I always wondered about why the Shiffs moved so suddenly to LA in the 1970s?
what did they do back in Ashland?
did they leave anything there that they didn't want known about?
somekind of toxic-waste (allegorically?) that they never wanted known?
but sadly the story is shrouded in that whole media black hole as if they were never tehre at all, and left no blot upon the landscape.