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The same day the body of a missing 16 year-old boy was found nailed to the trunk of a Redwood tree in Northern California, the Crescent Center police department received a painting depicting the horrendous murder. Its extraordinary, if ironic, beauty and obvious mastery caused sheriff Ralph Taymor and his deputy, Ernie Cowell, to stare at it in awe and admiration for several minutes even though they knew it was the work of a psychopath. By now four such paintings had been received by various law enforcement agencies up and down the West Coast. Each shared one prominent characteristic—dominance of the color blue. Because of this and the paintings’ somber subject the perpetrator was labeled the Blue Killer, a sobriquet inspired by an art historian who compared the works to those of Picasso’s Blue Period.
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