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John Turnow: Villain or Victim book signing set in Port Angeles, Sequim this weekend

  • Friday, March 6, 2015 2:17am
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BILL LINDSTROM WILL be in Port Angeles and Sequim to sell and sign copies of his new book, John Tornow: Villain or Victim?

At 5 p.m. today, the author, a former news desk editor at the Peninsula Daily News, will be at Hart’s Fine Books, 161 W. Washington St. in downtown Sequim, as part of the First Friday Art Walk events.

At noon Saturday, Lindstrom will meet the public at the PDN office, 305 W. First St. in downtown Port Angeles.

Tornow allegedly killed his two nephews in the eastern Olympic Mountains in 1911.

This touched off a 19-month manhunt — the longest in the state’s history at that time — that included Clallam and Jefferson counties and ended with seven dead, including Tornow, in 1913.

Lindstrom spent 28 years researching the saga of Tornow, also known as the “Wildman of the Wynooche.”

Tornow was the only suspect authorities pursued in the nephews’ deaths.

Lindstrom’s book presents information that indicates the man might have been innocent.

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