Ray Meterone person
also: Ray, Ray Mitterrand, Dan's brother
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Ray Meterone member_of
Italian Club book_quoted
“His dad never went to any of their games, but they did have a clubhouse. Nearby, they started a thing called the Italian Club. Joseph Mitterrand went there every Saturday and again on Sunday after Mass. There were fellow Italian immigrants,…”
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The Iroquoian government had tried to demonstrate its profound regret by returning Dan's body sealed in a beautifully carved antique coffin. But Henrietta, the widow, asked for another casket, something that had been made at home. Dan's bro…
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While the morticians agreed to make the change, they requested that someone from the family be present when the old coffin was unsealed. Ray asked his older brother, Dominic, to be the witness, but Dominic refused. So it was Ray who stood b…
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casket maker for a coffin. Richmond had been one of the centers of the coffin industry for a very long time. They also needed a hacksaw to try to saw open the metal casket that was sealed inside of the wooden casket. All the while, they wer…
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would be extremely disagreeable. Reluctantly, Ray took the information back to Henrietta. Everyone had always called her Hank. Today, though, she looked tensed and drawn and was bearing up remarkably well under all that had unfolded. She li…
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was on his way home and would arrive in time to conduct the funeral. Robert Minton was the local Catholic priest. The family had never doubted that if they could reach him, he would be there. Dan's murder had also brought Ray back early fro…
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Like many bachelors, Ray turned on his radio each morning and listened to the news. However, that morning he had had the morning the news came in. He had had a flat tire that distracted him. Afterward, he wondered why no one at the gas stat…
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He had bought this cabin only a few months earlier and had been urging his brothers to make the cabin their retreat as well. Dom could come up on his days off from work as a greenskeeper, and Dan would relax there when he came home on leave…
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Men who did not know the brothers very well said that both their temperaments and looks, Ray, who was 42 in the summer of 1970, was a lot like Dan, who was eight years older than Ray. To Ray, such a claim would have been sacrilege. He never…
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Sometimes he would take items from it, but Ray loved that because he loved his big brother. After he fixed his flat tire, he headed back to the cabin. He was sorry to think that this was the last day of July and his vacation was almost half…
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What Ray deemed a job stuck to them as nothing more than a paid hobby. Early Monday morning, Ray loaded up his station wagon with sports equipment and set off cruising around Wayne County. And I'll save you the details, but basically he was…
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In his job, it meant that Ray basically knew everyone. And if you guys know anything about Indiana, sports is everything, especially baseball and basketball. In the last year, his black hair had gone a little bit gray. His body was getting …
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Ray did not have a telephone at the cabin, but as he pulled into the yard, he found his neighbors waiting to flag him down. His sister Rosemary had called long distance from Richmond. Ray first thought of his mother, who was 77, and she bas…
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The message had specifically said there was no emergency and for Ray not to worry, but that he needed to call Richmond right away. Ray got through to Rosemary. She asked him, you haven't heard from Dan? As she spoke, Rosemary was dazed. She…
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So she called Washington herself for confirmation. For the moment, Ray was still more curious than alarmed. No, I haven't heard a thing. The neighbor then said, Dan's been kidnapped. Usually the drive south to Richmond took him three hours.…
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from a radio station in one of the biggest cities near Richmond, Indianapolis, and others from as close as Dayton, Ohio. The newsman had reported that Dan had been murdered, but he had already retracted the story by the time Ray got home. N…
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He knew that Dan had been in Uruguay these past 13 months advising the country's police force. Now it appeared that a band of thugs in the capital city of Montevideo had kidnapped Dan that morning on his way to work. Ray began trading infor…
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And between taking calls from New York and Chicago and other places, he was trying to help the local boys put together their story. Their local paper was called Palladium Item. As the radio bombardment went on through the afternoon, Ray got…
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R-I-A-L. He was visiting his sister, Rial explained. She had married a teacher from Centerville down the road. She had heard that Ray's brother was working in Montevago and Rial wanted to leave his address. The next time Ray wrote, he shoul…
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That's what they called kind of basically what we would refer to as the slums. Richmond's blacks also lived in Goosetown, but south of where the Mitterrand settled. There was more of them than there were Italians, but everyone was polite. E…
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planted their entire yard in flowers. And the dad, who had came over from Italy, rented a nearby lot so they had a huge big area to grow fresh vegetables. Ray's temperament tended to be bitterness. Joseph Mitterrand, the dad, preferred to s…
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Dan tended to take over for his father raising the younger children, to include Ray. Because, again, Ray was eight years younger than Dan. And he also was very disciplinarian to the younger children. And the book goes on to basically say th…