warned Lan Ngoc Tran. He was standing inside the Bang Kok Health Spa, a small, neatly organized massage parlor in downtown Bridgeport. Lan’s English was heavily accented, but the message was loud and clear. Two young women in the reception area of the parlor cowered in a far corner. Near the door...
Before releasing the jury for the long weekend, the judge called the legal representatives from both sides over to the bench for a sidebar. She asked Wyshak and Kelly for an assessment of how many more witnesses the government would call to the stand, and how much longer their case would take. “W...
Of all the murders James “Whitey” Bulger is alleged to have committed in his twenty-year run as the Mob boss of Boston, the killing of Debra Davis stands alone. Whitey is alleged to have strangled the woman with his bare hands. Davis, age twenty-six, was the girlfriend of ...
It was a turbulent time in the fiery Negro leader’s life. Throughout the early 1960s, Malcolm had emerged as a singular force in the budding black liberation movement, which ran alongside and sometimes served as a counterpoint to the more mainstream civil rights movement. Malcolm X presented hims...
up from mud cityThe Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was a real doozy. Among the tens of thousands of revelers who came from all over the United States to partake of what had been advertised as “the greatest Public Expo in human history” were a phenomenal number of grifters, con artists, gamblers, wh...