322, which was empty. Armstrong was found about three in the morning the next day, asleep in an apartment laundry room.
The state gave notice on 8 March 1999 that it would seek the death penalty.
February 19, 1998 / and Tim trailer, Three Points, Arizona
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