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Cincinnati is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the north-west corner of Arkansas, close to the Oklahoma border and about three hours from Little Rock, Oklahoma City and Phillips. It has no real borders and no post office of its own; its mail comes through Summers, and its statistics are lumped in with that neighbouring community. Before 1857 the place was not called Cincinnati at all. It began as Buzzard Roost, was later renamed Sylvia, and got its first post office, the Sylvia Post Office, in 1838. In its early years it was prosperous enough that people came from Fayetteville for supplies. It took the name Cincinnati in 1857 from the nearby Cincinnati Creek, even though the larger Cincinnati in Ohio already existed. By 1887 a newspaper report recorded aggregate sales of $224,935 and listed five general merchants, two milliners, a druggist, a wagon factory, an agricultural implement factory, two blacksmiths, two tanneries, two harness shops, an undertaker, two shoe shops, a merchant and custom mill, two physicians, a dentist, a hotel, a livery stable, an academy and two churches. By 1911 the post office had closed and the mail went to Summers. The surrounding land is farm country, settled more heavily in the 1830s and forties, and a sizable number of slaves were used in the 1840s to work those farms. On New Year's Eve 2010 a three-day tornado outbreak produced 37 tornadoes across five states and killed nine people. The worst of them reached peak intensity at Cincinnati, with winds estimated at 142 miles an hour and a width of 300 yards, killing two people in a destroyed trailer and a third man who was tending cattle when his barn collapsed. The town's only notable person, as the episode tells it, is George W. Bond, a Cincinnati High School graduate who became president of Louisiana Tech University.

The area including Summers had a population of 1,268, up 80 per cent from 704 in 1990, with a median age of 33.8 against a national 37.4. The population was 59 per cent male, 81 per cent married and 49.29 per cent white, with an implausible 36.67 per cent recorded as Asian. Fifty-eight per cent were religious, 23 per cent Baptist, 0.01 per cent Jewish and 0.02 per cent Muslim. Median household income was $37,335, about $16,000 below the national figure, and the median home cost $123,100 against $185,000 nationally. Property crime was about 15 per cent below average and violent crime about 20 per cent below the national average.

Pauline Devore, known as Polly, was a farmer and landlord in her seventies. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Pauline had inherited hundreds of acres from her parents and made her living from farmland and rental properties, collecting the rents herself once a month in her pickup, and she gambled heavily at casinos, sometimes winning or losing $15,000 at a time. Everyone described her as hard-nosed, controlling and difficult, a tough old redneck cowboy lady who did not tolerate anyone meddling with her money. this part of the story is covered for now He grew up farming, served in the Navy with an honourable discharge, drove trucks, kept cattle, belonged to the Arkansas Cattlemen's Association, was president of the Sylam Springs riding club and sat on the board of the Ozark Junior Rodeo Association, and he wore overalls constantly. He met Pauline when he did work on one of her rental properties.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She drank and took drugs through her teens and twenties and into her thirties. In 1997, aged 38, after a family intervention in Texas, she moved back to Arkansas. She worked for her mother, first living in one of Pauline's apartments and then in a trailer on the farm. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Pauline's stolen credit card was used for about $1,500 in cash advances between June 10th and 12th, 2007, and Pauline reported it to police on June 12th.

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this part of the story is covered for now He suggested, unprompted, that someone must have hit her on the head and taken her. details of the account remain covered until revealed On the Saturday she gave two of the stolen guns to Bill Underwood and left Pauline's truck on his property; the guns and truck were recovered on Sunday, June 17th. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now He also said he had heard rumours that Pauline had been fighting his daughters or had been shot, though he could not remember who told him. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Within days she had moved out of the trailer and into the ranch house with him. details of the account remain covered until revealed He had not called police about any of it. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In July 2008 new detectives heard the same story, now with two white men in a car.

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