Crime and Prejudice

Shortly after 1 AM, Officer Anthony Liance of the Chicago police department, responded to an urgent call that a man had been shot in Washington State Park...

This is the setting for our case today:  the height of the Iraqi war, a hardened war yet caring war veteran in Major Galvin leading his platoon of commandos in Afghanistan, and an ambush.

To study the original case records of the Lafayette Bar shooting is to travel a winding path of perplexing questions and tiny bits of facts that have been construed into myth with evidence that was never challenged contributing to the mystery.  One thing is for certain, however, the shooting at the bar and grill had been very, very quick... 

A case without a motive, no care for hiding the body, no regard for the public attention, an attack right in the heart of the city; the blueprint of a serial killer, except for one crucial mistake, the victim lived, and survived to tell the tale...

To this day, Rush Medical College can proudly claim over 10,000 physicians. It was to this bright future and promising college education in which tragically, Lori Roscetti's life, filled with promise, ambition, and self-achievement would be tragically cut short in a horrible saga leading to the arrest of the Roscetti four.

Despite the simplicity of the crimes and the apparent disposition residents of the Ida B Wells complex were subjected to, things were even more ominous than anyone could have imagined....

In 1982, Buffalo City experienced a heinous rape in its beloved nature reserve.  Police force desperately tried to catch the rapist by posing as hikers, with a police officer, who was a karate expert, posed as a woman but with fruitless attempts at catching the rapist red-handed, a frustrated Police Commissioner assigned Mike McCarthy, a tough nosed officer from the Street Crime unit to find the dubbed Tift Farm rapist.