Archive for February 2019
Gun Owners Have Rights – and Responsibilities
Guess how many stolen guns are out there floating around America? (Hint: its in the millions!) These are guns that most frequently make their way to the criminal element and are used with impunity because the shooter knows it will be difficult to tie to them to the weapon. Imagine the trouble this causes law…
Read MoreHis Name Was Bobby
Now we have a name. After two agonizing decades, the ‘Boy Under the Billboard’ case I wrote about last year has finally been solved. But in determining the identity of the strangled 10-year-old boy, abandoned under a highway billboard, sheriff’s detectives also unraveled a dark family mystery. His name was Robert “Bobby” Whitt, a boy…
Read MoreTime to Retire the Perp Walk
Let’s talk about a police practice known as the perp walk. It’s the walk of shame for a suspected perpetrator of a crime, usually in a case that’s top of the headlines or soon will be. As police move the handcuffed prisoner from place to place both the public and the media are allowed to be…
Read MoreHow Many More Might Accuse Michael Jackson?
The landscape has now changed on a story I first began reporting some two decades ago and newly released details demand an update to the sad saga. Two men have come forward to discuss, in graphic detail, what they say was their years-long sexual abuse at the hands of entertainer Michael Jackson. Their claims spill…
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