By Marilyn J. Bardsley
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I felt compelled to find out just what kind of people the Edenfields were, so I went back to his old neighborhood on Union Street and to his new dwelling in the Canal Road Mobile Home Park and started to talk to the neighbors. In two days, I got a real earful from neighbors in both areas and was astounded that the bizarre behavior of the Edenfields had gone unnoticed by probation officers, state and county authorities.
According to one neighbor, an attractive woman, George had threatened her at least several times with hedge clippers. She described him as a man who knew no boundaries and felt that he could trespass in her yard anytime he wished, even though she had made it clear to him that he was not welcome.
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| Union Street (C Elliott Bardsley) |
Once, when she was in her yard, he allegedly came up to her with the clippers, pointed at her crotch and said he was going to "cut her ——." Another time, he and his mother, Peggy, were walking by her property and he threatened to cut off her toes with his clippers. And still, in another instance, when she was trying to calmly persuade George to leave her alone, he stared inappropriately at her breasts. She was terrified of him, she said.
She told me emphatically that she did everything she could do to avoid him. Whenever she was going away, she would first look to see if George was out on his parents' porch. If he was, she would leave in the direction opposite from his house, even if it took her out of her way.
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| Union Street neighborhood (C Elliott Bardsley) |
According to this neighbor, George lived a tense and unhappy existence with his parents. She said he frequently rushed out of their home in a rage, yelling and screaming incoherently. Sometimes, she told me, when he was in a rage, George would come and vent his anger at his father to her if she were in her yard. It was unnerving.
She said that George's presence in the neighborhood was depressing: it was like an omnipresent "evil spirit" that permeated the entire neighborhood.
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