Sep 7, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
Here’s a conundrum: Does a killer kill because he/she is mentally ill or is that killer an evil person? Do you believe in evil? Was the killer in Sandy Hook evil? Was the Aurora killer evil? My favorite inspector asks this question in Jo Nesbo’s book,...
Aug 30, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
“Murder in a Small Town” is the title of a program I presented to our Men’s Breakfast group at Desert Hills Lutheran Church last Thursday. Obviously, the subject was the work I’ve done on the book about the Stacey Burns murder case. There were...
Aug 27, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
One of my regular readers takes me to task for dragging my feet on publishing what I have written on the Stacey Burns murder book. Her argument is sound. I asked for opinions and received many differing ones, as I expected. She and others suggested that publication...
Aug 19, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
William Shakespeare in Macbeth provides us with this pessimistic view of life. “It is a tale told by an idiot,” Macbeth says, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Most of us will not identify with this viewpoint. We’d prefer to...
Aug 8, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
Murder as an extreme act-one of my favorite fictional characters is Inspector Harry Hole (pronounced Holy) in the series by Jo Nesbo. He’s been mentioned in this blog once before. He is always on target with his observations as so many fictional characters are....
Aug 4, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
The murder of Stacey Burns may be solved but then again, may never be solved. This observation comes from (using the journalistic cliché) “an informed source very close to the investigation.” The point of this post is to open a discussion about the...