Benton County, Iowa

Last month, the chapter involving Anita Spearman ended with Richard SavageБЂ™s second-degree murder conviction in a West Palm Beach courtroom. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Earlier, Sean Doutre and Robert Spearman had been found guilty of О¬Ѓrst-degree murder. In the Doug Norwood attacks, Savage, Larry Gray, William Buckley and Dean DeLuca all pleaded guilty. Savage and Doutre have been charged in the Braun killing. The grenade attacks on Dana Free resulted in charges against Savage, Michael Wayne Jackson and Buckley. Buckley has also been charged in connection with the plane bomb in Dallas. Richard Lee Foster and Mary Alice Wolf have been convicted of conspiracies to hire the Savage gang. Charges in other cases are still pending. So far, the guns for hire are serving prison terms ranging from О¬Ѓve years to life. Meanwhile, the victims who escaped the gangБЂ™s deadly ineptitude are trying to return to normalcy БЂ“ if that is possible. Doug Norwood says it isnБЂ™t. He completed law school this year and is now a prosecutor for Benton County in Arkansas ...»