Nov 21, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town
As promised in a previous blog, I am occasionally including small portions of Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns, which is a book waiting for the arrest/trial/conviction chapters to be written. Here is the beginning of Chapter Six. This was...
Nov 14, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town
Back to my “murder” book, I am struck by how many times I mention that this event or that conversation occurred two, or three, or more years before. Usually the reason this is mentioned is simply because the passage of time colors our perception of events....
Nov 2, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town
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....
Oct 28, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town
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...
Oct 16, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town
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...
Oct 11, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town
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...