Oddballs, Psychos, and Half-Wits
Beverly had no idea that the city’s police records were full of “sex perverts, exhibitionists, sex oddballs, psychos, crackpots, half-wits, queers, and women with lesbian tendencies,” as was written in the reports.
As for Donald, he said he never trusted some of his neighbors, such as the woman across the street who spent time in an insane asylum after giving birth to a mixed-race baby. Then there was his other male neighbor who liked to sunbathe nude in his backyard. The neighborhood kids would visit him because he gave them candy. No wonder Mr. Burr didn’t trust him…