{"id":997,"date":"2018-07-05T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=997"},"modified":"2018-07-05T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:06:33","slug":"meet-parents-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/meet-parents-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder on Knik River Rd: Meet the Parents, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Given that both the suspects and their victim were in their teens, it is difficult to overlook their parents, if only because some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/alaska-news\/crime-courts\/2016\/12\/08\/family-friend-of-slain-palmer-teen-suggests-parents-should-be-liable-for-crimes-of-children\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supporters pointed fingers<\/a> at the suspects\u2019 parents. That means we should look at everyone. This time, we meet the suspects&#8217; families.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet The Almandinger&#8217;s<\/strong><br \/>\nIn his early teens, Erick Almandinger entered cookies in the Alaska State Fair in Palmer. Now he stands convicted of murder. Clearly, he lost the through-thread of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney Almandinger, his father, testified in court that his son wasn\u2019t going to school regularly that fall of 2016, and had been living at drug houses over the summer. Erick appeared to come and go as he pleased. The Sunday night that Grunwald went missing &#8212; a school night &#8212; Erick Almandinger told troopers he was at a party in Anchorage. His father testified he wasn\u2019t worried when he looked in Erick\u2019s room at 1:00 in the morning and his son wasn\u2019t home. &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/meet-parents-part-ii\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MORE>>><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/images\/rodney-almendinger.png\" alt=\"Meet\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Rodney Almandinger<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that both the suspects and their victim were in their teens, it is difficult to overlook their parents, if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Murder on Knik River Rd: Meet the Parents, Part II - Leland E. 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