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Back in May 1989, one of those mornings at Portland Harbor stopped being peaceful. A fisherman spotted something near the pier. At first, he thought it was a tarp. Then, it rolled. The color of skin in cold water is something you never forget. The body was a teenage girl. Jessica Briggs. Sixteen.

Ronald L. Bell has had a successful legal career, from being the editor of the John Marshall Law Review as a law student to arguing before former Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist.

HIG Capital has entered Italy's self-storage sector with the acquisition of five facilities in Milan and Rome, expanding its European real estate footprint into a third country.