He went that way: Former Oak Parker chases memories of his father, a chimp and a kidnapping
Jonathan Pitts, a Chicago-based performer, storyteller and teacher was four-and-a-half when his dad, Dave Pitts, was kidnapped by a hitchhiking serial killer, Larry Ranes, just outside Las Vegas. The odd thing is that Pitts didn’t find out about his father’s kidnapping until 37 years later, when he happened across a 1964 article from the Chicago Sun-Times recounting Dave Pitts’ encounter with Ranes. When he did, he did what any seasoned storyteller would do — he wrote a monologue about...
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