Whirlypig

Whirlypig

by | Aug 7, 2013 | True Crime Apologies

Someone stole a lawn ornament from a front yard in Newark, California. It was not hard to describe to Officer Jeff Neithercutt: a simple whirligig depicting a pig on a bicycle with spinning rainbow wheels, transporting a basket of corn. (Such as you can see here.) It...
This is my gift to the breeze

This is my gift to the breeze

by | Jun 7, 2013 | True Crime Apologies

So the mayor is mooching around the third floor of the parking garage – maybe he just parked, maybe he was getting into his car, how do I know? – and he sees a guy with his pants down, peeing off the third floor onto innocent Annapolis Maryland below. In broad...
I apologize to me

I apologize to me

by | May 9, 2013 | True Crime Apologies

A Sydney Morning Herald story excellently begins: As the P&O cruise ship Aurora neared Circular Quay in [February 2012], a British national sent a message to a mysterious Sydney man named David Smith, saying, “About one hour.” More than an hour later on the...
When the judge hates the law

When the judge hates the law

by | Apr 3, 2013 | True Crime Apologies

Judge Lagueux didn’t want to lock the young woman up for fifteen years. But he did it. She’d been arrested with “a few ounces” of crack cocaine, which she intended to sell. She’d been convicted of a similar charge 7 years earlier, when she was...

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