The post I wrote about him several years ago has generated more comments than any other. His story has been retold in several books and articles. The prolonged man hunt for Tornow, the circumstances of his life living rough in the woods, and his uncanny success avoiding capture became the subject of newspaper headlines nationwide. There was no evidence that John Tornow was the murderer, no motive, but the men sent to arrest him suffered the same fate and Tornow sealed his own. The man hunts began when his two nephews were murdered in the woods, each killed with a single shot. He preferred living deep in the forests of the Olympic Mountains. John Tornow grew up near Grays Harbor, Washington, at the end of the 19 th century. It is certain that his life, and death, captured the imagination of the nation. The firefight in the woods that ended his life precluded a trial. There is little that can be said about the short, brutal life of John Tornow with certainty, whether he suffered brain damage from measles as a child, whether he escaped from an insane asylum, or even his actual body count.
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