The Face of Evil

ON March 14, 1992, at a peaceful country lake between Canton and Zanesville, Ohio, a 49-year-old man was fishing, when he was shot dead by a high-powered Swedish Mauser rifle.

Six detectives spent a week investigating the crime and came up clueless. Then a deputy sheriff remembered a random shooting that had occurred three years before in a neighboring county. A man had been shot as he walked or jogged near his rural home. The police soon found another case: James Paxton, 21, killed 50 miles away on November 10, 1990, by three shots from a .30-caliber rifle as he stalked deer with a crossbow.

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Eugene H. Methvin

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ON March 14, 1992, at a peaceful country lake between Canton and Zanesville, Ohio, a 49-year-old man was fishing, when he was shot dead by a high-powered Swedish Mauser rifle.

Six detectives spent a week investigating the crime and came up clueless. Then a deputy sheriff remembered a random shooting that had occurred three years before in a neighboring county. A man had been shot as he walked or jogged near his rural home. The police soon found another case: James Paxton, 21, killed 50 miles away on November 10, 1990, by three shots from a .30-caliber rifle as he stalked deer with a crossbow.