Archive for January 2019
Advances in DNA – A Detective’s Best Friend
Raymond “DJ Freez” Rowe got away with murder for more than two decades. As a popular fixture on the party scene in and around Lancaster, Pennsylvania he was “the” man to call for music at high school dances, restaurants, clubs and weddings. He was the last person his fans would have suspected in the brutal…
Read MoreThe U.S. Immigration System Helps Child Abusers
We talk a lot about sexual abuse and harassment here in the United States. We are a country with a heightened sense of what’s right and wrong when it comes to sex crimes. We are also a nation that preaches to others around the globe about the evils of forced marriage and marriages involving children.…
Read MoreA Border Wall for $55 (Each)
All this recent talk about walls got me thinking. History books are full of examples of the need for and the laborious building of walls around cities, countries and various structures. The Wall of Jericho was built thousands of years before Christ and kept the city’s population safe. For a while anyway. The City of…
Read MorePlacing the Blame for Suicide
If 2019 stays on trend more than 47-thousand Americans will kill themselves this year. Their loved ones will, understandably, be consumed with grief over the suicide. But some of them will then go on to try to affix outside blame for the death. Many of them will hire a lawyer and file a wrongful death…
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