Saturday, March 15, 2008

Ralph Anstett Jr. visits his brother Larry’s grave every year with his sisters, brothers and father.

“Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if Larry was still alive,” he says.

“We still hope that this case will be solved, every day we hope. It’s been bad for us. We lost part of our family. And we feel somebody should pay for the loss.”Victims and survivors, cops and culprits. In the long aftermath, the line that separates grows immaterial. Michael Vermilyea, the target of the 1974 bombing, lives somewhere in Waukesha County, popping up now and then in a biker bar. Willy Cresca, the car thief turned accomplice, floats in and out of jail on one charge of theft after the next, estranged from his family and friends.

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