… really, I do. But take the help, Yonkers Police Department. I just read an interesting article in the New York Times about the Yonkers Police Department’s reluctance to let a writer see the case files for the 1952 murder of labor leader John Acropolis. I don’t want to downplay their concerns, but they can be […]

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From time to time I get email asking about volunteer cold case units, And I had a link to an article from a Daytona Beach online newspaper here, but the link no longer works. If you know of other volunteer efforts of the behalf of cold case, please let me know! Pictured here are Ron Conklin, […]

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I heard that repeatedly when I was writing my book. Now I’m reading in the Times that there’s going to be an indictment in the murder of police officer Ralph Dols.  Dols was shot on the corner of Avenue U and East 19th Street, in Sheepshead Bay, on August 25, 1997 (he died at Coney […]

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I know I post this every year, but I do love this photograph.  (Even with the sad elements.)  Don’t you wish you could be this Santa?

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