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The Man in the Moon
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The Man in the Moon

David Helmreich

Smashwords Edition

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Five years ago this month I saw the article in the paper. I was looking through newspaper archives for an obituary of an old friend that I had been in the Army with and heard he had died in 2005. I was hoping to get the names of a relative so I could send my condolences and maybe get some information on his death.

The article said that Joannie McCall, also known as Cousin Joannie to her friends, had died in her parent’s greenhouse of asphyxiation on June 15, 2005. No foul play was discovered and no further details were available. I looked for more archived news articles about the girl in the Columbus, Ohio area but found none. I googled “Cousin Joannie” and got two hits. Bingo, an article about the incident in the Columbus Dispatch giving her age as 15 and living at 9290 Hickory Tree Road, in the northwest side of Columbus.