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Newbury Park Couple

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* Re “Two Bodies Found After Home Fire Doused,” Nov. 30.

Recently The Times published my letter listing all the crimes I could recall taking place in Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park since we decided to call this area home in 1974.

The letter was no sooner published when a horror of horrors took place in our own backyard.

I’m referring to the suicide-murder of Lee Walter and Lenore Marie Edson.

We did not know the Edsons personally, but my wife and I did stop and talk with a man we believe was Edson one morning on one of our neighborhood walks.

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He was sawing a tree in his frontyard yard, and was affable and neighborly.

We also attended several of their Fourth of July celebrations in front of their home and in the park across the street.

The area was sectioned off with yellow ribbons and colored lights. The celebration included dancing in the street.

The Edsons brought a sense of community to our neighborhood.

In another section of the paper was a report on a Newbury Park man arrested for operating a drug lab on the patio of his home near the high school.

Undoubtedly we live in one of the safest communities in the nation, but we do have our share of crime--spousal abuse included.

SAMUEL ROSEN

Newbury Park

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