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

September 15, 2021

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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