4/13/2023 0 Comments Diamond red deer call of the wild![]() In springtime, the hills of Rock Creek Park are alive with these renovated dens. After mating, pairs move in together to raise kits, usually by expanding a burrow abandoned by a woodchuck or skunk. The cold months are cuffing season for foxes. That it was early May indicates that the fox was likely a new father, a detail that has gone unmentioned in published accounts of his crime. ![]() He pressed his paws into exposed soil, indenting it with diamond-shaped prints that grew farther apart as he accelerated into a trot. At the woodland’s edge, he could see the glow of Washington, D.C. With exquisite night vision, the fox surveyed the contours of the park’s forests and the curves in its stream. ![]() R ock Creek Park was still dark when the killer emerged from his den, a flame-colored phantom on black-stocking legs. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. ![]()
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