Please help me out...
I missed the flashback that explained why E.F. Bloodworth left for forty years.
shareHe killed the sheriff or some law enforcement officer. Remember the flashback where the guy's holding his wife and then...POW!...He shoots him so leaves town.
I don't know the story on why but it may have something to do with the still he ran and went to jail for previously.
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