WISCONSIN RAPIDS - Life dealt Michael Kinney some body blows, the kind of painful events that are a universal part of the human experience.
There was the divorce, shortly followed by the loss of Kinney s much-loved dog, Sammie the Sheltie, who died at age 13. Then Kinney s father Rich died, a popular musician and music teacher known in the Wisconsin Rapids for his steel guitar playing who guided his son onto a musical pathway as well. Then, as if fate hadn t handed him enough, Kinney s close friend and musical partner, Jeff Gauss, died at age 55 in June 2020 from frontal temporal lobe dementia and Lewy body dementia.
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They didn’t have a plan, but the two young women knew they had to get out fast.
It was after dark when they ran from a suburban Cincinnati hotel room. Cody Jackson had been gone for hours. They didn’t know where they wanted to go. They just knew they had to go.
The decision seemed dangerous. Cody had made it clear: Nobody leaves him.
Cody’s designated babysitter, a young woman from his hometown who stayed with him in motel rooms and made sure the girls he slept with followed his rules, said she wouldn’t alert Cody immediately. She would give them a head start.