"Buster" World Famous Police Cadaver Dog Dies from Sudden Heart Attack – Praised for Locating WWII MIA Gravesites and Helping Crack "Black Dahlia" Murder

February 27, 2916 Los Angeles, California Buster and Sgt. Paul Dostie on a MIA search in Normandy, France I received some extremely sad news this morning from my good friend, Paul Dostie, retired Mammoth Lakes PD police sergeant. Here is his email: Hello Friends, Tonight at about 5:30 P.M. I had just finished cleaning the horse pens.  Buster…

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February 2016 Vanity Fair Article Explores — John Huston, Fred Sexton and The Black Dahlia Avenger Investigation: The Stuff That Surrealist Dreams are Made Of

February 20, 2016 Los Angeles, California                   A BIRDIE AND A BOGIE  This month’s Vanity Fair magazine’s lead article, The Mystery of the Maltese Falcon: One of the Most Valuable Movie Props in History, by Bryan Burrough is an excellent read. Burrough provides a history on “The Black…

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Author Michael Connelly's Hieronymos "Harry" Bosch-An Identity Crisis?

Los Angeles, California November 23, 2015 (Originally posted in 2010 and updated  November 2015) I rarely read mystery novels, with one major exception- those written by bestselling author, Michael Connelly. Michael Connelly Prior to 2003, I had never heard of him. My first awareness of Connelly’s writings came in 2003, post-publication of Black Dahlia Avenger,  when the…

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