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By then the downstairs bar was filling up nicely, yet it wasn\u2019t so packed that Nina felt compelled to release the table to her paying customers. Nor was the crowd as noisy as usual and I credited that to Umland\u2019s stage presence. He seemed to have an extensive repertoire. At Terrible Timmy\u2019s he was playing mostly country-western and pop rock, covering artists like Johnny Cash, the Beatles, and Prince.<\/p>\n

Today he was leaning toward jazz vocalists, singing standards made famous by crooners like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, and even Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Umland was just finishing a nice version of Ray Charles\u2019s \u2018Georgia on My Mind,\u2019 when Nina leaned toward me.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe really knows how to read his audience, doesn\u2019t he?\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to bring him back. Maybe take him upstairs.\u201d \u201cToo bad he can\u2019t play \u2018Summertime,\u2019\u201d I said. And, as if he was waiting for a cue, Umland began to sing Summertime, and the livin\u2019 is easy. Fish are jumpin\u2019, and the cotton is high \u2026 He seemed to be smiling at me when he did and I smiled back and then I stopped smiling and closed my eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d Nina asked. My psychologist friend Dr. Jillian DeMarais called it a \u201cspontaneous memory\u201d; a memory that comes to mind without conscious effort. I wasn\u2019t even thinking about it, yet in that moment, I knew exactly what connected Dave Umland to Tucker Landau. I pulled my smartphone from my pocket, except I realized that I needed something more substantial.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay I use your computer?\u201d \u201cWhat is it?\u201d Nina asked. \u201cMaybe nothing.\u201d Nina and I left the table and moved to her office. I circled her desk, sat in her chair, activated her desktop computer, typed \u201cmncourts.gov,\u201d added a slash and the words \u201caccess-case-records\u201d and hit execute. After a few more key flourishes, I imputed the name \u201cKoski, Ross\u201d and I was presented with all the man\u2019s civil court cases. It took me only a minute to find what I was searching for.<\/p>\n

I recited aloud the fifteen digit case number followed by the case title \u2014\u201cEverTech Industries versus Koski Enterprises, Incorporated\u201d\u2014before adding the case type\u2014\u201cBreach of contract.\u201d \u201cDave\u2019s wife, Colette, is a bigwig at EverTech,\u201d Nina reminded me. \u201cYes, she is. Just a sec.\u201d The website was light on specifics. Fortunately, MinnPost, the online nonprofit news site, filled in the details. \u201cWhat happened,\u201d I told Nina, \u201cEverTech leased property from Koski to use as a testing area for its equipment.<\/p>\n

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OceanofPDF.com ONE The gunman was dressed as if he had just finished cleaning his garage and was now running a few errands before tidying up for dinner. He left his truck\u2014an eighteen-year-old Ford F-150\u2014in the driveway of the winery, the driver-side door open, and the engine running. His personal belongings were boxed up and sitting on the truck bed and the passenger seat. This would become a point of contention later.<\/p>\n

Certainly, he wasn\u2019t behaving like a mass shooter. Plus, there was the cheap burner phone he left on the dashboard. Its memory revealed that he had received only one text message. It read: Terrible Timmy\u2019s three P.M. I had arrived at Terrible Timmy\u2019s Terrific Wine Club an hour earlier along with a party that included my wife, Nina Truhler, Bobby Dunston and his wife, Shelby, and Bobby\u2019s parents, Patty and Gene Dunston.<\/p>\n

It was Patty\u2019s idea that we visit the winery. Apparently, it was one of her favorite places because she carried a \u201cpreferred guest\u201d card that the owner happily perforated with a heart-shaped hole. One more punch and Patty would be eligible for a free bottle of wine. Terrible Timmy\u2019s was located just off Highway 77 in northwestern Wisconsin near Danbury, population 172, that I later discovered was \u201can unincorporated census-designated place,\u201d whatever that meant. The winery was about thirty minutes from the home that Patty and Gene had built on the Minong Flowage, a 6.8-mile-long lake that was created when the state dammed the Totagatic River in 1937; the word \u201cMinong\u201d meaning \u201cBlueberry Place\u201d in the Ojibwe language.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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