Welcome! I’m Duke Southard, an author, retired educator, and lecturer.
I have published seven novels, a commissioned history, and an anthology of
award-winning short stories and essays.
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Recent Posts
Happy New Year!
To all the followers of this blog: I wish everyone a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year! May you all find peace and happiness in the years ahead. May this be the year that Stacey Burns, Bobbie Miller, and all other victims of unsolved murders finally can rest in...
Bobbie MIller-A Good Question!
I was recently asked via this blog what I thought of the Roberta Miller murder, yet another unsolved case in the HUGE state of New Hampshire. my answer was as follows: I know very little about the Bobbie Miller murder, other than my wife worked with her, really liked...
Chastised
A comment to my last post about lost followers took me to task in a not so subtle way. "You left and said you were done" was the answer to why I had lost followers on this blog. The person who commented is correct. In late April, I wrote that as of May 10, 2019, the...
Lost Followers
The lack of response to the last few Stacey Burns/Bobbie Miller posts on this blog has left me a bit puzzled. I wonder which of the following conclusions might be drawn from this phenomenon. A period of infrequent postings due to a variety of reasons have led...
A Broken Record re: Stacey Burns?
How could I use an ancient technology like the old vinyl records? What was a broken record, anyway? It was one that contained at least one scratch which would cause the phonograph needle to skip back and replay a portion of the song over and over. If one were to look...
Stacey and Bobbie- Ever Solved?
I guess I have one immediate question for anyone who might be interested. Do you honestly believe the murders of Bobbie Miller and Stacey Burns will ever be solved? And a follow-up question . . .Will they be one of those that twenty or thirty years down the road,...
A Stacey Burns Paragraph per Post?
A professional writer on a blog where I have a regular posting every Tuesday (you can find it at http://Prowriterswriting.com) is if the opinion that I should publish everything I've written about the Stacey Burns murder thus far, even though there had not been an...
I’m Back
This will be brief. After a long time, my glitches with this blog and various other delays that resulted in not posting for quite a while are solved. In the next post I'll be addressing the progress or lack thereof in the Stacey Burns murder case along with some...
Nothing New, Right?
Since my new novel ( a work in progress) has a fledgling writer who is trying to write a true crime book as its protagonist, I thought I'd reprise a post from this blog published just about a month ago. This is it. The last I heard re: the Stacey Burns murder...
What A Trip!
Recently back from a great trip-drove over 6600 miles round trip to a great family vacation/celebration of our upcoming (September) 60th wedding anniversary in Deep Creek, Maryland and visits to friends in New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Barb's brother in Connecticut....
How’s that investigation going?
I haven't posted since the end of May on this blog. I post regularly on a writers' blog (http://prowriterswriting.com) if anyone is interested. My post appears every Tuesday. The last I heard re: the Stacey Burns murder investigation was that a NHSP detective had been...
Been a while . . .
It's been a while since I've posted on this blog so I should catch you all up to date. First, as any regular reader knows, the category of Murder in a Small Town is active but nothing new from my point of view will be posted there unless something new happens in the...