Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2019 14:03:13 GMT -5
Recently read a very interesting article and I don't know as if many of you have read about it online as well as even seen on CNN or other news outlets. Yesterday I read a story of a guy by the name of Walter James Mason (murdered a guy in the tiny village of Clayton, ID on 09/22/80), I read that he was caught nearly 40 or a 'whole' 4o years later in another little town in Texas.
Well from what I read in the recent article it made me start to think as to if there anyone here on this forum knows what happened (that is in recent cases as well as other cold cases that were finally solved) and if so I would like to know as to what they are all about?
From what I read in the article about this guy Mason that they caught after 40 years on the run, the murder that he committed somewhat/some how catapulted the village of Clayton, ID to really go down hill.
Details on Clayton, ID:
09/22/80 Walt J. Mason goes into a local bar and confronts a man that he suspects is having an affair with his wife, Daniel Mason Woolley. The confrontation leads to a shooting in which Walter comes back to the bar with 2 guns from his truck and shoots Woolley dead and then goes on a rampage in the bar. A guy is hit in the shoulder, a round goes off and about the pool/billiards table, and one goes into the juke box. Mason then walks over to another bar that's right across the highway/street and orders a drink where he mumbles out loud "I Just Killed A Man" from there he goes on the run.
Mason's wife was Clayton's only school teacher (the school by the way was a small building with only 2 rooms) she had to move away from Clayton to the town of Challis, ID to keep going with her life.
NOTE/FACT: Clayton, Idaho (back in the 80s was so tiny that it's population was 43 people)
The school had to be shut down, to which then it was tried/attempted to be opened up again but it was so shuttered that it was a lost cause (especially when after it was also affected by a quake that hit the area back in '85).
The children of Clayton, ID have to be bussed dozens of miles to a new school in Challis, even on snowy/icy days in which the highway(s) are hazardous/impossible to drive.
Because Mason's wife left town after her husband beat her up before he went on his shooting rampage and that she was so badly beaten she quit and left town...... ALL BECAUSE OF THIS SINGLE CRIME...... (Believe this/it coming up cause you won't even believe it even if I told you this face to face)...... The town of Clayton, ID today in present day 2019 it's only home to 7 people!!!!!! YES THAT'S RIGHT 7!!!!!!!!!!!!
For it's not just Clayton, ID that's been a place that's been affected/shattered because of single crime but then there's also the bowling alley in Las Cruces, NM where that robbery/massacre had happened in which only one little girl survived the carnage, that's been shut down.
So all of this made me think, are there any places (towns or certain popular hot spots) that are no longer the same because of a savage/brutal crime? I just think that this forum should start also to keep track of not just bad guys who are still out there on the run, unknown, captured, most wanted list added/subtracted...... But also I think it would be a good idea to make up a chapter of this forum to keep track of the victims as well as places that are affected. It's not just people who suffer the after effects of violent crime but it's also places too that hurt or even go down hill (Such as Clayton, ID).
Here's the article on Walt J. Mason:
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/23/murder-an-idaho-mining-town-shuttered-its-only-school-now-suspect-has-been-found-texas-ranch/
Well from what I read in the recent article it made me start to think as to if there anyone here on this forum knows what happened (that is in recent cases as well as other cold cases that were finally solved) and if so I would like to know as to what they are all about?
From what I read in the article about this guy Mason that they caught after 40 years on the run, the murder that he committed somewhat/some how catapulted the village of Clayton, ID to really go down hill.
Details on Clayton, ID:
09/22/80 Walt J. Mason goes into a local bar and confronts a man that he suspects is having an affair with his wife, Daniel Mason Woolley. The confrontation leads to a shooting in which Walter comes back to the bar with 2 guns from his truck and shoots Woolley dead and then goes on a rampage in the bar. A guy is hit in the shoulder, a round goes off and about the pool/billiards table, and one goes into the juke box. Mason then walks over to another bar that's right across the highway/street and orders a drink where he mumbles out loud "I Just Killed A Man" from there he goes on the run.
Mason's wife was Clayton's only school teacher (the school by the way was a small building with only 2 rooms) she had to move away from Clayton to the town of Challis, ID to keep going with her life.
NOTE/FACT: Clayton, Idaho (back in the 80s was so tiny that it's population was 43 people)
The school had to be shut down, to which then it was tried/attempted to be opened up again but it was so shuttered that it was a lost cause (especially when after it was also affected by a quake that hit the area back in '85).
The children of Clayton, ID have to be bussed dozens of miles to a new school in Challis, even on snowy/icy days in which the highway(s) are hazardous/impossible to drive.
Because Mason's wife left town after her husband beat her up before he went on his shooting rampage and that she was so badly beaten she quit and left town...... ALL BECAUSE OF THIS SINGLE CRIME...... (Believe this/it coming up cause you won't even believe it even if I told you this face to face)...... The town of Clayton, ID today in present day 2019 it's only home to 7 people!!!!!! YES THAT'S RIGHT 7!!!!!!!!!!!!
For it's not just Clayton, ID that's been a place that's been affected/shattered because of single crime but then there's also the bowling alley in Las Cruces, NM where that robbery/massacre had happened in which only one little girl survived the carnage, that's been shut down.
So all of this made me think, are there any places (towns or certain popular hot spots) that are no longer the same because of a savage/brutal crime? I just think that this forum should start also to keep track of not just bad guys who are still out there on the run, unknown, captured, most wanted list added/subtracted...... But also I think it would be a good idea to make up a chapter of this forum to keep track of the victims as well as places that are affected. It's not just people who suffer the after effects of violent crime but it's also places too that hurt or even go down hill (Such as Clayton, ID).
Here's the article on Walt J. Mason:
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/23/murder-an-idaho-mining-town-shuttered-its-only-school-now-suspect-has-been-found-texas-ranch/
