It’s an oxymoron. Although homicides and robberies sky-rocketed this past summer in Newark, Mayor Gory Booker says his highly touted anti-crime Safe Summer Initiative made this the safest summer in more than a decade for the residents in the city. In an interview with the Amsterdam News, Booker said he is committed to reducing the [...]
Robert Pinkerton knew a good detective when he saw one, and in his opinion Isaiah Lees was the best of the breed in 19th-century San Francisco. With unprecedented police work, Lees put a lid on crime in one of America’s wildest cities of the time. If Sherlock Holmes had existed he might have taken lessons [...]
By Garrett Peck Dead Cat dead. Go to hell, but bounce back to earth. Gerard Houarner’s deceased feline finds a new home with a nice old lady, but her grandson is an advertising executive who wants to use Dead Cat in a new campaign for Cat Cuisine cat food. This is a riff on Art [...]
By James D.F. Samdavid1 Frank Schmidt, one of my customers, was in for service on his Audi and we were standing next to the service desk just talking in general. “Yeah my son, John, has got one hell of a business. He has trucks running day and night all over the United States.” Frank was [...]
By Edward w Saint-Ivan They were brother and sister but one envied the other. He was a straight A student but she was really beautiful. He made the dean’s list but she made Hooter’s calendar. He devoted his every breath to becoming a pathologist. He went to the combined BA/MD program at Albany Medical College [...]
By Paul Francis Mc Cann Banana boats are a regular site around the tropic waters and like many other days a banana boat cut its way in and out of the passages through the coral reef . The captain navigated the boat with a great understanding of the area . The captain explored the blue [...]
A venerable cold-case squad probes a convicted murderer’s claim to 48 victims. Former FBI and CIA agent Charlie Hess hadn’t expected to spend his golden years chasing killers. He was happily retired from crime fighting, living his dream of “a Robinson Crusoe existence” with his wife in a thatch-roof home in Baja, Mexico. But that [...]