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November 23, 2004
Home Town Makes National News
Several years ago, a man moved into my hometown area and began publishing a delightful little newspaper called "The Bee". My sis would send me copies from time to time, because The Bee was always full of whatever stories or rumors or goings-on were the hot coffeeshop topic of the week. There were no sacred cows for The Bee, so it was either loved or hated depending on whether or not one was featured in its pages. Kinduva Peyton Place gossip rag, you might say.
The Bee went under eventually, and its publisher more or less dropped from sight. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw this on Yahoo News:
Terry Wade Presnell, 43, is charged with felony theft by deception and failure to appear in court in Harrison. The Searcy County man was arrested Nov. 6 and released from the Boone County Jail on a $2,500 bond, but failed to appear in court as ordered Nov. 12.
Presnell, a former publisher of The Bee newspaper in Marshall, allegedly sent a phony death certificate to a printing business owned by the Harrison Daily Times, to which he owed $1,857. The document stated Presnell had died in a traffic crash in Chihuahua, Mexico, on Feb. 11, 2003. The forged death certificate was purported to be from Presnell's brother, Ronald Presnell, who police said did not exist.
It even made FoxNews' Out There column. (Scroll down to "Missing Man Still Not Dead")
Heh.
You just can't buy publicity like that, can you?
Posted by Rita at November 23, 2004 06:06 AM