On Father’s Day, June 19, 1966, violence came quietly to the rural edges of Helena, New York, and ended the life of John Robert Sturgeon, a 3-year-old boy. The day began with ordinary summer routines, the kind that usually fade into family memory—until this one didn’t.
Investigators later said John’s father, K. Wesley Sturgeon, drove his children out in the family car around midday to a nearby field where they often played and picked strawberries. What happened next, as the detail
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