PM: Paradis, Rhoades ‘Best Friends’

In this 2001 AP file photo, an emotional Donald Manuel Paradis is led by his lawyer Bill Mauk, left, out of the Kootenai County courthouse where a judge accepted a guilty plea to a lesser charge and set Paradis free. Paradis, once condemned to die for the 1980 murder of Kimberly Palmer, said he was best friends with Paul Ezra Rhoades and lamented Rhoades’ execution today. Story here. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley)

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