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Protestors Demand Answers

After more than half a decade, protestors outside the Chagrin Falls PD demand the missing persons into Archie Klatos be reopened.


A month ago, a revelation came forward.

Then 3 weeks ago, there was another.

Then 2 weeks ago, another.

Then last week, another.


This newfound momentum into an almost half-decade old case has been clearly observed by members of the Chagrin Falls community. A failure to act on it could cost the community, as the more time passes the more evidence disappears or changes.

The time to act, they say, is now.


"We want to know what happened to him... and why," stated Samantha Hatchins, who led the protests outside the precinct yesterday afternoon. "We believe there is sufficient evidence to warrant reopening the investigation, and we believe Klatos family and loved ones are entitled to definitive, concrete answers."


“We want to know what happened to him... and why.”

Human beings take a certain comfort in certainty. Before today, this traumatic and upsetting crime certainly stood on grounds of certainty. It surely, then, must be alarming to this community that every assumed certainty of this case has disappeared completely. Now they have nothing.


If no action is taken, will their legacy also be nothing?


A desert has a distinct look. Having been born and raised in El Paso, you might see the skull, or remnants of a bull. A bull lived there. A bull died there. But deserts change; sand blows over them, their terrain shifting. Sand covers up what was once there, until what was once there is gone.

In the span of 1,000 years, everything there was to find vanishes.

This last month, several revelations were found.

Will there still be more to find... in 1,000 years?

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