Small town, everyone knows everyone, people know what happened to some degree, I wouldn't believe it for a second that the town's people don't know. And people are going to keep their mouths closed because of fear. That night, people were all abuzz about what happened, that's what it is like in a small town, and can't imagine it would be different there. But to have such a horrific crime, being done to a girl who by all appearances people liked, now that isn't something that happens too often in a small town, thankfully. That gas station, and that guy that supposedly owns and runs it, bad, bad, feelings I get from him.