If Only!

Stacey Burn’s voice as a victim and solving the issue of guns and mass murders: these two items were mentioned in my last post. If only there were simple answers to both but apparently some clarification of that post is needed so here it is. First, we’ll...

Blaming The Victim-Stacey and Charleston

Here is a great line from John Sanford’s novel, Broken Prey. ” Dead people don’t have any political clout,” says Lucas Davenport. I thought about Stacey Burns when I first read that line and thought about it again when I heard Charles...

Stacey and the True Crime Neophyte- A Report

On Saturday, I presented my “Adventures of a True Crime Neophyte” to the Arizona Mystery Writers in Tucson. It was great being the same room with so many gifted and talented writers. The last time I presented this program to a group of writers was in July,...

Six years ago today . . .

Six years ago today, Stacey Burns was likely thinking about a Mothers’ Day weekend without her three youngest children. According to interviews I’ve conducted with friends and acquaintances, Stacey’s ex-husband (or soon-to-be-officially) Ed insisted...

Is Fifteen Years Too Long To Wait?

This murder case will either give some of you hope that the murderer of Stacey Burns will eventually be caught or it will be discouraging because of the length of time involved in making an arrest. Here’s a synopsis of the story which just broke out here in...