Shocked by Bob's decision, Dianne refuses to join him.īob moves into a long-stay motel in Portland and gets a low-level manufacturing job. Before burying Nadine in a forest, Bob tells Dianne that he is going to get clean and begin a 21-day methadone treatment program. Bob, suffering tremendous anxiety and stress-induced visions of handcuffs and prison, sneaks the body out of the motel in a garment bag.
After temporarily storing Nadine's body in the motel's attic, they are alerted by the motel manager that their room was previously booked for a sheriffs' convention and they must check out. According to Bob, she has also put "the worst of all hexes" on them by leaving a hat on her bed. Declaring that, "when you're hot, you're hot," Bob convinces Dianne that he should rob a hospital.ĭuring the robbery, Bob is almost captured and the group returns to their motel to find Nadine has fatally overdosed on a stolen bottle of Dilaudid. They find their haul includes vials of pure powdered Dilaudid worth thousands of dollars each. Believing a hex has been brought upon them, the group goes "crossroading" and robs a drugstore via an open transom. The next day, a furious Gentry assaults Bob.
Bob proceeds to devise an elaborate ruse which results in one of the policemen, Trousinski, being mistaken for a peeper by a neighbor who shoots and injures him. Later, police officers led by Detective Gentry, who correctly assumes the group is responsible for the pharmacy robbery, raid and wreck their apartment in an unsuccessful search for the stolen drugs, which Dianne has buried outside.Īfter moving to another apartment, Bob realizes that Gentry has the group under surveillance.
Initially reluctant, David is persuaded to trade and leaves. Bob claims they have none but offers to trade him morphine for speed. In 1971, 26-year-old Bob Hughes leads a nomadic group of drug addicts-his wife Dianne, his best friend Rick, and Rick's teenage girlfriend Nadine-who travel across the Pacific Northwest robbing pharmacies and hospitals to support their habits.Īfter stealing from a Portland, Oregon, pharmacy, they drive home to get high, and are visited by David, a local low-life seeking hard-to-find Dilaudid.