Bobo Trufant walked out of our precinct humming Abba’s “Mama Mia” after he’d fed the…
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I realized, turning the corner and finding the boys laughing around the fire barrel, that…
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Riding along with Homicide Detective Hendricks to take crowd photos for Narco, he starts sneezing…
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Dwayne looks very at peace for a seventeen-year-old cuffed to a table, a murder charge…
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Toad’s eyes were as dark and blank as the six bullet holes behind him, looking…
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I’m cruising, drinking an Orange Julius-with-egg, thinking of My Little Pony, when the Crown Vic’s…
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“You better arrest him right now for stealing my house, Detective Jurgis.” Cap Warner’s arthritic…
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When Fifth District Homicide popped Dobie Stallworth on murder one, we just about threw a…
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I sat Raymond down behind the Bywater hospital dumpsters, out of sight of the street,…
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Kimmie C loved what she did. A glance at me rolling up in the cruiser…
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I heard Lou Murray beat his girlfriend blind on Thursday and I spent the next…
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Frankie Lewis wasn’t the strangest corpse I’d ever seen. Only in the top 10. Frankie…
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