WHEN GOOD SPOUSES GO BAD by Leigh Lundin While wannabee spectators arrive between 2:30 and 4am for tickets to the Casey Anthony cirque du soleil, Florida crimes and crime-busters haven’t paused, but not all misdeeds take place in Florida. I promise you the last two stories will be worth reading, but first, the headlines: Black-hearted […]

CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL Caylee Anthony by Leigh Lundin Three years ago this month, a devastating drama began in Orlando now playing out in local court. I pay scant attention to local news, but details stick in my mind from the early days of a family residing at the ironically named Hopespring Drive: Caylee, a missing […]

DARK KNIGHT by Leigh Lundin Just over a week ago, Warner Bros. launched The Dark Knight Rises web site, the latest update of our old Detective Comics friend, Batman. The odd thing is that except for a sort of chant, the web site appears entirely black. Clever fans figured out the soundtrack isn’t merely a […]

TOM SAWYER and the DIABOLUS EX MACHINA by Leigh Lundin Earlier this week, Melodie linked Mark Twain and technology of the Kindle. Rob added that Samuel Clemens went bankrupt backing a new a new typesetter and Leigh mentioned Twain published the first novel written on a typewriter. Steve ironically followed with an article about how […]

WOMEN WRONGED by Leigh Lundin ‘Sexually-assaulted girl forced to pay $45,000 in legal fees.’ That’s the short lead-in— the rest of the story isn’t much different but is terribly hard to fathom. At least three boys (two aged 18, one younger) locked a 16-year-old girl in a bedroom at a party. Clothes and morals were […]

TAKEDOWN by Leigh Lundin A week ago, the moneyman and motivator behind the greatest crime of the new millennium faced the consequences. This week, like the rest of the world, we’re trying to sort out what happened. Booted out of his own country as a religious madman, bin Laden found like-minded souls among the Taliban […]

FLORIDA NEWS by Leigh Lundin Despite my penchant for Florida news weirdness, I’ve barely mentioned Caylee Anthony beyond criticizing the oh-so-wrong ‘psychics’ championed by Nancy Grace. Casey Anthony hasn’t yet come to trial, but the case has so dominated central Florida news for three years that other serious crimes wither in its shadow. It’s fair […]