I went to RMA with Russ and was in the peer group above his. I remember Christine too.
Russ was a "look good" and the fact he became staff at CEDU or RMA does not surprise me.
Definately a bully, he used his physical size to intimidate students regularly, always had just the right things to say, and did admit in raps and propheets that he did some rather cruel things before arriving at the school.
Most of the time he hung out with the look-good crowd, made friends with the right staff members, so it is no stretch that the guy managed to land a staff position after we all graduated in 1986.
In fact, he was in a peer group that should did not graduate with ours, but Russ and another girl managed to weasle their way through the program, making all the right connections, and were absorbed into my peer group (I call it mine because I was the first student in it...) and left their peers behind.
It amazed me that someone as cruel as he was never once got into trouble. He would break every agreement, cop to it and slip away clean. Very slick. As to whether he set a man on fire and murdered him...? I do recall hearing that in both a rap and a propheet. But then again, the man lied well.
