Dakota Attempted Murder...

Read the article, and below here's the personal encounter my friends and I had with the attempted murderer, Ernest Coppage.

Last fall a friend of mine -- aka, "Two Katt" -- and fellow archaeologist lived in a basement apartment situated just down the stair-hallway of Ernest Coppage (the guy who attempted the murder). Coppage went by the name "E" and was wound a little -- at least the couple times that I met him.

Two Katt, my friend (he since returned to his home in the Twin Cities), was out in Colorado on assignment when "E" tried murdering his girlfriend. About a month before it all went down, Two Katt told E's girlfriend to "Get rid of this guy. Just go. E is bad news." E's girlfriend stuck around, though.

It was one of those cases where the girl, for some reason, felt she needed to stick with this sonofabitch. E originally hails from Chicago (he's lived in Bismarck for about 5 years). I think he's going to be in Dakota a bit longer than he initially anticipated.