'Pervert' Dies In Siege - Neighbors Recoiled At Nakedness (ACTUAL HEADLINE

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MCINTOSH - Sisters Melissa and Melinda Stalnaker grew up in this 100-year-old farming and ranching community next to a strange neighbor who lived alone behind a fortified black wall of tires.

When he ventured out of his trailer house, they saw him naked riding his bike. He also climbed on his roof, naked, spied on them through binoculars and took their pictures with a telephoto lens, they said.

The girls, now in their 20s, said his weird behavior once turned violent when he pulled a gun on their brother and tried to run over him with a car.

On Thursday morning, that neighbor, 59-year-old John Loche, started shooting when Torrance County officials tried to serve him with an eviction notice. He wounded two people.

Twelve hours later Loche was dead after an exchange of gunfire with police.

Thursday's events jolted this small Estancia Valley community 40 miles east of Albuquerque and 10 miles south of Moriarty on N.M. 41. But those who knew Loche best had predicted the worst.

"We always expected it would come to this," said neighbor Kathy Stalnaker, mother of Melissa and Melinda Stalnaker. "He drove us crazy."

At the nearby McIntosh Senior Center, Doris Johnson, a 78-year-old center volunteer, said, "We all called him 'The Pervert.' "

As the day wore on, Kathy Stalnaker expressed certainty he would not emerge from his trailer alive. "He won't give up," she said in an interview eight hours before Loche was killed.

http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/nw_local/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19858_3540676,00.html

[Zuni]

1. "We always knew it would come to this..."

Usually they say "he was so quiet". These people knew he was a maniac for years and would kill people
crazy

[livinginphotographs]

2. He was so quiet.

Naked, but quiet.

[billyskank]

7. LOL!

[WoodrowFan]

3. Top Ten Signs Your Neighbor Is A Serial Killer

Top Ten Signs Your Neighbor Is A Serial Killer

10) Overheard muttering to himself: "Damn lying squirrels!"
9) Wonders if his front lawn landscaping would impress Jodie Foster

8) Flashing neon sign on his roof reads DRIFTERS WELCOME

7) Since he moved to town, the paper's obituary section has expanded to four pages

6) Often selling Domino's Pizza uniforms at yard sales

5) Always says, "Let's see what else is on" whenever "America's Most Wanted" starts

4) You feel perfectly happy after killing one person, but he insists on killing more

3) Claims to be engaged to Madonna

2) Two words: swastika pajamas

And the number one way to tell if your neighbor is a serial killer:

1) Thinks he's the Vern that the "Hey, Vern" guy is talking to

[Zuni]

4. "Damn Lying squirrels"

that happens to be something I say all the time....:crazy:

[WoodrowFan]

6. it's the damn chipmunks

that you REALLY gotta watch. little rats with racing stripes.

[underpants]

8. "Die Squirrel Die"

Scratched into the cement on a sidewalk a few blocks from my house.

That list is hilarious.

[Pawel K]

5. I live in ABQ

this is kind of sad.

[WI_DEM]

9. pervert, we hardly knew ye.

It's a shame it had to come down to a man losing his life.