Category Archives: Interviews

Q&A With Steve Thomas: May 9, 2000

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Bill Bickel

Steve Thomas, one of the lead detectives in the JonBenet Ramsey case before resigning in 1998 (and author of JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation), joined us for a Q&A session on May 9, 2000. Mr. Thomas made headlines in the summer of 1998 when he resigned from his job, … Continue reading →

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Q&A With Steve Thomas: November 14, 2000

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Bill Bickel

Steve Thomas, one of the lead detectives in the JonBenet Ramsey case before resigning in 1998 (and author of JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation), joined us for a Q&A session on November 14, 2000 (the transcript of an earlier Q&A session is here). Mr. Thomas made headlines in the … Continue reading →

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Violence on College Campuses

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Bill Bickel

George Huguely V has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for the 2010 murder Yeardley Love At the time of the murder they were both students at the University of Virginia, and the case brought attention to violence on college campuses and how effectively campus security deals with it.

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You Can Get Arrested For That: 2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Bill Bickel

I recently came across one of the sillier interviews I’ve done for CJA… -Bill I’d interviewed some shady characters in the past – but never somebody willing to travel thousands of miles just for the sake of committing crimes. Then I came across Rich Smith, a journalism student from the … Continue reading →

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Interview with Presidential Candidate Fred Karger

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Bill Bickel

Fred Karger is a former actor, a former senior political consultant for California governor George Deukmejian and presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, a gay rights advocate, the author of Fred Who? Political Insider to Outsider, and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. … Continue reading →

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Anthony Weiner’s Sexting Partner Writes — Cut-And-Pastes, Actually — a Tell-All Book

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Bill Bickel

This past June, New York congressman Anthony Weiner resigned after it was revealed that he’d sent messages – not always welcome, not always G-rated – to a number of women he’d met on sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Now one of them, Traci Nobles, has collected the “best of” … Continue reading →

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2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Bill Bickel

Probably the strangest interview I ever conducted began when I read You Can Get Arrested For That, Cornish journalism student Rich Smith’s account of a trip he took across the United States for the sole purpose of breaking as many strange American laws as possible. I found the adventures of … Continue reading →

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Death and Justice: An Interview With Mark Fuhrman

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Bill Bickel

In 2001, Oklahoma led the United States with 21 executions, 13 of which were prosecuted by Bob Macy, Oklahoma County’s district attorney (with the support of Joyce Gilchrist, director of the Oklahoma City Police Department crime lab, whose findings invariably supported whatever Macy needed). When Mark Fuhrman, former LAPD detective … Continue reading →

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The Way of the Wiseguy: An Interview With ”Donnie Brasco”

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Bill Bickel

[book review and interview by Bill Bickel] My interview with Joseph Pistone is going to be a bit more complicated than most: I’ll be sending my questions to a publicist, who will forward them to Pistone’s publisher, who will send them along to Pistone. Then his responses will make their … Continue reading →

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SketchCops: True Stories from Those Who Draw the Line Against Crime

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Bill Bickel

[book review and interview by Bill Bickel] “Memory is fluid and ever-changing. It can be affected by many external sources that, in some instances, may contaminate or alter it… Despite that, sometimes eyewitness testimony is the best and only evidence available, and must be preserved as best as possible” –Michael … Continue reading →

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