Robert Frances Garrow Case Study

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This was a case about Robert Frances Garrow who murdered several people, raped, kidnapping, having sex with animals, and he was sexual offender.
July 28, 1973, on Saturday four people decided to go camping in the Adirondack Mountains which is northeast of Upstate New York range from ages 19-23, it was a woman and three men they decided to pull off on a side road which was off of route 30 and made up a campsite and went to sleep, they awaken on Sunday by a mid-age man who looked like a conservation officer who had on sunglasses with a feather oh his hat, binoculars around his neck, and a rifle, he had unzipped their tents and told the two campers to step out, in which he rounded up all four and informed them at this point after cocking his

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