1/2: A few minutes ago I learned whatever happened to a guy I was friends with from 1st through 7th grade but who, like other friends from that period, turned into an asshole when he went from playing in the band to playing football. In 2004, he kidnapped his mother and stepfather, holed up in his house, killed his stepfather, got into a gunfight with a multi-county sheriffs' taskforce, and killed himself rather than go to jail.
Apparently, he'd turned to a life of robbery after not making...
2/2: ...into college either by grades or by way of football scholarship. He had outstanding warrants for strongarm robbery, amongst other similar crimes, at the time of his death. The kicker is that, like many of the others who turned into assholes in middle school, he was from one of "the good families".
An old school pal mused way back in college that Boyd's name was a typical criminal name you read/heard in true crime stories/documentaries:
Boyd Lee Rinehardt.
Yikes.