Oh Yeah Apache….. That story is unbelievable!
Read it for yourself and save it locally.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gunman-the-rapist-the-woodsman-and-young-jim-comey
>The story of the Comey boys and the Ramsey Rapist imparts another lesson, one that has never been fully reported and that James himself may not know. This accompanying lesson began two days after the break-in, when a civilian volunteer who the police would describe as a “woodsman” and tracker set to following the gunman’s trail through the area that the small army of searchers had trampled.
The woodsman was 27-year-old Tom Brown, Jr. and he would later say that he had acquired his expertise from a wandering Apache shaman scout named Stalking Wolf. The tale as told by Brown was that Stalking Wolf had been 20 when “a vision sent him away from his people” and “for the next 63 years he wandered, seeking teachers and learning the old ways of many native peoples” until he encountered “a small boy gathering fossils in a stream bed.”
>“He recognized that boy as the person with whom he would spend his final years, and to whom he would teach all he knew,” Brown would later attest. “That boy was Tom Brown, Jr. Tom became the recipient of not only all that Stalking Wolf had learned during his travels, but the distillation of hundreds of years of Apache culture as well.”
The self-proclaimed inheritor of Apache knowledge subsequently reported to the Allendale police that he followed the bootprints of “a large man running" for at least half a mile through the trees. Brown said he had spotted hairs and bits of torn clothing along the way.
“Footprints are signatures,” Brown would later say. "I can tell someone’s size, weight, whether he’s right-or left-handed, and his strength.”
By various news accounts, Brown determined that the trail emerged from the trees in the vicinity of a house owned by a man named Steve Ader. The man happened to be the brother of Bruce Ader, Sr., a 39-year-old bulldozer operator who lived in Bernardsville but was helping to clear a road in Allendale two miles from the Comey home. Somebody who had seen Bruce, Sr. on the job had apparently decided that he matched the sketch and the accompanying description of the gunman.