"Alarming intelligence and intense excitement": first murders in the Pike's Peak country
"Most horrible and fiendish murders": the bleeding of South Park begins
"There has been considerable excitement": the First Colorado Cavalry steps in
"The people are scared nearly to death here": the murderers strike at the vitals of South Park
"Fallen into the hands of hard men in an evil hour": the lynching of Baxter
"Glorious news! The mysterious murders unraveled at last": one of the slayers slain
"Desperate and lawless bravos": the brothers Espinosa
"Revenge for the infamies committed against our families": serial murder as vendetta
"Malicious interference was the cause": the scapegoating of Captain E. Wayne Eaton
"Times have become quiet again": panic recedes in South Park but murder moves elsewhere
"Ready for any duty, untiring, and full of energy": Samuel F. Tappan takes up the hunt for the Espinosas
"If this woman is found dead, tell the people the Espinosas of the conejos killed her": the attack on Philbrook and Dolores Sønches
"I drew his head back over a fallen tree and cut it off": Tom Tobin ends the terror
"The brightest success rewarded them for their toils": Tobin brings in the heads
"Who is there to gather the history of this wretch?": the Espinosas remembered
"Times with me have sadly changed": destinies.