(AP) – 2 days ago
“TACOMA, Wash. — Karen Hull has been waiting 20 years to find out what happened to her son Walter in 1990. She finally knows.”
“Walter Thomas Ackerson Jr. was born in 1973 and grew up in Eastern Washington’s tiny Kettle Falls. He was beaten to death, or close to it, 16 years later, 200 miles from home, when he was a student at a federal Job Corps center on the Oregon Coast.”
“In 1990, federal workers at the Angell Job Corps in Yachats, Ore., dismissed Ackerson as a runaway, despite rumors surrounding his disappearance. They waited weeks to tell his mother he was missing and gave her conflicting stories.”
Angell Job Corps Center is managed by the USDA Forest Service
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