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>NEDERLAND, Colo. (AP) -- In 1971, Guy Goughnor was a 19-year-old
>longhair who went by the name Deputy Dawg. He and his hippie
>friends used to drink into the night, urinate in the streets, steal
>laundry from clotheslines and otherwise show their disrespect for
>authority.
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>The last time anyone saw Goughnor alive was the night a
>bulldog-like lawman by the name of Renner Forbes pulled him out of
>a bar and threw him into the back of his patrol car.
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>Last month, Forbes, now 68 and living in a nursing home,
>confessed to killing Deputy Dawg, authorities say.
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>Lured by the picturesque Colorado mountain peaks, drifters gave
>Forbes plenty of work as they turned Nederland into their own
>personal summer camp.
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>``We were overloaded with hippies,'' said Stephanie Lawrence,
>who moved to Nederland in 1940. ``There were bad ones and some of
>the good ones -- the flower kids.''
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>Goughnor, who hitchhiked here from his family's lakefront home
>in a Minneapolis suburb and adopted the name of a cartoon
>character, ran with the more reckless crowd that used deerskin
>hides to cover their teepees in the woods outside of town.
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>Their mischief ranged from indecent exposure and theft to public
>urination and stealing the water hoses from the fire department.
>One police report described Goughnor as ``a huge pain.''
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>On July 21, 1971, Forbes pulled Goughnor from the Pioneer Inn
>tavern, threw him in his patrol car and drove him to a remote area
>of adjacent Clear Creek County, where he shot the young man once in
>the head, authorities said.
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>Hunters found Goughnor's body a month later in a mountain canyon
>where Forbes used to hunt elk. It had been dragged off a steep,
>dirt road marked on maps as Oh My God Road.
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>Forbes referred all questions to his lawyer, Bob Peppin, who
>would not comment on the confession. He is scheduled to be formally
>charged in December with second-degree murder, which carries up to
>48 years in prison.
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>
>``We still have the hippies and the dreadlocks,'' said Diana
>Giglietti, who works in the office, ``but we don't take them out
>and shoot them.''
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Oh, my, wow - Thank you, thank you, thank you soooooooooooooo much for
posting this!!! Bless you!!! Thank you!!! ed-I and others? That was my
family!!! STP from new york,san francisco and colorado (primarily nederland
and boulder). We always *knew* that it was the officer who killed Deputy
Dawg but as the years passed I drifted away from the family and I always
wondered if anyone was ever held responsible . . . This is truly wonderful
to see. If you know what I mean. Thank you so much!!!
Deputy Dawg was nothing if not an overgrown child. So, yes, I guess that
could make him a pain in the ass, but also, he had no hate or anger within
him - just a simple love of life. And yes, sometimes we drank into the
night, sometimes we would take a leak in the alley or off to the side of the
road and when authority is taking you to jail for having a rip in your jeans
& no underwear underneath ('indecent exposure") or spitting a few watermelon
seeds out on the sidewalk ("littering") and were constantly looking to
"round us up" and haul us into jail for the slightest infraction - or no
infraction - pure harrassment - well, yes, it was pretty damn hard to have
any respect for "authority" . The unspoken "father" of our family, STP
John, was as pure and loving as they come. He ate no meat, wore no leather,
allowed no hate in his heart, judged no one, and in the end, sacrificed his
life for another brother he was trying to help. There would have been *NO*
deerskins on our tipis. So I spose I don't need to tell anyone to take the
tone of the article with a little healthy skepticism.
But I digress. Thanks for allowing me to remember my family with the rest
of you and especially to celebrate in this closure on my brother's death.
Love, light, and yes, PEACE!!!
Spring (STP name: Good Woman)