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30 Years Since Claude Dallas Killings

An FBI agent escorts Claude Lafayette Dallas, wearing orange, from Riverside County Jail in Riverside, Calif., on March 9,1987, en route to a hearing in San Bernardino, Calif. Dallas was captured in Riverside, after a year on the run following his 1986 escape from the Idaho penitentiary. He was released from prison in February 2005. (AP Photo/Bob Galbraith, File)

This message was on the Idaho F&G Facebook site from the Sandpoint office: "30 years ago today, Conservation Officers Wilson Conley Elms and William Harlan Pogue were murdered (by Claude Dallas) while protecting Idaho's resources and serving the good folks of our great state. We carry the torch for you and you will not be forgotten."

Question: Did anyone out there ever think Claude Dallas was innocent of these two killings?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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