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Q&A With Steve Thomas: May 9, 2000
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
Posted in Articles, Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Interviews, News
Tagged Bill Bickel, interviews, JonBenet Ramsey, murders, Steve Thomas
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Q&A With Steve Thomas: November 14, 2000
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
Posted in Articles, Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Interviews, News
Tagged Bill Bickel, interviews, JonBenet Ramsey, murder, Steve Thomas
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Violence on College Campuses
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.
You Can Get Arrested For That: 2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree
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
Posted in Crazy Laws, Humor, Interviews, Lighter Side, Weird World Of Crime
Tagged interviews, strange laws, Weird World of Crime
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2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree
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
Posted in Articles, Crazy Laws, Humor, Interviews, Lighter Side
Tagged crazy laws, humor, interviews, strange laws, Weird World of Crime
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Death and Justice: An Interview With Mark Fuhrman
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
The Way of the Wiseguy: An Interview With ”Donnie Brasco”
[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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Tagged Bill Bonanno, book reviews, crime, Donnie Brasco, interviews, Mafia, organized crime
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SketchCops: True Stories from Those Who Draw the Line Against Crime
[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
