Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey

Ruby Elliot (Childhood Neighbor) remains active in family, church, and community life.

Reverend Curtis Dean Fields (Minister, Middleton Christian Fellowship) altered Communion practices after an outbreak of rabies was traced to a chalice of grape juice shared by his six-hundred-member congregation.

Denise Gardner (Real Estate Agent) was named a Millionaire-Bonus-Plus Seller in the regional midlevel single-family-home market.

Sean Gardner (Contractor), with his wife, operates the GothStop telephone hotline, an intervention-and-treatment program for parents of adolescent children trapped in the goth lifestyle.

Ina Gebert, M.A. (Theologist) is an asset at any party.

Mary Cane Harvey (Teacher) dreams of her upcoming retirement to "any place but Middleton."

Glenda Hendersen (Childhood Neighbor) remains active in family, church, and community life.

Silas Hendersen (Childhood Friend) remains active in family, church, and community life.

Brenda Jordan (Childhood Friend) remains active in family, church, and community life.

Leif Jordan (Childhood Friend) remains active in family, church, and community life.

Allfred Lynch (Exterminator) remains isolated in government infectious-disease quarantine for an indefinite period.

Canada Mercer (Software Engineer) recently celebrated the first birthday of his Irish setter, Lulu.

Sarah Mercer (Marketing Director) expects to give birth to her first child in September of this year.

Jayne Merris (Musician) continues to perform live punk rock as her accounting career allows.

Officer Romie Mills (Homicide Detective) was recently promoted to chief administrator of the federal Rabies Containment Program, overseeing the apprehension and quarantine of any and all infected individuals.

Jarrell Moore (Private Investigator) remains isolated in government infectious-disease quarantine for an indefinite period.

Neddy Nelson (Party Crasher) was last seen riding as a passenger in the car in which Chester Casey disappeared.

Galton Nye (City Councilman) successful lobbied for a program to keep quarantined rabies suspects confined until the current public-health threat is resolved.

Danny Perry (Childhood Friend) remains active in family, church, and community life.

Edna Perry (Childhood Neighbor) remains active in family, church, and community life.

LouAnn Perry (Childhood Friend) remains active in family, church, and community life.

Polk Perry (Childhood Neighbor) remains active in family, church, and community life.

Jeff Pleat (Human Resources Director) now works as a successful swimwear model.

Symon Praeger (Painter) continues to paint portraits as his law practice allows.

Hartley Reed (Proprietor of the Trackside Grocery) pleaded innocent to charges of reckless endangerment after witnesses testified to seeing him lick apples later offered for sale to the public.

Pattie Reynolds (Bartender) continues to tend bar as her drug habit allows.

Lowell Richards (Teacher) recently celebrated six months of continuous sobriety.

Livia Rochelle (Teacher) recently celebrated six weeks of continuous sobriety.

Todd Rutz (Coin Dealer) retired to a private island in the Mediterranean.

Dr. David Schmidt (Middleton Physician) closed his medical practice in order to accept the position of regional quarantine warden, under the Emergency Health Powers Act.

Dr. Erin Shea, Ph.D. (Theologist) remains isolated in government infectious-disease quarantine for an indefinite period.

Green Taylor Simms (Historian) continues to be a Person of Interest sought by the police in connection with the disappearance of Buster L. Casey.

Tina Something (Party Crasher) was last seen entering a Dodge Viper which later crashed, exploding, against the side of a freight train. Emergency responders found no one, alive or dead, at the scene.

Edith Steele (Human Resources Director) remains isolated in government infectious-disease quarantine for an indefinite period.