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Monster Slayer
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The true story of a serial killers four-year rampage in the deserts of New Mexico from the New York Timesbestselling author of Shattered Innocence.
For four years a murderous fiend spread terror throughout the deserts of Shiprock, New Mexico. The nightmare began on Thanksgiving 1996, when two young men were stabbed and slashed to death in an alleged attempt to cover up a robbery. Next, a woman was subjected to a grotesque sexual assaultbut somehow managed to escape with her life. Donald Tsosie wasnt so lucky. After leaving a local watering hole, he was savagely bludgeoned, stabbed, and left to die. On June 9, 2000, Betty Lee was stabbed and then slain with a sledgehammer after being stripped of her clothing.
Justice finally arrived in the form of county detectives Bob Melton and Tyler Truby, whose investigation zeroed in on hulking, hate-ridden Robert Bobby Fry, a misfit with a taste for brutality. Aided by Navajo trackers, authorities conducted a sleepless two-and-a-half-day manhunt to bag the killer before the trail went cold. Then, like the Hero Twins of local legend, they brought a monsters murderous rampage to an end.
Includes 16 pages of shocking photos!
Intriguing. Tony Hillerman

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank many people who helped me in the preparation of this book, including Debra Mayeux, Joline Gutierrez Kruger, M. B. Libbey, J. Quattrin and F. Zolfo. Special thanks go to Sheriff Bob Melton, Detective Tyler Truby and all the clerks at the San Juan District Court. Once again, Id like to thank my wonderful literary agent, Damaris Rowland, and editor Michaela Hamilton.

A Note About Terms

In the Four Corners Region, where this book takes place, the terms Native American and Indian are often used interchangeably by the locals. The term Anglo is used for anyone of European origin who is not of Hispanic ethnicity. I have used these terms in the book much as a person living in the region would.

Epilogue

Black God to the People:

The ghost of Big-Monster-who-wanders-alone planned to become chief.... For these reasons I am entrusting to you that which I contribute to the ritual of the War Ceremony, so that it may be a means of defense and hope for you for the future.

In the spring of 2004, a Navajo ceremonial dancer in full regalia performed an Enemy Way dance in central New Mexico. To the north of him was Dibntsaa, Sacred Mountain of the North, below him the Rio Grande. In the distance a hawk soared majestically in a turquoise sky. As he danced, he demonstrated how the Navajo took strength from the stories of the Hero Twins as they confronted good and evila recitation of how to ward off the deadly intrigues of enemies. By chanting and dancing and reciting the right prayers, he displayed how evil could be overcome and justice prevail.

Many miles away, in Albuquerque, defense lawyers and prosecutors geared up once more for the presence of Robert Fry. The last stage of the drama that had begun in the occult-strewn halls of The Eclectic on Thanksgiving 1996 was about to unfold. As of this writing, Robert Frys trial for his part in The Eclectic Murders is scheduled for the fall of 2004. But like everything else concerning him and his murderous days, nothing is carved in stone.

Many miles to the north of the Navajo dancer, Robert Frys family waited with a mixture of hope and dread for the upcoming trial. And across town, near the San Juan River, Jeff and Christina Trecker waited with the same feelings of hope and dread. In a sense many things had come full circle. It was now thirty years since three Farmington boys had killed and mutilated three Navajo men in Chokecherry Canyon. As Farmingtons mayor during 1974 said in April 2004, I think there are lessons to be learned from any event, good or bad, and we would be fools not to learn from what happened and move forward from there.

Sheriff Bob Melton agreed, saying, When I first came to law enforcement, cultural awareness or diversity training was nonexistent. Today its just part of not only basic training for new recruits, but part of our ongoing training.

For many Navajos of the region, the events of the Chokecherry Massacre still cast a long shadow. As Vern Lee, a Navajo from Kirtland, told Laura Banish of the Farmington Daily Times, I held a lot of anger toward white people because of what happened. Then he admitted, The Navajos are also a racist people. One of the words we use describes whites as anai, which means enemy.

In its own odd way, the trials of Robert Fry for the murders of Betty Lee and Donald Tsosie helped the healing process concerning the Chokecherry Massacre. A Navajo woman named Pauline told a reporter for the Farmington Daily Times, I think the Navajos were really upset when the three boys were not brought to justice. With Fry, I think the court did something about it this time. Law enforcement did a better job of bringing him to trial and not just sweeping it under the rug.

When Sheriff Bob Melton and Detective Tyler Truby finally enter the federal courthouse in Albuquerque for the Robert Fry/Eclectic trial, if they look out the windows to the west, they could possibly visualize over the horizon the outline of thirteen-thousand-foot Mount TaylorTsodzilthe Sacred Mountain of the South. For the Navajos, it is fastened to the earth by a great stone knife. Its symbolic colors are the blue sky and blue horizon light of dusk. At its base the Hero Twins deposited the heads of monsters, as a warning to evildoers. And it was here that Turkey Buzzard promised the Hero Twins, Wherever monsters are killed and decay, I will be present as a scavenger. My evil attitude will become one of responsibility. I will help mankind.

No matter what happens to Robert Fry at The Eclectic trial, he will die in prison either by lethal injection or as an old man. His only moments of happiness may be the small things he mentioned, such as a bag of potato chips and a glimpse of the sky when he is let outside, one hour a day. Perhaps when Robert Frys last trial is over, those who died and the family members who survived their deaths can reach that synthesis of Anglo and Navajo serenityclosure, hozro, harmony.

For the victimsJoseph Fleming, Matthew Trecker, Donald Tsosie and Betty Leetheir spirits may, as Irvin Morris wrote in his story The Blood Stone, be rising on a sunbeam, traveling on a rainbow.

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Rock with Wings known as Tsi Bit Ai to the Navajos is the site where - photo 2

Rock with Wings, known as Tsi Bit Ai to the Navajos, is the site where legendary Monster Slayer killed Cliff Monster. Victim Betty Lee lived nearby. (Authors photo)

A Native American dancer recounts the stories of Monster Slayer and the Enemy - photo 3

A Native American dancer recounts the stories of Monster Slayer and the Enemy Way during a ceremony in New Mexico.

(Authors photo)

Robert (Bobby) Fry played violent fantasy games and invented bloody tales.

(Photo courtesy of San Juan County Justice Center)

Bobby Fry and his friends hung out in this coffee shop in Farmington New - photo 5

Bobby Fry and his friends hung out in this coffee shop in Farmington, New Mexico. (Authors photo)

Fry and his friends played vampire games in this park along the Animas Spirit - photo 6

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