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‘All these girls have terrible trauma’: Sex offender gets light sentence for 20-year-old crimes against minors

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Photo of Richard F. Wachter after his arrest in August 2018.

What does Woodstock Police Detective Dave Sharp remember most about investigating the crimes of child sex offender Richard F. Wachter? “The amount of human wreckage he left in his wake,” […]

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Larry Lough

Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
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Larry Lough

Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
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