Irving Plaisted, 78, male, Caucasian, was passing through Albuquerque on October 8, 1980, when a simple request for directions set in motion a fatal encounter. On the outskirts of the city, after offering what seemed like help, a stranger turned on him—robbing Plaisted and shooting him, then taking his vehicle and leaving the quiet Minnesotan’s journey to end on a lonely edge of town.
Investigators soon connected the killing to Thomas Wayne Crump, a drifter whose brief, violent spree
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