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- Did I read that the toen selectmen won't move on clarifying this mess? Has anyone looked into who owned the car that was used?
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- Well shizzdaboss, Jeff Flanagan happened to be my cousin. He didn't deserve what happened to him. He was no trouble maker. He happened to fall in love with the wrong girl.(Reine's young babysitter). Remember the one Reine done away with his wife for? Jeff never caused anyone harm. He give you his last dollar. He didn't deserve to die the way he did. I remember my Aunt Verna Collins sitting at my mom's kitchen table telling the story 30 plus years ago. She's dead, but I'm not. AND there is NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS for murder in the state of Mass. Heard of DNA? Heard of reopening of COLD CASES? I personally would love a front row seat to watch Melvin Reine in the chair. He doesn't deserve to breath the same air as a law abiding citizen. Thant's what I think and know to be true. In fact, there is money on this being reopened. Aunt Verna and Jeff deserve this much.
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- I've read the book 'The Year We Disappeared" after watching this and it answer many of the questions that's been posted here, especially why it was 'allowed'. John Busby stated quite clearly that he knew when he was shot, that there were members of the Falmouth PD who must had helped Reines and could not be trusted. Even so, he knew several he did trust and they guarded his family at home, and him when his was in the hospital. The book also revealed that one of the FPD did in fact give the Reines the duty roster so they would know when and where to ambush John Busby. Corruption of this scale could not have been perpetrated without the knowledge of the Chief of Police and from the book, it is apparent that this corruption had occurred long before Busby joined the force. This brings back memories of what happened in the '70s to NYPD Frank Serpico. Sad how little has change.
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- Okay, I am so steamed right now! shizzydaboss has to be related to this Satanistic Killer! Talk about lives being ruined? My Aunt refused to leave Falmouth until Reine and his Evil Family were brought to justice over my Cousin, Jeff's death. She ended up dying in Falmouth. The pain this Family has put not only my Family, but numerous others through. Jeff was only 17! And finding out that Shirley May (Souza) Reine's Sister put up a Memorial Site on Virtual Memorials in honor of Shirley and Melvin just plain sickens me. Shirley was with Melvin when he killed Jeff and had the odasity to show up at Jeff's Funeral start telling my Aunt Verna the vial things they made Jeff do before they killed him. Give me a break when you expect Sympathy for Evilness! I want to see a Movie made of all of this and am praying that Falmouth cleans up it's Town and compensates the Busby Family, which would not be enough in my opinion.
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- In 1967, a Federal jury in Meridian, Miss., convicted 7 Klansmen of conspiracy in the deaths of the 3 civil rights workers. I'm just wondering if SOMEhow, in this particular case, a Federal authority could possibly intervene here, leading maybe to some acceptable level of compensation for the family at the expense of Mel Reine's estate, regardless of whether or not he's turned it over by now to another family member. I mean if the business was so lucrative, I'm sure some legal entity can attach and lien to his estate somehow? I certainly hope all avenues of pay-back under the law have not yet been exhausted! And to think, nobody else in this Reine family has enough common decency to help compensate these poor folks in any way after what their own relatives have done. I imagine they all just looked away and laughed at this poor family back then, too sad. How in hell do they live with themselves?
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- We NEVER NEVER miss 48HRS, we watch it as a family. I have to say that this particular one scared me to death. I felt the pain and fear of this family. It was so well done. I never thought that your producers could top yourselfs, but you did. I had to actually walk away and watch it later after I had prepared myself for this incredible story. Hats of to the staff of 48hrs. May God Bless this incredible family.
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- that town sure sounds like a bunch of pussssssies and hicks.
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- cosmoCA, I have to agree with you. I taped this program on my DVR. While it was an interesting story, it could have been told in 10 minutes. The producers really stretched out this story. I skipped to the end of the program just to find out the ending to the story.
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- What puzzles me is that NO ONE in that town, whether a cop or a civilian, had the brains and/or guts to just wait somewhere and ambush that sOn oF a *** (Reine). I doubt if the police dept. would have spent much time on that investigation either.
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- In the old west when a bully came to town and harassed it and the townspeople, they and the sheriff got together and disposed of the bully. They should have done that with this Reine guy years ago.
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