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The Thank you. William Mellon knew the back roads west of St. Lucie, Florida, like the back of his hand.

He drove them every day, sometimes more than once, traveling between the Nolan knew the back roads west of St. Lucie, Florida, like the back of his hand.

He drove them every day, sometimes more than once, traveling between his home and the pizza shop he owned in Vero Beach.

Only five miles inland from the Atlantic, those roads cut through palmetto scrub and pine flatwoods,

offering a glimpse of what old Florida must have looked like before the highways and hotels took over the coast. Running alongside them was a patchwork of canals and drainage

ditches carved decades earlier, the only thing keeping the land from sliding back into the swamp.

It was just a cut through from my house to get the Viro,

so like a back road, stay away from traffic, that kind of stuff.

On the night of Thursday, August 23rd, 2018,

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