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freshwest

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10. Known about Jasper and its environs for years. Even saw a 'sunset' billboard passing through.

Reply to RandySF (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 03:21 PM

Feb 2014

Remarked on it to some fresh faced young white guys at my work, who'd moved away to the big city and weren't going to go back. They couldn't find enough bad things to say and called it 'the armpit of Texas.'

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Another racially motivated murder. Who do the authorities think they're kidding? freshwest Feb 2014 #5

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Known about Jasper and its environs for years. Even saw a 'sunset' billboard passing through. freshwest Feb 2014 #10

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Thank you for this info, I will stay out of that area uponit7771 Feb 2014 #11

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Who performed the autopsy because this conclusion arthritisR_US Feb 2014 #9