Winklers

Media reports would refer to the Winklers as the “perfect all-American family,” but that is standard boilerplate journalism.

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

Your pa turned, but he recollects the career of the Blue boys, who are divided between the penitentiary, the poor-house and the southwest corner of hell; he recalls the Winklers -- one dead, one a porter in a saloon in Peoria, one crazy; and he looks at you, and it seems to him that he must take you in his arms as he did when you were a little child in the prairie fire, and run to safety with you.

In Our Town William Allen White 1906

Those handles on Winklers 'tommyhawks are down right beautiful.

More On Axes 2008

As admittedly some one who has never swung an axe in anger, my thought is his axes look as useful and deadly as some of the other high end military axes I have seen but Winklers axes look far mor attractive with their solid bodies and heads.

More On Axes 2008

The Winklers were honored a few days later when Raoul approached them about joining him in a business venture.

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

When he had visited his terminally ill grandmother, who was a neighbor of the Winklers, the trooper said Matthew had walked across the street and shouted about a small dog that was keeping him awake.

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

And then, on September 29, 1960, Detective Gail Leonard received a two-page letter that had been mailed to the Winklers.

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

While the Winklers had been somewhat supportive of Mary right after she was arrested, they no longer were.

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

He noted the financial catastrophe that was about to descend on the Winklers because Mary had been carrying out a check-kiting scheme since November 2005, depositing phony checks in several bank accounts.

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

One potential juror was excused quickly when she said that the Winklers had been her neighbors and that Matthew had once threatened to kill her dog if it came in his yard again.

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008