Was it voodoo?

[emad]

That Old Black Magic
Did Patricia McIntosh's neighbors cast an evil spell on her twelve-year-old daughter?
By Kristen Hinman

The modest brick homes and landscaped lawns of Green Acres look like fine places to settle. Nestled within Bellefontaine Neighbors in north St. Louis County, the wooded subdivision is home to gays and straights, whites and blacks, executives and utility workers. Hardly seems the kind of neighborhood where police officers once paid almost daily visits.

The Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department has spent the past three years refereeing a freakish feud between the neighbors at numbers four and five on Green Acres Road. The trouble began with a dispute over a driveway, then snowballed into a bizarre free-for-all involving everything from name-calling to stalking to cross-burning.

The fight continues. And it gets stranger by the day.

"They've been arrested, they've been fined, they've been talked to," sighs Mayor Marty Rudloff. "We've done everything we can within the legal realm of discipline. You do your best, but some problems just don't go away. It ends up that somebody moves, or files a lawsuit."

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