Talented Detective?

Lisa Gardner, one of my favorite crime storytellers, has this line in her short novel, The Fourth Man. “It’s amazing what you can discover, even in a cold case, with a talented detective.” It is a quote about the redoubtable detective, D.D. Warren....

“Waiting for him to crack”

In a follow-up story to an original article about my attempts to write a book  about the Stacey Burns murder in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire in 2009, the editor of the Green Valley News says this. “Southard and I have shared theories on the murder, especially after...

Revisiting Frustrations

What fun it is to read through past blog posts I’ve written on the Stacey Burns murder case. I ran across one from October, 2013 which listed some of my frustrations with the case. This entry was inspired by a question I was asked at a program I presented in New...

Another Repost re: The Murder of Stacey Burns

Here is a part of another post from January, 2013, about thirty months after I started working on Murder in A Small Town. It seems as pertinent today as it did then, if not more so. “Recently, I was rereading an Ann Rule book of true crime cases (A Rage to Kill)...

A Look Back . . .

Here is a suggestion for those who follow this blog because of its heavy concentration on the Stacey Burns murder case. There are five hundred and sixty-two posts since I began this blog. Most of them dealing with the Stacey Burns murder have comments from readers as...

Apologies!

A few apologies are in order here: Sorry that a Father’s Day trip to Indy threw my posting schedule off by about a week. Will try to do better in the future. Sorry that another month had passed since the anniversary of Stacey’s murder with no apparent...