If you hear I committed suicide, I didn’t

Retired safety manager John Barnett was to answer questions Saturday as part of a deposition related to a legal dispute with his former employer, Boeing, related to safety concerns he had raised. He never made it to court. The week before his death, Barnette told friends and family, “If you hear I committed suicide, I didn’t.”

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Bipartisan Bill to help police close unsolved crimes

This matter is too necessary and long overdue. Our politicians need to stop playing political games with people’s lives and make this happen. As another John Kennedy once said, “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.”

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‘Jack the Ripper’ suspect jailed in New Orleans

Scotland Yard identified several key suspects in the infamous White Chapel murders of 1888. Today, few recall that the only American suspected of being “Jack the Ripper” was jailed in New Orleans before moving to London.

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Century-old Springfield murder remains unsolved

Friday morning, June 22, 1900, 17-year-old Joseph Ray Ott told his Springfield neighbors he found his 68-year-old aunt in a bloody pulp next to her sewing machine, according to The New Orleans Daily Picayune. The case remains unsolved almost 124 years later.

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