After 2 grisly killings, a small Nebraska community wonders if any place is really safe
by Josh Funk and Margery A. Beck
Dec 21, 2023
4 minutes
FOR PUBLICATION 12:01 A.M. ET THURSDAY; PHOTOS LINKED, ygonzalez edited
The grisly killings of a retiree and then a priest has shocked everyone in tiny Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, including Sheriff Mike Robinson.
He’s lived in the community just north of Omaha for 62 years and can’t recall a single homicide before these two.
“It really is out of character,” Robinson said. “It’s a good town, good place to live, good place to raise your family.”
Robinson says people have been troubled not only by the killings, but by the awful details of how their neighbors died in what appear to be random attacks.
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