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Commentary: Scott Reeder - Surprises can lie beneath the surface Scott Reeder FacebookTwitterEmail That happened to me this month. John Willard, a reporter I worked with for a decade at the Quad-City Times, died in 2017 at age 74. His wife, Carol, died a couple of years later. Last week, I read that they left a $3 million estate to various charities. John was a reporter and Carol was a secretary. “I’d be shocked if John ever made more than $35,000 or $40,000,” said Linda Cook, another reporter who worked with us at the Times. Former Quad-City Times Editor Dan Hayes, demurred on how much...

Coworker turned out to be the millionaire next door Scott Reeder FacebookTwitterEmail That happened to me this month. John Willard, a reporter I worked with for a decade at the Quad-City Times, died in 2017 at age 74. His wife, Carol, died a couple years later. Last week, I read that they left a $3 million estate to various charities. John was a reporter and Carol a secretary. “I’d be shocked if John ever made more than $35,000 or $40,000,” said Linda Cook, another reporter who worked with us at the Times Former Quad-City Times editor Dan Hayes, demurred on how much Willard may have ear...

Harvey lowmyer bought the rifle, john willard rented the room. eric galt drove the mustang. when the fingerprints and the strands of hair showed they were the same man, the fbi issued this warrant for eric starvo galt. then, sifting thousands of records, the fbi matched those fingerprints with an escaped con from missouri, james earl ray. it began a nationwide manhunt for ray. the next day, ray left toronto for montreal, trying to get on a ship to africa. he failed. when he returned to toronto, the passport was waiting at a travel agency. >> when i went in the next day to pick it up, i found o...

For more than a week. not long after dawn, the day after the murder, james earl ray parked his white mustang in a low-income housing project in atlanta and headed for the bus station. within 48 hours of king's death, ray had reached toronto, canada. he rented a room in an immigrant area near downtown. james earl ray wrote -- >> the woman couldn't speak hardly any english. the man not much better. i never gave them a name as they never asked me for one. >> ray read through old newspapers for birth announcements and chose this one from 1932, ramon sneyd. ray, posing as a government official, pho...