EXCLUSIVE Insane secret hiding spot where senator 'assassin' lurked is revealed... as hero who took him down speaks out
Boelter, 57, ducked down and slid into the tiny pipe after Wendy Thomas saw him crossing a field a mile from his home in Green Isle, Minnesota.
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