Condren had always claimed that he was assaulted and verballed by police over the murder he had supposedly confessed to committing.

Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.

If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee To bind our loves up in a holy band; For others say thou dost deserve, and I Believe it better than reportingly.

Would-be gags from would-be gagsters. And, nine chances out of ten, not a yak in the lot.