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After the 1783 Treaty of Paris put Vermont inside the United States, Vermont's government continued to claim independence from both the United States and Britain until 1791.
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FILE 355 / 19 January 2023 / 156 MIN / full
So this is Fletcher, Vermont, like I said, Northwestern, up by Canada; and it's in Franklin County, named after Benjamin Franklin. about 0:06:40
After the 1783 Treaty of Paris put Vermont inside the United States, Vermont's government continued to claim independence from both the United States and Britain until 1791.
about 0:08:37On September 5th, 1855, Jefferson Fulton, in a property dispute with Abel Chase over their adjoining farms on the east side of Metcalfe Pond, drank a pint of rum, took a butcher knife and stabbed Chase in the chest and back, killing him; Chase's 10-year-old son escaped. It was the first murder in the area.
about 0:09:49Fletcher was one of seven so-called escape communities studied during the 1918 to 1920 Spanish flu and the only one not ravaged by it; it also had the fewest COVID cases in Vermont.
about 0:11:13Franklin County is named after Benjamin Franklin.
about 0:12:07After the 1783 Treaty of Paris put Vermont inside the United States, Vermont's government continued to claim independence from both the United States and Britain until 1791.
about 0:08:37On September 5th, 1855, Jefferson Fulton, in a property dispute with Abel Chase over their adjoining farms on the east side of Metcalfe Pond, drank a pint of rum, took a butcher knife and stabbed Chase in the chest and back, killing him; Chase's 10-year-old son escaped. It was the first murder in the area.
about 0:09:49Fletcher was one of seven so-called escape communities studied during the 1918 to 1920 Spanish flu and the only one not ravaged by it; it also had the fewest COVID cases in Vermont.
about 0:11:13Franklin County is named after Benjamin Franklin.
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about 0:19:29White 98.6% · Black 0.0% · Asian 0.2% · Hispanic 0.0%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
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Violent crime
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Five-bedroom house in Cambridge built in 1851
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"43 years old"
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"66%"
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"98.6%"
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"1.2%"
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"43.5%"
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"$84,500"
Comparison: "normally $57,000". No direction stated.
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"$105,000"
Comparison: "usually $100,000". Direction: above.
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"93 out of 100"
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"$272,200"
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"$1,514"
Comparison: "above the national average". Direction: above.
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"$269,000"
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"$260,000"
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"about one-third below"
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"about two-thirds under"
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3.3 / 5 · average of 6
“There are not many job opportunities and most of them would not allow you an affordable income.”about 0:12:39
“They like it; Smuggler's Notch is a local business and very nice.”about 0:12:53
“There are not many places to eat, only one bar, and the restaurants are not open late.”about 0:13:24
“205 reviews give the place a four-star Yelp rating overall.”about 0:13:52
“Linda G. from Massachusetts: huge blueberry pancakes, three big pancakes, perfect eggs Benedict with a sense of lemon, 12 cookies and two loaves of bread to take home; highly recommended, make reservations.”about 0:14:01
“Erica W. of Fairfax, Vermont: never been able to eat anything there; a Philly cheesesteak so covered in cheese she could not see the meat and too soggy, fries not hand cut, pancakes raw, one waitress ridiculous.”about 0:15:24
He never held a steady job. By 1973 he was living in a trailer on a rural plot, with a garage beside it and other trailers behind, and he had a reputation as a manipulative man who could get people to do what he wanted. Shirley, his first wife, divorced him in 1970 on the grounds of his constant adultery; he married Kathy almost immediately, and that marriage was also falling apart by 1973.
Her mother was domineering and overprotective, her father quiet to the point of seeming absent, and a psychiatrist later said she had grown up in a social vacuum, living much of her life in a dream world. She went to Bellows Free Academy in Fairfax and was considered clever until about the age of twelve or thirteen, when her schoolwork began to slide and she became aloof and friendless.
He then loaded a 16-gauge shotgun and hid it behind the porch door, cut a peephole in the drapes loo onto the porch and drilled a second eye-level hole through the wall; other witnesses saw him drill two more holes into the garage where his brothers were.
She sobbed uncontrollably and argued, but he talked her round. He said he had just shot Howie and was going to turn himself in. He asked her to meet him at Champlain Volkswagen, a car dealership about a mile from the police barracks. He also told her that after the first shot Brooks had begged, and that he had told him he deserved it before shooting him again. Shirley agreed, then went home and said nothing.
Brooks had been shot twice at close range. The first bullet severed his spinal cord and paralysed him instantly; the second, fired from close enough to leave heavy powder burns on the front of his shirt, passed through his chest, liver and right lung. The pistol in his waistband was still holstered with the snap fastened.
He told her she was undesirable and would age quickly because of her diabetes, that no one else would have her, and that she could prove her loyalty by killing Larry. He coached her on loading and firing a shotgun, told her to shoot twice, to rip her clothes to make it look like self-defence, to say nothing to the police and to speak only to his lawyer, Joseph Wohl, whose fees he promised to pay.
Bushey, who thought he was helping a sale, had no idea what was planned. She stopped in a rural spot and test-fired the shotgun, then waited at the market. When Larry arrived she sat in her father's car with the door open, the shotgun beside her, and talked to him through the window. He was to be married in three days to Diane Richards. Bushey, coming out of the store, saw her and ran back inside.
She drove to a friend's house nearby and telephoned Wohl, who told her to say nothing until he saw her in the morning. For six months she maintained that she had shot Larry in self-defence. In April 1975 she changed her story and told the police everything. She was held at the Stevens School Correctional Center in Hallowell, Maine, where she gave birth to a stillborn baby and was in hospital for a couple of weeks afterwards.
As part of the agreement she took part in a sting at her aunt and uncle's farmhouse in rural Georgia.
September 23rd, 1973 / trailer, Fletcher, Vermont
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October 3rd, 1974 / Brown's ABC Market par lot, Fairfield, Vermont
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