Posted by From OregonLive.com:
We may never know why or exactly when Mike Zerwas went out to his backyard.
His neighbors can only guess that he went out to fill the bird feeders or to check on one of his two cats who live outside. Maybe he was going to do a little gardening.
But sometime between Thursday evening and late Saturday night, the earth opened beneath the 57-year-old private investigator’s feet and he fell into a 35-foot deep, water-filled, brick-lined pit.
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How does the word alone fit into this story? Did the man die because he was alone, or because he fell into the hole? Would he have survived if he had fallen in with another person?.