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Sometime around two in the morning of Dec. 17, 2001, 27-year- old Christian Longo allegedly killed his wife and three children, dumped their bodies into the river on the outskirts of tiny Waldport, Ore., and headed for the Mexican Riviera for a fun-filled vacation. In the conclusion of his two-part series in Willamette Week, Carlton Smith asks why a young father would deliberately kill his own family, and why law enforcement authorities failed repeatedly to act after Longo's nationwide crime spree gave them plenty of chances to stop him.

Diane Wilson's hunger strike in protest of Union Carbide Corp.'s legacies of pollution and corporate callousness has been joined by hundreds of people worldwide. Lisa Sorg, news editor of the San Antonio Current, looks at the Texas woman's protest and how it extends beyond the current events in Bhopal, India, where more than 8,000 people died in a 1984 chemical leak. The issues of environmental destruction and its human toll, corporate influence and its absence of accountability, ties Bhopal to Seadrift, Texas, and to every community that is at the mercy of contaminating industries.

An athletic young woman outran her guards to escape from prison 32 years ago and began a happy and law-abiding life. Now she's back behind bars to serve the remainder of a 99-year sentence. The man who confessed to pulling the trigger during a multistate killing spree that led to her murder conviction has never even been tried for the crimes. Matt Pulle of the Nashville Scene looks at the two lives of Margo Freshwater.