My favorite memory of DD was at the three kings(boulder 1970-71)
STP John was dancing on the table in his longjohns
and DD along with the rest of us sat there and laughed
so hard it hurt. He was a first rate bro.
.........LOVE Ed-I
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At 09:08 AM 10/28/97 PST, you wrote:
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>>here is an article some of you might recognize
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>> PEACE
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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!!!
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>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.
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>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.
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>Love, light, and yes, PEACE!!!
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>Spring (STP name: Good Woman)
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