PUMPKIN BUTTES

​Consider the notion that three true crimes converge in the Pumpkin Buttes region of Wyoming. One true crime involves three men who escape prison. Another involves two men recently charged with the illegal export of uranium from the United States to Russia. The third true crime involves the extraction of rare earth elements that are critical to technological advances in radar, cellular, and magnetic devices. When these merge into one crime in the Pumpkin Buttes, Mary MacIntosh and Sheriff Burges