… or at least in a final paragraph. From the P-I:

ABERDEEN, Wash. — A former union president who was serving a life sentence for murder has been found dead at Stafford Creek prison near Aberdeen.

A prison spokeswoman, Sheri Izatt, told The Aberdeen Daily World that 80-year-old Constantine Baruso was discovered about 6:30 a.m. Friday on the floor of his cell during an inmate count.

The spokeswoman says attempts to revive him failed and the death appears to be from natural causes.

Baruso once served as president of the Local 37 chapter of the Alaska Cannery Workers Union in Seattle. He was convicted of aggravated murder in 1991 for ordering the killing 10 years earlier of two fellow union officers. They opposed the regime of Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos who Baruso supported.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

3 replies on “The World in a Grain of Sand”

  3. R.I.P Grandpa.
    To those who have NO CLUE what actually happened and the accomplishments he had in his life…..save your comments for someone who cares. May you one day feel the pain his family feeling, and someone come along and disrespect their death….then you will understand.

    A. Best

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