Posted on 10/31/2016 5:08:00 PM PDT by Prov1322
In recent months, creepy clown sightings have made headlines across the nation.
But 51 years ago, there was one story, out of Atlanta, that would trump them all. It was bizarre and tragic and a lot more complex than a tale about a prankster with a red nose lurking in the woods of metro Atlanta.
One Friday afternoon in 1965, five FBI agents swarmed a bus on the grounds of a traveling carnival in Atlanta, shook a man awake and arrested him.
The man they'd sought went by many names.
There was the one he told his employers at the fair: Leslie Lynn Lamar.
The one he went by while wearing clown makeup and sitting atop a dunk tank: Bobo the Clown.
The most important name was the one listed on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives list: Leslie Douglas Ashley.
The 28-year-old "slightly built Arkansas native" was sought in a case out of Texas. Police in that state called it "one of the most bizarre crimes in a decade in Houston," according to an article published in The Atlanta Constitution on April 24, 1965.
More than four years earlier, Ashley and his female roommate pumped six bullets into a "real estate man" after the man became violent during a sex act.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
From the story: "After being released from prison Ashley had undergone "sex-change surgery." Perez ran for a Democratic party chair position in Harris County, Texas.
She lost.
It's unclear if she ever worked as a clown again."
” She “ would probably win today .
Yeah, all signs of being a clown.
Landslide.
Creepy,,,
I got Friends in Crawl Spaces.
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