Portraits in the Snow

Like a rotten onion peeled away from itself with seemingly no end to the many layers and stench; was the <b>tragic truth</b> that four little ones and their torturous murders which set off a fire storm of fear that for a time crippled a community and forever devastated their families; were in the landscape of the underbelly of humanity where kings thieves and killers dwelt; simply small pebbles thrown into its cold murky waters...causing a difficult inconvenient ripple...lost in the larger picture of hidden scandal and conspiracy where the many monsters and a killer would never have to pay the fiddler for their dance with the devil; or feel the <b>hard hand of justice</b>...