They say there’s honor among thieves. That may or not be so. But Walker Hammond and Michael Colleran learned the hard way that there are outlaw rules one just doesn’t break. Let’s go back to the mid-19th century in southern Indiana. A family named Reno lived on a medium-sized farm in northern Jackson County—but they were looking to move up in the world.  They started off by torching the nearby town of Rockford twice in the 1850s. And when the townsfolk all moved out, the Renos bought


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