Hearsay and Corroboration
A perusal of the almost fifty thousand words in my unfinished narrative of the Stacey Burns murder case, Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns shows repeated use of the word, corroboration. In many instances, it is linked to another word, hearsay....Saturday, May 9, 2009
Here are the first two paragraphs on page 11 of Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns. Since I’ve been told (way too often) that the investigation into Stacey’s murder is active and ongoing and any steps I might take to uncover anything...Oasis Journal
I’m happy to announce that two of my short pieces were selected to be published in the Oasis Journal-2017, which was just released. One of my Green Valley Writers Forum colleagues, Bonnie Papenfuss, also had a very touching and poignant poem included in this 560...Relections of Trust
Our pastor this morning used the phrase “failure to trust” as a lynchpin in his sermon. I started thinking about how much my trust in so many things has eroded. His reference, of course, was to the trust we have or do not have in God. My thought drifted to...A Timeline
I throw this open for discussion-How long does one wait for justice to be done? By the time the tenth anniversary of the murder of Stacey Burns rolls around (May 10, 2019) I’ll be 79 years old. My friends and some family are telling me it is time to give up my...April, 2011-85 %
In April, 2011, I was told that the NHSP investigators in the Stacey Burns murder case (or at least one them) felt they had an eight-five percent chance of conviction in the case with a particular suspect (unnamed) at that time. It is six and half years since that...A Prelude to Murder (cont.)
These two paragraphs complete page one of the first chapter of Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns. Stacey Burns could not have anticipated how the details of this last weekend of her life would be scrutinized through so many avenues, from police...Murder in a Smalll Town . . .
As promised in the previous post, I will occasionally be sharing small segments of my unfinished and unpublished book, Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns. As everyone is aware, this book will never be finished because the...Ouch! A Response
“In an open case, such as Stacey Ann Keane Burns, specific investigative steps that have been taken or have not been taken are not open for discussion. That includes who may have been interviewed or have not been interviewed.” The above statement came in...
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