Intense effort?

I will repeat here my answer to one correspondent who asked about the duffle bag found in the yard of a neighbor of Stacey Burns quite a while back. “Much like everything else in this case, there is no clear explanation nor description of the duffle bag other...

What’s fair is fair. . .

One of my correspondents asked me to release the name of a woman named to me in interviews as a possible suspect in the Stacey Burns murder case. After all, Jim Vittum’s name, along with others, has been bandied about in this blog so what’s fair is fair....

Active investigation? (Again)

In August, while in Wolfeboro for a book signing, I interviewed two people about the Stacey Burns case. In both instances, a woman was mentioned as a possible suspect in Stacey’s murder.  In one case, the actual name was given to me. In the other, the name was...

Truth is not enough!

In a reader’s guide to her outstanding book, Twain’s End, novelist Lynn Cullen makes this interesting observation. “. . .when spoken with conviction, falsehoods and accusations carry the same weight as truths. Whoever speaks the most loudly is...

Quitting? I Hope Not!

To the readers of this blog, now 425 posts into it: You tell me. When is it time to face the fact that you are not making any difference in the Stacey Burns murder case? Please don’t interpret the following as a “poor me” complaint but facts are...

Interesting Law Enforcement Quotes

Yesterday, I went through hundreds of pages of notes, e-mails, transcripts of recorded interviews, and newspaper articles related to my work on Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns. My first notes begin in mid-2010 and continue right up to the...