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Holden Ford: [holding Richard Speck newspaper clippings] It's like meeting a movie star.

Bill Tench: Could be as anti-climactic.

Holden Ford: 'Crime of the Century.'

Bill Tench: Until Charles Whitman two weeks later...

Holden Ford: I remember staring at this wanted poster of him, trying to figure out if I saw him on the street, would I know he was insane?

Bill Tench: You clip all these?

Holden Ford: Everything I could get my hands on. Even went to my neighbors who subscribed to newspapers outside of Milwaukee.

Bill Tench: Holden and his first criminal crush!”

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